Nothingandall: On this day in History

0001 -BC- Jesus of Nazareth religious leader/philosopher (estimated date) birth of Jesus (d. circa 30), considered to be the Son of God (by Christians); also considered an Ascetic prophet of Islam. The date of Jesus' birth is celebrated on several different days worldwide. Of those scholars who believe in a historical Jesus, the vast majority of them agree that the precise birthdate is unknown.
0274 - Roman Emperor Aurelian has a temple dedicated to Sol Invictus on the supposed day of the solstice and day of rebirth of the Sun.
0336 - A primeira celebração de Natal no dia 25 de dezembro ocorre em Roma.
0795 - Pope Adrian I dies.
0800 - Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
1000 - The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1066 - William the Conqueror was crowned King of England.
1100 - Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned as the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity
1130 - Roger II of Sicily is crowned as the first King of Sicily
1156 - Peter the Venerable dies (b.c. 1092). Benedictine abbot of Cluny.
1223 - Saint Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene.
1250 - John IV Lascaris was born (d. cieca 1305). Eastern Roman Emperor
1261 - John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
1461 - Christina of Saxony was born (d. 1521). Queen of Denmark and Norway.
1524 - Vasco da Gama dies on Cochim, India (b. 1468 ?). Portugese explorer and navigator.
1582 - Zealand / Brabant adopts Gregorian calendar, yesterday was Dec 14th
1583 - Orlando Gibbons was born (d. 1625). English composer.
1587 - Margarita of Austria was born (d. 1611). Queen of Philip III of Spain.
1599 - The city of Natal, capital of Grande Rio do Norte, Brazil, is founded.
1628 - Noël Coypel was born (d. 1707). French painter.
1635 - Samuel de Champlain dies (b. 1567). French explorer and founder of Quebec City
1642 (O. S.) - Sir Isaac Newton was born (d. 1727). Physicist, mathematician ans astronomer.
1643 - Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
1650 - Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School, England, hanged as a Royalist rebel.
1652 - Archibald Pitcairne was born (d. 1713). Scottish physician.
1665 - Lady Grizel Baillie was born (d. 1746). Scottish songwriter.
1667 - Ehrengard von der Schulenburg was born (d. 1743). English royal mistress.
1674 - Thomas Halyburton was born (d. 1712). Scottish theologian.
1676 - Matthew Hale dies (b. 1609). Lord Chief Justice of England.
1676 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle dies (b. 1592). English soldier.
1683 - L'Espagne déclare la guerre à la France
1683 - Kara Mustafa dies (b. 1634). Ottoman general.

1700 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau was born (d. 1758). Prussian general.

1711 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville was born (d. 1772). French composer.

1716 - Johann Jakob Reiske was born (d. 1774). German scholar and physician.

1728 - Johann Adam Hiller was born (d. 16 Jun 1804). German composer considered the creator of the German Singspiel

1742 - Charlotte von Stein was born (d. 1827). German friend of Goethe.

1745 - Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint Georges was born (d. 1799). Afro-French composer and violonist.

1757 - Benjamin Pierce was born (d. 1839). American politician.

1758 - James Hervey dies (b. 1714). English clergyman.

1761 - Elisabeth Petrovna dies. Tsarina of Russia (1741-62).

1763 - Claude Chappe was born (d. 1805). French telecommunications pioneer.

1765 - Václav Prokop Diviš dies (b. 1689). Czech theologian and natural scientist

1771 - Dorothy Wordsworth was born (d. 1855). English diarist and sister of William Wordsworth.

1776 - George Washington crossed the Delaware River and surprised the Hessians.

1784 - Yosa Buson dies (b. 1716). Japanese painter.

1810 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves was born (d. 1892). Greek poet and statesman.

1818 - The first performance of "Silent Night" (Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria).

1818 - Handel's Messiah, US premieres in Boston.

1821 - Clara Barton was born (d. 1912). Founder of the American Red Cross.

1824 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener dies (b. 1764). Russian writer.

1830 - The first regularly scheduled passenger train in the United States began operation. hartered in 1827, the same year as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company steamed out of Charleston along a six mile line of track. According to the previous day's Charleston Mercury regular times for leaving the station would be "8 o'clock, at 10 A.M., at 1, and at half past 3. (Source: Library of Congress)

1830 - Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic," premieres

1837 - Battle of Okeechobee - United States forces defeat Seminole Indians.

1856 - Hans von Bartels was born (d. 1913). German painter.

1861 - Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya was born (d. 1946). Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University.

1863 - Charles Pathé was born (d. 1957). French pioneer of film and record industries.

1865 - Evangeline Booth was born (d. 1950). The 4th General of The Salvation Army

1868 - US President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War rebels.

1868 - Ezo Republic founded in Hokkaido by Shogunate rebels.

1868 - Linus Yale, Jr. dies (b. 1821). American mechanical engineer and inventor.

1870 - Helena Rubinstein was born (d. 1965). Polish-born American cosmetics industrialist.

1874 - Lina Cavalieri was born (d. 1944). Italian soprano.

1875 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer was born (d. 1955). Austrian Catholic archbishop.

1876 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born (d. 1948). Founder of Pakistan.

1876 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was born (d. 1959). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1878 - Louis Chevrolet was born (d. 1941). Swiss-born race car driver and automotive pioneer.

1880 - Fridolin Anderwert dies (b. 1828). Swiss Federal Councilor.

1883 - Maurice Utrillo was born (d. 1955). French artist.

1884 - Evelyn Nesbit was born (d. 1967). American actress.

1884 - Francisco Pulido Valente was born. Portuguese physician.

1886 - Kid Ory was born (d. 1973). American musician

1887 - Conrad Nicholson Hilton was born (d. 1979). American hotelier.

1889 - Lila Bell Wallace was born (d. 1984). American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest).

1890 - Robert Ripley was born (d. 1949). World traveler and collector of odd facts and artifacts.

1891 - Clarrie Grimmett was born (d. 1980). Australian cricketer.

1892 - Irene Lisboa was born. Portuguese writer.

1895 - Raul D'Ávila Pompeia dies in Rio de Janeiro - suicide - (b. 12 Apr 1863). Brazilian writer.

1898 - Constantino Nery Camelo was born in Santa Quitéria, CE. (d. 3 Nov 1974). Brazilian writer and folklorist.

1899 - Humphrey Bogart was born (d. 1957). American actor.

1901 - Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester was born (d. 2004) .

1902 - Barton MacLane was born (d. 1969). American actor.

1904 - Gerhard Herzberg was born (d. 1999). German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1906 - Sir Lew Grade was born (d. 1998). Ukrainian-born film producer.

1906 - Ernst Ruska was born (d. 1988). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1907 - Cab Calloway was born (d. 1994). American bandleader.

1907 - Glenn McCarthy was born (d. 1988). American oil tycoon and businessman.

1907 - Mike Mazurki was born (d. 1990). Ukrainian-born actor.

1908 - Jo-Jo Moore was born (d. 2001). Baseball player.

1908 - Zora Arkus-Duntov was born (d. 1996). Belgian-American automotive engineer.

1908 - Quentin Crisp was born (d. 1999). English author and activist.

1908 - Helen Twelvetrees was born (d. 13 Feb 1958). American actress.

1911 - Louise Bourgeois was born. French sculptor

1912 - Tony Martin was born. American singer

1912 - Natalino Otto was born (d. 1969). Italian singer

1913 - Henri Nannen was born (d. 1966). German journalist and publisher.

1914 - Just after midnight on Christmas morning, German troops on the Western Front cease firing their guns and artillery and start singing Christmas carols. Crossing the No man's land, they trade gifts with the enemy forces that face them. The Christmas truce lasts for several days, depending on the location.

1914 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher was born (d. 2007). New Zealand industrialist.

1915 - Pete Rugolo was born. Italian-born composer and arranger.

1915 - Maranhão Sobrinho dies (b. 20 Dec 1879). Brazilian poet.

1916 - Luís Cristóvão dos Santos was born (d. 1997). Brazilian writer, folklorist and journalist.

1916 - St. Albert Chmielowski dies (b. 1845). Polish Catholic Saint.

1917 - Why Marry?, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City

1918 - Anwar Sadat was born (d. 1981). Egyptian president. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1918 - Ahmed Ben Bella was born. Politician, first President of Algeria

1919 - Naushad Ali was born (d. 2006). Indian music director.

1919 - Paul David was born (d. 1999). French Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute.

1920 - Artur Agostinho was born. Portuguese sportive journalist, actor and radio personality.

1921 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah was born (d. 2000). Pakistani journalist.

1921 - Vladimir Korolenko dies (b. 1853). Russian writer.

1924 - Rod Serling was born (d. 1975). American television scriptwriter.

1924 - Atal Behari Vajpayee was born. Prime Minister of India

1925 - Carlos Castaneda was born (d. 1998). Peruvian-born author

1925 - Karl Abraham dies (b. 1877). German psychoanalyst.

1926 - Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan succeeding the Taisho Emperor.

1926 - Enrique Jorrín was born (d. 1987). Cuban composer and musician.

1926 -Emperor Taishō dies (b. 1879). Japanese emperor.

1927 - Nellie Fox was born (d. 1975). American baseball player.

1928 - Dick Miller was born. American actor.

1928 - Arturo Onofri dies in Rome (b. 1885). Italian poet and writer.

1929 - Chris Kenner was born (d. 1976). American singer and songwriter.

1929 - Stuart Hall was born. British radio and television presenter

1930 - Hermes Fontes dies in Rio de Janeiro - suicide (b. 28 Aug 1888). Brazilian poet, journalist and composer.

1930 - Emmanuel Agassi was born. Father of Andre Agassi

1930 - Salah Jaheen was born (d. 1986). Egyptian poet and cartoonist.

1931 - New York’s Metropolitan Opera broadcast an entire opera over radio for the first time: "Hansel and Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck.

1932 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills around 70,000 people.

1932 - Mabel King was born (d. 1999). American actress.

1933 - Francesc Macià dies (b. 1859). Catalonian statesman.

1935 - Al Jackson was born. Baseball player.

1935 - Gilda Nery was born (d. 2004). Brazilian actress.

1935 - Paul Bourget dies (b. 1852). French novelist and critic.

1936 - Princess Alexandra of Kent was born.

1936 - Ismail Merchant was born (d. 2005). Indian-born film producer.

1937 - O'Kelly Isley, Jr. was born (d. 1986). American singer (The Isley Brothers)

1938 - Guilherme Palmeira was born in Maceió, Alagoas. Brazilian politician.

1938 - Noel Picard was born. Quebec ice hockey player

1938 - Karel Capek dies (b. 1890). Czech author.

1939 - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is read on the radio for the first time (CBS radio).

1939 - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is introduced by Montgomery Ward stores.

1940 - Pete Brown was born. English poet and lyricist.

1940 - Agnes Ayres dies (b. 1898). American actress.

1941 - Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet

1941 - World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.

1943 - Hanna Schygulla was born. German actress.

1943 - Wilson Fittipaldi was born. Brazilian racing driver.

1943 - Ruy de Noronha dies in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo (b. 28 Oct. 1909). Mozambican poet.

1944 - Kenny Everett was born (d. 1995). British entertainer.

1944 - Jairzinho was born. Brazilian football player.

1944 - Henry Vestine was born (d. 1997). American musician.

1944 - George Steer dies (b. 1909). British Journalist.

1945 - Noel Redding was born (d. 2003). English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

1945 - Gary Sandy was born. American actor

1945 - Rick Berman was born. Star Trek producer

1945 - Mike Pringle was born. Scottish politician

1946 - Jimmy Buffett was born. American singer and songwriter

1946 - Larry Csonka was born. American football player

1946 - Gene Lamont was born. American baseball player and manager

1946 - W. C. Fields dies in Pasadena, California at age 66. American comedian.

1946 - Constitution accepted in Taiwan.

1947 - The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.

1947 - Gaspar G. Bacon dies (b. 1886). Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.

1948 - Barbara Mandrell was born. American singer and actress.

1948 - Alia al Hussein of Jordan was born (d. 1977).

1948 - Joel Natalino Santana was born. Brazilian soccer player and coach

1949 - Nawaz Sharif was born. Prime Minister of Pakistan

1949 - Sissy Spacek was born. American actress

1949 - Joe Louis Walker was born. American musician

1949 - Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira was born. Brazilian singer.

1950 - The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.

1950 - Yehuda Poliker was born. Israeli singer-songwriter.

1950 - Manny Trillo was born. Baseball player.

1950 - Karl Rove was born. American presidential advisor.

1950 - Neil Francis Hawkins dies (b. 1903). British fascist.

1950 - Xavier Villaurrutia dies at 47. Mexican Poet (Nostalgia de la muerte)

1952 - CCH Pounder was born. Guyana-born actress

1952 - Desireless was born. French singer

1953 - Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)

1953 - Patsy Donovan dies (b. 1865). Irish-born American baseball player.

1954 - Annie Lennox was born. Scottish singer (of Eurythmics).

1954 - Manuel Luís Goucha was born. Portuguese TV presenter.

1954 - Steve Wariner was born. American country music singer.

1954 - Johnny Ace dies (b. 1929). American singer.

1955 - Alannah Myles was born. Canadian singer.

1956 - Chaim Ben Pesach was born. National Chairman of the Jewish Task Force

1957 - Chris Kamara was born. English footbal player and commentator

1957 - Shane MacGowan was born. Irish musician.

1958 - Alannah Myles was born. Canadian singer.

1958 - Hanford Dixon was born. American football player.

1958 - Rickey Henderson was born. Baseball player.

1959 - Michael P. Anderson was born (d. 2003). Astronaut

1960 - Ron Bottitta was born. British actor.

1961 - Ingrid Betancourt was born. Colombian senator.

1961 - Otto Loewi dies (b. 1873). Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1961 - Owen Brewster dies (b. 1888). U.S. Senator from Maine.

1962 - Darren Wharton was born. British Keyboardist (Thin Lizzy and Dare)

1962 - Dean Cameron was born. American actor.

1963 - Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio began transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots were forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.

1963 - Tristan Tzara dies (b. 1896). Romanian-born writer.

1964 - Gary McAllister was born. Scottish football player.

1964 - Tim Royes was born. Music video director and editor.

1964 - Bob Stanley was born. English musician (Saint Etienne), filmmaker and journalist

1965 - The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz

1967 - Jason Thirsk was born. American bass player (Pennywise)

1967 - Paul McCartney & Jane Asher get engaged.

1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.

1968 - Helena Christensen was born. Danish model and actress (See Helena Christensen erotic photo).

1968 - Jim Down was born. American ice hockey player.

1970 - Emmanuel Amuneke was born. Nigerian footballer.

1971 - Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul.

1971 - In the longest game in NFL history (82m40s), the Miami Dolphins defeat the Kansas City Chiefs.

1971 - Noel Hogan was born. Rock musician (The Cranberries).

1971 - Dido was born. English singer.

1971 - Justin Trudeau was born. Son of former Canadian Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

1971 - Noel Hogan was born. Irish musician.

1971 - Maria Koepcke dies in an aviation crash (b. 1924). Ornithologist.

1972 - Josh Freese was born. American drummer.

1972 - Mac Powell was born. American musician, singer/songwriter (lead singer of Third Day).

1973 - The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.

1973 - Alexandre Trudeau was born. Canadian journalist.

1973 - Chris Harris was born. American professional wrestler.

1973 - Robbie Elliott was born. English football player

1973 - Ismet Inonu dies (b. 1884). Turkish statesman.

1973 - Gabriel Voisin dies (b. 1880). French aviation pioneer.

1974 - Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia

1974 - Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.

1974 - Nagma was born. Indian actress.

1975 - Hideki Okajima was born. Japanese baseball player.

1975 - Rob Mariano was born. American reality show contestant.

1975 - Marcus Trescothick was born. English cricketer.

1975 - Gaston Gallimard dies (b. 1881). French publisher.

1976 - Tuomas Holopainen was born. Finnish keyboardist and composer (Nightwish)

1976 - Armin van Buuren was born. Dutch keyboardist

1976 - Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed

1976 - Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese Premier

1977 - Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat

1977 - Jim Greco was born. American skateboarder.

1977 - Charlie Chaplin dies in Switzerland at age 88. British-born American film actor, director and producer.

1978 - Joel Porter was born. Australian football player.

1978 - Simon Jones was born. English cricketer.

1979 - The Soviet Union airlifts forces into Afghanistan to begin its costly occupation.

1979 - Major restoration project for the sphinx starts in Egypt.

1979 - Joan Blondell dies (b. 1906). American actress.

1979 - Jordi Bonet dies (b. 1932). Quebec muralist and sculptor.

1980 - Reika Hashimoto was born. Japanese actress and model.

1980 - Marcus Trufant was born. American football player.

1980 - Laura Sadler was born (d. 2003). British actress.

1980 - Locó was born. Angolan football player.

1981 - Katie Wright was born. American actress.

1981 - Willy Taveras was born. Baseball player.

1982 - Shawn Andrews was born. American football player.

1982 - Rob Edwards was born. Welsh footballer.

1982 - Shystie was born. British rapper-songwriter.

1983 - Joan Miró dies (b. 1893). Spanish surrealist painter.

1984 - Jessica and Lisa Origliasso was born. Australian pop singers.

1984 - Alastair Cook was born. English cricketer.

1984 - Georgia Moffett was born. British actress.

1985 - Leon Pisani was born. Welsh singer.

1986 - Doug Loft was born. English football player.

1987 - In one of the highest-rated episodes in Coronation Street history, Hilda Ogden leaves her home of 23 years to be a char to her doctor in the country.

1988 - Eric Gordon was born. American basketball player.

1988 - Ooka Shohei dies (b. 1909). Japanese novelist.

1988 - Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne dies (b. 1920).

1989 - Vaclav Havel is elected President of Chekoslovakia.

1989 - Former Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu (b. 1918) and his wife Elena Ceauşescu (b. 1916), are executed

1989 - Billy Martin dies in a traffic accident in Fenton, N.Y. (b. 1928). American baseball manager.

1990 - The first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet is established.

1990 - "Godfather III" premieres

1991 - President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned following the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

1992 - Monica Dickens dies (b. 1915). British writer.

1993 - Sushant Singh was born. Brother of Nishant Singh

1993 - Pierre Victor Auger dies (b. 1899). French physicist.

1994 - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a Jerusalem bus stop, injuring a dozen other people.

1994 - Pope John Paul II, in his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" message, bemoaned "selfishness and violence" around the world.

1994 - Zail Singh dies (b. 1916). President of India.

1995 - Dean Martin dies (b. 1917). American singer and actor.

1997 - Denver Pyle dies (b. 1920). American actor.

1998 - Bryan MacLean dies (b. 1946). American singer, musician and songwriter (Love).

1998 - John Pulman dies (b. 1926). English snooker player.

1999 - Space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts finished their repair job on the Hubble Space Telescope.

1999 - A Cuban airplane crashed in northern Venezuela, killing all 22 aboard.

1999 - Peter Jeffrey dies (b. 1929). English actor.

2000 - Osvaldo Polidoro dies (b. 05 Jun 1910). Brazilian medium.

2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine dies (b. 1908). American philosopher.

2002 - New Delhi Metro opens.

2003 - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf survived a second assassination bid in 11 days, but 17 other people were killed.

2003 - A plane crashed after taking off from Benin, killing at least 130 of the 161 people aboard.

2003 - Sixteen people were killed by mudslides that swept over campgrounds in California’s San Bernardino Valley.

2003 - The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.

2003 - Nicholas Mavroules dies (b. 1929). American politician.

2004 - Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which will land on Saturn's moon, Titan on January 14 , 2005.

2004 - Gennady Strekalov dies (b. 1940). Russian cosmonaut.

2005 - Birgit Nilsson dies (b. 1918). Swedish singer.

2005 - Derek Bailey dies (b. 1930). English guitar virtuoso.

2005 - Robert Barbers dies (b. 1944). Philippine senator.

2006 – Hiroaki Hidaka dies (b. 1962). Japanese serial killer.

2006 - James Brown dies (b. 1933). American singer.

2007 - A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes from its enclosure and attacks three people, killing one.

2007 – Desmond Barrick dies (b. 1927). English Cricketer.

2007 – Jim Beauchamp dies (b. 1939). American baseball player.

2007 – Mighty King Kong dies (b. 1973). Kenyan reggae musician.