tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186818.post-88304958662269502312008-03-01T01:11:00.004Z2008-03-01T19:53:44.421Z<ul><li><div align="justify">86 BC - <a title="Lucius Cornelius Sulla" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla">Lucius Cornelius Sulla</a>, at the head of a <a title="Roman Republic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic">Roman Republic</a> army, enters in <a title="Athens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens">Athens</a>, removing the <a title="Tyrant" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant">tyrant</a> <a title="Aristion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristion">Aristion</a> who was supported by troops of <a title="Mithridates VI of Pontus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus">Mithridates VI of Pontus</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">0286 - <a title="Roman Emperor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor">Roman Emperor</a> <a title="Diocletian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian">Diocletian</a> rises <a title="Maximian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximian">Maximian</a> to the rank of <a title="Caesar (title)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)">Caesar</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">0293 - Roman Emperors <a title="Diocletian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian">Diocletian</a> and <a title="Maximian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximian">Maximian</a> appoint <a title="Constantius Chlorus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantius_Chlorus">Constantius Chlorus</a> and <a title="Galerius" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerius">Galerius</a> as <a title="Caesar (title)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)">Caesares</a>, thus beginning the <a title="Tetrarchy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrarchy">Tetrarchy</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">0317 - <a title="Crispus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispus">Crispus</a> and <a title="Constantine II (emperor)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_II_(emperor)">Constantine II</a>, sons of <a title="Roman Emperor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor">Roman Emperor</a> <a title="Constantine I" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I">Constantine I</a>, and <a class="new" title="Licinius II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Licinius_II&amp;action=edit">Licinius iunior</a>, son of Emperor <a title="Licinius" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licinius">Licinius</a>, are made <a title="Caesar (title)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)">Caesares</a> </div></li><li><div align="justify">0492 - St. Felix III ended his reign as Catholic Pope and St Gelasius I becomes Pope (492-496).</div></li><li><div align="justify">0589 - <a title="Saint David" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_David">Saint David</a> dies (b. 500). Patron Saint of <a title="Wales" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales">Wales</a></div></li><li><div align="justify">0705 - John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope . </div></li><li><div align="justify">0772 - Po Tjiu-I (Bai Juyi) was born (d. 0846). Chinese poet and Governor of Hang-tsjow. His work included the narrative poem "Song of the Pipa," which protested the social evils of his day.</div></li><li><div align="justify">0965 - Leo VIII dies. Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65).</div></li><li><div align="justify">1104/5 - <a title="Alfonso VII of Castile" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_VII_of_Castile">Alfonso VII</a> was born (d. 1157). king of <a title="Castile" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile">Castile</a> </div></li><li><div align="justify">1131 - King <a title="Stephen II of Hungary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_II_of_Hungary">Stephen II of Hungary</a> dies (b. 1101) </div></li><li><div align="justify">1160 - The city of Tomar in Portugal, is foounded.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1233 - Count <a title="Thomas I of Savoy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_I_of_Savoy">Thomas I of Savoy</a> dies (b. 1178)<br />1244 - <a title="Gruffydd ap Llywelyn" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruffydd_ap_Llywelyn">Gruffydd ap Llywelyn</a> dies (b. 1200). Eldest, <a title="Illegitimate child" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimate_child">illegitimate son</a> of <a title="Llywelyn the Great" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llywelyn_the_Great">Llywelyn the Great</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1383 - <a title="Amadeus VI of Savoy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_VI_of_Savoy">Amadeus VI of Savoy</a> dies (b. 1334). Count of <a title="Savoy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoy">Savoy</a> .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1445 - <a title="Sandro Botticelli" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli">Sandro Botticelli</a> was born (d. 1510). Italian painter.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1456 - Wladyslaw Jagiello was born. King of Bohemia (1471-1516) and Hungary (1490-1516).</div></li><li><div align="justify"><a title="1456" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1456">1456</a> - King <a title="Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_II_of_Bohemia_and_Hungary">Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary</a> (d. <a title="1516" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1516">1516</a>)<br /><a title="1474" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1474">1474</a> - <a title="Angela Merici" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merici">Angela Merici</a>, Italian nun (d. <a title="1540" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1540">1540</a>) </div></li><li><div align="justify">1457 - The <a title="Unitas Fratrum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitas_Fratrum">Unitas Fratrum</a> is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1493 - La carabela "La Pinta" atraca en el puerto de Bayona (<a title="Pontevedra" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontevedra">Pontevedra</a>) de regreso de <a title="América" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/América">América</a>. Se dio la primicia del éxito de la expedición de Colón. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1498 - Vasco da Gama desembarca no país hoje conhecido por Moçambique, em sua viagem à Índia .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1510 - <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Almeida">D. Francisco de Almeida</a> dies (b. c. 1450). Portuguese soldier and explorer who was the first Portuguese Vice-Roy of India.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1536 - <a title="Bernardo Accolti" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Accolti">Bernardo Accolti</a> dies (b. 1465) Italian poet.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1546 - <a title="George Wishart" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wishart">George Wishart</a> dies (b. 1513). Scottish religious reformer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1547 - <a title="Rudolph Goclenius" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Goclenius">Rudolph Goclenius</a> dies (b. 1628). German philosopher.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1562 - Over 1,000 <a title="Huguenot" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenot">Huguenots</a> are massacred by <a title="Catholicism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicism">Catholics</a> in <a title="Vassy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassy">Vassy</a>, <a title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">France</a> marking the start of the <a title="French Wars of Religion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion">French Wars of Religion</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1565 - The city of <a title="Rio de Janeiro" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro">Rio de Janeiro</a> is founded. </div></li><li>1591 - Pope Gregory XIV threatened to excommunicate French king Henri IV.</li><li>1597 - <a title="Jean-Charles de la Faille" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Charles_de_la_Faille">Jean-Charles de la Faille</a>, Belgian mathematician (d. <a title="1652" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1652">1652</a>) </li><li><div align="justify">1611 - <a href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pell.html">John Pell</a> was born (d. 1685) . English mathematician who introduced the division sign (obelus, ÷) into England. The <a href="http://www.gc.cc.fl.us/mathprojects/symbols.htm">obelus</a> was first used by Johann Rahn (1622-1676) in 1659 in Teutsche Algebra. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1620 - <a title="Thomas Campion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Campion">Thomas Campion</a> dies (b. 1567). English poet and composer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1628 - Writs are issued in <a title="February" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February">February</a> by <a title="Charles I of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England">Charles I of England</a> that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay <a title="Ship tax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_tax">ship tax</a> by this date. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1633 - <a title="Samuel de Champlain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain">Samuel de Champlain</a> reclaims his role as commander of <a title="New France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France">New France</a> on behalf of <a title="Cardinal Richelieu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu">Cardinal Richelieu</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1633 - <a title="George Herbert" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert">George Herbert</a> dies (b. 1593). English poet and orator.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1642 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as <a title="York, Maine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York,_Maine">York, Maine</a>) becomes the first incorporated city in America. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1643 - <a title="Girolamo Frescobaldi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Frescobaldi">Girolamo Frescobaldi</a> dies (b. 1583). Italian keyboard composer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1647 - <a href="http://www.cne-escutismo.pt/mistica/patrono_sjoaodebrito.htm">S. João de Brito</a> was born (d. 4 Feb 1693). Portuguese martyr.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1657 - <a title="Samuel Werenfels" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Werenfels">Samuel Werenfels</a> was born (d. 1740). Swiss theologian.</div></li><li>1661 - <a title="Richard Zouch" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Zouch">Richard Zouch</a> dies (b. 1590). English jurist.</li><li>1683 - <a title="Caroline of Ansbach" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_of_Ansbach">Caroline of Ansbach</a> dies (b. 1737). Wife of <a title="George II of Great Britain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain">George II of Great Britain</a>.</li><li><div align="justify">1692 - The <a title="Salem witch trials" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials">Salem witch trials</a> begin in <a title="Salem Village, Massachusetts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Village,_Massachusetts">Salem Village, Massachusetts</a> Bay Colony with the charging of four women with <a title="Witchcraft" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft">witchcraft</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1697 - <a title="Francesco Redi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Redi">Francesco Redi</a> dies (b. 1626). Italian physician.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1700 - <a title="Sweden" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden">Sweden</a> introduces its own <a title="Swedish calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar">Swedish calendar</a>, in an attempt to reform into the Gregorian calendar, then reverts to the <a title="Julian calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar">Julian calendar</a> on this date in 1712, and then introduces the <a title="Gregorian Calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar">Gregorian Calendar</a> on this date in 1753. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1706 - <a title="Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Heinrich_Graf_von_Flemming">Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming</a> dies (b. 1632). German field marshal and Governor of Berlin.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1732 - <a title="William Cushing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cushing">William Cushing</a> was born (d. 1810). 2nd (confirmed) <a title="Chief Justice of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States">Chief Justice of the United States</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1734 - <a title="Roger North" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_North">Roger North</a> dies (b. 1653). English biographer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1757 - <a title="Edward Moore" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Moore">Edward Moore</a> dies (b. 1712). English writer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1760 - <a title="François Nicolas Leonard Buzot" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Nicolas_Leonard_Buzot">François Nicolas Leonard Buzot</a> was born (d. 1794). <a class="new" title="French revolutionary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French_revolutionary&amp;action=edit">French revolutionary</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1767 - <a class="new" title="Carlos III de Espanha" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carlos_III_de_Espanha&amp;action=edit">Carlos III</a> expulsa os <a title="Jesuítas" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/JesuÃ&shy;tas">Jesuítas</a> de <a title="Espanha" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espanha">Espanha</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1768 - <a title="Hermann Samuel Reimarus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus">Hermann Samuel Reimarus</a> dies (b. 1694). German philosopher and writer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1769 - <a title="François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Séverin_Marceau-Desgraviers">François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers</a> was born (b. 1794). French general.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1773 - <a title="Luigi Vanvitelli" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Vanvitelli">Luigi Vanvitelli</a> dies (b. 1700). Italian architect.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1777 - <a title="Georg Christoph Wagenseil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Wagenseil">Georg Christoph Wagenseil</a> dies (b. 1715). Austrian composer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1781 - The <a title="Continental Congress" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Congress">Continental Congress</a> adopts the <a title="Articles of Confederation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1790 - The first <a title="United States Census Bureau" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau">United States census</a> is authorized. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1792 - <a title="Leopold II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II">Leopold II</a> dies (b. 1747). <a title="Holy Roman Emperor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor">Holy Roman Emperor</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1799 - Coalición de Gran Bretaña, Austria y Rusia contra Francia. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1802 - Se inaugura en Buenos Aires la Escuela de Medicina. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1803 - <a title="Ohio" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio">Ohio</a> is admitted as the 17th <a title="U.S. state" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state">U.S. state</a>, retroactive from August 7, 1953. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1805 - Justice <a title="Samuel Chase" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase">Samuel Chase</a> acquitted of <a title="Impeachment" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment">impeachment</a> charges by the U.S. Senate. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1807 - <a title="Wilford Woodruff" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_Woodruff">Wilford Woodruff</a> was born (b. 1898). President of <a title="Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1810 - <a title="Frédéric Chopin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frédéric_Chopin">Frédéric Chopin</a> was born (d. 1849). Polish-French composer and pianist.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1811 - Leaders of the <a class="new" title="Mameluke dynasty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mameluke_dynasty&amp;action=edit">Mameluke dynasty</a> are killed by <a title="Egypt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt">Egyptian</a> ruler <a title="Muhammad Ali of Egypt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_of_Egypt">Muhammad Ali</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1812 - <a title="Augustus Pugin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Pugin">Augustus Pugin</a> was born (d. 1852). English-born architect.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1815 - <a title="Napoleon I of France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France">Napoleon</a> returns to France from his banishment on <a title="Elba" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elba">Elba</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1819 - <a title="USS Columbus (1819)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Columbus_(1819)">USS Columbus</a> launched. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1821 - <a title="Joseph Hubert Reinkens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hubert_Reinkens">Joseph Hubert Reinkens</a> was born (d. 1896). German <a title="Old Catholic Church" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Catholic_Church">Old Catholic</a> bishop.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1826 - <a title="João VI de Portugal" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_VI_de_Portugal">Dom João VI</a> dies (b. 1767). <a title="Lista de reis de Portugal" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_reis_de_Portugal">King of Portugal</a></div></li><li><div align="justify">1828 - En la guerra entre salvadoreños y guatemaltecos, éstos derrotan al Ejército de El Salvador en la batalla de Chalchuapa. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1836 - A <a title="Convention of 1836" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_of_1836">Convention</a> of delegates from 57 <a title="Texas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas">Texas</a> communities convenes in <a title="Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington-on-the-Brazos,_Texas">Washington-on-the-Brazos</a> to deliberate independence from <a title="Mexico" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico">Mexico</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1837 - <a title="William Dean Howells" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dean_Howells">William Dean Howells</a> was born (d. 1920). American writer, historian, editor, politician.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1840 - <a title="Adolphe Thiers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Thiers">Adolphe Thiers</a> becomes prime minister of France.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1841 - <a title="Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Victor-Perrin,_duc_de_Belluno">Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno</a> dies (b. 1764). French marshal.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1842 - <a href="ftp://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermin_Salvochea">Fermin Salvochea</a> was born in Cadiz (d. 27 Sep 1907). Spanish anarchist. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1843 - <a title="Zürich" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zürich">Zürich</a> issues <a title="Stamps" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamps">stamps</a>, making it the <a title="Postage stamps and postal history of Switzerland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Switzerland">second type of stamp in the world</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1843 - Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco se declara en Lima Director Supremo de la República de Perú. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1845 - President <a title="John Tyler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler">John Tyler</a> signs a bill authorizing the <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a> to annex the <a title="Republic of Texas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas">Republic of Texas</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1847 - The state of <a title="Michigan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan">Michigan</a> formally abolishes the <a title="Death penalty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty">death penalty</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1848 - <a title="Augustus Saint-Gaudens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Saint-Gaudens">Augustus Saint-Gaudens</a> was born (d. 1907). Irish-born American sculptor.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1851 - <a title="Victor Hugo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo">Victor Hugo</a> gives speech at the <a title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">French</a> national assembly and uses the phrase <a title="United States of Europe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Europe">United States of Europe</a> several times. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1852 - <a title="Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_William_Montgomerie,_13th_Earl_of_Eglinton">Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton</a> appointed <a title="Lord Lieutenant of Ireland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Ireland">Lord Lieutenant of Ireland</a> .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1852 - Comienza en Uruguay la presidencia de Juan Francisco Giró, apoyado por el Partido Blanco. </div></li><li>1852 - <a title="Théophile Delcassé" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théophile_Delcassé">Théophile Delcassé</a> was born (d. 1923). French statesman.</li><li>1854 - German pyschologist <a title="Friedrich Eduard Beneke" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Eduard_Beneke">Friedrich Eduard Beneke</a> disappears; two years later his remains are found in the canal near <a title="Charlottenburg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottenburg">Charlottenburg</a>. </li><li><div align="justify">1858 - <a href="http://www.efemeridesvenezolanas.com/html/julian.htm">Julián Castro</a> ocupa la Presidencia de Venezuela. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1858 - <a title="Georg Simmel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Simmel">Georg Simmel</a> was born (d. 1918). <a title="Germans" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans">German</a> <a title="Sociologist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociologist">sociologist</a> and <a title="Philosopher" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher">philosopher</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1862 - <a title="Peter Barlow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Barlow">Peter Barlow</a> dies (b. 1776). English mathematician.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1863 - <a title="Alexander Golovin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Golovin">Alexander Golovin</a> was born (d. 1930). Russian painter.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1865 - <a title="Abe Iso" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Iso">Abe Iso</a> was born (d. 1949). Japanese politician.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1867 - <a title="Nebraska" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska">Nebraska</a> becomes the 37th <a title="U.S. state" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state">U.S. state</a>; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed <a title="Lincoln, Nebraska" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_Nebraska">Lincoln</a> and becomes the state capital. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1868 - <a title="Pi Kappa Alpha" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Kappa_Alpha">Pi Kappa Alpha</a> Fraternity founded at the <a title="University of Virginia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia">University of Virginia</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1870 - <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solano_López">Francisco Solano López</a> dies in Battle of Cerro Corá (b. 24 Jul 1827). President of Paraguay.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1871 - <a title="Napoleón III" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleón_III">Napoleón III</a> es depuesto como emperador de <a title="Francia" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia">Francia</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1871 - <a title="Ben Harney" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Harney">Ben Harney</a> was born (d. 1938). American composer and ragtime pianist.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1872 - <a title="Yellowstone National Park" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park">Yellowstone National Park</a> is established as the world's first <a title="National park" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_park">national park</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1873 - <a title="E. Remington and Sons" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Remington_and_Sons">E. Remington and Sons</a> in <a title="Ilion, New York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilion,_New_York">Ilion, New York</a>, start production of the first practical <a title="Typewriter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter">typewriter</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1873 - Henry Comstock discovers the <a title="Comstock Lode" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Lode">Comstock Lode</a> in Virgina City, Nevada. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1873 - José Ellausi accede a la Presidencia de la República de Uruguay. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1875 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Corbiere">Tristan Corbière</a> dies (b. 1845). French poet.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1876 - <a title="Henri de Baillet-Latour" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Baillet-Latour">Henri de Baillet-Latour</a> was born (d. 1942). Belgian IOC president.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1879 - Bolivia declara la guerra a Chile, en la que el primero de estos países perdió todo su litoral del Pacífico. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1879 - Aparece la segunda parte de Martín Fierro, popularmente conocida como "La vuelta". </div></li><li><div align="justify">1879 - <a title="Joachim Heer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Heer">Joachim Heer</a> dies (b. 1825). Swiss politician.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1880 - Sir Isaac Shoenberg was born (d. 25 Jan 1963). Russian-Born British electrical engineer and principal <a href="http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/SHOENBERG_BIO.html">inventor</a> 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). </div></li><li><div align="justify">1880 - <a title="Giles Lytton Strachey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Lytton_Strachey">Giles Lytton Strachey</a> was born (d. 1932). British writer and <a title="Biographer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographer">biographer</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1881 - Foi fundada a Livraria Lello &amp; Irmão .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1884 - <a title="Isaac Todhunter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Todhunter">Isaac Todhunter</a> dies (b. 1820). English mathematician.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1886 - <a title="Anglo-Chinese School" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Chinese_School">Anglo-Chinese School</a>, <a title="Singapore" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore">Singapore</a> is founded by <a title="Bishop" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop">Bishop</a> <a class="new" title="William Oldham" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Oldham&amp;action=edit">William Oldham</a>. </div></li><li>1886 - <a title="Oskar Kokoschka" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Kokoschka">Oskar Kokoschka</a> was born (d. 1980). Austrian painter, graphic artist, and poet, (Erasmus Prize 1960).</li><li>1888 - <a title="Ewart Astill" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewart_Astill">Ewart Astill</a> was born (d. 1948). English cricketer.</li><li>1889 - <a title="Watsuji Tetsuro" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watsuji_Tetsuro">Watsuji Tetsuro</a> was born (d. 1960). Japanese ethicist and philosopher.</li><li><div align="justify">1890 - Benito Quinquela Martín was born. Argentine artist.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1891 - Se firma en España el laudo arbitral sobre los límites entre Venezuela y Colombia. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1892 - <a title="Ryunosuke Akutagawa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryunosuke_Akutagawa">Ryunosuke Akutagawa</a> was born (d. 1927). Japanese writer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1893 - <a title="Mercedes de Acosta" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_de_Acosta">Mercedes de Acosta</a> was born (d. 1968). American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1894 - Na primeira eleição direta para presidente do Brasil, o País elege Prudente de Morais. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1896 - <a title="Dimitri Mitropoulos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Mitropoulos">Dimitri Mitropoulos</a> was born (d. 1960). Greek conductor, pianist, and composer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1896 - <a title="Battle of Adowa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adowa">Battle of Adowa</a>, in which <a title="Ethiopia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> defended its independence against <a title="Italy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy">Italy</a>, begins. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1896 - The Italian invasion, with 100,000 troops, was defeated. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1896 - <a title="Henri Becquerel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Becquerel">Henri Becquerel</a> discovers <a title="Radioactivity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactivity">radioactivity</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1896 - <a title="Dimitris Mitropoulos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris_Mitropoulos">Dimitri Mitropoulos</a> was born (d. 1960). Greek conductor, pianist, and composer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1896 - <a title="Moriz Seeler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriz_Seeler">Moriz Seeler</a> was born (d. 1942). German writer, poet, film producer, and man of the theatre.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1898 - Campos Salles, candidato único, é eleito Presidente da República (Brasil). </div></li><li><div align="justify">1898 - <a title="George Bruce Malleson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bruce_Malleson">George Bruce Malleson</a> dies (b. 1825). English officer in India, author.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1899 - In <a title="Afghanistan timeline 1896-1900" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_1896-1900">Afghanistan</a> Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1899 - <a title="Erich von dem Bach" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_dem_Bach">Erich von dem Bach</a> was born (d. 1972). Nazi official.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1901 - <a title="Pietro Spiggia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Spiggia">Pietro Spiggia</a> was born. Italian poet</div></li><li><div align="justify">1902 - Rodrigues Alves vencia as eleições presidenciais do Brasil, sucedendo a Campos Salles. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1904 - <a title="Glenn Miller" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller">Glenn Miller</a> was born. American bandleader: Moonlight Serenade, In the Mood, Little Brown Jug, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Perfidia; led WWII U.S. Army Air Force Band; presumed dead after his plane disappeared over the English Channel ( Dec 15, 1944) . </div></li><li><div align="justify">1905 - Aparece en Argentina el diario "La Razón", fundado por Emilio Morales. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1906 - <a title="Phạm Văn Ðồng" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phạm_Văn_Ðồng">Pham Văn Ðong</a> was born (d. 2000). <a title="Prime Minister" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister">Prime Minister</a> of <a title="North Vietnam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vietnam">North Vietnam</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1906 - <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_María_de_Pereda">José María de Pereda</a> dies. Spanish novelist. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1906 - Manuel Félix Ribeiro was born in Veiros do Alentejo (d. 28 Apr 1982). Portuguese cinematographer, and founder of <em>Cinemateca Portuguesa</em>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1910 - <a title="David Niven" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Niven">David Niven</a> was born (d. 29 Jul 1983) English actor, (Academy Award-winning actor: Separate Tables [1958]; The Moon is Blue, Paper Tiger, The Pink Panther, The Guns of Navarone, Around the World in 80 Days, Casino Royale ) .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1910 - <a title="Archer John Porter Martin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_John_Porter_Martin">Archer John Porter Martin</a> was born (d. 2002). English chemist who won in 1952 with (R. L. M. Synge) the <a title="Nobel Prize in Chemistry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry">Nobel Prize</a> for Chemistry for development of <a href="http://www.anatexis.com/images/ajpm/guardian.htm">paper partition chromatography</a> using two different liquids moving at right angles .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1910 - No Brasil, Marechal Hermes é eleito presidente, vencendo Rui Barbosa, por 403 mil a 223 mil votos. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1911 - <a title="J. H. van 't Hoff" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._H._van_">Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff</a> dies (b. 1852). <a title="Netherlands" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands">Dutch</a> <a title="Physical chemistry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_chemistry">physical</a> and <a title="Organic chemistry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry">organic chemist</a>, the winner of the first <a title="Nobel Prize" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize">Nobel Prize</a> in <a title="Chemistry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry">Chemistry</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1912 - <a title="George Grossmith" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grossmith">George Grossmith</a> dies (b. 1847). English actor and comic writer, best remembered for his work with <a title="Gilbert &amp; Sullivan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_&amp;_Sullivan">Gilbert &amp; Sullivan</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1912 - <a class="new" title="Albert Berry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Berry&amp;action=edit">Albert Berry</a> makes the first <a title="Parachute" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute">parachute</a> jump from a moving <a title="Airplane" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane">airplane</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1912 - <a title="Georg Ritter von Trapp" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ritter_von_Trapp">Georg Ritter von Trapp</a>, head of the famous <a title="Austrian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian">Austrian</a> singing family memorialized in the musical <a title="The Sound of Music" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music">The Sound of Music</a> marries Agathe. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1914 - The <a title="Republic of China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China">Republic of China</a> joins the <a title="Universal Postal Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union">Universal Postal Union</a>. </div></li><li>1914 - <a title="Ralph Ellison" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Ellison">Ralph Ellison</a> was born (d. 1994). American writer</li><li><div align="justify">1914 - <a title="Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound,_4th_Earl_of_Minto">Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto</a> dies (b. 1845) .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1914 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Newbery">Jorge Newbery</a> dies in an aviation crash near Mendoza. Argentinean <a title="Aviator" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviator">pilot</a> of <a title="Fixed-wing aircraft" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-wing_aircraft">fixed-wing aircraft</a>.</div></li><li>1917 - <a title="Robert Lowell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowell">Robert Lowell</a> was born (d. 1977). American poet.</li><li><div align="justify">1917 - <a title="Harry Caray" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Caray">Harry Caray</a> was born (d. 1998). American sports broadcaster.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1917 - U.S. government releases the <a title="Plaintext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaintext">plaintext</a> of the <a title="Zimmermann Telegram" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram">Zimmermann Telegram</a> to the public. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1917 - Japanese city <a title="Omuta, Fukuoka" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omuta,_Fukuoka">Omuta, Fukuoka</a> is founded. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1918 - German submarine <a title="Unterseeboot 19" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterseeboot_19">Unterseeboot 19</a> (U-19) sinks <a class="new" title="HMS Calgarian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Calgarian&amp;action=edit">HMS Calgarian</a> off <a title="Rathlin Island" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathlin_Island">Rathlin Island</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1918 - <a title="Gladys Noon Spellman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Noon_Spellman">Gladys Noon Spellman</a>, American politician </div></li><li><div align="justify">1918 - <a title="Joao Goulart" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joao_Goulart">Joao Goulart</a> was born (d. 1976). President of <a title="Brazil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil">Brazil</a> (1961-March 31, 1964) </div></li><li><div align="justify">1918 - <a title="Roger Delgado" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Delgado">Roger Delgado</a> was born (d. 1973). British actor.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1919 - <a title="March 1st Movement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1st_Movement">March 1st Movement</a> against <a title="Japanese Colonial Period (Korea)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Colonial_Period_(Korea)">Japanese colonial rule</a> in <a title="Korea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea">Korea</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1919 - Entra en vigor en Uruguay la nueva Constitución redactada por la Asamblea Constituye .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1920 - <a title="Howard Nemerov" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a> was born (d. 1991). American poet.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1920 - <a title="Max Bentley" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Bentley">Max Bentley</a> was born (d. 1984). Canadian hockey player.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1920 - <a title="John H. Bankhead" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Bankhead">John H. Bankhead</a> dies (b. 1842). <a title="United States Senator" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senator">United States Senator</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1920 - <a title="Joseph Trumpeldor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Trumpeldor">Joseph Trumpeldor</a> dies (b. 1880). Early <a title="Zionist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist">Zionist</a> activist.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1921 - The city <a title="Kiryu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryu">Kiryu</a>, located in <a title="Gunma" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunma">Gunma</a>, Japan, is founded. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1921 - <a title="Richard Wilbur" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilbur">Richard Wilbur</a> was born. American poet .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1921 - <a title="Terence Cardinal Cooke" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Cardinal_Cooke">Terence Cardinal Cooke</a> was born (d. 1983). Tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the <a title="Roman Catholic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> diocese of <a title="New York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York">New York</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1922 - <a title="Yitzhak Rabin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin">Yitzhak Rabin</a> was born (d. 1995). <a title="Prime Minister" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister">Prime Minister</a> of <a title="Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel">Israel</a> (1992-1995). Nobel 1994. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1922 - <a title="William Gaines" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaines">William Gaines</a> was born (d. 1992). American publisher, founder of <a title="MAD Magazine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD_Magazine">MAD Magazine</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1922 - <a title="Rafael Moreno Aranzadi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Moreno_Aranzadi">Rafael Moreno Aranzadi</a> (Pichichi) dies (b. 1892). <a title="Spanish football" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_football">Spanish football</a> player.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1923 - <a title="Rui Barbosa" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Barbosa">Rui Barbosa</a> dies. Brazilian politician.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1923 - <a title="Kuczka Péter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuczka_Péter">Kuczka Péter</a> was born (d. 1999). Hungarian writer, poet and Science Fiction editor (d. 1999)</div></li><li><div align="justify">1924 - <a title="Deke Slayton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deke_Slayton">Deke Slayton</a> was born (d. 1993). Astronaut.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1924 - China: los comunistas son admitidos en el Kuomintang. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1924 - Louise-Marie Amélie dies (b. 1858). Daughter of <a title="Leopold II of Belgium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium">Leopold II of Belgium</a>, wife of Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1925 - Em Lisboa, Abílio Nunes dos Santos Júnior realizou as <a title="Primeiras emissões de rádio em Portugal" href="http://telefonia.no.sapo.pt/lisbon.htm" target="_blank">primeiras emissões regulares de rádio</a> neste dia. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1926 - <a title="Robert Clary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clary">Robert Clary</a> was born. French actor </div></li><li><div align="justify">1926 - <a title="Pete Rozelle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rozelle">Alvin "Pete" Rozelle</a> was born (d. 1996). Commissioner of American football.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1926 - <a title="Cesare Danova" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Danova">Cesare Danova</a> was born (d. 1992). Italian-born American TV and film actor.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1926 - Camilo Pessanha dies (b. 1867). Portuguese poet / Morreu de tuberculose o poeta português <a href="http://www.unicamp.br/~franchet/pessbio.htm">Camilo de Almeida Pessanha</a> (Clepsidra) (n. em Coimbra em 1867) . </div></li><li><div align="justify">1926 - <a title="Pete Rozelle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rozelle">Alvin "Pete" Rozelle</a> was born (d. 1996). Commissioner of the <a title="National Football League" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League">National Football League</a> (NFL).</div></li><li><div align="justify">1927 - Rui de Carvalho was born. Portuguese actor.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1927 - <a title="Harry Belafonte" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte">Harry Belafonte</a> was born. American musician and actor.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1927 - <a title="Robert Bork" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork">Robert Bork</a> was born. American law professor .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1928 - <a title="Jacques Rivette" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Rivette">Jacques Rivette</a> was born. French director .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1928 - <a title="Seymour Papert" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Papert">Dr. Seymour Papert</a> was born. South African <a title="Mathematician" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematician">mathematician</a>, <a title="Artificial intelligence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> researcher. Computer scientist who invented the <a href="http://www.icseoul.net/SeymourPapert.html">Logo</a> computer programming language, an educational computer programming language for children. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1929 - <a title="Georgi Markov" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov">Georgi Markov</a> was born (d. 1978). Bulgarian dissident.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1930 - <a title="Gastone Nencini" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastone_Nencini">Gastone Nencini</a> was born (d. 1980). Italian cyclist.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1932 - The son of <a title="Charles Lindbergh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh">Charles Lindbergh</a>, <a title="Charles Augustus Lindbergh III" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Augustus_Lindbergh_III">Charles Augustus Lindbergh III</a>, is kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12 .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1932 - Se funda el Danubio Footbal Club, de Montevideo, Uruguay. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1932 - <a title="Frank Teschemacher" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Teschemacher">Frank Teschemacher</a> dies. American jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1932 - <a class="new" title="Ramón Casas" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ram%C3%B3n_Casas&amp;action=edit">Ramón Casas</a> dies. Spanish painter. </div></li><li>1934 - Henry Pu Yi was crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria.</li><li><div align="justify">1935 - <a title="Robert Conrad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Conrad">Robert Conrad</a> was born. American actor .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1936 - <a title="Hoover Dam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam">Hoover Dam</a> is completed. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1936 - <a title="Monique Bégin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Bégin">Monique Bégin</a> was born. French Canadian politician </div></li><li><div align="justify">1936 - <a title="Jean-Edern Hallier" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Edern_Hallier">Jean-Edern Hallier</a> was born (d. 1997). French author.</div></li><li>1936 - <a title="Mikhail Kuzmin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kuzmin">Mikhail Kuzmin</a> dies (b. 1871). Russian writer.</li><li><div align="justify">1937 - <a title="Jed Allan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_Allan">Jed Allan</a> was born. American actor. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1938 - <a title="Gabriele D'Annunzio" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_D">Gabriele D'Annunzio</a> dies (b. 1863). Italian poet, dramatist, <a title="Daredevil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil">daredevil</a>, <a title="War hero" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_hero">war hero</a> and politician. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1939 - Warren Davis was born, <a title="The Monotones" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monotones">The Monotones</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1939 - <a title="Leo Brouwer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Brouwer">Leo Brouwer</a> was born. Cuban composer and guitarist </div></li><li><div align="justify">1940 - 12th Academy Awards: <em>"Gone with the Wind", Robert Donat &amp; Vivien Leigh</em> win.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1940 - <a title="Anton Hansen Tammsaare" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Hansen_Tammsaare">Anton Hansen Tammsaare</a> dies (b. 1878). Estonian author.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1941 - <a title="World War II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II">World War II</a>: <a title="Bulgaria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> signs the <a title="Tripartite Pact" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact">Tripartite Pact</a> thus joining the <a title="Axis powers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers">Axis powers</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1941 - <a title="W47NV" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W47NV">W47NV</a> (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in <a title="Nashville, Tennessee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a> becoming the first <a title="FM radio" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_radio">FM radio</a> station. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1942 - <a title="Richard Bowman Myers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bowman_Myers">Richard Bowman Myers</a> was born. General of the <a title="United States Air Force" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force">United States Air Force</a>, Chairman of the U.S. <a title="Joint Chiefs of Staff" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff">Joint Chiefs of Staff</a> .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1943 - World War II: <a title="Battle of Bismarck Sea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bismarck_Sea">Battle of Bismarck Sea</a> begins. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1943 - <a title="Gil Amelio" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Amelio">Gil Amelio</a> was born. American CEO of <a title="National Semiconductor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Semiconductor">National Semiconductor</a> and <a title="Apple Computer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer">Apple Computer</a> and venture capitalist.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1943 - <a title="Akinori Nakayama" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinori_Nakayama">Akinori Nakayama</a> was born. Japanese gymnast </div></li><li><div align="justify">1943 - <a title="Richard H. Price" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Price">Richard H. Price</a> was born. American physicist </div></li><li><div align="justify">1943 - <a title="Rashid Sunyaev" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Sunyaev">Rashid Sunyaev</a> was born. Russian physicist </div></li><li><div align="justify">1943 - <a title="Alexandre Yersin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Yersin">Alexandre Yersin</a> dies. (b. 1863) Swiss physician. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1944 - <a title="Roger Daltrey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Daltrey">Roger Daltrey</a> was born. English rock musician (<a title="The Who" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who">The Who</a>)( Pinball Wizard, Won’t Get Fooled Again; solo: Without Your Love, Giving It All Away; actor: Tommy, Lisztomania, The Legacy and McVicar) .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1944 - <a title="Mike D'Abo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_D">Mike D'Abo</a> was born. Rock vocalist of band <a title="Mannfred Mann" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannfred_Mann">Mannfred Mann</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1944 - <a title="John Breaux" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Breaux">John Breaux</a> was born. <a title="United States Senator" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senator">United States Senator</a> from <a title="Louisiana" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana">Louisiana</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1945 - <a title="Dirk Benedict" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Benedict">Dirk Benedict</a> was born. American <a title="Film" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film">movie</a> and <a title="Television" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television">television</a> actor.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1945 - O Irão declarou guerra ao Japão e à Alemanha.</div></li><li>1946 - Panamá accepts its new constitution .</li><li><div align="justify">1946 - The <a title="Bank of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England">Bank of England</a> is nationalised. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1946 - <a title="Lana Wood" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Wood">Lana Wood</a> was born. American actress </div></li><li><div align="justify">1946 - <a title="Gerry Boulet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Boulet">Gerry Boulet</a> was born (d. 1990). French rock singer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1946 - <a title="Elvin Bethea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin_Bethea">Elvin Bethea</a> was born. American football player </div></li><li><div align="justify">1947 - The <a title="International Monetary Fund" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund">International Monetary Fund</a> begins financial operations. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1947 - <a title="Alan Thicke" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Thicke">Alan Thicke</a> was born. Canadian actor and songwriter<br />1947 - Tomás Berreta is elected President of Uruguay. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1948 - Winston Rodney, aka <a title="Burning Spear" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Spear">Burning Spear</a>, was born, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1949 - Indonesia seizes <a title="Yogyakarta" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogyakarta">Yogyakarta</a> from the Dutch. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1949 - <a title="Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley">Ripley's Believe It Or Not!</a> debuts on Television </div></li><li><div align="justify">1950 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</a> resumed the Presidency of National China on Formosa.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1950 - Alfred Korzybski dies (b. 3 July 1879). Polish-born American <a href="http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/akbio.htm">scientist</a> and philosopher .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1950 - <a title="Cold War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War">Cold War</a>: <a title="Klaus Fuchs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs">Klaus Fuchs</a> is convicted of spying for the <a title="Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union">Soviet Union</a> by giving them top secret <a title="Atomic bomb" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bomb">atomic bomb</a> data. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1952 - Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1952 - <a title="Steven Barnes" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Barnes">Steven Barnes</a> was born. Science fiction writer .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1952 - <a title="Martin O'Neill" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_O">Martin O'Neill</a> was born. Northern Irish footballer and football manager </div></li><li><div align="justify">1952 - <a title="Mariano Azuela" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Azuela">Mariano Azuela</a> dies (b. 1873). Mexican novelist.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1953 - <a title="Richard Bruton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bruton">Richard Bruton</a> was born. Irish <a title="Fine Gael" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Gael">Fine Gael</a> politician and economist .</div></li><li>1953 - <a title="Joseph Stalin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later. </li><li><div align="justify">1953 - Evacuación de las últimas tropas británicas de la India. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1953 - <a title="Carlos Queiroz" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Queiroz">Carlos Queiroz</a> was born. Portuguese football manager. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1954 - <a title="Nuclear testing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing">Nuclear testing</a>: The <a title="Castle Bravo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo">Castle Bravo</a>, a 15-<a title="Megaton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaton">megaton</a> <a title="Hydrogen bomb" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_bomb">hydrogen bomb</a>, was detonated on <a title="Bikini Atoll" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll">Bikini Atoll</a> in the <a title="Pacific Ocean" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a>, resulting in the worst <a title="Radioactive contamination" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination">radioactive contamination</a> ever caused by the United States. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1954 - <a title="Puerto Rican" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican">Puerto Rican</a> nationalists attack the <a title="United States Capitol" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol">United States Capitol</a> building, injuring five <a title="United States House of Representatives" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives">Representatives</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1954 - <a title="Ron Howard (American director)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Howard_(American_director)">Ron Howard</a> was born. American actor, director, producer (Emmy Award-winning producer: From the Earth to the Moon [1998]; actor: The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days, American Graffiti; director: Night Shift, Splash, Cocoon, Backdraft, Apollo 13) .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1954 - <a title="Catherine Bach" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Bach">Catherine Bach</a> was born. American actress.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1955 - <a title="Allen Fieldhouse" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Fieldhouse">Allen Fieldhouse</a> at the <a title="University of Kansas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Kansas">University of Kansas</a> hosts its first college <a title="Basketball" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball">basketball</a> game. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1955 - Na África do Sul, o apartheid foi alargado ao ensino primário </div></li><li><div align="justify">1956 - The <a title="International Air Transport Association" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Air_Transport_Association">International Air Transport Association</a> finalises a draft of the <a title="Radiotelephony spelling alphabet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotelephony_spelling_alphabet">Radiotelephony spelling alphabet</a> for the <a title="International Civil Aviation Organization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Civil_Aviation_Organization">International Civil Aviation Organization</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1956 - Promulgación en Guatemala de una nueva Constitución. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1956 - <a title="Timothy Daly" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Daly">Timothy Daly</a> was born. American actor </div></li><li><div align="justify">1958 - <a title="Bertrand Piccard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Piccard">Bertrand Piccard</a> was born. Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist </div></li><li><div align="justify">1958 - <a title="Chosei Komatsu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosei_Komatsu">Chosei Komatsu</a> was born. Japanese conductor </div></li><li><div align="justify">1958 - Nik Kershaw was born in Bristol England, singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good) .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1958 - <a title="Samuel Cardinal Stritch" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Cardinal_Stritch">Samuel Alphonsus Stritch</a>, appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the <a title="Roman Curia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Curia">Roman Curia</a> .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1961 - <a title="President of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States">President of the United States</a> <a title="John F. Kennedy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> establishes the <a title="Peace Corps" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Corps">Peace Corps</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1961 - First elections held in <a title="Uganda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda">Uganda</a> and it becomes self-governing. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1962 - Antonio Harrison is elected President of Uruguay. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1962 - O Paquistão anuncia uma nova constituição, estabelecendo um sistema de governo presidencialista. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1962 - <a title="American Airlines Flight 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_1">American Airlines Flight 1</a> crashes on take off in <a title="New York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York">New York</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1963 - <a title="Dan Michaels" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Michaels">Dan Michaels</a> was born. Producer, <a title="Saxophonist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxophonist">saxophonist</a>, member of the <a title="Rock band" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_band">rock band</a> <a title="The Choir" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Choir">The Choir</a> and also <a title="The Swirling Eddies" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swirling_Eddies">The Swirling Eddies</a>, owner of <a class="new" title="Galaxy21 Music" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galaxy21_Music&amp;action=edit">Galaxy21 Music</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1963 - <a title="Thomas Anders" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Anders">Thomas Anders</a> was born. German singer (<a title="Modern Talking" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Talking">Modern Talking</a>) </div></li><li><div align="justify">1963 - <a title="Ron Francis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Francis">Ron Francis</a> was born. Canadian ice hockey player </div></li><li><div align="justify">1963 - <a title="Irish Meusel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Meusel">Irish Meusel</a> dies (b. 1893). American baseball player.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1964 - <a title="Paul Le Guen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Guen">Paul Le Guen</a> was born. French football manager.</div></li><li>1964 - <a title="Khalid Shaikh Mohammed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed">Khalid Shaikh Mohammed</a> was born, suspected military head of <a title="Osama bin Laden" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden">Osama bin Laden</a>'s <a title="Al-Qaeda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> (his birth date is also reported to be April 14, 1965) .</li><li><div align="justify">1965 - Un terremoto causa la muerte de 400 personas en Valparaíso (Chile). </div></li><li><div align="justify">1965 - <a title="Booker Huffman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_Huffman">Booker Huffman</a> was born. American professional wrestler </div></li><li><div align="justify">1965 - <a title="Stewart Elliott" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Elliott">Stewart Elliott</a> was born. Canadian jockey .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1966 - <a title="Venera 3" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_3">Venera 3</a> Soviet <a title="Space probe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_probe">space probe</a> crashes on <a title="Venus (planet)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(planet)">Venus</a> becoming the first <a title="Spacecraft" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft">spacecraft</a> to land on another <a title="Planet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet">planet</a>'s surface. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1966 - The <a title="Ba'ath Party" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba">Ba'ath Party</a> takes power in <a title="Syria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria">Syria</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1966 - Horacio Acavallo gana el título mundial de boxeo al vencer a Takayama. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1966 - <a title="Fritz Houtermans" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Houtermans">Fritz Houtermans</a> dies (b. 1903). German physicist.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1967 - <a title="Aron Winter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Winter">Aron Winter</a> was born. Dutch soccer player .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1967 - <a title="George Eads" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eads">George Eads</a> was born. American actor </div></li><li><div align="justify">1968 - Country music stars Johnny Cash and June Carter got married on this day .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1969 - During a performance at <a title="Miami, Florida" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_Florida">Miami</a>'s Dinner Key Auditorium, <a title="Jim Morrison" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison">Jim Morrison</a> of <a title="The Doors" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors">the Doors</a> is arrested for exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1969 - <a title="John Kerry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry">John Kerry</a> officially leaves active duty in <a title="Vietnam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam">Vietnam</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1969 - <a title="Javier Bardem" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Bardem">Javier Bardem</a> was born. Spanish actor .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1969 - <a title="Dafydd Ieuan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafydd_Ieuan">Dafydd Ieuan</a> was born. Welsh drummer with the band <a title="Super Furry Animals" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Furry_Animals">Super Furry Animals</a> .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1969 - <a title="Litefoot" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litefoot">Litefoot</a> was born. Native American rapper.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1969 - <a title="Doug Creek" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Creek">Doug Creek</a> was born. Baseball player.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1970 - <a title="Shaun Pollock" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Pollock">Shaun Pollock</a> was born. South African cricketer </div></li><li><div align="justify">1970 - <a title="Lucille Hegamin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Hegamin">Lucille Hegamin</a> dies (b. 1894). American singer and entertainer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1971 - A bomb explodes in men's room in the <a title="White House" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House">White House</a> - <a title="Weather Underground" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground">Weather Underground</a> claims responsibility. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1971 - <a title="Pakistani" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani">Pakistani</a> President <a title="Yahya Khan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Khan">Yahya Khan</a> indefinitely postponed the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in <a title="East Pakistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pakistan">East Pakistan</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1971 - <a title="Tyler Hamilton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Hamilton">Tyler Hamilton</a> was born. American cyclist .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1972 - Thai province of <a title="Yasothon province" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasothon_province">Yasothon</a> created after being split off from the <a title="Ubon Ratchathani province" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubon_Ratchathani_province">Ubon Ratchathani province</a> .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1973 - <a title="Black September (group)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September_(group)">Black September</a> terrorists stormed the <a title="Saudi Arabia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia">Saudi</a> embassy in <a title="Khartoum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum">Khartoum</a>, <a title="Sudan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan">Sudan</a> resulting in the <a title="Khartoum diplomatic assassinations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum_diplomatic_assassinations">Khartoum diplomatic assassinations</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1973 - <a title="Ryan Peake" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Peake">Ryan Peake</a> was born. Guitarist with the band <a title="Nickelback" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelback">Nickelback</a> .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1973 - <a title="Chris Webber" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Webber">Chris Webber</a> was born. American basketball player </div></li><li><div align="justify">1973 - <a title="Carlo Resoort" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Resoort">Carlo Resoort</a> was born. Dutch trance DJ.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1974 - The Ethiopian government of Makonnen Endelkacaw (1927-1974) formed.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1974 - <a title="Mark-Paul Gosselaar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-Paul_Gosselaar">Mark-Paul Gosselaar</a> was born. American actor .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1974 - <a title="Bobby Timmons" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Timmons">Bobby Timmons</a> dies (b. 1935). Jazz pianist.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1974 - <a title="Watergate scandal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal">Watergate scandal</a>: Seven are indicted for their role in the <a title="Watergate" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate">Watergate</a> break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1975 - <a title="Colour television" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_television">Colour television</a> transmissions begin in <a title="Australia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia">Australia</a> .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1975 - 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1976 - <a title="Bradford Bishop" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Bishop">Bradford Bishop</a> bludgeoned his mother, spouse and three children to death and is still at large. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1976 - <a title="Peter F. Bell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Bell">Peter Bell</a> was born. Australian AFL player </div></li><li><div align="justify">1977 - <a title="Rens Blom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rens_Blom">Rens Blom</a> was born. Dutch athlete </div></li><li><div align="justify">1977 - <a title="Esther Cañadas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Cañadas">Esther Cañadas</a> was born. Spanish actress and supermodel </div></li><li><div align="justify">1978 - <a title="Charlie Chaplin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a>'s coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1978 - <a title="Jensen Ackles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Ackles">Jensen Ackles</a> was born. American actor.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1978 - <a title="Alicia Leigh Willis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Leigh_Willis">Alicia Leigh Willis</a> was born. American actress.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1979 - <a title="Mustafa Barzani" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Barzani">Mustafa Barzani</a> dies (b. 1903). Leader of <a title="Kurdistan Democratic Party" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Democratic_Party">Kurdistan Democratic Party</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1979 - España: elecciones generales. Vence la Unión de Centro Democrático de Adolfo Suárez. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1980 - <a title="Dixie Dean" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Dean">Dixie Dean</a> was born (d. 1907). English footballer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1980 - <a title="Wilhelmina Cooper" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_Cooper">Wilhelmina</a> dies (b. 1940). High-fashion model and owner of model agency.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1980 - <a title="Voyager 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1">Voyager 1</a> probe confirms that <a title="Janus (moon)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_(moon)">Janus</a> (moon of <a title="Saturn (planet)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(planet)">Saturn</a>) exists. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1980 - <a title="Djimi Traore" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djimi_Traore">Djimi Traore</a> was born. Malian footballer </div></li><li><div align="justify">1980 - <a title="Shahid Afridi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahid_Afridi">Shahid Afridi</a> was born. Pakistani cricketer </div></li><li><div align="justify">1981 - <a title="Adam LaVorgna" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_LaVorgna">Adam LaVorgna</a> was born. American actor </div></li><li><div align="justify">1981 - <a title="Ana Hickmann" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Hickmann">Ana Hickmann</a> was born. Brazilian supermodel </div></li><li><div align="justify">1981 - <a title="Brad Winchester" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Winchester">Brad Winchester</a> was born. American ice hockey player </div></li><li><div align="justify">1981 - Daniel Ortega es nombrado coordinador de la Junta de Gobierno de Nicaragua. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1981 - <a title="Will Power" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Power">Will Power</a> was born. Australian racing driver </div></li><li>1983 - <a title="Swatch" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch">Swatch</a> introduce their first timepieces. </li><li><div align="justify">1983 - <a title="Daniel Carvalho da Silva" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Carvalho_da_Silva">Daniel Carvalho</a> was born. Brazilian soccer player </div></li><li><div align="justify">1983 - <a title="Blake Hawksworth" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Hawksworth">Blake Hawksworth</a> was born. Canadian baseball player </div></li><li><div align="justify">1983 - <a title="Chris Hackett" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hackett">Chris Hackett</a> was born. English footballer </div></li><li><div align="justify">1983 - <a class="mw-redirect" title="Elan Sara DeFan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elan_Sara_DeFan">Elan Sara DeFan</a> was born. Mexican singer-songwriter </div></li><li><div align="justify">1984 - <a title="Alexander Steen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Steen">Alexander Steen</a> was born. Canadian-born Swedish ice hockey player </div></li><li><div align="justify">1984 - <a title="Naima Mora" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naima_Mora">Naima Mora</a> was born. American model </div></li><li>1984 - <a title="Jackie Coogan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Coogan">Jackie Coogan</a> dies (b. 1914). American actor.</li><li><div align="justify">1985 - A Suécia foi a primeira nação a legislar sobre a inseminação artificial .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1985 - Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworns as President of Uruguay</div></li><li><div align="justify">1985 - <a title="Andreas Ottl" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Ottl">Andreas Ottl</a> was born. German footballer </div></li><li><div align="justify">1988 - <a title="Katija Pevec" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katija_Pevec">Katija Pevec</a> was born. American actress </div></li><li><div align="justify">1988 - <a title="Joe Besser" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Besser">Joe Besser</a> dies (b. 1907). Member of the <a title="Three Stooges" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Stooges">Three Stooges</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1989 - The <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a> becomes a member of the <a title="Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works">Berne Convention</a> <a title="Copyright" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright">copyright</a> <a title="Treaty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty">treaty</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1989 - <a title="Carlos Vela" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Vela">Carlos Vela</a> was born. Mexican footballer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1989 - <a title="Sonya Kitchell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Kitchell">Sonya Kitchell</a> was born. American singer </div></li><li><div align="justify">1990 - <a title="Steve Jackson Games" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games">Steve Jackson Games</a> is raided by the <a title="United States Secret Service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service">United States Secret Service</a>, prompting the later formation of the <a title="Electronic Frontier Foundation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>. </div></li><li>1991 - <a title="España" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/España">España</a>: el Tribunal Constitucional exige el idioma catalán para los funcionarios de la Generalidad de <a title="Cataluña" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataluña">Cataluña</a>. </li><li><div align="justify">1991 - <a title="Edwin H. Land" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Land">Edwin H. Land</a> dies (b. 1909). American inventor and physicist whose one-step process for devoloping and printing photographs culminated in a revolution in photography unparalleled since the advent of roll film. He found the Polaroid Company.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1992 - Bosnia-Herzegovina declara su independencia de Yugoslavia. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1993 - Luis Kutner dies (b. 1908). American human rights activist, co-founded Amnesty International in 1961</div></li><li><div align="justify">1994 - Nace la <a title="Europa" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa">Europa</a> de los Quince: <a title="Suecia" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suecia">Suecia</a>, <a title="Austria" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria">Austria</a> y <a title="Finlandia" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandia">Finlandia</a> se incorporan como nuevos socios de la <a title="Unión Europea" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unión_Europea">Unión Europea</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1994 - At the <a href="http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1994/grammys.htm">36th Grammy Awards</a>: Whitney Houston won best female pop vocalist and record of year for "I Will Always Love You" "The Bodyguard" won album of the year and Toni Braxton os the best new artist</div></li><li><div align="justify">1994 - Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as President of Finland.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1994 - <a title="Seattle, Washington" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle,_Washington">Seattle</a> <a title="Grunge" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge">grunge</a> band <a title="Nirvana (band)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band)">Nirvana</a> play their last show in <a title="Munich, Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich,_Germany">Munich, Germany</a>. </div></li><li>1995 - At the <a href="http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1995/grammys.htm">37 th Grammy Awards</a> in Los Angeles, Sheryl Crow won record of the year for "All I Wanna Do" while Tony Bennett's "MTV Unplugged" was named best album.</li><li><div align="justify">1995 - Polish Prime Minister <a title="Waldemar Pawlak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_Pawlak">Waldemar Pawlak</a> resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist <a title="Jozef Oleksy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozef_Oleksy">Józef Oleksy</a> .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1995 - <a title="Daniel Sleator" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sleator">Daniel Sleator</a> announces his intentions to commercialize the <a class="new" title="Internet Chess Server" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet_Chess_Server&amp;action=edit">Internet Chess Server</a> (ICS) himself, renames it the Internet Chess Club, or ICC, and charges a yearly membership fee of $49 to howls of protest .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1995 - Vitaly Massol resigned as Ukraine premier.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1995 - Julio Maria Sanguinetti was sworn in as President of Uruguay.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1995 - <a title="Vladislav Listyev" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Listyev">Vladislav Listyev</a> dies (b. 1956). Russian journalist, anchor, and director of ORTV.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1995 - <a title="Georges J.F. Kohler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_J.F._Kohler">Georges J.F. Köhler</a> dies (b. 17 Apr 1946). German immunologist who in 1984, with César Milstein and Niels K. Jerne, <a href="http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1984/kohler-lecture.pdf">received</a> the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in developing the technique for producing unlimited amounts of extremely pure proteins known as monoclonal antibodies. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1996 - Vergilio Ferreira dies in Lisbon. Portuguese writer. / Faleceu, em Lisboa, o escritor <a href="http://www.iplb.pt/pls/diplb/!get_page?pageid=402&amp;amp;amp;tpcontent=FA&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;idaut=1695922&amp;idobra=&amp;format=NP405&amp;lang=PT">Vergílio Ferreira</a> (n. 1916). Foi sepultado em Melo, concelho de Gouveia “virado para a serra” como sempre desejou.</div></li><li><div align="justify">1998 - Cláudio Villas-Boas dies (b. 8 Dec 1916). Brazilian <a href="http://www.brazzil.com/p08apr98.htm">anthropologist</a> and activist whose life was dedicated to the search for and protection of the country's indigenous people as their lands were taken over and developed; he and his brother Orlando aided in the <a href="http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/claudio.htm">creation</a> of the Xingu National Park reservation in 1961 and the National Indian Foundation six years later .</div></li><li><div align="justify">1999 - <a title="Hutu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutu">Hutu</a> rebels kill eight tourists in <a title="Uganda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda">Uganda</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">1999 - The <a class="new" title="Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convention_on_the_Prohibition_of_Anti-Personnel_Mines&amp;action=edit">Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines</a> comes into force. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2000 - The <a title="Constitution of Finland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Finland">Constitution of Finland</a> is rewritten. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2000 - <a title="Hans Blix" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix">Hans Blix</a> assumes the position of Executive Chairman of <a title="UNMOVIC" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNMOVIC">UNMOVIC</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2000 - <a title="Dennis Danell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Danell">Dennis Danell</a> dies. Guitarist of band <a title="Social Distortion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Distortion">Social Distortion</a>.</div></li><li>2002 - <a title="U.S. invasion of Afghanistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._invasion_of_Afghanistan">U.S. invasion of Afghanistan</a>: In eastern <a title="Afghanistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, <a title="Operation Anaconda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anaconda">Operation Anaconda</a> begins.</li><li><div align="justify">2002 - The <a title="Envisat" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envisat">Envisat</a> <a title="Environmental satellite" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_satellite">environmental satellite</a> successfully reaches an orbit 800km above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest <a title="Payload" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload">payload</a> to date at 8500kg. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2002 - <a title="Space Shuttle Columbia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia">Space Shuttle Columbia</a> flies <a title="Hubble Space Telescope" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a> service mission (<a title="STS-109" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-109">STS-109</a>). </div></li><li><div align="justify">2002 - <a title="Peseta" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peseta">Peseta</a> discontinued as official <a title="Currency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency">currency</a> of <a title="Spain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain">Spain</a> and is replaced with the <a title="Euro" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro">euro</a> (€). </div></li><li><div align="justify">2003 - In Brazil a truce between landless farmworkers and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva peace ended, when some 1,000 landless farmers occupied a ranch 80 miles west of Sao Paulo.</div></li><li><div align="justify">2003 - <a title="Camacho Costa" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camacho_Costa">Camacho Costa</a> dies (b. 1946). Portuguese actor. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2003 - <a title="Fidel Sánchez Hernández" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Sánchez_Hernández">Fidel Sánchez Hernández</a> dies (b. 1917). President of <a title="El Salvador" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador">El Salvador</a> (1967-1972).</div></li><li><div align="justify">2003 - the <a class="new" title="Federal Law Enforcement Training Center" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Federal_Law_Enforcement_Training_Center&amp;action=edit">Federal Law Enforcement Training Center</a>, the <a title="United States Customs Service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Customs_Service">United States Customs Service</a>, and the <a title="United States Secret Service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service">United States Secret Service</a> moves to the <a title="United States Department of Homeland Security" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security">United States Department of Homeland Security</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">2004 - <a title="Jean-Bertrand Aristide" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide">Jean-Bertrand Aristide</a>, former President of <a title="Haiti" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti">Haiti</a>, announces that his resignation on February 29 was forced, and that he was forced to leave the country by American soldiers. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2004 - <a title="Terry Nichols" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Nichols">Terry Nichols</a> convicted of state murder charges and accomplice to the Oklahoma City bomber <a title="Timothy McVeigh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh">Timothy McVeigh</a> has his trial started in <a title="McAlester, Oklahoma" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlester,_Oklahoma">McAlester, Oklahoma</a>.</div></li><li><div align="justify">2004 - <a title="Punycode" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode">Punycode</a> adopted by the national registrars of <a title="Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany">Germany</a>, <a title="Austria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria">Austria</a> and <a title="Switzerland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland">Switzerland</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2004 - <a title="Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Bahr_al-Uloum">Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum</a> becomes President of <a title="Iraq" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq">Iraq</a> .</div></li><li><div align="justify">2005 - Dr. Tabare Vazquez (65) took office as Uruguay's first socialist president.</div></li><li><div align="justify">2005 - In Geneva, Switzerland, Edouard Stern, French financier and former Lazard banker, was found dead in his home. Swiss police later arrested Cecile Brossard (36), his French lover, who allegedly confessed to the sex-related killing of banker Edouard Stern</div></li><li><div align="justify">2006 - <a title="Tarja Halonen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarja_Halonen">Tarja Halonen</a> is inaugurated as <a title="President of Finland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Finland">president of Finland</a> for the second time. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2006 - Queen <a title="Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom">Elizabeth II</a> officially opens the new debating chamber for the <a title="National Assembly for Wales" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_for_Wales">National Assembly for Wales</a> in <a title="Cardiff" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff">Cardiff</a>, a milestone in <a title="Devolution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution">devolution</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2006 - The first confirmed case of <a title="H5N1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1">H5N1</a> bird flu virus in <a title="Switzerland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, a dead swan on <a title="Lake Geneva" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Geneva">Lake Geneva</a>, near the city of <a title="Geneva" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva">Geneva</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2006 - <a title="English language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language">English-language</a> <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> reaches its one millionth article, <a title="Jordanhill railway station" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanhill_railway_station">Jordanhill railway station</a>. </div></li><li><div align="justify">2006 - Fernando Tavares Rodrigues dies (b. 7 Mar 1954). Portuguese poet, journalist and essayst.</div></li><li><div align="justify">2006 - <a title="Peter Osgood" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Osgood">Peter Osgood</a> dies (b. 1947). English footballer.</div></li><li><div align="justify">2006 - <a title="Jack Wild" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wild">Jack Wild</a> dies (b. 1952). English actor.</div></li><li><div align="justify">2006 - <a title="Harry Browne" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Browne">Harry Browne</a> dies (b. 1933). American politician and author.</div></li><li><div align="justify">2006 - <a title="Johnny Jackson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Jackson">Johnny Jackson</a> dies (b. 1951). American musician.</div></li><li><div align="justify">2007 - <a href="http://nothingandall.blogspot.com/2007/03/bento-grande-guarda-redes-do-benfica-e.html">Manuel Bento</a> dies in Barreiro (b. Golegã, 25 Jun. 1948). Portuguese international footballer (goalkeeper of Benfica)</div></li><li><a title="Labour day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_day">Labour day</a> - <a title="Western Australia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australia">Western Australia</a>. </li><li><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.worlddayofprayer.net/">World Day of Prayer</a></div></li><li><div align="justify"><a title="Self Injury Awareness Day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Injury_Awareness_Day">Self Injury Awareness Day</a> </div></li><li><div align="justify"><a title="Wales" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales">Wales</a> - <a title="Saint David's Day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_David">Saint David's Day</a> </div></li><li><div align="justify">Independence Day in <a title="Bosnia and Herzegovina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a> </div></li><li><div align="justify"><a title="Korea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea">Korea</a> - <a title="March 1st Movement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1st_Movement">Independence Movement</a> Day</div></li><li><div align="justify"><a title="Bosnia and Herzegovina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a> - Independence Day </div></li><li><div align="justify"><a title="Bulgaria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> - <a class="mw-redirect" title="Baba Marta" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Marta">Baba Marta</a> (мартеница) </div></li></ul>looking4goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00311377917321120157noreply@blogger.com