1695 -
John Glas was born (d. 1773). Scottish minister.
1703 -
Jonathan Edwards was born (d. 1758). American theologian and philosopher (Original Sin).
1713 -
Denis Diderot was born (d. 1784). French philosopher and encylopedist.
1777 -
Ján Andrej Segner dies (b. 1704). Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician.
1781 -
Bernard Bolzano was born (d. 1848). Czech mathematician and philosopher.
1795 -
Alexander Keith was born (d. 1873). Founded the Alexander Keith's brewing company in 1820.
1799 -
António Dinis da Cruz e Silva dies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (b. 1731). Portuguese poet. His work mainly published after his death includes:
Odes Pindáricas (1801), o poema O Hissope (1802), e os seis volumes das Poesias (1807-1817). He belonged to the movement "Arcádia Lusitana" with Manuel Esteves Negrão e Teotónio Gomes de Carvalho.
1813 -
Tecumseh dies in The Battle of Moraviantown that was decisive in the War of 1812. Some 600 British regulars and 1,000 Indian allies under English General and Shawnee leader Tecumseh were greatly outnumbered and quickly defeated by US forces under the command of Maj. Gen. William Henry Harrison.
1822 - Bruno Carranza Ramírez was born. President of Costa Rica (1870).
1824 -
Henry Chadwick was born (d. 1908). English-born American baseball writer and statistician.
1857 - The City of Anaheim was founded.1861 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski dies (b. 1778). Polish bishop. 1864 - The Indian city of
Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a
cyclone 60,000 die.
1864 -
Louis Lumière was born (d. 1948). French film pioneer / Nasce
Louis Jean Lumière, que, com seu irmão Auguste, foi inventor do projector cinematográfico e considerado, por muitos, como um dos pais do
cinema († 1948).
1869 - A strong
hurricane devastates the
Bay of Fundy region of Maritime
Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1880 -
Jacques Offenbach dies (b. 1819). German-French composer
(La Belle Helene, Orpheus, Tales of Hoffman).1882 -
Robert Goddard was born († 10 Aug 1945). American rocket scientist
"father of the Space Age".
1894 - Bevil Rudd was born (d. 1948). South African athlete. 1899 - Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg was born (d. 1962). Head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1901 - John Alton was born (d. 1996). American cinematographer.
1902 -
Larry Fine was born (d. 1975). American actor and comedian.
1902 -
Ray Kroc was born (d. 14 Jan 1984). American fast food entrepreneur: founder of McDonald’s;
1904 -
John Hoyt was born (d. 1991). American film and television actor.
1907 -
Mrs. Miller was born (d. 1997). American singer.
1908 -
Joshua Logan was born († 12 Jul 1988). American film director and writer.
1908 - A
Bulgária proclama a independência, separando-se do Império Otomano.
1910 -
Portugal overthrows the monarchy and declares istself a republic / A República é proclamada em Portugal, cerca das 10 horas da manhã, nos Paços do Concelho de Lisboa.
1911 - Forças monárquicas comandadas por Paiva Couceiro realizam a primeira de várias incursões no norte do país.
1911 - Término do mandato do presidente português Teófilo Braga.
1911 - Tropas italianas ocupam Trípoli, na Líbia, durante a guerra com a Turquia.
1912 - Fritz Fischer was born. Nazi war criminal.1913 - Eugene Bennett Fluckey was born (d. 2007). American Navy Submariner.1914 -
World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
1918 -
Roland Garros dies (b. 1888). French tennis player and stunt flyer.
1919 -
Donald Pleasence was born (d. 1995). English actor (
You Only Live Twice, Fantastic Voyage, Tale of Two Cities, The Adventures of Robin Hood). 1919 - Portugal: António José de Almeida ocupa o lugar de Presidente da República, em substituição do almirante Canto e Castro.
1921 - Baseball: The
World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1922 -
Jock Stein was born (d. 1985). Scottish football player and manager.
1922 -
Bil Keane was born. American cartoonist.
1922 -
Jock Stein was born (d. 1985). Scottish footballer and manager.
1923 -
Albert Guðmundsson was born (d. 1994). Icelandic professional football player and politician.
1923 - Bill Wirtz was born (d. 2007). Longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner.
1924 - Barbara Kelly was born (d. 2007). Canadian-born actress.
1924 - José Donoso was born (d. 1996). Chilean writer.
1924 -
Bill Dana was born. Actor and comedian.
1925 -
Gail Davis was born (d. 1997). American actress.
1930 -
Anne Haddy was born (d. 1999). Australian actress.
1930 - British
Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
1934 -
Jean Vigo dies (26 Apr 1905). French film director.
1935 - Tarcísio Meira was born. Brazilian actor.
1936 -
J. Slauerhoff dies (b. 1898). Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis).
1943 -
Steve Miller was born. American musician The Steve Miller Band:
The Joker, Rock’n Me, Fly Like an Eagle, Jet Airliner, Abracadabra, Take the Money and Run.
1945 - Geoff Leigh was born. English musician (Henry Cow).1946 - Jean Perron was born. Canadian ice hockey coach1946 -
Zahida Hina was born. Pakistani columnist and story writer.
1947 -
Brian Johnson was born. American singer (AC/DC) after replacing Bon Scott's death in 1980.
1949 -
B.W. Stevenson was born (d. 1988). American country pop singer.
1951 -
Bob Geldof was born. Irish singer, composer and humanist.
1952 -
Clive Barker was born. English writer and film director.
1952 -
Gigi Sabani was born (d. 2007). Italian TV host.
1961 -
David Kirk was born. New Zealand rugby union footballer.
1966 - Near
Detroit, Michigan there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor, killing three workers.
1966 - Peter Fonseca was born in Lisbon, Portugal. Canadian marathoner who won the 1996 Olympics.
1968 - Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland - considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.1969 - The first episode of the famous comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on BBC.1971 - Mauricio Pellegrino was born. Argentine former footballer.1972 - The Last
Goon Show of All goes to air on
BBC Radio, one of the most celebrated and influential programmes in the history of radio.
1972 -
Grant Hill was born. American basketball player.
1974 -
Guildford pub bombing by the
IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.
1974 -
Colin Meloy was born. American singer songwriter.
1975 -
Bobo Baldé was born. Guinean football player.
1975 -
Kate Winslet was born. English actress (
Titanic, Jude, Hamlet, Get Back).
1978 - The Nobel Prize in Literature goes to... Author Isaac Bashevis Singer for “...his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life.”
1978 - James Valentine wa born. American musician (Maroon 5).1978 - Jesse Palmer was born. Canadian-born American football player.1978 - Morgan Webb was born. Canadian-born television presenter.1978 -
Shane Ryan was born. Irish Gaelic Football player.
1980 - Em Portugal, a coligação Aliança Democrática obtém maioria absoluta nas eleições legislativas.
1983 -
Lech Wałęsa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, founder of Solidarity, campaigner for human rights, for his efforts on behalf of Polish workers
1983 -
Humberto Mauro dies (b. 1897). Brazilian film director and screenwriter.
1985 - Abdus Sattar dies. President of Bangladesh (1981-1982).
1986 - Israel's secret nuclear weapons was revealed. The
British newspaper
The Sunday Times ran
Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal."
1989 - The Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 - After one hundred and fifty years The Herald
broadsheet newspaper in
Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991 - An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from
Jakarta killing 137.
1991 - The first official version of the
Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1993 -
Jim Holton dies (d. 1951). Scottish footballer.
1995 - Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize in literature . His works include: “Death of a Naturalist” (1966), “Door into the Dark” (1969), “North” (1975), “Field Work” (1979), “The Spirit Level” (1996) and the Nobel lecture “Crediting Poetry.”
1996 -
Seymour Cray dies (b. 1925). American computer pioneer.
1997 -
Brian Pillman dies (b. 1962). American professional wrestler.
1999 - Kofi Annan presented a UN plan to take full control of East Timor and guide the territory to nationhood over 2-3 years.
2003 -
Dan Snyder dies (b. 1978). Canadian hockey player.
2004 - Americans David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the force that binds particles inside the atomic nucleus. Their theory of quantum chromodynamics explained who quarks behave.
2005 -
NHL started its season to end a year-and-a-half lockout.
Portugal -
Republic Day, celebrates overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910, also on this day of 1143 Portugal was recognized as a country by the King of Spain Afonso IV.
Indonesia - Army Day.
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