Nothingandall: On this day in History

86 BC - Gaius Marius dies. Roman general and politician.
0532 - Nika riots in Constantinople.
0703 - Empress Jitō of Japan dies (b. 0645).
0858 - King Ethelwulf of Wessex dies.
0888 - Charles the Fat dies. Holy Roman Emperor
0888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
1099 - Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.
1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1076).
1151 - Abbot Suger dies. French statesman and historian.
1177 - Henry II of Austria dies (b. 1107).
1328 - Edward III of England marries Philippa, daughter of the Count of Hainault.
1330 - Duke Frederick I of Austria dies (b. 1286).
1334 - King Henry II of Castile was born (d. 1379).
1363 - Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol dies (b. 1344).
1400 - Nascimento de João, Infante de Portugal (m. 18 Out 1442), filho do rei João I de Portugal e de sua mulher, a rainha Filipa de Lencastre. Foi condestável de Portugal.
1505 - Joachim II Hector was born (d. 1571). Elector of Brandenburg.
1507 - Nascimento de D. Catarina da Áustria, rainha de Portugal.
1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey dies (sentenced to death) (b. 1517). English poet.
1559 - Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
1562 - Mark Alexander Boyd was born (d. 1601). Scottish poet.
1590 - Francisco Salinas dies. Musician.
1596 - Jan van Goyen was born (d. 1656). Dutch landscape painter.
1599 - Edmund Spenser dies (b. 1552). English poet.
1602 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.
1605 - The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
1607 - The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1610 - Galileo Galilei discovered Callisto the fourth satellite of Jupiter.
1610 - Maria Anna of Austria was born (d. 1665). Electress of Bavaria.
1616 - Antoinette Bourignon was born (d. 1680). Flemish mystic.
1622 - Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended.
1622 - Molière was born (d. 1673). French playwright.
1625 - John Milton 16, is admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge.
1625 - Jan Brueghel de Velours ( el Aterciopelado) dies. Painter.
1630 - Yuan Chonghuan dies (b. 1584). Chinese military commander.
1635 - Philipp Jakob Spener was born (d. 1705). German theologian.
1651 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington was born (d. 1694). English politician.
1658 - Edward Sexby dies (b. 1616). English Puritan soldier.
1683 - Christoph Graupner was born (d. 1760). German composer.
1691 - George Fox dies (b. 1624). English founder of the Quakers.
1698 - Pietro Metastasio was born († 1782). Italian poet and playwright.
1717 - Maria-Sibylla Merian dies (b. 2 Apr 1647). Swiss naturalist and painter of insects and flowers.
1720 - Richard Hurd was born (d. 1808). English bishop and writer.
1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies (b. 1685). Brazilian jesuit, "the flyer priest" (padre voador).
1733 - James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.

1749 - Friedrich Müller was born (d. 1825). Painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist.

1750 - Assinado o Tratado de Madrid, que pôs fim a conflitos entre Portugal e a Espanha no Sul da América meridional, definindo os limites do Brasil.

1759 - José de Mascarenhas da Silva dies, condemned to death (b. 1708). Portuguese noble condemned to death by his pseudo envolvement in Processo dos Távora.

1759 - Leonor de Tavora, morre, marquesa de Portugal. Em Belém, Lisboa, os Távoras e o duque de Aveiro são executados de uma forma selvagem, criticada pela opinião internacional, por alegadamente estarem implicados no atentado contra o rei D. José.

1766 - King Frederick V of Denmark dies (b. 1723).

1775 - Johann Georg Walch dies (b. 1693). German theologian.

1777 - Elisa Bonaparte was born (d. 1820). Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte.

1785 - John Walter publishes first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).

1787 - John Davis was born (d. 1854). 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts.

1790 - Florido Rodrigues Pereira Ferraz was born in Porto (d. 17 Dec. 1862). Portuguese politician.

1790 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen dies (b. 1712). French admiral.

1794 - President Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.

1796 - John H. D. Anderson dies (b. 1726). Scottish scientist and inventor.

1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern dies (b. 1715). Queen of Frederick II of Prussia.

1804 - Paul Gavarni was born (d. 1866). French caricaturist.

1805 - Thomas Dyer was born (d. 1862). Mayor of Chicago.

1807 - Napoleon Bonaparte Buford was born (d. 28 Mar 1883). American soldier.

1807 - Álvaro Teixeira de Macedo was born. Brazilian poet and diplomat.

1808 - Salmon P. Chase was born (d. 1873). Secretary of the Treasury (1861-64) and sixth Chief Justice of the United States (1864-73).

1812 - Victor de Laprade was born (d. 1883). French poet and critic.

1822 - The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

1825 - Frei Caneca morre fuzilado. Herói da Confederação do Equador.

1825 - El Alto Perú proclama su independencia en Cochabamba, con el nombre de República de Bolívar, después Bolivia.

1830 - The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.

1832 - President Andrew Jackson writes Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr was born in Revere Massachusets (d.1899); American minister and writer of boys' stories. He wrote over 100 books for boys, the first, Ragged Dick, being published in 1867.

1840 - The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

1842 - Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

1842 - Franklin Távora was born (d. 18 Aug. 1888). Brazilian writer, politician and journalist.

1845 - Félix Tisserand was born (d. 20 Oct 1896). French astronomer noted for his textbook Traité de mécanique céleste, 4 vol. (1889-96; "Treatise on Celestial Mechanics").

1846 - Wilhelm Wien was born (†30.8.1928). German physicist. In 1893/1894, he developed a law on the relationship between temperature and light. Max Planck later used the “Wien Formula” to help formulate his quantum theory. Wilhelm Wien was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work, in 1911.

1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.

1848 - Lilla Cabot Perry was born. American artist. Influenced heavily by painter Claude Monet she emulated the innovations of French Impressionism in her art and was a major promoter of Impressionism in the U.S.

1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen dies (b. 1778). Russian explorer.

1853 - Theophilos Kairis dies (b. 1783). Greek priest, humanist and revolutionary.

1854 - José Fructuoso Rivera was born. Uruguayan militar ans first Constitutional President (1830-1834).

1854 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas.

1855 - Henri Braconnot dies (b. 29 May 1781). French chemist known for isolating glucose, a simple sugar, directly from such plant material as sawdust, linen or bark by boiling them with acid (1819).

1858 - Oskar Minkowski was born (d. 18 Jul 1931). German physiologist and pathologist who introduced the concept that diabetes results from suppression of a pancreatic substance (later found to be the hormone insulin).

1859 - Kostis Palamas was born (d. 1943). Greek poet.

1860 - William Mason dies (b. 1786). American politician.

1861 - Max Nonne was born (d. 1959). German neurologist.

1864 - Wilhelm Wien born (d. 30 Aug 1928). German physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1911 for his displacement law concerning the radiation emitted by the perfectly efficient blackbody.

1864 - Stephen Foster dies (b. 1826). American composer.

1865 - Princess Marie of Orléans was born (d. 1908).

1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov was born (d. 1901). Russian composer.

1869 - National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C..

1869 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta was born (d. 1931). Italian aristocrat.

1870 - Ross Granville Harrison was born (d. 30 Sep 1959). American zoologist who developed the first successful animal-tissue cultures and pioneered organ transplantation techniques.

1875 -Robert Adams dies (b. 1791). Irish clinician noted for his contributions to the knowledge of heart disease and gout.

1878 - Lionel Groulx was born (d. 1967). Canadian nationalist.

1879 - Melvin Jones was born (d. 1961). American founder of Lions Clubs International.

1881 - Essington Lewis was born (d. 1961). Australian industrialist.

1884 - Sophie Tucker was born (d. 1966). Russian-born singer, comedienne and vaudeville performer

1885 - Alfred Fuller was born (d. 1973). Canadian businessman, The "Fuller Brush Man".

1885 - Schuyler Colfax dies (b. 1823). American politician.

1886 - Art Ross was born (d. 1964). Canadian ice hockey player and executive.

1887 - George Gurdjieff was born (d. 1949). Armenian-Greek mystic.

1888 - Alexander Graham Bell funda la National Geographic Society.

1889 - Solomon Bundy dies (b. 1823). American politician.

1890 - Elmer Davis is born. Radio commentator.

1893 - Britain's Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the current Labor Party, first met.

1893 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.

1893 - US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

1893 - Clark Ashton Smith was born (d. 1961). American writer.

1893 - Roy Cazaly was born (d. 1963). Australian rules footballer.

1898 - French writer Emile Zola publishes in L'Aurore his J'accuse letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case.

1898 - Carlo Tagliabue was born (d. 1978). Italian baritone.

1898 - Kai Munk was born (d. 1944). Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr.

1899 - Kay Francis was born (d. 1968). American actress.

1900 - Peter Waage dies (b. 29 Jun 1833). Norwegian chemist who, with his brother-in-law Cato Guldberg published the mass action law in 1864. The law states that the rate of a chemical change depends on the concentrations of the reactants.

1901 - A. B. Guthrie was born (d. 1991). American novelist, historian.

1901 - Mieczysław Żywczyński was born (d. 1978). Polish historian and priest.

1903 - The Moroccan Sultan flees Fez as his imperial troops are defeated by the pretender's army.

1904 - Richard Addinsell was born (d. 1977). British composer (Warsaw Concerto).

1905 - Kay Francis was born (d. 1968). American actress.

1906 - Pascoal Carlos Magno was born. Brazilian diplomat and cenographer.

1906 - Un incendio destruye casi toda la ciudad de Panamá.

1906 - Alexander Popov dies (b. 1859). Russian physicist.

1908 - Henry Farman, an English-born Frenchman, flew the first one-kilometer circuit, winning the Grand Prix de Aviation and its 50,000 franc purse.

1908 - Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killing 171 people.

1909 - Marinus van der Lubbe was born (d. 1934). Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag.

1910 - Yannis Tsarouchis was born (d. 1989). Greek painter.

1911 - Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was born (d. 2005). Premier of Queensland.

1913 - Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority, Inc. founded.

1913 - Jeff Morrow was born (d. 1993). American actor.

1914 - Lord Ted Willis was born (d. 1992). British television dramatist.

1915 - Some 30'000 people died in earthquake in Avezzano Italy, which totally destroys Avezzano and the surrounding small towns.

1916 - Victoriano Huerta dies (b. 1854). Presidente of México (1913-1914).

1916 - En Yucatán, México, se inicia el I Congreso Feminista Nacional, convocado por el General Salvador Alvarado, Gobernador de este Estado. Asisten 700 mujeres.

1919 - Robert Stack was born (d. 2003). American actor, best know for his role as Elliot Ness in the TV series "The Untouchables".

1920 - A Argentina é admitida na Liga das Nações.

1921 - Dachine Rainer was born (d. 2000). British writer.

1922 - Albert Lamorisse was born (d. 1970). French film director and producer.

1923 - Daniil Shafran was born (d. 1997). Russian cellist.

1923 - Alexandre Ribot dies (b. 1842). French statesman.

1924 - Paul Feyerabend was born (d. 1994). Austrian-born philosopher.

1924 - Roland Petit was born. French choreographer.

1924 - Georg Hermann Quincke dies (b. 1834). German phsycist.

1925 - Gwen Verdon was born (d. 2000). American actress and dancer.

1926 - Michael Bond was born. British writer.

1926 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was born (d. 2003). American feminist author.

1927 - Brock Adams was born (d. 2004). American politician.

1927 - Sydney Brenner was born. British biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002 shared (with H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston) for their discoveries concerning how the genes regulate organ development and programmed cell death (apoptosis).

1929 - Joe Pass was born (d. 1994). U.S. jazz guitarist.

1929 - Wyatt Earp dies in Los Angeles (b. in Illinois, 1848). Western legend.

1930 - Frances Sternhagen was born. American actress.

1930 - Liz Anderson was born. American singer.

1930 - Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti dies (b. 9 Apr 1864). English electrical engineer who promoted the installation of large electrical generating stations and alternating current distribution networks in England.

1930 - Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.

1930 - Frances Sternhagen was born. American actress.

1930 - Liz Anderson was born. American singer.

1931 - The Bridge connecting New York and New Jersey was named the George Washington Memorial Bridge.

1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly was born (d. 2007). American actor.

1931 - Ian Hendry was born (d. 1984). English actor.

1932 - Maria Ondina Braga was born in Braga (d. 14 Mar 2003). Portuguese writer [(A China Fica ao Lado (1968), Amor e Morte (1970) , Nocturno em Macau (1991), Vidas Vencidas (1998)].

1932 - Sophia of Prussia dies (b. 1870). Consort of Constantine I of Greece

1933 - O congresso norte-americano vota a favor da independência das Filipinas, após um período de transição.

1934 - The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.

1934 - Rip Taylor was born. American actor.

1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard dies (b. 1860). French physicist.

1935 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany than France. After World War I the Saar coal mines had been awarded to France, and the Saarland placed under the administration of the League of Nations for 15 years.

1935 - Elsa Martinelli was born. Italian actress.

1935 - Mauro Forghieri was born. Italian automotive & mechanical engineer (Scuderia Ferrari).

1936 - É inaugurado o campo de aviação de Moçamedes (actual Namibe) - Angola.

1936 - Renato Aragão was born. Brazilian comedian.

1936 - Renato Bruson was born. Italian operatic baritone.

1937 - Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is created.

1938 - The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution.

1938 - William B. Davis was born. Canadian actor.

1938 - Tord Grip was born. Swedish football manager.

1939 - The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

1939 - Afonso Praça was born at Felgar, Moncorvo (d. 3 May 2001, in Lisbon). Portuguese journalist.

1939 - Cesare Maniago was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1939 - Jacek Gmoch was born. Polish footballer.

1940 - Edmund White was born. American author.

1941 - Pasqual Maragall was born. Spanish politician.

1941 - James Joyce died in Zurich at the age of 58. Novelist, James Joyce is widely regarded as Ireland's greatest author (Ulisses).

1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

1942 - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

1942 - The United States begins Japanese American internment.

1943 - World War II: North Africa General Philippe Leclerc's Free French troops merge with the British army under the command of Montgomery.

1943 - Carol Cleveland was born. English actress.

1943 - Richard Moll was born. American actor.

1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp dies (b. 1889). Swiss artist.

1945 - The Soviet 'Red' army occupies the Hungarian city of Budapest.

1946 - Eero Koivistoinen was born. Finnish musician.

1947 - Carles Rexach was born. Former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach.

1947 - Jacek Majchrowski was born. Mayor of Kraków.

1948 - Gaj Singh was born. Maharaja of Jodhpur.

1949 - Brandon Tartikoff was born (d. 1997). American television executive.

1949 - Rakesh Sharma was born. First Indian and 138th man to visit space.

1950 - Bob Forsch was born. Amerian baseball player.

1950 - John McNaughton was born. American film director.

1950 - Soviets boycott United Nations Security Council.

1942 - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia. Josip Broz Tito, 60, continues to rule Yoguslavia, as he had since 1945, just changing his title from premier to president.

1953 - Paul Niggli dies (born 26 Jun 1888). Swiss mineralogist who originated the idea of a systematic deduction of the patterns in the internal structure of crystals by means of X-ray data .

1953 - Atlético Nacional de Medellín, Colombia determina en asamblea de socios que en su equipo pueden actuar jugadores extranjeros.

1954 - Trevor Rabin was born. South African guitarist (Yes).

1955 - El presidente de Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza, desafía al presidente de Costa Rica, José Figueres, a resolver la disputa entre los dos países mediante un duelo a pistola.

1955 - Jay McInerney was born. American writer.

1955 - Paul Kelly was born. Australian singer-songwriter.

1956 - Lebanon and Syria signed a defense pact providing for joint retaliation against Israel if either was attacked.

1956 - Janet Hubert-Whitten was born. American actress.

1957 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee; a representative of the company got the idea for the product when he saw some truck drivers from the Frisbee Pie Co. of Connecticut showing Yale students how to throw pie pins in the air.

1957 - Lorrie Moore was born. American writer.

1957 - Mark O'Meara was born. Major winning American golfer.

1958 - Linus Pauling (1901-1994) presented the petition of 9,000 scientists to the U.N., asking to halt the testing of nuclear bombs.

1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

1958 - Andrew Stanton was born. American actor and director.

1959 - De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts.

1959 - James Lomenzo was born. American musician (Megadeth).

1960 - Takis Lemonis was born. Greek footballer and coach.

1961 - Fighting erupts between UN troops and supporters of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo.

1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus was born. American actress.

1961 - Graham McPherson was born. English singer.

1961 - Suggs was born. English singer (Madness).

1961 - Wayne Coyne was born. American singer (The Flaming Lips).

1962 - Kevin Mitchell was born. American baseball player.

1962 - Paul Higgins was born. Canadian hockey player.

1962 - Ernie Kovacs dies in a car crash in west Los Angeles (b. 1919). American actor and comedian.

1962 - Trace Adkins was born. American musician.

1963 - Kevin McClatchy was born. American business man.

1963 - Ramón Gómez de la Serna dies in Buenos Aires (b. Madrid in 3 Jul 1888). Spanish writer.

1964 - Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.

1964 - Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow.

1964 - Penelope Ann Miller was born. American actress.

1964 - Ronan Rafferty was born. Northern Irish golfer.

1964 - Felisberto Hernández dies (b. 1902). Uruguyan writer.

1966 - Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

1966 - Patrick Dempsey was born. American actor.

1967 - Military coup in Togo. Chief of staff Étienne Lieutenant-Colonel Etienne Gnassingbé Eyadema seizes power in Togo by a coup and dissolves all political parties.

1967 - Annie Jones was born. Australian actress.

1967 - George Paterson was born. Scottish singer/songwriter DMP.

1968 - Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison.

1968 - Chara was born. Japanese singer and actress.

1968 - Mike Whitlow was born. English footballer.

1968 - Traci Bingham was born. American actress (Baywatch).

1968 - Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam.

1969 - Los Beatles lanzan el album "Yellow Submarine".

1969 - Stephen Hendry was born. Scottish snooker player.

1969 - Stefania Belmondo was born. Italian cross-country skier.

1970 - Keith Coogan was born. American actor.

1970 - Marco Pantani was born (d. 2004). Italian cyclist.

1970 - Shonda Rhimes was born. American screenwriter/creator Grey's Anatomy.

1971 - John Mallory Asher was born. American film actor/director.

1971 - Robert Still dies (b. 1910). English composer.

1972 - Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana were ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.

1972 - Atoosa Rubenstein was born. Iranian-born American magazine editor.

1972 - Mark Bosnich was born. Australian footballer.

1972 - Nicole Eggert was born. American actress.

1972 - Vitaly Scherbo was born. Belarussian gymnast.

1973 - A policia de choque dispersa em Paris uma manifestação de estudantes que protestavam contra a presença, na capital francesa, da primeiro-ministro israelita, Golda Meir.

1973 - Gloria Yip was born. Hong Kong actor.

1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin was born. Russian hockey player.

1974 - Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.

1974 - Sergei Brylin was born. Russian ice hockey player.

1974 - Salvador Novo dies (b. 1904). Mexican writer and poet.

1974 - Raoul Jobin dies (b. 1906). Canadian tenor.

1976 - the first machine for reading printed matter aloud was given its first public demonstration, by its inventor, Raymond Kurzwell.The machine was manufactured by the Kurzwell Computer Products, Inc., and was tested by the National Federation for the Blind.

1976 - Mario Yepes was born. Colombian footballer.

1976 - Michael Peña was born. American actor.

1976 - Tania Vicent was born. Canadian short track speed skater.

1976 - Margaret Leighton dies (b. 1922). English actress.

1977 - James Posey was born. American basketball player.

1977 - Orlando Bloom was born. English actor (Lord of the Rings, Black Hawk Down).

1978 - NASA selected its first U.S. women astronauts.

1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey dies (b. 1911). Vice President of the United States and Senator from Minnesota.

1978 - Ashmit Patel was born. Indian actor.

1978 - Joe McCarthy dies (b. 1908). Baseball manager.

1979 - Jill Wagner was born. American actor.

1979 - Tinga was born. Brazilian footballer.

1979 - Donny Hathaway dies (b. 1945). American musician.

1980 - Togo's constitution becomes effective.

1980 - Founding of Germany’s “Green” Party.

1980 - Krzysztof Czerwinski was born. Polish conductor and organist.

1980 - Akira Kaji was born. Japanese National Football Player.

1980 - Michael Rupp was born. American ice hockey player.

1980 - Nils-Eric Johansson was born. Swedish footballer.

1980 - Andre Kostelanetz dies (b. 1901). Russian-born popular music conductor and arranger.

1981 - Darrell Rasner was born. American baseball player.

1981 - Shad Gaspard was born. American professional wrestler, bodyguard, and actor.

1981 - Jason James was born. America musician (Bullet for My Valentine).

1981 - Reggie Brown was born. American football player.

1982 - Guillermo Coria was born. Argentinian professional tennis player.

1982 - Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. Coincidentally, a Washington DC Metro Rail train is derailed, killing 3 people.

1982 - Marcel Camus dies (b. 1912). French film director.

1983 - Julian Morris was born. English actor.

1983 - Ronny Turiaf was born. French basketball player.

1983 - William Hung was born. American Idol contestant.

1985 - A passenger train plunged into a ravine at Ethiopia, killing 428, where accident is the worst railroad disaster in Africa.

1986 - A month-long violent struggle began in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.

1986 - Joannie Rochette was born. Canadian figure skater.

1987 - Marc Staal was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo dies (b. 1910). President of the Republic of China.

1989 - Bryan Arguez was born. American soccer player.

1989 - Triinu Kivilaan was born. Estonian singer.

1990 - L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

1991 - Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.

1991 - Portugal : President Mario Soares is reelected with 70,43% of votes.

1992 - Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

1993 - Erich Honecker, ex-líder da Alemanha Oriental, é libertado de uma prisão em Berlim e imigra para o Chile.

1993 - O presidente em exercício da Organizacao da Unidade Africana (OUA), Abdou Diouf apela aos dirigentes angolanos para que cessem imediatamente as hostilidades.- O secretário de estado norte-americano, Lawrence Eaglesurger, apela ao líder da UNITA Jonas Savimbi, aceitar os resultados das eleições de Setembro de 1992.

1993 - Camargo Guarnieri dies (b. 1907). Brazilian composer.

1994 - Italian government of Carlo Azeglio Ciampi resigns. He was not a politician but a former governor of the Bank of Italy, chosen to reassure investors and to prevent a disastrous flight from the lira.

1994 - President Clinton held talks in Moscow with Russian President Boris Yeltsin

1994 - Violeta Galdro dies. Chilean actress.

1995 - Qaasim Middleton was born. American musician and actor.

1996 - Aeiou, Portuguese internet search engine, is founded.

1997 - Investida nas funções de embaixadora da cruz vermelha, a princesa Diana de Gales visita Angola.

1997 - Marius Borg Høiby was born. Son of Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

1998 -An Afghan Russian-made cargo plane crashed in southwestern Pakistan with as many as 90 Taliban militia and all were killed .

1998 - ABC and ESPN negotiate a $1.15 billion a season contract to keep Monday Night Football.

1999 - Michael Jordan announced his second retirement from the NBA. He would "unretire" again in 2001.

2000 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates resigns as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position.

2001 - An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

2001 - Michael Cuccione dies (b. 1985). Canadian actor and singer.

2002 - US President George W. Bush faints allegedly after choking on a pretzel.

2002 - After 17,162 performances, The Fantasticks ended its almost 42-year off-Broadway run.

2002 - Ted Demme dies (b. 1963). American film and television director.

2002 - Frank Shuster dies (b. 1916). Canadian comedian.

2002 - Gregorio Fuentes dies (b. 1897). Cuban fisherman, reputed model for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

2003 - Norman Panama dies (b. 1914). American screenwriter and director.

2004 - Joseph Darby, a U.S. soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Army's Criminal Investigations Division.

2004 - A domestic airliner crashed in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, killing all 37 people aboard.

2004 - Arne Næss Jr. dies (b. 1937). Norwegian mountain climber and businessman.

2004 - Harold Shipman dies (b. 1946). British serial killer.

2005 - Earl Cameron dies (b.1915). Canadian broadcaster.

2005 - Nell Rankin dies (b. 1924). American mezzo-soprano.

2006 - Frank Fixaris dies (b. 1934). American sportscaster.

2006 - Marc Potvin dies (b. 1967). Canadian ice hockey player.

2007 - Michael Brecker dies (b. 1949). American jazz saxophonist.

2007 - Danny Oakes dies (b. 1911). Racecar driver.

2008 - Sergei Larin dies (b. 1956). Lithuanian tenor.

2008 - Johnny Podres dies (b. 1932). American baseball player.

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