Nothingandall: On this day in History

0046 BC - Julius Caesar's forces delivered the final blow against supporters of Pompey the Great at the Battle of Thapsus.
0337 - Julius I is elected pope.
0891 - Photius dies. Patriarch of Constantinople.
1347 – Dorothea of Montau was born (d. 1394). Catholic saint.
1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon dies (b. 1338). Queen of Charles V of France.
1452 - Santa Joana was born (d. 1490). Princess of Portugal.
1461 – Džore Držić was born (d. 1501). Croatian poet and playwright.
1465 – Scipione del Ferro was born (d. 1526). Italian mathematician.
1497 - Johannes Ockeghem dies. Flemish composer.
1515 - Aldus Manutius dies. Italian printer and editor, founder of the Aldine Press.
1564 - Christopher Marlowe was born (d. 1593). English playwright.
1577 - Beatrice Cenci was born (d. 1599). Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father.
1582 – Mario Bettinus was born (d. 1657). Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer.
1585 - Edmund Plowden dies (b. 1518). English legal scholar.
1593 - Jacques Amyot dies (b. 1513). French writer.
1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan dies (b. 1517).
1605 – Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint (d. 1667)
1608 - Pde. Antonio Vieira was born (d. 18 Jul 1697). Portuguese jesuit and writer (Sermão da Sexagéssima; Sermão de Santo António aos Peixes). Ver biografia em português.
1611 - Chongzhen was born (d. 1644). Emperor of China.
1612 – Antoine Arnauld was born (d. 1694). French theologian, philosopher and mathematician.
1617 - Prospero Alpini dies (b. 1533). Italian scientist.
1639 - Daniel Georg Morhof was born (d. 1691). German writer and scholar.
1664 - Mustafa II was born (d. 1703). Ottoman Sultan.
1665 - Queen Anne I of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1714).
1685 - King Charles II of England dies (b. 1630).
1695 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli was born (d. 1726). Swiss mathematician.

1715 - Tratado de paz e amizade entre D. João V e Filipe V de Espanha, assinado em Utreque, e garantido por Jorge I de Inglaterra, dois anos depois do assinado com a França de Luís XV. Portugal recebe a Colónia do Sacramento, no actual Uruguai.

1721 – Christian Friedrich Heinecken was born (d. 1725). "the Infant of Lübeck".

1726 – Patrick Russell was born (d. 1805). Scottish surgeon and naturalist.

1732 - Charles Lee was born (d. 1782). General in the American Revolution.

1736 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was born (d. 1783). German-Austrian sculptor.

1740 - Pope Clement XII dies (b. 1652).

1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault was born (d. 1795). French anatomist and surgeon.

1748 - Adam Weishaupt was born (d. 1811). Founder of the Bavarian Illuminati.

1753 – Évariste de Parny was born (d. 1814). French poet.

1756 - Aaron Burr was born (d. 1836). Vice President of the United States.

1757 - Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz was born (d. 1841). Polish scholar and statesman.

1769 – Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn was born (d. 1862). Austrian general.

1772 – Karl von Kügelgen was born (d. 1832). German landscape and history painter.

1775 - William Dowdeswell dies (b. 1721). English politician.

1778 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.

1778 – Ugo Foscolo was born (d. 1827). Italian writer, revolutionary and poet.

1783 - Capability Brown dies (b. 1716). English landscape gardener.

1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

1793 - Carlo Goldoni dies (b. 1707). Italian playwright.

1796 – John Stevens Henslow was born (d. 1861). English botanist and geologist.

1797 – Joseph von Radowitz was born (d. 1853). Prussian statesman and general.

1799 – Imre Frivaldszky was born (d. 1870). Hungarian botanist and entomologist.

1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée dies (b. 1728). French architect.

1800 – Achille Devéria was born (d. 1857). French painter and lithographer.

1802 – Charles Wheatstone was born (d. 1875). English scientist and inventor.

1804 - Joseph Priestley dies. British chemist. His work on the isolation of gases led him to discover oxygen in 1774.

1806 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - Action of 6 February 1806.

1807 - John Reid dies (b. 1721). British army general and composer.

1811 - Henry George Liddell was born (d. 1898). Father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland.

1814 - Melchor Ocampo was born. Mexican politician.

1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.

1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska dies (b. 1744). Polish szlachcianka.

1817 - The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.

1818 – Henry Charles Litolff was born (d. 1891). Keyboard virtuoso and composer.

1818 – William M. Evarts was born (d. 1901). American lawyer and statesman.

1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.

1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society established a settlement in present-day Liberia Acontecimientos.

1829 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer was born (d. 1914). French architect.

1830 – Daniel Oliver was born (d. 1916). British botanist.

1833 - James Ewell Brown Stuart was born (d. 1864). American confederate general.

1833 - Jose Maria de Pereda was born (d. 1906). Spanish writer.

1833 - Pierre André Latreille dies (b. 1762). French entomologist.

1834 – Edwin Klebs was born (d. 1913). German-Swiss pathologist.

1834 - Ema Puksec was born (d. 1889). Croatian singer.

1834 – Wilhelm von Scherff was born (d. 1911). German general and military writer.

1834 - Richard Lemon Lander dies (b. 1804). British explorer.

1838 - Sir Henry Irving was born (d. 1905). British actor, inspiration for Dracula.

1838 - Yisrael Meir Kagan was born (d. 1933). Chafetz Chayim.

1839 – Eduard Hitzig was born (d. 1907). German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist.

1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.

1842 – Mary Rudge was born (d. 1919). English female chess master.

1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).

1843 – Frederic William Henry Myers was born (d. 1901). English poet, essayist and psychical researcher.

1843 – Inoue Kowashi was born (d. 1895). Japanese statesman.

1847 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh was born (d. 1918). American architect.

1851 - Eduardo Brasão was born. Portuguese actor and entrepreneur of theatre.

1852 - El dictador Juan José Rosas abandona Buenos Aires en un buque inglés que lo traslada a Europa.

1852 - C. Lloyd Morgan was born (d. 6 Mar 1936). British zoologist and psychologist, sometimes called the founder of comparative, or animal, psychology .

1852 – Vasily Safonov was born (d. 1918). Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer.

1853 - Ignacij Klemenčič was born (d. 1901). Slovenian physicist.

1855 - Josef Munzinger dies (b. 1791). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.

1859 – Wilhelm Cohn was born (d. 1913). German chess master.

1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky was born (d. 1953). Russian chemist.

1862 - American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee.

1864 – John Henry Mackay was born (d. 1933). Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker and writer.

1866 – Karl Sapper was born (d. 1945). German traveller, explorer, antiquarian and linguist.

1872 - Robert Maillart was born (d. 5 Apr 1940). Swiss bridge engineer whose radical use of reinforced concrete revolutionized masonry arch bridge design. Maillart utilized the structural strength and expressive potential of reinforced concrete to generate a modern form for his bridges .

1873 - Bolivia y Perú firman un tratado secreto de alianza militar. Historiadores chilenos lo mencionan como una de las causas de la Guerra del Pacífico.

1875 - Leonid Gobyato was born (d. 1915). Russian general.

1878 – Walter B. Pitkin was born (d. 1953). American lecturer in philosophy and psychology.

1879 – Carl Ramsauer was born (d. 1955). German physicist.

1879 – Magnús Guðmundsson was born (d. 1937). Icelandic politician.

1879 – Othon Friesz was born (d. 1949)- French artist of the Fauvist movement.

1883 – Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich was born (d. 1938). Russian aircraft designer.

1886 - German chemist, Clement Winkler discovered the element germanium.

1887 - Josef Frings was born (d. 1978). Archbishop of Cologne.

1889 - Elmo Lincoln was born (d. 1952). Actor.

1892 - William Parry Murphy was born (d. 9 Oct 1987). American physician who with George R. Minot in 1926 reported success in the treatment of pernicious anemia with a liver diet. The two men shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George H. Whipple, whose research they had built upon.

1893 – Muhammad Zafrulla Khan was born (d. 1985). Pakistani diplomat.

1894 - Eric Partridge was born (d. 1979). New Zealand lexicographer.

1894 – Kirpal Singh was born (d. 1974). Indian Spiritual teacher ("Sant").

1895 - Babe Ruth was born (d. 1948). American baseball player.

1897 - Louis Buchalter was born (d. 1944). Jewish American mobster.

1899 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898), a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.

1899 - Ramón Novarro was born (d. 1968). Mexican actor.

1899 - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dies (b. 1874).

1899 - Leo von Caprivi dies (b. 1831). Chancellor of Germany

1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

1900 - Melvin Tolson was born (d. 1966). American poet, educator. He is best known for his volume "Harlem Gallery" and his Washington Tribune column, "Caviar and Cabbage".

1901 - Ben Lyon was born (d. 1979). American actor.

1901 - Tomás António Ribeiro dies (b. 1831). Portuguese ultra-romantic writer and politician.

1902 - George Brunies was born (d. 1974). American jazz musician.

1903 - Claudio Arrau was born (d. 1991). Chilean-born pianist.

1905 - Władysław Gomułka was born (d. 1982). Polish leader.

1908 - Amintore Fanfani was born (d. 1999). Italian politician and prime minister.

1910 - Carlos Marcello was born (d. 1993). Tunisian-born gangster.

1910 - Irmgard Keun was born (d. 1982). German author.

1911 - Ronald Reagan was born (d. 2004). 40th President of the United States.

1912 – Christopher Hill was born (d. 2003). English Marxist historian.

1912 - Eva Braun was born (d. 1945). Adolf Hitler's mistress.

1913 - Mary Douglas Leakey was born (d. 9 Dec 1996). English-born archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who made several of the most important fossil finds subsequently interpreted and publicized by her husband, the noted anthropologist Louis Leakey.

1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft was born. American voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger").

1916 - John Crank was born (d. 2006). British mathematician.

1916 - Rubén Darío dies (b. 1867). Nicaraguan writer.

1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor was born. Hungarian actress ("Three Ring Circus," 1954, and many others).

1918 - No Reino Unido, é concedido o direito de voto às mulheres com mais de 30 anos de idade.

1918 - Gustav Klimt dies (b. 1862). Austrian painter.

1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim was born. German author.

1919 - A German constitutional assembly met to form the Weimar Republic.

1922 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.

1922 - The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

1922 - Bill Johnston was born. Australian cricketer.

1922 - Patrick Macnee was born. British actor.

1922 - Denis Norden was born. British television abd radio personality and scriptwriter

1922 - Estabelecido em Washington o Tratado das Nove Potências, destinado a que se respeite a independência e a integridade territorial e administrativa da China.

1923 - Augusto Bernardino Leguía dies. President of Peru.

1924 - Billy Wright was born (d. 1994). English former footballer.

1925 - Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born (d. 2006). Indonesian author.

1926 - Haskell Wexler was born. American cinematographer.

1926 - Walker Edmiston was born (d. 2007). American actor.

1927 - Gerard Kitchen O'Neill was born (d. 27 Apr 1992). American physicist who invented the colliding-beam storage ring, now a standard feature of high-energy particle accelerators.

1927 - Sam Maguire dies (b. 1879). Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer.

1929 – Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta was born. Venezuelan writer.

1929 - Pierre Brice was born. French actor.

1929 – Valentin Yanin was born. Russian historian.

1930 – Jun Kondo was born. Japanese theoretical physicist.

1931 - Mamie Van Doren was born. American actress.

1931 – Ricardo Vidal was born. Filipino Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Cebu

1931 - Rip Torn was born. American actor and director.

1932 - Camilo Cienfuegos was born (d. 1959). Cuban revolutionary.

1932 - François Truffaut was born (d. 1984). French film director.

1932 – Heinz-Klaus Metzger was born (d. 2009). German music critic and theorist.

1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.

1933 - Leslie Crowther was born (d. 1996). British comedian.

1934 - February 6, 1934 political crisis in France. The far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, an attempted coup against the Third Republic.

1934 - Bernard Erhard was born (d. 2000). American voice actor.

1935 - The popular board game Monopoly® went on sale for the first time.

1936 - 1936 Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

1936 - J. Howard Marshall III was born. American businessman.

1936 - Kent Douglas was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1938 - Marianne von Werefkin dies (b. 1860). Russian-Swiss painter.

1939 - Jair Rodrigues de Oliveira was born. Brazilian singer.

1939 - Mike Farrell was born. American actor.

1939 - Orlando Parga was born. Vice President of the Puerto Rico Senate.

1940 - Jimmy Tarbuck was born. British comedian.

1940 – Petr Hájek was born. Czech mathematician.

1940 - Tom Brokaw was born. American news anchorman.

1941 - General Erwin Rommel is ordered to lead the Afrika Korps, sent to Libya to help shore up the Italian forces.

1941 - Gigi Perreau was born. American actress.

1941 – Spencer Silver was born. American chemist, co-creator of the Post-it note.

1942 – James Loewen was born. American sociologist and historian.

1942 - Sarah Brady was born. American gun-control activist.

1943 - Fabian Forte was born. American singer.

1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt was born. American actress.

1944 - Christine Boutin was born. French politician.

1944 - Michael Tucker was born. American actor.

1944 - Willie Tee was born (d. 2007). American singer and songwriter.

1945 - Bob Marley was born (d. 1981). Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician.

1946 - Jim Turner was born. American politician.

1946 - Kate McGarrigle was born. Canadian folk music singer and songwriter.

1947 – Bill Staines was born. American singer and songwroter.

1949 - Jim Sheridan was born. Irish film director.

1949 – Mike Batt was born. British composer.

1950 - Natalie Cole was born. American singer.

1950 - Georges Imbert dies (b. 1884). Alsatian chemist.

1951 - The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one on the worst rail disasters in American history.

1951 - Princess Daphné of Belgium was born.

1951 - Jacques Villeret was born (d. 2005). French film actor.

1951 - Marco Antonio was born. Brazilian footballer.

1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse in a tree-top hotel in Kenya. She is crowned on June 2, 1953, at Westminster Abbey in London.

1952 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of Canada at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.

1952 - Ricardo Lavolpe was born. Argentine football coach.

1952 - King George VI of the United Kingdom dies (b. 1895).

1954 - Argusto Emfazie was born. American occultist, author.

1955 - Michael Pollan was born. American journalist.

1957 - Kathy Najimy was born. American actress, comedian.

1957 - Robert Townsend was born. American comedian, actor, director and producer.

1958 - Bobby Charlton survived the Munich air disaster in Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with Manchester United F.C.: David Pegg (b. 1935), Tommy Taylor, (b. 1932), Geoff Bent (b. 1932), Roger Byrne (b. 1929), Eddie Colman (b. 1936), Mark Jones (b. 1933), Frank Swift (b. 1913), footballers and Walter Crickmer, Manchester United club secretary.

1958 - Barry Miller was born. American actor.

1958 - Cecily Adams was born (d. 2004). American actress.

1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.

1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

1959 - Indira Ghandi becomes the leader of India's Congress Party.

1959 - Ken Nelson was born. English record producer.

1960 - O Governo da Espanha garante direitos de concessão a seis companhias norte-americanas para explorar eventuais descobrimentos petrolíferos no Saara espanhol.

1960 - Megan Gallagher was born. American actress.

1961 - Bill Lester was born. American racecar driver

1962 - Axl Rose was born. American musician ("Guns N'Roses").

1962 - Cândido Portinari dies (b. 1903). Brazilian expresssionist painter.

1963 - Kevin Trudeau was born. American entrepreneur.

1963 - Abd el-Krim dies. Moroccan politician.

1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo dies (b. 1869). First President of the 1st Philippines Republic.

1965 - Cláudia Ohana was born. Brazilian actress.

1966 - José Joaquín Trejos is elected President of Costa Rica.

1966 - Rick Astley was born. British singer.

1967 - Anita Cochran was born. American singer.

1967 - Izumi Sakai was born (d. 2007). Japanese singer (Zard).

1967 - Martine Carol dies (b. 1920). French film actress.

1968 - The 10th Winter Olympic Games open in Grenoble, France.

1968 - Akira Yamaoka was born. Japanese composer.

1968 - Adolfo Valencia was born. Colombian footballer.

1970 - Per Frandsen was born. Danish footballer.

1970 - Kitty Yung was born. American pornographic actress.

1971 - Apollo 14 Mission: Astronaut Alan B. Shepard hit a golf ball and Edgar Mitchell threw a "javelin" on the moon. They landed in the same crater and remain on the Moon today.

1971 - Brian Stepanek was born. American actor.

1971 - Dana Eskelson was born. American actress.

1971 - Brad Hogg was born. Australian cricket player.

1972 - David Binn was born. American football player.

1972 - Anastasio Somoza is reelected President of Nicaragua.

1974 - Layne Roland was born. Hockey player, Portland Winter Hawks and Corpus Christi Icerays.

1974 - Olaf Lindenbergh was born. Dutch footballer.

1975 - Svend-Allan Sørensen was born. Danish artist.

1975 - Tomoko Kawase was born. Japanese singer/songwriter, better known as Tommy.

1975 - Brett Hawke was born. Australian swimmer.

1976 - Tanja Frieden was born. Swiss snowboarder.

1976 - Colin Teo was born. Singaporean D1 Professional Grand Prix driver.

1976 - John Snaden was born. Socialist and judicial activist.

1976 - Kim Zmeskal was born. American gymnast.

1976 - Vince Guaraldi dies (b. 1928). American musician.

1977 - Referéndum en Paraguay que ratifica como presidente vitalicio al general Stroessner.

1977 - Jason Euell was born. English-born footballer.

1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.

1979 - Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977, is condemned when the Supreme Court issued by majority (4-3) its verdict of "Guilty", rejecting an appeal. Ali Bhutto would be hanged on April 4, 1979.

1979 - Dan Bălan was born. Founder of European Pop Band O-Zone.

1980 - Mamiko Noto was born. Japanese seiyu.

1980 - Ryan O'Reilly was born. American wrestler.

1980 - Kim Poirier was born. Canadian actress.

1980 - Luke Ravenstahl was born. American politician.

1981 - Jens Lekman was born. Swedish musician.

1981 - Ty Warren was born. Defensive lineman for the New England Patriots.

1981 - Jens Lekman was born. Swedish musician.

1981 - Calum Best was born. American model.

1981 - Luis García was born in Oviedo. Spanish footballer.

1981 - Hugo Montenegro dies (b. 1925). American film music composer and orchestra leader.

1981 - Frederika of Hanover dies (b. 1917). Queen Consort of Greece.

1982 - Alice Eve was born. English actress.

1982 - Tank was born. Mandopop singer.

1983 - Klaus Barbie, war criminal and former Gestapo commandant (« The Butcher of Lyon»), arrives in France to stand trial for crimes committed 37 years ago.

1983 - Brodie Croyle was born. American football player.

1983 - Myron Wolf Child was born. Canadian politician.

1983 - S Sreesanth was born. Indian cricketer.

1983 - Jamie Whincup was born. Australian racing driver.

1984 - Piret Järvis was born. Estonian singer.

1984 - Daisy Marie was born. American pornographic actress.

1984 - Darren Bent was born. English footballer.

1984 - Jorge Guillén dies (b. 1893). Spanish poet.

1985 - Se inaugura en Santo Domingo (República Dominicana) una Conferencia de Ministros de Finanzas y Relaciones Exteriores de los 11 países endeudados de Iberoamérica.

1985 - Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer.

1985 - Kris Humphries was born. American basketball player.

1985 - Yang Yu was born. Chinese swimmer.

1985 - James Hadley Chase dies (b. 1906). English writer.

1986 - Brendan Taylor was born. Zimbabwean cricketer.

1986 - Alice Greczyn was born. American actress.

1986 - Frederick Coutts dies (b. 1899). Salvation Army general.

1986 - Minoru Yamasaki dies (b. 1912). American architect.

1988 - Allison Holker was born. American dancer.

1989 - Craig Cathcart was born. Irish football.

1989 - Roy Eldridge dies (b. 1911). American jazz musician.

1989 - Chris Gueffroy dies (b. 1968). Last person killed escaping over the GDR border.

1989 - Barbara Tuchman dies (b. 1912). American historian, Pulitzer awarded.

1989 - André Cayatte dies (b. 1909). French filmmaker.

1989 - Osbourne Ruddock, AKA "King Tubby", dies (b. 1941). Dub pioneer.

1989 - 30.000 soldados soviéticos abandonan Afganistán, mientras la capital, Kabul, queda sumida en el caos.

1991 - Maria Zambrano dies (b. 25 Apr 1904). Spanish writer and philosopher.

1991 - Salvador Luria dies (b. 13 Aug 1912) Italian-born American biologist who (with Max Delbrück and Alfred Day Hershey) won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for research on bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria.

1991 - Kara Borden was born. American Causes Celebre.

1991 - Danny Thomas dies (b. 1914). Singer, comedian and actor.

1991 - Salvador Luria dies (b. 1912). Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate.

1992 - Portugal: São atribuídos os 3º e 4º canais de televisão, respectivamente à SIC e à TVI. A SIC iniciará as suas emissões em 6 de Outubro, e a TVI em 30 de Janeiro de 1993.

1992 - The Saami people of Scandinavia have an official day celebrating their existence.

1992 – Víctor Mañon was born. Mexican u-17s footballer.

1993 - Arthur Ashe dies (b. 1943). American tennis star.

1993 - Joseph Mankiewicz dies (b. 1909). American director, producer, writer .

1994 - Joseph Cotten dies (b. 1905). American actor.

1994 - Jack Kirby dies (b. 1917). American comic book writer.

1994 - Social-democrat José María Figueres wins presidential elections in Costa Rica.

1994 - Social-democrat Martti Ahtisaari wins Presidential elections in Finland.

1995 - James Merrill dies (b. 1926). American poet.

1996 - A Turkish Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast off Dominican Republic killing 189.

1996 - Clube Deportivo Pesquero is founded in Chimbote, Perú.

1996 - Ethiopian flag is adopted.

1996 - Guy Madison dies (b. 1922). American actor.

1997 - Ecuadorian President Abdalá Bucaram is declarared insane by Congress and unable to govern.

1997 - Widow allowed dead husband's baby: The Court of Appeal makes an historic judgement in favour of Diane Blood who will be allowed to be inseminated with her dead husband's sperm.

1997 - Roger Laurent dies (b. 1913). Belgian racing driver.

1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

1998 - In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna.

1998 - Falco dies (b. 1957). Austrian singer.

1998 - Carl Wilson dies. American musician ("The Beach Boys").

1998 - Haroun Tazieff dies (b. 1914). French vulcanologist and geologist.

1999 - The Rambouillet talks began with NATO Secretary General Javier Solana negotiating with both sides (Peace Conference about Kosovo).

2000 - Tarja Halonen was elected as the 11th President of Finland in the second round of voting in the 2000 Finnish Presidential election.

2000 - A primeira dama Hillary Rodham Clinton lança sua bem-sucedida candidatura ao Senado dos Estados Unidos.

2001 - Ariel Sharon (from Likud Party) wins the elections in Israel.

2001 - Don Felder is fired from the Eagles.

2001 - Filemon Lagman dies (b. 1953). Filipino Communist revolutionary.

2001 - Fulgence Charpentier dies (b .1897). Quebec journalist, editor and publisher.

2002 - Max Perutz dies (b. 1914). Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

2002 - Guy Stockwell dies. American actor.

2003 - José Craveirinha dies (b. 28 May 1922). Mozambican writer who was Camões Prize in 1991.

2004 - In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups.

2004 - Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was born.

Princess of Belgium.

2005 - Jerrick De Leon born 13 weeks premature, becomes the world's smallest infant to survive an open-heart procedure called an arterial switch.

2005 - Lazar Berman dies (b. 1930). Russian pianist.

2005 - Karl Haas dies (b. 1913). American radio presenter.

2006 - The Conservative Party of Canada takes control of the Canadian government, ending more than twelve years of Liberal rule.

2006 - Portugal: A Sonae anuncia a intenção de lançar uma OPA (hostil) sobre a Portugal Telecom.

2006 - Aldemir Martins dies (b. 1922). Brazilian artist.

2007 - Frankie Laine dies (b. 1913). American singer.

2007 – Lee Hoffman dies (b. 1932). American author.

2007 - Len Hopkins dies (b. 1930). Canadian politician.

2007 - Lew Burdette dies (b. 1926). American baseball player.