1484 - Joachim Vadianus [von Watt] was born. Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen.
1622 -
Francis de Sales dies (b. 1567). French bishop of Geneva, writer and saint.
- 1635 - Princess Elizabeth of England was born (d. 1650).
- 1655 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis was born (d. 1698). First Lord of the British Admiralty
1694 - Queen
Mary II of England died of smallpox in London at age 32, after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.
1734 -
Rob Roy dies (b. 1671). Outlaw known as the Scottish Robin Hood.
1798 -Thomas Henderson was born (died 23-Nov-1844). Scottish
astronomer who, as royal astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope (1831-33), was the first to measure the parallax of a star (Alpha Centauri).
1814 - Sir John Bennet Lawes was born (d. 31-Aug-1900), (1st Baronet) English
agronomist who founded the artificial fertilizer industry and Rothamsted Experimental Station, the oldest agricultural research station in the world.
1828 - 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed
1832 - In Missouri, St. Louis Academy (founded in 1818) was chartered as St. Louis University. It was the first Catholic university established in the U.S. west of the Allegheny Mountains.
1832 -
John C. Calhoun became the first vice president in U.S. history to resign from office.
- 1836 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico.
- 1836 - South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
1846 -
Iowa became the 29th state in the United States.
1847 - Samuel A. Ward was born. American music publisher. Ward composed the tune MATERNA, to which we sing today the patriotic hymn, "America, The Beautiful."
1855 - Juan Zorrilla de San Martin was born. Uruguay's diplomat/poet (Tabar)
1859 -
Thomas Macaulay dies (b. 1800). British poet, historian, and politician.
1861 - Se funda la ciudad de Mulchen en Chile.
1861 - Autoproclamación como Rey de la Araucania de Orélie-Antoine.
1866 -
Szymon Askenazy was born (d. 1935). Polish historian, diplomat and politician.
1867 - United States claims
Midway Island, first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1872 -
James Van Ness dies (b. 1808). Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856).
1878 - Jose Bernardo Alcedo dies (b. 1788) . Peruvian composer.
1878 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism).
1879 -
Billy Mitchell was born (d. 1936). American military aviation pioneer.
1882 - Sir
Arthur Eddington was born (d. 1944). English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who did his greatest work in
astrophysics, investigating the motion, ternal structure, and evolution of stars.
- 1882 - William P.S. Earle was born (d. 30 Nov. 1972). American film director.
1888 -
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau was born ( †11 Mar 1931). German fillm producer. After graduating in dramatic arts, he founded the Murnau-Veidt Filmgesellschaft and shot his first film, "Der Knabe in Blau" (“The Blue Boy”). In 1922 he produced "Nosferatu", a film that became one of the most important silent film works.
1892 - Alfred Irving Hallowell was born; a U.S. cultural
anthropologist known for his work on the North American Indians.
1894 - Alfred Sherwood Romer, was born (died 5 Nov 1973). U.S.
paleontologist widely known for his concepts of evolutionary history of vertebrate animals.
1895 - The
Lumiere Brothers gave the first commercial movie show at the Grand Cafe in Paris.
- 1899 - Eugeniusz Bodo was born (d. 1943). Polish actor.
1902 -
Mortimer J. Adler was born (d. 2001). American philosopher and author (Encyclopedia Brittanica) .
1903 -
John von Neumann was born (d. 1957). Hungarian-born mathematician (Bocher Award 1938).
1903 - French Congo is split into Ubangi-Shari, Chad, Gabon, and Middle Congo.
1905 -
Cliff Arquette was born (d. 1974). American actor and comedian.
1906 - Ecuador adopts its constitution.
1908 - Elvira Vargas Rivera was born (d. 1967). Mexican journalist.
1908 -
Lew Ayres was born (d. 1996). American actor.
1917 - the New York Evening Mail published a facetious — as well as fictitious — essay by H.L. Mencken on the history of bathtubs in America.
1922 -
Stan Lee was born. American comic book writer.
- 1924 - Milton Obote was born (d. 2005). President of Uganda.
1925 -
Hildegard Knef was born (d. 2002). German actress, singer and writer.
1928 -
Moe Koffman was born (d. 2001). Canadian jazz musician.
- 1929 - Terry Sawchuk was born (d. 1970). Canadian hockey player.
1929 -
Brian Redhead was born (d. 1994). English journalist and broadcaster.
1932 -
Manuel Puig was born (d. 1990). Argentine writer
(Blood of Requited Love). 1934 -
Maggie Smith was born. English actress
(Death on Nile, Clash of Titans)
1934 -
Pablo Gargallo dies. Spanish sculptor known for his figures sculpted from iron and other metals.
1935 -
Fernando Lopes was born at Maçãs de D. Maria, Alvaiazere. Portuguese film director
(Belarmino - 1964, O Encoberto - 1975, Crónica dos Bons Malandros -1984, Matar Saudades -1988, O Delfim - 2002... ) 1937 - A primeira Constituição da República da Irlanda é estabelecida. Na época, o primeiro-ministro era Eamon de Valera, fundador do Exército Republicano Irlandês (IRA).
1937 -
Maurice Ravel dies in Paris (b. 1875). Swiss/French composer
(Bolero).
- 1943 - Steve Evans dies (b. 1885). American baseball player.
1944 -
Kary Mullis was born. American chemist, cowinner of the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1993) for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
1947 - Wynonie Harris records "Good Rockin' Tonight".
1947 -
Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46) and Ethiopia, dies at 78 /Victor Manuel III, último rei de Itália, morreu em Alexandria, Egipto, no exílio. Rei desde 1900, devido ao assassinato do seu pai, nomeou Mussolini primeiro ministro, não tendo sido capaz de impedir os fascistas de tomar o poder. Tinha abdicado em 1946.
1948 - Egyptian premier, Mahmoud Fatimy, is assassinated by a member of
Al Ikhwan al Muslimun (the Muslim Brotherhood).
1958 - Patrice Emery Lumumba, head of the Congolese National Movement, declares that "independence is a right, not a privilege."
1959 - Mexico: Se promulga la Ley de Seguridad Social que consagra catorce prestaciones y por la que la Dirección de Pensiones Civiles se transformará en Instituto de Seguridad Social de los Trabajadores al Servicio del Estado (ISSSTE), que entrará en vigor el 1º de enero del próximo año.
1962 -
Rachel Z was born. American jazz pianist.
1966 -
Giulia Gam was born. Italo-Brazilian actress.
1968 - "Beatles - The White Album" goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks.
1968 - 57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
1970 - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution.
1970 - Muere en Buenos Aires Elena Sansisena de Elizalde, fundadora de la Asociación Amigos del Arte. Organizó las polémicas muestras de los pintores Emilio Pettoruti y Juan Del Prete y publicó valiosas ediciones de arte, como el "Martín Fierro", ilustrado por Adolfo Belloc. Nació en Buenos Aires en 1882.
1971 -
Frank Sepe was born. American bodybuilder and model.
1971 - Burt Gillett dies (b. 15 Oct. 1891). American film director.
1971 -
Max Steiner dies (b. 1888). Austrian-born American film music composer.
1975 -
B. J. Ryan was born. American baseball player
1976 -
Freddie King dies (b. 1934). American blues guitarist and singer.
1978 -
John Legend was born. American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1979 -
Bill Hall was born. American baseball player
1981 - The
HBO pay
cable television service expanded its schedule offering to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
1981 -
Allan Dwan dies (b. 1885). Canadian-born film director.
1982 - Nevell Johnson Jr., a black man, was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of race-related disturbances that left another man dead.
1983 -
Mike He was born. Taiwanese actor.
1983 -
Dennis Wilson dies (b. 1944). Musician ("The Beach Boys").
1984 -
The Edge of Night, a long running daytime American soap opera ends after a 28 year run and 7420 episodes.
1984 -
Alex Lloyd was born. British racing driver.
1989 - O Brasil quebra o recorde negativo de inflação na sua história, chegando a 1.764,86% ao ano.
1989 - Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia
1991 - Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year.
1991 - Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venezuela, crowned 41st Miss World
1992 - O parlamento iugoslavo vota a remoção do primeiro-ministro Milan Panic.
1992 -
Daniella Perez dies murdered (b. 11 Aug 1970). Brazilian actress.
1992 -
Sal Maglie dies (b. 1917). Baseball player.
1993 - Banesto, bajo la dirección de Mario Conde, es intervenido por el Banco de España.
1994 - CIA Director R. James Woolsey resigned, ending a tenure that was shadowed by the Aldrich Ames spy scandal.
1995 -
CompuServe sets a precedent by blocking access to sex-oriented newsgroups after being pressured by
German prosecutors.
1997 - WCW Championship: "Hollywood"
Hulk Hogan loses his championship belt to Sting, at StarrCade
1997 - O governo de Hong Kong mata e incinera 1,3 milhão de galinhas na tentativa de eliminar o vírus da gripe, que havia matado quatro pessoas e causado temor de uma epidemia.
- 2000 - Adrian Năstase became the Prime Minister of Romania.
2000 - U.S. retail giant
Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2001 - In Argentina thousands of people flooded banks as the government eased a 5-day bank holiday. Demonstrations ensued and riot police used rubber bullets and tear gas to quell violence at the Government House known as Casa Rosada.
2001 - Pakistan arrested some 50 leading members of 2 Islamic militant groups: Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mahammed.
2001 - Japan’s Nikkei closed at its lowest year-end mark since 1983: 10,542.
2003 - Libya for the first time allowed U.N. nuclear officials to inspect four sites related to its nuclear weapons program.