On this day in History - Jan. 25

• 0041 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
• 0098 - Marcus Nerva dies (b. 0030). Roman Emperor.
• 0389 - Gregory Nazianzus dies (b. 0329). Theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople
• 0477 - Geiseric dies (b. ca. 0389). King of the Vandals and Alans.
• 0750 - Leo IV the Khazar was born. Byzantine Emperor.
  
• 0817 - Pope_Paschal I begins his Papacy (until 11 Feb 1824 date of his death).
• 0844 - Pope Gregory IV dies.
• 1067 - Emperor Yingzong of China dies (b. 1032).
• 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.
• 1366 - Henry Suso dies. German mystic.
• 1431 - Charles I, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1364).
• 1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany was born (d. 1514). Consort Queen of France (wife of Charles VIII).
• 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples replacing his father, Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423) who died on this day.
• 1509 - Giovanni Morone was born (d. 1580). Italian cardinal.
• 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
• 1538 - se descubrió en el Cerro Rico de Potosí (Bolivia) la primera mina de plata.
• 1553 - Fundación de la Real y Pontificia Universidad de México.
• 1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil. / Fundação da cidade de São Paulo por José de Anchieta e Manoel da Nóbrega.
• 1559 - King Christian II of Denmark dies (b. 1481). Sweden and Norway.
• 1565 - Battle at Talikota India Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army.
• 1569 - Se establece en la América española el Tribunal de la Inquisición, en virtud de una cédula de esta fecha, firmada por Felipe II.
• 1573 - Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
• 1573 - Hirate Hirohide dies (b. 1553). Japanese samurai.
• 1576 - The city of Luanda in Angola is founded. On this day it commemorates 430 years.
• 1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic.
• 1586 - Lucas Cranach the Younger dies (b. 1515). German painter.
• 1615 - Govert Flinck was born (d. 1660). Dutch painter.
• 1627 - Robert Boyle was born (d. 30 Dec 1691). Anglo-Irish chemist and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments on the properties of gases and his espousal of a corpuscular view of matter that was a forerunner of the modern theory of chemical elements. He was a founding member of the Royal Society of London.
• 1634 - Gaspar Fagel was born (d. 1688). Dutch statesman.
• 1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire was born (d. 1707). English soldier and statesman.
• 1640 - Robert Burton dies (b. 1577). English scholar and author (Anatomy of Melancholy).
• 1662 - Luís da Cunha was born (d. 1740). Portuguese diplomat.
• 1670 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1612).
• 1688 - Juraj Jánošík was born (d. 1713). Famous Slovak outlaw.
• 1726 - Guillaume Delisle dies (b. 1726). French cartographer.
• 1733 - Gilbert Heathcote dies (b. 1652). Mayor of London.
• 1736 - Count (comte) De L'empire, Joseph Louis Lagrange was born (d. 10 Apr 1813). Italian born, French mathematician who made great contributions to the theory of numbers and to analytic and celestial mechanics. ( "Analytic Mechanics"- 1788).
• 1739 - Charles François Dumouriez was born. French general.
• 1741 - Benedict Arnold was born (d. 1801). American general notorious for treason.
• 1743 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was born (d. 1819). German philosopher.
• 1751 - Paul Dudley dies (b. 1675). Attorney-General of Massachusetts.
• 1755 - Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.
• 1759 - Robert Burns was born (d. 1796). Scotland's national poet.
• 1770 - Captain James Cook (b. 1728 - d. 1779), navigator, discovered Australia - today is Australia day.
• 1774 - George Dollond was born (d. 13 May 1852). British optician who invented a number of precision instruments used in astronomy, geodesy, and navigation.
• 1787 - American Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor prisons.
• 1791 - The British Parliament splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
• 1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
• 1794 - François-Vincent Raspail was born (d. 1878). French chemist.
• 1796 - William MacGillivray was born (d. 1852). Scotish naturalist and ornithologist.
• 1798 - Benjamin Thompson presented a paper to the Royal Society, Enquiry concerning the Source of Heat which is excited by Friction, in which he presented the idea that heat represents a form of motion, as opposed to the prevailing idea of being a fluid.
• 1799 - a seed-planting device was patented by Eliakim Spooner of Vermont. The seeds were fed by gravity. The machine was not practical, however.
• 1812 -William Shanks was born (d. 1882). English mathematician who spent numerous years manually calculating the value of pi. Shanks kept a boarding school at Houghton-le-Spring in a coal mining area near Durham.
• 1825 - El general peruano José Miguel Lanza conquista la ciudad de La Paz y proclama la independencia del Alto Perú.
• 1825 - George Pickett was born (d. 1875). American Confederate General.
• 1839 - Michael Faraday publicly announced for the first time the existence of photography as the subject of his Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution.
• 1841 - Jackie Fisher was born (d. 1920). Brirish first Sea Lord.
• 1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen dies (b. 1778). Russian explorer.
• 1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto was born (d. 1954). Japanese pearl farm pioneer.
• 1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter and the Crown Prince of Prussia.
• 1860 - Charles Curtis was born (d. 1936). Vice President of the United States.
• 1860 - Firma del Tratado de Maposingue, que pone fin a la invasión peruana de Ecuador dirigida por el general Ramón Castilla.
• 1864 - Julije Kempf was born (d. 1934). Croatian historian and writer.
• 1870 - Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows .
• 1874 - William Somerset Maugham was born (d. 1965). English writer.
• 1878 - Ernst Alexanderson was born (d. 1975); Swedish-American electrical engineer and television pioneer who developed a high-frequency alternator.
• 1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
• 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• 1881 - O famoso autor russo Fiodor Dostoievski falece poucos dias após sofrer uma hemorragia. Suas últimas palavras foram, “Não me segurem. Minha hora chegou. Eu preciso morrer”. Dostoievski havia escrito o clássico “Crime e Castigo”.
• 1881 - Konstantin Thon dies (b. 1794). Russian architect.
• 1882 - Virginia Woolf was born (d.1941). English writer (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse).
• 1882 - Jonathan Carter was born. Author of "O to be Me. The JC Story".
• 1885 - Kitahara Hakushū was born (d. 1942). Japanese poets and children's writers.
• 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler was born (d. 1954). German conductor.
• 1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
• 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
• 1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak was born (d. 1972). Belgian politician.
• 1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka was born (d. 1986). Japanese writer.
• 1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky was born (d. 18 Dec 1975). Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionist whose work had a major influence on 20th-century thought and research on genetics and evolutionary theory.
• 1901 - Martin De Alzaga was born (d. 1982). Argentine racing driver.
• 1905 - Maurice Roy was born (d. 1985). French Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Quebec.
• 1907 - René Pottier dies (b. 1879). French cyclist.
• 1908 - Mikhail Chigorin dies (b. 1850). Russian chess player.
• 1908 - Ouida dies (b. 1839). English writer.
  
• 1909 - Richard Strauss' opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1912 - Dmitry Milyutin dies (b. 1816). Russian Field Marshal.
• 1913 - Witold Lutosławski was born (d. 1994). Polish composer.
• 1913 - Luis Marden was born (d. 2003). American photojournalist.
• 1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service calling from New York to his friend Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
• 1916 - Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary.
• 1916 - Frank "Pop" Ivy was born(d. 2003). American and Canadian Football coach.
• 1917 - Ilya Prigogine was born (d. 28 May 2003). Russian-born Belgian physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 for contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
• 1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.
• 1917 - Jânio Quadros was born (d. 1992). Brazilian politician, 30th President of Brazil (31 Jan 1961 a 25 Aug 1961).
• 1918 - Decreto fundacional de la Escuela de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Facultad Nacional de Derecho de Panamá, base de la Universidad Nacional.
• 1918 - The Ukrainian people declare independence from Bolshevik Russia.
• 1918 - Russia declared a Soviets republic.
• 1918 - Ernie Harwell was born. American baseball sportscaster.
• 1919 - Edwin Newman was born. American journalist, writer.
• 1919 - The League of Nations is founded.
• 1923 - Arvid Carlsson was born. Swedish scientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine).
• 1923 - Rusty Draper was born (d. 2003). American country and pop singer.
• 1923 - Shirley Mason was born (d. 1998). American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil").
• 1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• 1924 - Lou Groza was born (d. 2000). American football player.
• 1925 - Giorgos Zampetas was born (d. 1992). Greek musician and songwriter.
• 1925 - Ivan Vucetic dies (b. 1858). Croatian anthropologist.
• 1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim was born. Brazilian musician, bossa nova legend.
• 1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze was born. President of Georgia.
• 1928 - Jérôme Choquette was born. Quebec lawyer and politician.
• 1929 - Benny Golson was born. American jazz musician.
• 1930 - Tanya Savicheva was born (d. 1944). Russian diarist.
• 1931 - Gandhi é posto em liberdade na India.
• 1931 - Dean Jones was born. American actor
• 1932 - Maximilian von Frey dies (b. 16 Nov 1852). Austrian physiologist who studied the sense of touch, providing the first comprehensive information about the cutaneous senses.
• 1933 - Corazon Aquino was born. President of the Philippines.
• 1935 - Ramalho Eanes was born in Alcains. Portuguese General and politician, President of Republic (14 Jul 1976 - 9 Mar 1986).
• 1936 - Diana Hyland was born (d. 1977). American actress.
• 1937 - The Guiding Light airs on radio for the first time. Also went to television making this show the longest running broadcast program in United States radio and television history.
• 1937 - Ange-Félix Patassé was born. President of the Central African Republic
• 1937 - Judith Ann Mayotte was born. American humanitarian, author.
• 1938 - Leiji Matsumoto was born. Japanese creator of anime.
• 1938 - Etta James was born. American singer.
• 1938 - Shotaro Ishinomori was born (d. 1998). Japanese manga author.
• 1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky was born (d. 1980). Russian poet.
• 1938 - Etta James (Jamesette Hawkins) was born. American singer (Roll With Me Henry).
• 1939 - Earthquake hits Chillán Chile, 10,000 killed.
• 1939 - Gabriel Romanus was born. Swedish politician.
• 1940 - Elias Simojoki dies (b. 1899). Finnish clergyman and politician.
• 1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
• 1941 - Buddy Baker was born. American race car driver.
• 1941 - Gregory Sierra was born. American actor.
• 1942 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
• 1942 - Carl Eller was born. American football player .
• 1942 - Eusébio da Silva Ferreira ("The Black Panther") , was born, in Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) the best Portuguese football player of all times. He represented Benfica. Won two European Champions Cup, several Portugal Championship and Portugal Cups. He was Golden Boot. In WorldChampionship 1966 (Portugal was 3º.) he was considered the best player and he was the top scorer.
• 1943 - Tobe Hooper was born. American film director.
• 1944 - Anita Pallenberg was born. Italian model and actress
• 1945 - Leigh Taylor-Young was born. American actress
• 1945 - Battle of the Bulge ends.
• 1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor .
• 1946 - Afonso Lopes Vieira dies in Lisbon (b. 26 Jan. 1878). Portuguese poet.
• 1946 - Edwin Bissel Holt dies (b. 1873) ; U.S. psychologist and philosopher noted for his emphasis on the purposive character of knowing.
• 1947 - Ángel Nieto was born. Spanish motorcycle racer.
• 1947 - Tostão was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1947 - Al Capone dies (b. 1899). American gangster.
• 1948 - Gueorgui Chichkine was born. Russian painter.
• 1948 - Ros Kelly was born. Australian politician.
• 1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
• 1949 - The first Israeli election - David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
• 1949 - John Cooper Clarke was born. English punk-poet.
• 1949 - Paul Nurse was born. English biochemist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
  
• 1949 - Makino Nobuaki dies (b. 1861). Japanese statesman.
• 1951 - Steve Prefontaine was born (d. 1975). American runner.
• 1952 - Sara Mandiano was born. French singer and songwriter.
• 1952 - Timothy White was born (d. 2002). American journalist.
• 1953 - Mark Weil was born (d. 2007). Uzbek theatre director.
• 1953 - The Honky Tonk Man was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1954 - Kay Cottee was born. First woman to sail solo and non stop around the world.
• 1954 - Kim Gandy was born. American feminist.
• 1954 - Ricardo Bochini was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1954 - Richard Finch was born. American bass player (KC and the Sunshine Band)
• 1954 - In Honduras is consagrated to women the right to vote. This day is "Día de la Mujer".
• 1954 - Manabendra Nath Roy dies (b. 1887). Indian marxist.
• 1955 - Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
• 1955 - US and Panama sign canal treaty.
• 1955 - Terry Chimes was born. Co-founder and drummer of the British punk rock band The Clash.
  
• 1956 - Andy Cox was born. British musician (The Beat (band), Fine Young Cannibals).
• 1957 - La India se anexiona Cachemira.
• 1957 - Andrew P. Harris was born. American politician.
• 1957 - Eskil Erlandsson was born. Swedish politician.
• 1957 - Jenifer Lewis was born. American actress.
• 1957 - Paulo Gustavo was born in Recife, Pernambuco. Brazilian poet.
• 1957 - Kiyoshi Shiga dies (b. 7 Feb. 1871). Japanese physician and bacteriologist, chiefly noted for his discovery (1897) of the dysentery bacillus Shigella, which is named after him.
• 1957 - Ichizo Kobayashi dies (b. 1873). Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry.
• 1958 - Dinah Manoff was born. American actress.
• 1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims Second Vatican Council.
• 1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
• 1960 - Beno Gutenberg dies (b. 4 Jun 1889). American seismologist noted for his analyses of earthquake waves and the information they furnish about the physical properties of the Earth's interior.
• 1961 - Un golpe de Estado del coronel Aníbal Portillo derroca a la Junta y establece un Directorio Cívico-Militar en El Salvador.
• 1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released .
• 1961 - In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
• 1961 - Beth Goulart was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1961 - Vivian Balakrishnan was born. Singaporean politician.
• 1961 - Willie Revillame was born. Filipino game show host and comedian.
• 1962 - Chris Chelios was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1963 - Sir Isaac Shoenberg dies (b. 1 Mar 1880). Russian-Born British electrical engineer and principal inventor of the first high-definition television system, as used by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for the world's first public high-definition telecast (from London, 1936).
• 1963 - Wilson Kettle dies (b. 1860). Guinness World Record holder for most living descendants.
• 1965 - Esa Tikkanen was born. Finnish ice hockey player.
• 1966 - Chet Culver was born. American politician, governor of Iowa.
• 1967 - Randy MacKay was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1967 - David Ginola was born. French footballer.
• 1967 - Mark Bamford was born. American writer/director.
• 1967 - Randy McKay was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1968 - Carolina Ferraz was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris.
• 1969 - Irene Castle dies (b. 1887). English dancer.
• 1969 - Kina was born. American singer.
• 1970 - Eiji Tsuburaya dies (b. 1901). Japanese television writer and producer, founder of Tsuburaya Productions (Ultraman).
• 1970 - Jane Bathori dies (b. 1877). French mezzo-soprano.
  
• 1971 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of murder of seven people (one of them the actress Sharon Tate) and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
• 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
• 1971 - Ana Ortiz was born. American actress and singer
• 1971 - China Kantner was born. American actress.
• 1971 - Luca Badoer was born. Italian race car driver.
• 1972 - World's first kidney and pancreatic tissue transplant carried out in London.
• 1972 - Erhard Milch dies (b. 1892). German field marshal.
• 1973 - Chris Guy was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1973 - Geoff Johns was born. American comic book writer.
• 1974 - Dr Christian Barnard performs a heart transplant, leaving the original heart in place.
• 1974 - Robert Budreau was born. Canadian film director.
• 1975 - Bangladesh's independence leader and first prime minister, sheik Mujibur Rahman, 54, assumes the presidency. He would be killed, along with most of his family, in a coup d'état seven months later 75/08/15.
• 1975 - Dat Phan was born. Stand up comedian.
• 1975 - Mia Kirshner was born. Canadian actress.
• 1975 - Tim Montgomery was born. American athlete.
• 1975 - Charlotte Whitton dies (b. 1896). Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa.
• 1976 - Mario Haberfeld was born. Brazilian racing car driver.
• 1976 - Chris Kenner dies (b. 1929). American singer and songwriter.
• 1977 - Armando Falcão, ministro da Justiça do governo militar, contesta um manifesto assinado por 1.046 intelectuais, exigindo o fim da censura no Brasil.
• 1978 - Denis Menchov was born. Russian cyclist.
• 1978 - Derrick Turnbow was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Jason Roberts was born. English-born footballer.
• 1979 - Bianca_Castanho was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1979 - Christine Lakin was born. American actress.
• 1979 - Gabe Jennings was born. American distance runner.
• 1979 - Rodrigo Ribeiro was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1979 - Pi Hongyan was born. French badminton player.
• 1980 - Christian Olsson was born. Swedish triple jumper.
• 1980 - Efstathios Tavlaridis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1980 - Michelle McCool was born. American wrestler.
• 1980 - Xavi was born. Catalan Spanish footballer.
• 1980 - Abolhassan Bani-Sadr vence as primeiras eleições presidenciais do Irã. Ele obtém 70% dos votos da população.
• 1980 - Paulo Assunção was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1980 - Queenie Watts dies (b. 1926). English actress.
• 1981 - Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
• 1981 - Alicia Keys was born. American singer and musician.
• 1981 - Francis Jeffers was born. English footballer.
• 1981 - Tose Proeski was born. Macedonian singer.
• 1981 - Super Bowl XV: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10.
• 1981 - Adele Astaire dies (b. 1897). American dancer.
• 1982 - 9th American Music Award Kenny Rogers win.
• 1982 - Shawna Waldron was born. American actress.
• 1982 - Sho Sakurai was born. Japanese singer and actor.
• 1982 - The-Dream was born. American singer.
• 1982 - Alfredo Ovando dies. Former President of Bolivia.
• 1982 - Mikhail Suslov dies (b. 1902). Soviet politician.
• 1983 - IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite) is launched.
• 1983 - Andrée Watters was born. Canadian singer.
• 1984 - Robinho was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1984 - Ines Cudna was born. Polish model.
• 1985 - El Papa Juan Pablo II inicia una visita de once días por Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú y Trinidad-Tobago.
• 1985 - Acie Law IV was born. American basketball player.
• 1985 - Patrick Willis was born. American football linebacker.
  
• 1985 - Tina Karol was born. Ukrainian singer.
• 1986 - The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
  
• 1986 - La nave espacial estadounidense "Voyager 2" envía a la Tierra fotografías de 12 nuevas lunas que rodean el planeta Urano y cuya existencia se desconocía.
• 1986 - Mueren 30 personas y 12 resultan gravemente heridas por la explosión de una fábrica de armas situada en Iquique (Chile).
• 1986 - Chris O'Grady was born. English footballer.
• 1986 - Shahriar Nafees was born. Bangladeshi cricketer.
• 1987 - Super Bowl XXI: The New York Giants beat the Denver Broncos, 39-20.
• 1987 - Maria Kirilenko was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1988 - 15th American Music Award Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston .
• 1988 - Tatiana Golovin was born. French tennis player.
• 1989 - Sheryfa Luna was born. French singer.
• 1989 - Victoria Muniz was born. Puerto Rican figure skater.
• 1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits Northwestern Europe.
• 1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1990 - Avianca Flight 52 crashes, killing 73 passengers.
• 1990 - Ava Gardner dies (b. 1922). American actress.
• 1990 - Dámaso Alonso was born. Spanish poet and academic.
• 1991 - Durante a Guerra do Golfo, os Estados Unidos acusam o Iraque de despejar petróleo no golfo pérsico. Os norte-americanos chamam isso de terrorismo ambiental.
• 1991 - Muere la periodista colombiana Diana Turbay en una fallida operación policial para liberarla de los narcotraficantes que la habían secuestrado seis meses antes.
• 1991 - Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government.
• 1992 - A selection of America's popular films begins showing on Soviet television.
• 1992 - Manuel Hernández Mompó dies (b. 1927). Spanish painter.
• 1993 - Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
• 1993 - Puerto Rico adds English as its second official language.
• 1993 - Slobodan Milosevic jura como presidente de Serbia ante el nuevo Parlamento, tras su victoria en las elecciones.
• 1994 - The Clementine space probe launches.
• 1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene dies (b. 5 Jan 1909). American mathematician and logician whose work on recursion theory helped lay the foundations of theoretical computer science.
• 1995 - Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of European Committee .
• 1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, is mistaken for a US Trident missile by the Olenegorsk early-warning radar station.
• 1995 - Cal Jammer dies (b. 1960). American actor.
• 1996 - Jonathan Larson dies (b. 1960). American composer.
• 1997 - Asesinan al reportero gráfico argentino José Luis Cabezas.
• 1998 - During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
• 1998 - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
• 1998 - Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers, 31-24.
• 1998 - Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) & soccer player David Beckham get engaged.
• 1998 - Marlene Lawston was born. American child actress
• 1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
• 1999 - Sarah "Sadie" Delany dies (b. 1889). American author.
• 1999 - Ted Mallie dies (b. 1924). American radio and television announcer.
• 1999 - Robert Shaw dies (b. 1916). American conductor.
• 2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
• 2001 - El nuevo primer ministro serbio, Zoran Djindjic, y los miembros de su gabinete toman posesión oficial de sus cargos, tras la caída definitiva del régimen de Slobodan Milosevic.
• 2002 - Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day.
• 2003 - Samuel Weems dies (b. 1936). Arkansas judge.
• 2004 - Opportunity rover (MER-B) landed on surface of Mars.
• 2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen dies (b. 1918). Dutch athlete.
• 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungaryan football player, dies during the match V. Guimarães- Benfica for Portuguese League. He had entered the game a few minutes before and suddendly he fell alone on the ground (b. 1979).
• 2005 - A stampede during a pilgrimage in India kills at least 258.
• 2005 - António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese writer, receives from Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal, the Grã-Cruz da Ordem de Sant'Iago da Espada.
• 2005 - Stanisław Albinowski dies (b. 1923). Polish economist and journalist.
• 2005 - William Augustus Bootle dies (b. 1902). American judge.
• 2005 - Philip Johnson dies (b. 1906). American architect.
• 2005 - Ray Peterson dies (b. 1935). American singer.
• 2005 - Nettie Witziers-Timmer dies (b. 1923). Dutch athlete.
• 2005 - Manuel Lopes dies (b. 1907). Cape Verdian ficcionist, poet and essayst.
• 2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
• 2006 - Anna Malle dies (b. 1967). Adult film star.
• 2008 - Christopher Allport dies (b. 1947). American actor.
  
• 2008 - Evelyn Barbirolli dies (b. 1911). English musician.
• 2009 - Kim Manners dies (b. 1941). American television producer and director.
• 2010 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.
• 2010 - Ali Hasan al-Majid dies (b. 1941). Iraqi defense minister and military commander.
  
• Postman Day (Brazil) / Brasil: Dia do Carteiro.
• Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, which concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
• Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Feast of Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople.
• Christian ecumenism — Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends.
• Burns Night - (Scotland and Scottish community).
• Criminon Day - Commemorates the 1970 founding of Criminon, a program which seeks to rehabilitate prisoners by disseminating free copies of Scientology-related materials such as The Way to Happiness.
• Roman Empire - second day of the Sementivae in honour of Ceres and Terra
• St. Dwynwen's Day - Welsh celebration of love Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen.
• Tatiana Day, celebrated as the Day of Russian students since 1755, when the Moscow University was founded.