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Celebrating your gift of blood

14 June is a special day dedicated to celebrating and thanking voluntary non-remunerated blood donors. This event is called World Blood Donor Day.

«The event on 14 June is not intended to replace events such as national Blood Donor Days, but provides a special opportunity for a united, global celebration on a day that has particular significance: the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, the Nobel prize winner who discovered the ABO blood group system».

Visit the official World Blood Donor Day website

• 0763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
• 0923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
• 0923 - Robert I of France dies (b. c. 865).
• 0991 - Empress Theophanu dies.
• 1053 - Forces led by Pope Leo IX were defeated in a battle against the Normans.
• 1073 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan dies (b. 1034).
• 1184 - King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of Fimreite.
• 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
• 1219 - Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck.
• 1246 - With the death of Duke Frederick II (b. 1219), the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
• 1330 - Edward the Black Prince was born (d. 1376). Prince of Wales.
• 1341 - Andronicus III Palaeologus dies (b. 1297). Eastern Roman Emperor
• 1381 - John Cavendish dies. Lord Chief Justice of England
• 1381 - Wat Tyler dies. Leader of Peasants Revolt
• 1383 - John VI Cantacuzenus dies. Byzantine Emperor
• 1389 - Battle of Kosovo: Turks defeat Serbs and Bosnians.
• 1389 - Prince Lazar dies (b. 1329). Serbian Orthodox saint.
• 1409 - The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is elected Pope Alexander V by the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
• 1467 - Philip the Good of Burgundy dies (b. 1396)
• 1520 - Pope Leo X issued the encyclical 'Exsurge Domine,' condemning German Reformer Martin Luther as a heretic on 41 counts and branding him an enemy of the Catholic Church.
• 1521 - Tamás Bakócz dies (b. 1442). Hungarian archbishop, cardinal and statesman.
• 1567 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy.
• 1520 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther.
• 1580 - Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
• 1594 - Nicolas Poussin was born (d. 1665). French painter.
• 1614 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton dies (b. 1540). English politician.
• 1623 - Cornelis de Witt was born (d. 1672). Dutch politician.
• 1624 - Hiob Ludolf was born (d. 1704). German orientalist.
• 1640 - Bernard Lamy was born (d. 1715). French mathematician.
• 1649 - Margaret Jones was tried and executed for witchcraft - the first time this happened in the colony of Massachusetts.
• 1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He transfuses 12 fluid ounces (350 mL) of sheep blood to a 15-year-old boy. The boy later dies and Baptiste is accused of murder.
• 1679 - Guillaume Courtois dies (b. 1628). French painter.
• 1724 - Henry Sacheverell dies (b. 1674). English churchman and politician.
• 1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal dies (b. 1684). French writer.
• 1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning).
• 1755 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy was born (d. 1809). French chemist.
• 1756 - Derrota dos Portugueses em Goa pelos Maratas. D. Luís de Mascarenhas, 46.º vice-rei da Índia, morre em combate contra o rei de Sunda, em Pondá.
• 1760 - O Marquês de Pombal expulsa de Lisboa o núncio apostólico
• 1765 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger was born (d. 1831). German mathematician.
• 1767 - Rachel Donelson Jackson was born. First Lady of the United States, wife of Andrew Jackson
• 1768 - James Short dies (b. 1710). Scottish mathematician and optician.
• 1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin dies (b. 1694). French composer.
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
• 1776 - Delaware Separation Day - Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
• 1780 - Em Portugal, Pina Manique determinou a obrigatoriedade de registo da correspondência nos serviços públicos
• 1785 - Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
• 1789 - Josiah Henson was born (d. 1883). American slave and settlement founder.
• 1801 - Benjamin Raymond was born (d. 1883). Mayor of Chicago.
• 1804 - New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
• 1805 - William Butler Ogden was born (d. 1877). First mayor of Chicago.
• 1808 - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
• 1809 - François-Xavier Garneau was born (d. 1866). French Canadian poet and historian.
• 1836 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
• 1843 - Edvard Grieg was born (d. 1907). Norwegian composer.
• 1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
• 1846 - The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
• 1849 - James Knox Polk dies (b. 1795). 11th President of the United States
• 1858 - Ary Scheffer dies (b. 1795). Dutch-French painter.
• 1859 - Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers.
• 1861 - Ernestine Rössler Schumann-Hein was born at Lieben, near Prague (d. 17 Nov 36). Singer
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Petersburg begins - Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant and troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee battle for the last time.
• 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.8 km²) around Arlington Mansion are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
• 1869 - Marquis Ferdinando Bartolommei dies. Italian revolutionist and statesman.
• 1875 - Herman Smith-Johannsen was born (d. 1987). Cross-country skier.
• 1877 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
• 1882 - Ion Antonescu was born (d. 1946). Prime Minister of Romania
• 1884 - Harry Langdon was born (d. 1944). American actor.
• 1887 - Malvina Cornell Hoffman was born in New York City (d. 1966). Sculptor.
• 1888 - Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II and is the last emperor of the German Empire
• 1888 - Ramón López Velarde was born (d. 1921). Mexican poet.
• 1888 - Friedrich III of Germany (Hohenzollern) dies (b. 1831)
• 1889 - Mihai Eminescu dies (b. 1850). Romanian poet.
• 1894 - Nikolai Chebotaryov was born (d. 1947). Ukrainian mathematician.
• 1894 - Robert Russell Bennett was born (d. 1981). American composer and arranger.
• 1900 - Gotthard Günther was born (d. 1984). German philosopher.
• 1900 - Otto Luening was born (d. 1996). German-American composer.
• 1902 - Erik Erikson was born (d. 1994). Psychoanalyst.
• 1904 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1000.
• 1905 - Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
• 1906 - Léon Degrelle was born (d. 1994). Belgian Rexist who joined the Waffen SS.
• 1908 - Sam Giancana was born (d. 1975). American mafioso.
• 1909 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lords and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
• 1910 - David Rose, American songwriter, composer and orchestra leader (d. 1990)
• 1911 - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
• 1911 - Início dos trabalhos da Assembleia Nacional Constituinte - Portugal
• 1912 - Francisco Lázaro dies tragically during the marathon of Stocholm Olympic Games (b. 21 Jan 1891). Portuguese olimpic athlet who was the first olympic athlet in representation of Benfica.
• 1913 - US troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing massacre at least 2,000 Philippine men, women and children at Bud Bagsak.
• 1914 - Yuri Andropov was born (d. 1984). General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
• 1914 - Saul Steinberg was born (d. 1999). American cartoonist.
• 1915 - Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1916 - Herbert Simon was born (d. 2001). American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1917 - John Fenn was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1917 - Lash La Rue was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1917 - Michalis Genitsaris was born (d. 2005). Greek singer and composer.
• 1917 - Kristian Birkeland dies (b. 1867). Norwegian physicist.
• 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
• 1920 - Duluth lynchings in Minnesota was born.
• 1920 - Alberto Sordi was born (d. 2003). Italian actor and director.
• 1921 - Errol Garner was born (d. 1977). American jazz musician.
• 1922 - John Veale was born (d. 2006). English composer.
• 1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed United States citizens.
• 1924 - Ezer Weizman was born (d. 2005). 7th President of Israel.
• 1926 - Shigeru Kayano was born (d. 2006). Japanese Ainu activist.
• 1927 - Ibn-e-Insha was born (d. 1978). Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet.
• 1928 - Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt was born. Behaviorist.
• 1930 - Marcel Pronovost was born. Professional ice hockey player
• 1931 - Belarmino Fragoso was born. Portuguese boxeur.
• 1932 - Mario Cuomo was born. Governor of New York.
• 1933 - Sergio Endrigo was born (d. 2005). Italian singer.
• 1934 - The U.S.'s Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded
• 1934 - Alfred Bruneau dies (b. 1857). French composer.
• 1936 - William Joseph Levada was born. Roman Catholic Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and former archbishop of San Francisco in Calfornia
• 1937 - Waylon Jennings was born (d. 2002). American singer.
• 1938 - Billy Williams was born. Baseball player.
• 1939 - Brian Jacques was born. British author.
• 1939 - Ward Connerly was born. American political figure.
• 1941 - Harry Nilsson was born (d. 1994). American singer and composer.
• 1941 - World War II: Operation Battleaxe. British forces suffer setbacks in the second day of Operation Battleaxe. Rommel's forces reach Sidi Rezegh.
• 1941 - Evelyn Underhill dies (b. 1875). British writer.
• 1941 - Otfrid Foerster dies (b. 1873). German neurologist.
• 1942 - Ferreira do Amaral was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1942 - John E. McLaughlin was born. Former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1943 - Xaviera Hollander was born. Dutch author
• 1943 - day" href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hallyday">Johnny Hallyday was born. French singer and actor
• 1943 - Muff Winwood was born. British songwriter, producer and bassist (Spencer Davis Group)
• 1943 - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen was born. Prime Minister of Denmark
• 1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invades Saipan.
• 1944 - In the Saskatchewan general election, 1944, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government of North America.
• 1945 - The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 1945 - Miriam Defensor-Santiago was born. Philippine senator
• 1945 - Nicola Pagett was born. British actress
• 1946 - Noddy Holder was born. British singer (Slade)
• 1946 - Demis Roussos was born. Greek singer
• 1947 - The All-India committee of India's Congress Party announces that it accepts Britain's plan to divide India into two states, one Hindu and one Muslim.
• 1947 - John Hoagland was born. American photographer
• 1948 - Mike Holmgren was born. American football coach.
• 1949 - Dusty Baker was born. Baseball player and manager.
• 1949 - Simon Callow was born. British actor
• 1949 - Russell Hitchcock was born. Member of Air Supply
• 1949 - Jim Varney was born (d. 2000). American actor.
• 1950 - Lakshmi Mittal was born. Indian industrialist
• 1951 - Steve Walsh was born. American singer (Kansas)
• 1953 - Rita Lee was born. Playboy Playmate
• 1953 - Ana Castillo was born is born in Chicago. Poet, novelist.
• 1954 - UEFA (the Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland.
• 1954 - James Belushi was born. American actor
• 1954 - Paul Rusesabagina was born. Manager of Hôtel des Mille Collines during the Rwandan genocide
• 1955 - The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the preparations for a nuclear attack.
• 1955 - Julie Hagerty was born. American actress
• 1956 - Tunisia's autonomy in foreign affairs is confirmed when an agreement is signed with the French government.
• 1957 - Eindhoven University of Technology is founded.
• 1957 - Seppo Pääkkönen was born. Finnish actor.
• 1958 - Riccardo Paletti was born (d. 1982). Italian racing driver.
• 1958 - Wade Boggs was born. Baseball player.
• 1959 - Eileen Davidson was born. American actress
• 1960 - Michèle Laroque was born. French actress
• 1960 - Marieke van Doorn was born. Dutch field hockey player.
• 1961 - Kai Eckhardt was born. German musician (Garaj Mahal)
• 1961 - Dave McAuley was born. Northern Irish boxer
• 1961 - Yoshimi Iwasaki was born. Japanese singer/actress
• 1962 - Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement.
• 1962 - Andrea Rost was born. Hungarian soprano
• 1962 - Alfred Cortot dies (b. 1877). Swiss pianist.
• 1963 - Helen Hunt was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Nigel Walker was born. Welsh athlete and rugby union player
• 1964 - Courteney Cox was born. American actress
• 1964 - Michael Laudrup was born. Danish footballer
• 1965 - Bernard Hopkins was born. Boxer.
• 1965 - Adam Smith was born. American politician
• 1965 - E. A. Speiser dies (b. 1902). American Bible scholar.
• 1965 - Steve Cochran dies (b. 1917). American actor
• 1966 - day/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_3025000/3025267.stm"> Hovercraft deal opens show: The world's first hovershow opens in Britain with news of a Ministry of Defence order worth £1m.
• 1966 - Idalis DeLeon was born. American actress/singer
• 1967 - Yuji Ueda was born. Japanese voice actor
• 1968 - Oh Dal-su was born. South Korean actor
• 1968 - Sam Crawford dies (b. 1880). Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1968 - Wes Montgomery dies (b. 1925). American jazz guitarist.
• 1969 - Ice Cube was born. Singer, actor
• 1969 - Oliver Kahn was born. German football goalkeeper (Bayern München)
• 1969 - Cédric Pioline was born. French tennis player
• 1969 - Hee Haw debuts on CBS television, quickly becoming an institution.
• 1970 - Morreu em Lisboa o escritor e artista plástico português, nascido em S. Tomé e Príncipe em 7 de Abril de 1893, José de Almada Negreiros.
• 1970 - Elliot Welsh v. United States The Supreme Court ruled that a man could be a "conscientious objector" even though he did not claim the status for religious reasons.
• 1970 - Leah Remini was born. American actress
• 1970 - Gaëlle Méchaly was born. French soprano
• 1971 - Edwin Brienen was born. Dutch director
• 1971 - Bif Naked was born. Canadian musician
• 1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley dies (b. 1904). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1972 - Justin Leonard was born. American golfer
• 1972 - Andy Pettitte was born. American baseball player
• 1972 - Marcus Hahnemann was born. American footballer
• 1972 - Hank Von Helvete was born. Turbonegro Frontman
• 1973 - Neil Patrick Harris was born. American actor
• 1973 - Tore André Flo was born. Norwegian footballer
• 1973 - Pia Miranda was born. Australian actress
• 1973 - Greg Vaughan was born. American actor
• 1974 - day/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_2512000/2512725.stm"> Man dies in race rally clashes: A march through central London leaves one person dead and many more injured as rival demonstrators clash with police and each other.
• 1975 - Elizabeth Reaser was born. American actress.
• 1975 - Rachel Wacholder was born. American beach volleyballer.
• 1976 - Jimmy Dykes dies (b. 1896). Major League Baseball player and manager.
• 1977 - General elections in Spain
• 1977 - Nina Liu was born. Australian actress
• 1978 - King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby.
• 1978 - Wilfred Bouma was born. Dutch footballer
• 1978 - Charlie Balfe was born. English footballer
• 1978 - Day" href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Day">Zach Day was born. American baseball player
• 1979 - Rocky II opens in theaters, starring and directed by Sylvester Stallone.
• 1979 - Yulia Nesterenko was born. Belarusian athlete
• 1979 - Julia Schultz was born. American model
• 1980 - Mary Carey was born. American pornographic actress
• 1980 - Almudena Cid was born. Spanish gymnast
• 1980 - Cara Zavaleta was born. American model
• 1981 - Jeremy Reed was born. American baseball player
• 1981 - William Dean Martin was born. American musician
• 1983 - Julia Fischer was born. German violinist
• 1983 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, dies (b. 1910). Telugu poet.
• 1984 - Tim Lincecum was born. American baseball player
• 1984 - Meredith Willson dies (b. 1902). American composer.
• 1985 - Nadine Coyle was born. Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
• 1985 - Andy Stanfield dies (b. 1927). American athlete.
• 1988 - Miku Ishida was born. Japanese teen idol
• 1989 - Victor French dies. American actor.
• 1989 - Maurice Bellemare dies (b. 1912). French Canadian politician.
• 1991 - Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, the Bloc Québécois.
• 1991 - Arthur Lewis dies (b. 1915). British economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1991 - Happy Chandler dies (b. 1898). American politician and Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
• 1992 - The United States Supreme Court rules in US vs. Alvarez-Machain that it is permissible for the USA to abduct suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
• 1992 - During a spelling bee at a Trenton, New Jersey elementary school, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle corrects a student's spelling of the word potato by indicating it should have an e at the end.
• 1993 - James Hunt dies (b. 1947). English motor-racing driver.
• 1993 - John Connally dies (b. 1917). Former Governor of Texas, United States Secretary of the Treasury, United States Secretary of the Navy
• 1994 - Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
• 1994 - Manos Hadjidakis dies (b. 1925). Greek composer.
• 1995 - While on trial for murder, O.J. Simpson puts on a pair of gloves that were found soaked with blood at the murder scene. The gloves appear to not fit.
• 1995 - John Vincent Atanasoff dies (b. 1903). American computer pioneer
• 1996 - In Manchester, UK, a terrorist bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.
• 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald dies (b. 1917). American singer.
• 1996 - Dick Murdoch dies (b. 1946). Professional wrestler.
• 1997 - Futebol Clube do Porto wins for the third time in a row, the Portuguese Championship in football.
• 1997 - Kim Casali dies. English cartoonist.
• 1998 - César de Oliveira dies. Portuguese historian and politician.
• 1999 - George Morber Senior and Carolyn Frederick are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in Gorham, Illinois. They are his eighth and ninth victims, in his seventh and final incident.
• 2000 - day/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_2512000/2512669.stm"> British marines leave Sierra Leone . The major contingent of the British military task-force sent to help restore order in Sierra Leone leaves the country.
• 2002 - O Congresso dos Estados Unidos emite uma resolução reconhecendo que o telefone não foi inventado por Alexander Graham Bell, mas sim por Antonio Meucci.
• 2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon
• 2002 - Sérgio Bernardes dies (b. 9 Apr 1919). Brazilian architect.
• 2002 - Choi Hong Hi dies (b. 1918). Founder of Taekwon-Do.
• 2003 - Hume Cronyn dies (b. 1911). Canadian actor.
• 2003 - Volker Kriegel dies. Jazz musician.
• 2003 - O Porto vence por 1-0 a União de Leiria e conquista a Taça de Portugal em futebol.
• 2004 - Casamento (2º) do actor Charlie Sheen com Denise Richards
• 2005 - António Guterres, 56, ex -Prime Minister of Portugal, chosen last 24 May as the 10thUnited Nations High Commissioner for refugees, begins with a cerimony in Geneve, his five-year term.
• 2006 - Raymond Devos dies (b. 1922). French humorist
• 2006 - Herb Pearson dies (b. 1910). New Zealand cricket player.
• Elder Abuse Awareness Day
• Commemoration of Evelyn Underhill (Anglican mystic and poet)
• Roman Empire - ninth and final day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
• Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint Germaine Cousin, patron of shepherdesses and of victims of child abuse
• Saint Vitus' Day - Vitus Diena held in medieval Latvia
• Malawi's Freedom Day
• Commemoration of William Adams (Miura Anjin 三浦按針) a man shipwrecked in Japan in the 1600s, and whom James Clavell's "Shogun (novel)" was based upon.
• Day" href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Day">Flag Day in Denmark

• 0775 - Saint Ciarán of Disert-Kieran dies. Irish saint and writer
• 1161 - Emperor Qinzong of China dies (b. 1100).
• 1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants Revolt.
• 1381 - Simon Sudbury dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1444 (O.S.) - Nilakantha Somayaji was born (d. 1544). Indian mathematician.
• 1479 (O.S.) - Giglio Gregorio Giraldi was born (d. 1522). Italian poet.
• 1497 - Giovanni Borgia dies assassinated. Duke of Borgia.
• 1529 (O.S.) - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria was born (d. 1595). Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1544 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1489)
• 1548 - Carpentras dies. French composer
• 1594 - Orlande de Lassus dies. Flemish composer
• 1662 - Henry Vane the Younger dies (b. 1613). British Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1642 - Saskia van Uylenburg dies (b. 1612). Wife of Rembrandt van Rijn
• 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby - 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
• 1648 - Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
• 1662 - Henry Vane the Younger dies (b. 1613). British Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni was born (d. 1751). Italian composer.
• 1674 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville was born (d. 1600). French writer.
• 1703 - Jean Herauld Gourville dies (b. 1625). French adventurer.
• 1726 - James Hutton was born (d. 1797). Scottish geologist.
• 1726 - Thomas Pennant was born (d. 16 Dec 1798). Welsh naturalist and traveller, one of the leading zoologists of his time.
• 1736 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb was born (d. 23 Aug 1806). French physicist best known for the formulation of Coulomb's law, which states that the force between two electrical charges is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
• 1746 Colin Maclaurin dies. Scottish mathematician born in February 1698. In 1742 he published Treatise of fluxions, the first systematic exposition of Newton's methods written as a reply to Berkeley's attack on the calculus for its lack of rigorous foundations.
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The United States Army is established by the Continental Congress.
• 1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
• 1789 - Mutiny on the Bounty: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat.
• 1794 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford dies (b. 1718). Viceroy of Ireland.
• 1796 - Nikolai Brashman was born (d. 1866). Russian mathematician.
• 1800 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix dies killed in battle (b. 1768). French military leader
• 1800 - Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
• 1800 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber dies murdered (b. 1753). French general, architect.
• 1801 - Heber C. Kimball was born (d. 1868). American religious leader (Mormon church)
• 1801 - Benedict Arnold dies (b. 1741). American general.
• 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe was born (d. 1896). American author (day/jun05.html" target= "_blank">Uncle Tom's Cabin)
• 1812 - Fernando Wood was born (d. 1881). New York City mayor.
• 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables."
• 1825 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant dies. French architect
• 1832 - Nikolaus Otto was born (d. 1891). German engineer.
• 1835 - Nikolai Rubinstein was born. Russian pianist.
• 1837 - Giacomo Leopardi dies (b. 1798). Italian writer.
• 1839 - Henley Royal Regatta: The village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
• 1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - American settlers in Sonoma, California start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
• 1855 - Robert La Follette was born (d. 1925). U.S. Senator.
• 1856 - Andrey Andreyevich Markov was born (d. 20 Jul 1922). Russian mathematician who helped to develop the theory of stochastic processes, especially those called Markov chains, sequences of random variables in which the future variable is determined by the present variable but is independent of the way in which the present state arose from its predecessors.
• 1862 - John Ulric Nef was born (d. 13 Aug 1915). Swiss-American chemist
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester - A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
• 1864 - Alois Alzheimer was born (d. 19 Dec 1915). German psychiatrist who recognized the disease named after him. At a meeting German psychiatrists in Nov 1906, Alzheimer reported a case of an his patient. The title of his lecture was Über eiene eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde (On a peculiar disorder of the cerebral cortex). Later on, at the suggestion of Emil Kraepelin, presenile dementia was designated "Alzheimer's disease." This disease is a progressive, degenerative disorder that affects the brain.
• 1864 - General Leonidas Pope dies.
• 1868 - Karl Landsteiner was born (d. 26 Jun1943). Austrian immunologist and pathologist, who received the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the major blood groups and development of the ABO system of blood typing that much reduced risk and made blood transfusion a routine medical practice.
• 1870 - Sophia of Prussia was born (d. 1932). Consort of Constantine I of Greece
• 1871 - Jacob Ellehammer was born (d. 1946). Danish inventor.
• 1872 - Trade unions legalised in Canada.
• 1876 - Elkanah Billings dies (b. 5 May 1820). Canadian geologist and paleontologist, who was the first Canadian paleontologist. For three years as the editor of the Ottawa Citizen, he wrote a series of articles on science, including geology and paleontology.
• 1877 - Jane Bathori was born (d. 1970). French mezzo-soprano.
• 1883 - Edward FitzGerald dies (b. 1809). English poet.
• 1886 - Alexandr Ostrovsky dies (b. 1823). Russian dramatist.
• 1890 - May Allison was born (d. 1989). American actress.
• 1893 - Siggie Nordstrom was born (d. 1980). Swedish singer (The Nordstrom Sisters)
• 1894 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg was born (d. 1924)
• 1894 - Federico de Madrazo dies (b. 1815). Spanish painter..
• 1895 - Jack Adams was born (d. 1968). Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager.
• 1899 - Yasunari Kawabata was born (d. 1972). Japanese writer who was Nobel Prize laureate in 1968.
• 1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
• 1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
• 1901 - Clarence Day was born. Hockey player.
• 1903 - Alonzo Church was born (d. 1995). American mathematican and logician.
• 1905 - Steve Broidy was born (d. 1991). American motion picture executive.
• 1906 - Margaret Bourke-White was born (d. 1971). American photojournalist.
• 1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage.
• 1907 - René Char was born. French poet.
• 1907 - Nicolas Bentley was born (d. 1978). British writer and illustrator.
• 1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.
• 1908 - Joaquim Paço d'Arcos was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1908 - Frederick Arthur Stanley dies (b. 1841). Governor general of Canada
• 1909 - Burl Ives was born (d. 1995). American musician.
• 1909 - Morte, no Rio de Janeiro, de Affonso Penna (Affonso Augusto Moreira Penna), 7º Presidente do Brasil. Seu vice, Nilo Peçanha, assume a presidência.
• 1910 - Rudolf Kempe was born (d. 1976). German conductor.
• 1910 - A Maçonaria decide nomear uma «comissão de resistência» encarregada de colaborar d forma mais activa com a Carbonária.
• 1912 - E. Cuyler Hammond was born (d. 3 Nov 1986). Scientist who was the first to link smoking with lung cancer. In 1957, while research director of the American Cancer Society, Hammond told congressional investigators that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer and has a severe effect on a number of other diseases.
• 1913 - Joe Morris was born (d. 1996) . Canadian trade unionist
• 1916 - Dorothy McGuire was born (d. 2001). American actress (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Gentlemen’s Agreement, The Young and the Restless, Rich Man, Poor Man, Little Women [TV: 1979], The Last Best Year);
• 1916 - João Simões Lopes Neto dies (b. 1865). Brazilian writer.
• 1917 - Atle Selberg was born. Norwegian-born mathematician who is one of the foremost analytic number theorists.He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work in number theory on generalisations of the sieve methods of Viggo Brun. In 1986 he won the Wolf Prize.
• 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
• 1919 - Sam Wanamaker was born (d. 1993). American actor.
• 1919 - Nascimento, em São Paulo, de Linda Batista (Florinda Grandino de Oliveira), atriz brasileira e cantora da MPB.
• 1919 - Gene Barry [Eugene Klass] was born in New York, N. Y. . Actor (Bat Masterson, Burke’s Law, The Name of the Game, War of the Worlds, A Cry for Love, Our Miss Brooks, La Cage aux Folles ).
• 1920 - Max Weber dies (b. 1864). German sociologist.
• 1921 - Gene Barry was born. American actor
• 1922 - Kevin Roche was born. Irish architect.
• 1922 - Sport Clube Lusitânia - Portugal is founded.
• 1924 - Sir James Whyte Black was born. British pharmacologist who (along with George H. Hitchings and Gertrude B. Elion) received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for his development of two important drugs, propranolol and cimetidine.
• 1925 - Pierre Salinger was born (d. 2004). Political operative, John F. Kennedy's Press Secretary
• 1926 - Hermann Kant was born. German author
• 1926 - Don Newcombe was born. Baseball player
• 1926 - Mary Stevenson Cassatt dies (b. 22 May 1844). Expatriate US Impressionist painter, specialized in Children (Ver biografia em Português em O Leme).
• 1927 - President Porfirio Diaz of Nicaragua signed a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country.
• 1927 - Jerome K. Jerome dies (b. 1859). Author.
• 1928 - Che Guevara was born (d. 1967). Argentine-born revolutionary.
• 1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst dies (b. 1857). Feminist.
• 1929 - Cy Coleman was born (d. 2004). American composer .
• 1931 - Junior Walker was born. Saxophonist and singer (Jr. Walker & the All Stars)
• 1931 - Marla Gibbs was born. American actress
• 1932 - Joe Arpaio was born. Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona
• 1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins dies. Business pioneer.
• 1933 - Jerzy Kosinski was born (d. 1999). Polish author.
• 1933 - Vladislav Rastorotsky dies. Soviet gymnastics coach
• 1934 - James J. Braddock scored one of the most upsetting victories in of his boxing career by beating John "Corn" Griffin - roughly marking the advent of his comeback to success and eventually winning World Heavyweight championship
• 1936 - Renaldo "Obie" Benson was born (d. 2005). Singer (The Four Tops).
• 1936 - Irmelin Sandman Lilius was born. Finnish actor
• 1936 - Maxim Gorky dies (b. 1868). Russian author.
• 1936 - G. K. Chesterton dies (b. 1874). English author.
• 1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Day" href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Day">Flag Day officially as a day" href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_holiday">state holiday.
• 1937 - U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
• 1938 - Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
• 1939 - John F. MacArthur was born. American evangelist
• 1939 - Steny Hoyer was born. U.S. Congressman
• 1940 - Spanish invade Tangier international zone.
• 1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.
• 1940 - German troops march into Paris, meeting practically no resistance as French and allied forces retreat.
• 1940 - Ben Davidson was born. American football player.
• 1940 - World War II: Paris falls under German occupation/ O exército alemão entra em Paris, previamente tornada cidade livre.
• 1940 - Holocaust: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1941 - Mass deportations by Soviet Union authorities take place in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
• 1944 - Laurie Colwin was born (d. 1992). American author.
• 1944 - Joaquín Álvarez Quintero dies. Spanish dramatist.
• 1945 - Rod Argent was born. Musician (The Zombies)
• 1945 - Nascimento em Porto Alegre - RS, de Carlos Reichenbach (Carlos Oscar Reichenbach Filho), actor e director do cinema brasileiro.
• 1945 - Jörg Immendorf was born. Painter
• 1946 - Marla Gibbs was born. Actress
• 1946 - Donald Trump was born. American business.
• 1946 - Federigo Enriques dies at 75. Italian mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and to the history and philosophy of mathematics.
• 1946 - John Logie Baird dies (b. 1888). Television pioneer.
• 1947 - Barry Melton was born. American guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish).
• 1949 - Jimmy Lea was born. British musician (Slade)
• 1949 - Harry Turtledove was born. American science fiction author.
• 1949 - Alan White was born. British drummer (Yes)
• 1949 - The state of Vietnam was formed.
• 1950 - Rowan Williams was born. 104 th Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1951 - Paul Boateng was born. British politician
• 1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
• 1952 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
• 1952 - Pat Summitt was born. American basketball coach.
• 1953 - Janet Mackey was born. New Zealand politician.
• 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" to the United States' Pledge of Allegiance.
• 1954 - Will Patton was born. American actor
• 1955 - Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1955 - Paul O'Grady was born. British comedian and television presenter
• 1956 - King Diamond was born. Danish singer (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate)
• 1958 - Eric Heiden was born. American speed skater.
• 1959 - A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies which departed from Cuba landed in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina's dicatorial regime. Save for four of them, all were killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo's power and would be called "Movimiento Catorce de Junio" (14th of June Movement).
• 1960 - Mike Laga was born. American baseball player
• 1961 - Boy George was born. British singer (Culture Club)
• 1961 - Sam Perkins ‘The Big Smooth’ was born. American basketball player: Univ. of North Carolina [all-American], Olympic gold medalist [1984], Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers, Seattle SuperSonics, Indiana Pacers.
• 1962 - Anna Slesersby becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler.
• 1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
• 1962 - New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibited state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they lived on a reservation.
• 1964 - Stacy Burke was born. American adult actress and model.
• 1966 - The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
• 1966 - Traylor Howard was born. American actress.
• 1967 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
• 1967 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
• 1967 - Kelly Nash was born. American radio personality
• 1967 - Eddie Eagan dies (b. 1897). American sportsman.
• 1968 - Yasmine Bleeth was born. Actress (Nash Bridges, Baywatch, Titans)
• 1968 - Salvatore Quasimodo dies (b. 20 Ago 1901). Italian poet, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times" ( See here his speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1959).
• 1969 - Steffi Graf was born. German tennis player champ: Australian Open [1988, 1989, 1990, 1994], French Open [1987, 1988, 1993], Wimbledon [1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993], U.S. Open [1988, 1989, 1993].
• 1969 - Éric Desjardins was born. French-Canadian hockey player
• 1969 - Kyle Hebert was born. American voice actor
• 1969 - MC Ren was born. American rapper
• 1969 - Michael Gerber was born. American parody author
• 1971 - Alexandra Castillo was born in Santiago, Chile. Actress.
• 1972 - Matthias Ettrich was born. German computer scientist (KDE)
• 1972 - Martin Dies dies. American politician.
• 1972 - the insecticide DDT was banned from use in the U.S. after 31 Dec 1972, by executive order of the Environmental Protection Agency.
• 1973 - Ceca Raznatovic was born. Serbian singer.
• 1975 - Chris Onstad was born. American cartoonist.
• 1976 - The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
• 1976 - The Gong Show debuts on NBC.
• 1977 - Chris McAlister was born. American football player.
• 1977 - Camila Pitanga was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1978 - Steve Bégin was born. French-Canadian hockey player
• 1978 - Annia Hatch was born. Cuban-American gymnast
• 1981 - Chauncey Leopardi was born. American actor
• 1981 - Lonneke Engel was born. Dutch model.
• 1982 - Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
• 1982 - Lang Lang was born. Chinese pianist.
• 1983 - Siobhán Donaghy was born. British singer (ex-Sugababes)
• 1983 - John Stocco was born. American football player
• 1983 - Louis Garrel was born. French actor
• 1984 - Lorenzo Booker was born. American football player
• 1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.
• 1985 - Andrew Bonner was born. Scotish Soccer player
• 1986 - Haley Hudson was born. American actress
• 1986 - Jorge Luis Borges dies in Geneva (b. 1899). Argentine poet, essayist, short-story writer whose works have become classics of 20th-century world literature.
• 1986 - Alan Jay Lerner dies (b. 1918). American composer.
• 1989 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is arrested in Beverly Hills, California after slapping a motorcycle police officer. She later complains that the handling she received "was like Nazi Germany". Ultimately, Gabor is sentenced to 72 hours in jail.
• 1991 - Marshall Ledbetter occupies the Florida State Capitol.
• 1991 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft dies (b. 1907). Actress.
• 1993 - A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax occurs as customers throughout the USA discover syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.
• 1993 - Realiza-se um referendo no Malawi pelo qual é aprovado o multipartidarismo neste país.
• 1994 - Primeiro vôo do Boeing 777-200
• 1994 - The New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup over the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7, breaking a 54-year drought.
• 1994 - Henry Mancini dies (b. 1924). Academy Award-winning composer. On Apr 14, 2004, the US Postal Service issued a stamp in his honor.
• 1995 - Roger Zelazny dies (b. 1937). American author.
• 1995 - Rory Gallagher dies (b. 1949). Irish musician and composer.
• 1997 - Richard Jaeckel dies (b. 1926). American actor.
• 1997 - El presidente croata Franjo Tudjman [14 May 1922 – 10 Dec 1999], que lidera la nacionalista-conservadora Unión Democrática Croata (HDZ), es reelegido para un nuevo mandato de cinco años.
• 1999 - Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated as the President of South Africa.
• 2000 - No maior passo pela paz desde o fim da Guerra da Coréia, os líderes da Coréia do Norte e do Sul assinam um acordo prometendo trabalhar pela reconciliação e por uma eventual reunificação.
• 2001 - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
• 2002 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
• 2002 - American Roman Catholic bishops meeting adopts a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners but keep them in the priesthood.
• 2002 - Portugal perde com a Coreia do Sul por 1-0 e é afastada da fase seguinte do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol de 2002. Para além disso João Pinto é expulso e acusado de agredir o árbitro.
• 2002 - June Jordan dies (b. 1936). American writer and teacher.
• 2002 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
• 2003 - The Los Angeles, USA radio station KROQ opens the eleventh annual of the KROQ Weenie Roast with AFI, The Ataris, Blur, Chevelle, Deftones, Finch, Foo Fighters, Godsmack, Good Charlotte, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jane's Addiction, Less Than Jake, Liam Lynch, Staind, Sum 41, Thrice, The Transplants, The Used, The White Stripes, and Pete Yorn.
• 2003 - End of two days of referendum, by which voters in the Czech Republic endorse entry of their country into the European Union.
• 2004 - The Workers Party of Bangladesh is split, as Khandaker Ali Abbas leaves to form a new party.
• 2004 - Ulrich Inderbinen dies (b. 1900). Swiss mountain guide.
• 2004 - Eamonn McGirr dies. Irish-born singer and entertainer
• 2005 - Phil Jackson is rehired to coach the Los Angeles Lakers.
• 2005 - Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 m sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.
• 2005 - Mimi Parent dies (b. 1924). Canadian painter.
• 2005 - Carlo Maria Giulini dies (b. 1914). Italian conductor.
• 2006 - Jean Roba was born (d. 1930). Belgian comics author.
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• Roman Empire - eighth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
• Day" href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Weblogger">International Weblogger's Day - Celebration of the work of webloggers around the world
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• Estonia, June 14 - A National Day of Commemoration
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International Weblogger's Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated on June 14, bringing webloggers from around the world together to celebrate a year's worth of changing the way the Internet sees personal journalism. It assembled more than 500 bloggers from 40 countries in 2005, and fostered meetups in both Malaysia and Mexico. On this day, bloggers write posts referring to the holiday, or meet up with fellow webloggers from the area to discuss and socialize.

This year is the 4th annual celebration and the theme is solidarity.

• 323BCE - Alexander the Great the Great, one of the world's greatest conquerors, died in Persia at Babylon at the age of 32.
• 0823 - Charles the Bald was born (d. 0877). Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks
• 1003 - Início do pontificado do Papa João XVII
• 1036 - Ali az-Zahir dies (b. 1005). Caliph
• 1231 - Anthony of Padua dies (b. 1195). Portuguese saint / Morre Fernando de Bulhões (Santo Antonio de Pádua /Lisboa). Canonizado em 20 Mai 1232.
• 1256 – Tankei dies (b. 1173). Japanese sculptor.
• 1525 - Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy doctrine decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests.
• 1625 - King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon.
• 1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly dies (b. 1562). Scottish politician
• 1645 - Início da Insurreição Pernambucana, que levará à expulsão dos holandeses do Brasil.
• 1645 - Miyamoto Musashi dies. Japanese swordsman.
• 1649 - Adrien Baillet was born (d. 1706). French scholar and critic.
• 1665 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer dies (b. 1604). Dutch admiral.
• 1752 - Fanny Burney was born (d. 1840). English novelist and diarist.
• 1760 - Antoine Court dies (b. 1696). French Huguenot minister.
• 1763 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva was born (d. 1838). Brazilian statesman.
• 1773 - Thomas Young was born (d. 10 May 1829). English physician and physicist who reinforced the wave theory of light with his study of interference of light.
• 1774 - Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• 1775 - Antoni Radziwiłł was born (d. 1833). Polish politician.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
• 1784 - Henry Middleton dies (b. 1717). American president of the Continental Congress
• 1786 - Winfield Scott was born (d. 1866). United States general.
• 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
• 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell was born (d. 1879). Scottish physicist
• 1844 -Yale lock - a door lock was patented by Linus Yale (U.S. No. 3,630).
• 1863 - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon was born (d. 1935). English fashion designer.
• 1864 - Rudolf Kjellén was born (d. 1922). Swedish political scientist.
• 1864 - Dwight B. Waldo was born (d. 1939). American educator and historian.
• 1865 - William Butler Yeats was born (d. 1939). Irish poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature -1923.
• 1867 - William Sealey Gosset - was born. Chemist and statistician.
• 1870 - Jules Bordet was born (d. 1961). Physicist and microbiologist.
• 1871 - In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people.
• 1876 - William Sealey Gosset was born (d. 1937). English chemist.
• 1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• 1881 - Josef Skoda dies (b. 1805). Czech physician.
• 1884 - Gerald Gardner was born (d. 1964). British occultist.
• 1884 - Etienne Gilson was born (d. 1978). French philosopher.
• 1886 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria dies (b. 1845)
• 1887 - Bruno Frank was born (d. 1945). German author.
• 1888 - Fernando Pessoa was born (d. 1935). Portuguese poet. (Ver mais informações sobre o autor em português).
• 1889 - Adolphe Pegoud was born (d. 1915). Pioneer Acrobatic Pilot.
• 1892 - Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 1967). English actor (Sherlock Holmes).
• 1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers was born (d. 1957). English author.
• 1894 - Mark Van Doren was born (d.1972). American poet, writer and educator.
• 1894 - Dr. Leo Kanner was born (d. 1981). Austrian-American physician.
• 1897 - Paavo Nurmi was born (1973). Finnish runner.
• 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1898 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau dies (b. 1840). French Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1899 - Carlos Chávez was born (d. 1978). Mexican composer.
• 1900 - The Boxer Rebellion began in China against Europeans.
• 1901 - Tage Erlander was born (d. 1985). Swedish Prime Minister.
• 1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange was born (d. 1991). American football player.
• 1906 - Bruno de Finetti was born. Italian mathematician, statistician.
• 1908 - Vieira da Silva was born. Portuguese painter.
• 1910 - Mary Whitehouse was born (d. 2001). British campaigner.
• 1910 - Mary Wickes was born (d. 1995). American actress.
• 1911 - Luis Alvarez was born (d. 1 Sep 1988). American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for work that included the discovery of any resonance particles.
• 1911 - Erwin Müller was born (d. 1977). German-born physicist.
• 1912 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau was born (d. 1943). French Canadian poet.
• 1913 - Great Gorge and International Railway trolley passes under garbage chute in Niagara Falls, New York when it breaks, covering the passenger-loaded car in garbage.
• 1913 - Kid Azteca was born (d. 2002). Boxer.
• 1913 - Ralph Edwards was born. Television host.
• 1915 - Don Budge was born (d. 2000). American tennis player.
• 1917 - Germany bombs London
• 1917 - Augusto Roa Bastos was born. Paraguayan writer.
• 1918 - Ben Johnson was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1918 - Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (Grand Duke Michael) dies (b. 1878). Tsar Mikhail II of Russia.
• 1920 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.
• 1926 - Paul Lynde was born (d. 1982). American actor.
• 1927 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• 1928 - John Forbes Nash was born. American mathematician, Nobel laureate
• 1929 - Alan Civil was born (d. 1989). English French horn player.
• 1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato dies (b. 20 Dec 1852). Japanese bacteriologist who, with Alexandre Yersin, co-discovered the infectious agent of bubonic plague, Pasteurella pestis (now called Yersinia pestis), during an epidemic in Hong Kong (1894).
• 1933 - German Secret State Police (Gestapo) was established.
• 1933 - Tom King was born. British politician.
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
• 1935 - É criada a FNAT - Federação Nacional para a Alegria no Trabalho, que imita a organização nazi Força pela Alegria e a fascista Doppo Lavoro.
• 1935 - In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and became the heavyweight champion of the world.
• 1935 - Christo was born. Bulgarian artist.
• 1935 - Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt was born. French artist
• 1938 - Charles Édouard Guillaume dies (b. 15 Feb 1861). French physicist who studied ferronickel alloys and discovered invar (a nickel-steel alloy) which gained him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1920.
• 1940 - Paris was evacuated before the German advance on the city.
• 1940 - Bobby Freeman was born. American soul singer
• 1941 - Marcel Lachemann was born. American baseball player
• 1941 - Esther Ofarim was born. Israeli singer
• 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.
• 1943 - Malcolm McDowell was born. English actor
• 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
• 1944 - Germans launch counter attack on Carentan.
• 1944 - Ban Ki-moon was born. The current U.N. Secretary General
• 1945 - Whitley Strieber was born. American author.
• 1946 - Major Bowes dies. Radio host
• 1948 - David Hallam was born. Member of the European Parliament, author
• 1948 - Garnet Bailey was born (d. 2001). Canadian ice hockey player and executive.
• 1949 - Dennis Locorriere was born. American singer and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
• 1949 - Simon Callow was born. British actor
• 1950 - Michael Stark was born. Australian actor
• 1951 - Richard Thomas was born. American actor
• 1951 - Stellan Skarsgard was born. Swedish actor
• 1951 - Ben Chifley dies (b. 1885). Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1952 - Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• 1952 - Tony Bruno was born. American talkshow host
• 1953 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
• 1953 - Tim Allen was born. American comedian and actor.
• 1953 - Gustavo Rojas Pinilla assume a presidência da Colômbia.
• 1954 - Nicolai Obukhov dies. Russian composer
• 1955 - Mir Mine, the first diamond mine of the USSR, is discovered.
• 1955 - Alan Hansen was born. Scottish football pundit
• 1956 - Real Madrid win the inaugural European Champion Clubs' Cup final, defeating Stade de Reims 4-3 at the Parc des Princes, Paris.
• 1958 - Vasco Santana dies in Lisbon (n. 28 Jan 1898). Great portuguese actor.
• 1958 - Edwin Keppel Bennett dies (b. 1887). British writer.
• 1959 - Steve Georganas was born. Australian politician
• 1961 - Anders Järryd was born. Swedish tennis player
• 1962 - Ally Sheedy was born. American actress
• 1962 - Glenn Michibata was born. Canadian professional tennis player
• 1962 - Ally Sheedy was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Bettina Bunge was born. German tennis player
• 1963 - Paul De Lisle was born. American musician (Smash Mouth)
• 1964 - Kathy Burke was born. English actress and comedian.
• 1964 - André Gago was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1965 - Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca was born. Daughter of King Charles and Queen Sophia of Spain
• 1965 - Martin Buber dies (b. 1878). Austrian philosopher.
• 1965 - David Drummond dies (b. 1890). Australian politician.
• 1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• 1966 - Grigori Perelman was born. Russian mathematician
• 1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1968 - David Gray was born. British singer/songwriter
• 1968 - Denise Pearson was born. British singer (Five Star)
• 1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
• 1970 - Chris Cairns was born. New Zealand cricketer
• 1970 - Rivers Cuomo was born. American musician (Weezer)
• 1970 - Mikael Ljungberg was born (d. 2004). Swedish wrestler.
• 1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.
• 1972 - Natalie MacMaster was born. Canadian musician.
• 1972 - Clyde McPhatter dies (b. 1932). American musician.
• 1972 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe dies (b. 1891). Austrian-born German World War II spy.
• 1972 - Dündar Taşer dies (b. 1925). Turkish nationalist
• 1972 - Georg von Békésy dies (b. 3 Jun 1899). Hungarian physicist and physiologist who received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea by which sound is analyzed and communicated in the cochlea, a portion of the inner ear.
• 1973 - Sam Adams was born. American football player
• 1973 - Ville Laihiala was born. Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)
• 1974 - Selma Björnsdóttir was born. Icelandic singer
• 1974 - Steve-O was born. American television personality
• 1974 - Brande Roderick was born. American actress
• 1974 - Takahiro Sakurai was born. Japanese voice actor
• 1974 - Valeri Bure was born. Russian ice hockey player
• 1974 - Fifa World Cup begins in Germany.
• 1975 - Ante Covic was born. Australian footballer
• 1976 - Kym Marsh was born. English singer, actress, T.V. presenter
  1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison 3 days before.
• 1977 - Matthew Garber dies (b. 1956). British child actor (Mary Poppins) .
• 1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
• 1978 - Ethan Embry was born. American actor
• 1978 - Mathis Künzler was born. Swiss actor
• 1978 - Jason Michael Carroll was born. Country musician
• 1979 - Nila Håkedal was born. Norwegian beach volleyball player.
• 1979 - Darla Hood dies (b. 1931). American actress.
• 1980 - Darius Vassell was born. English footballer
• 1980 - Walter Rodney dies (b. 1942). Guyanese historian and political figure.
• 1981 - At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II .
• 1981 - Chris Evans was born. American actor
• 1981 - Shanna Ferrigno was born. American reality television star
• 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• 1982 - Kenenisa Bekele was born. Ethiopian athlete
• 1982 - Fifa World Cup begins in Spain.
• 1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia dies (b. 1912).
• 1982 - Peter Maivia dies (b. 1935). Samoan wrestler.
• 1982 - Riccardo Paletti dies (b. 1958). Italian Formula One driver.
• 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
• 1984 - Nery Castillo was born. Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 - António Variações dies (b. 1944). Portuguese musician.
• 1985 - Raz-B was born. American singer (B2K)
• 1985 - Danny Syvret was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 - Kat Dennings was born. American actress
• 1986 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were born. American twin actresses.
• 1986 - Benny Goodman dies (b. 1909). American musician.
• 1987 - Geraldine Page dies (b. 1924). American actress.
• 1989 - Fran Allison dies. Actress and television personality.
• 1991 - A spectator was killed by lightning at the U.S. Open golf tournament.
• 1992 - The Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League logged the first (and, to date, only) shutout in league history, defeating the San Antonio Force, 50-0.
• 1992 - The U.N. Earth Summit ended in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 1993 - Gérard Côté dies (b. 1913). French Canadian runner.
• 1993 - Deke Slayton dies (b. 1924). American astronaut.
• 1993 - Hermínia Silva dies (b. 1913). Portuguese fado singer (A Casa da Mariquinhas) and actress.
• 1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
• 1994 - The ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and a friend were found stabbed to death outside her condominium in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles.
• 1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
• 1996 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• 1997 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• 1997 - The Chicago Bulls won their fifth National Basketball Association title in seven years when they downed the Utah Jazz, four games to two.
• 1997 - In Bangladesh a ferry on the Dhanu River northeast of Dhaka capsized in a whirlpool and at least 50 people were drowned.
• 1997 - Al Berto dies. Portuguese poet and editor.
• 1997 - In India a fire in a New Delhi theater killed 60 and injured over 200 people.
• 1998 - Lúcio Costa dies. Brazilian architect.
• 1998 - Reg Smythe dies in London. Andy Capp cartoonist.
• 1998 - Birger Ruud dies (b. 1911). Norwegian athlete.
• 1998 - Nissim Aloni dies at age 72. Playwright ["Most Cruel the King" (1953); "The Emperor’s New Clothes" (1961), "The American Princess" (1963); "The Revolution and the Chicken" (1964); "The Bride and the Butterfly Hunter" (1967); "Napoleon, Dead or Alive" (1970); and "The Gypsies of Jaffa" (1971)] .
• 1999 - Elections for the European Parlament.
• 2000 - President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, ruler of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
• 2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• 2002 - In China at least 223 were reported dead and 320,000 homeless from Xinjiang to Hubei provinces following weekend rains and flooding.
• 2003 - Heinrich Hoff dies. German boxer and athlete.
• 2003 - Czechs voted in a two-day referendum (13 and 14 June) on whether their country of 10 million should join the European Union. They voted overwhelmingly to join the European Union. 77.33% of voters approved the measure, while 22.67 voted no. Turnout was 55.21 percent.
• 2004 - A 4 kg meteorite hits the house of Phil and Brenda Archer in Ellerslie, New Zelanand , destroying the roof and a couch.
• 2004 - Dick Durrance dies (b. 1914). American skier .
• 2004 - Ralph Wiley dies (b. 1952). Writer.
• 2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California, acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland Ranch.
• 2005 - Eugénio de Andrade dies. Portuguese poet (b. 1923) / Morreu no Porto o poeta Eugénio de Andrade, pseudónimo de José Fontinhas (n. 19 Janeiro de 1923 na Póvoa de Atalaia, Fundão). Poeta que ganhou o Prémio Camões 2001. Entre os seus títulos conta-se "As Mãos e os Frutos" (1948) e "Os Amantes sem Dinheiro" (1950). O primeiro ministro português José Sócrates diz que "A Eugénio de Andrade ficam os portugueses e a nossa língua a dever momentos inesquecíveis de beleza poética, tendo a sua obra constituído uma inestimável referência estética".
• 2005 - Álvaro Cunhal dies. Portuguese active anti-fascist militant, politician who was for long time leader of the Portuguese Comunist Party and writer.
• 2005 - Jonathan Adams dies (b. 1931). English actor.
• 2005 - David Diamond dies (b. 1915). American composer.
• 2005 - Lane Smith dies (b. 1936). American actor.
• 2006 - Charles Haughey dies (b. 1925). Taoiseach.
• Feast of St Anthony of Padua. Dia de Santo António.
• Roman Empire - Quinquatrus Minusculae held in honor of Minerva
• Roman Empire - seventh day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
• USA - World Children's Day
• Portugal: Municipal holyday in some cities / Feriado Municipal de Aljustrel, de Cascais, de Lisboa, de Vila Nova de Famalicão e de Vila Real. Dia de Santo António de Lisboa ou de Pádua.

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• 0816 - Pope Leo III dies.
• 0918 - Ethelfleda dies.Lady of the Mercians
• 1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury dies
• 1107 - Emperor Gaozong of China was born (d. 1187)
• 1360 - Nuno Álvares Pereira was born. Portuguese warrior.
• 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: In England rebels arrive at Blackheath.
• 1418 - An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
• 1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac dies (b. 1360). French military leader, Constable of France
• 1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
• 1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel dies (b. 1408). English military leader.
• 1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.
• 1514 - Foi criada a diocese do Funchal
• 1519 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 1574)
• 1526 - Marc-Antoine de Muret was born. Composer.
• 1560 - Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
• 1560 - Imagawa Yoshimoto dies (b. 1519). Japanese daimyo
• 1560 - Ii Naomori dies (b. 1506). Japanese warrior.
• 1565 - Adrianus Turnebus dies (b. 1512). French classical scholar.
• 1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich dies (b. 1490). Lord Chancellor of England.
• 1577 - Paul Guldin was born (d. 2 Nov 1643). Mathematicien. Gauldin Theorem: "If a plane figure is rotated about an axis in its plane then the volume of the solid body formed is equal to the product of the area with the distance travelled by the centre of gravity".
• 1647 - Thomas Farnaby was born. English grammarian.
• 1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard - lasted until June 13.
• 1659 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo was born (d. 1719). Japanese samurai.
• 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
• 1675 - Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy dies (b. 1634)
• 1701 - The Act of Settlement, the law that continues to regulate the succession to the throne of the United Kingdom, was passed by Parliament.
• 1707 - Bahadur Shah I won the Mughal throne of India by defeating his brother 'Azam Shah at the Battle of Jajau.
• 1734 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick dies (b. 1670). French military commander.
• 1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg - James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
• 1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia dies (b. 1722)
• 1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne dies (b. 1724). French explorer.
• 1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.
• 1775 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling was born (d. 1851). Prussian field marshal.
• 1778 - Philip Livingston dies (b. 1716). American signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1780 - José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira was born (d. 1849). Portuguese politician.
• 1802 - Harriet Martineau was born (d. 1876). Controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist.
• 1812 - Edmond Hébert was born (d .1890). French geologist.
• 1816 - Pierre Augereau dies (b. 1757). Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione.
• 1819 - Charles Kingsley was born (d. 1875). English writer.
• 1827 - Johanna Spyri was born (d. 1901). Swiss author.
• 1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers landed 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
• 1834 - Foi fundada a Associação Comercial de Lisboa.
• 1845 - August Wilhelm von Schlegel dies in Bünn (b. 8 Sep 1767). German scholar and poet.
• 1850 - Roberto Ívens was born. Portuguese explorer.
• 1855 - Ernst Eduard Wiltheiss was born (d. 7 Jul 1900). German mathematician who was a founder member of the German Mathematical Society .
• 1856 - José María Alfaro Zamora dies. President of Costa Rica (1842-1844 and 1846-1847)
• 1859 - The Comstock Lode is discovered near Virginia City, Nevada.
• 1860 - The State Bank of the Russian Empire established.
• 1861 - William Attewell was born (d. 1927). English cricketer
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
• 1875 - Sam De Grasse was born (d. 1953). Canadian actor.
• 1875 - Publicado Zé Povinho, o personagem de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro.
• 1880 - The first baseball perfect game is pitched by Lee Richmond.
• 1885 - At a murder trial in France, a roof collapses, killing 30 people.
• 1888 - Zymunt Janiszewski was born in Warsow (d. 3 Jan 1920). Polish mathematician.
• 1889 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Northern Ireland.
• 1890 - Egon Schiele was born (d. 1918). American painter and graphic artist.
• 1892 - Djuna Barnes was born (d. 1982). American author.
• 1897 - Anthony Eden was born (d. 1977). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1898 - Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
• 1899 - New Richmond Tornado: 8th deadliest tornado in U.S. history - killing 117 and injuring around 200 people.
• 1899 - Fritz Albert Lipmann was born (d. 1986). American biochemist, Nobel laureate
• 1900 - Jean Frédéric Frenet dies (b. 7 Feb 1816). French mathematician.
• 1902 - Australia: Women in the four Australian States without female suffrage achieved the right to vote in Commonwealth elections under Section 3 of the Commonwealth Franchise Act for an Uniform Federal Franchise. Specifically excluded from enrolling to vote were 'aboriginal native[s] of Australia Africa Asia or the Islands of the Pacific except New Zealand' unless covered under Section 41 of the Constitution of Australia.
• 1902 - Hendrik Elias was born (d. 1973). Belgian politician.
• 1903 - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.
• 1903 - Emmett Hardy was born (d. 1925). American musician.
• 1904 - Camille de Renesse dies (b. 1836). Belgian Count.
• 1905 - Ray Barbuti was born (d. 1988). American athlete.
• 1906 - Sandro Penna was born (d. 1977). Italian poet.
• 1908 - Alphonse Ouimet was born (d. 1988). Canadian TV pioneer and president of the CBC.
• 1908 - Marina Semenova was born. Russian ballerina
• 1908 - Otto Skorzeny was born (d. 1975). Famous WWII German Operative.
• 1910 - Bill Naughton was born (d. 1992). English playwright.
• 1912 - Jameel Jalibi was born. Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist.
• 1912 - Frédéric Passy dies (b. 1822). French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1913 - Jean Victor Allard was born (d. 1996). Canadian army general.
• 1915 - Christopher Mayhew was born (d. 1997). British politician.
• 1915 - David Rockefeller was born. American banker.
• 1916 - Ivan Tors was born (d. 1983). American film producer.
• 1916 - Irwin Allen was born (d. 1991). American film producer.
• 1917 - Teresa Carreño dies (b. 1853). Venezuelan pianist.
• 1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff was born (d. 2001). American film producer.
• 1919 - Uta Hagen was born (d. 2004). American actress.
• 1920 - Dave Berg was born (d. 2002).American cartoonist for Mad Magazine.
• 1921 - (some sources say 1919) - Vera Ralston was born in Prague (d. 9 Feb 2003). Actress.
• 1921 - James Houston was born. Canadian artist.
• 1921 - Figueirense Futebol Clube (Brazil) is founded.
• 1921 - Luis García Berlanga was born in Valencia. Spanish film director.
• 1922 - St.Louis Brown pitcher Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth three consecutive times.
• 1922 - In Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded - the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
• 1924 - George H. W. Bush was born. Vice president of the United States (1981–89) and 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).
• 1926 - Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.
• 1928 - Vic Damone was born. American singer.
• 1929 - Anne Frank was born (d. 1945). German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim.
• 1929 - Brigid Brophy was born. British writer .
• 1930 - Otto Schenk was born. Actor and director.
• 1930 - Jim Nabors was born. American actor and musician.
• 1930 - Donald Byrne was born. American chess player
• 1931 - Charlie Parker equals cricket record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets. Tich Freeman reaches 100 wickets a day later.
• 1931 - Santiago Rusiñol dies. Spanish painter.
• 1932 - Rona Jaffe was born. American novelist
• 1932 - Mamo Wolde was born (d. 2002). Ethiopian athlete.
• 1933 - Carmen Veronica was born in Recife. Brazilian actress.
• 1934 - John A. Alonzo was born (d. 2001). American cinematographer.
• 1935 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
• 1935 - Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
• 1935 - Christoph Meckel was born. German writer
• 1937 - Vladimir Arnold was born. Russian mathematician
• 1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky dies (b. 1893). Marshal of the Soviet Union.
• 1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1939 - Frank McCloskey was born (d. 2003). American politician.
• 1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at St. Valery-en-Caux.
• 1941 - Chick Corea was born. American musician
• 1941 - Marv Albert was born. American sportscaster
• 1941 - Roy Harper was born. English musician
• 1941 - Lyman Ward was born. Canadian/American actor
• 1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth day" href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday">birthday.
• 1942 - Bert Sakmann was born. German physiologist, Nobel laureate
• 1942 - Len Barry was born. American singer and musicien (The Dovells)
• 1943 - Holocaust: German Nazis liquidate Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. On Saturday morning, 1,180 Jews of Berezhany were led to face death at city's old Jewish graveyard, where they had been shot into a mass grave.
• 1945 - POWs found (see Stalag Luft IV)
• 1945 - Pat Jennings was born. Northern Irish footballer
• 1945 - Boris Grigorievich Galerkin dies in Moscoe (b. 4 Mar 1871 in Polotsk, Belarus). Mathematician.
• 1946 - Harry Glasper was born. English writer
• 1946 - Michel Bergeron was born. NHL head coach
• 1948 - Hans Binder was born. Austrian racing driver
• 1949 - Marc Tardif was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1949 - John Wetton was born. English musician (Asia)
• 1950 - João Freitas dies. Portuguese historian.
• 1951 - Andranik Margaryan was born (d. 2007). 14th Prime Minister of Armenia
• 1951 - Bun E. Carlos was born. American musician (Cheap Trick)
• 1951 - Brad Delp was born (d. 2007). American singer (Boston)
• 1952 - Pete Farndon was born (d. 1983). English musician (The Pretenders)
• 1952 - Spencer Abraham was born. Secretary of Energy under George W. Bush
• 1953 - Allan Weiner was born. American radio station owner
• 1954 - Canonización de Domingo Savio por el papa Pío XII.
• 1956 - Terry Alderman was born. Australian cricketer
• 1957 - Timothy Busfield was born. American actor
• 1957 - Javed Miandad was born. Pakistani cricketer and coach, Pakistan national cricket team
• 1957 - Jimmy Dorsey dies (b. 1904). American musician.
• 1958 - Rebecca Holden was born. American actress and singer
• 1959 - John Linnell was born. American musician (They Might Be Giants)
• 1962 - day/hi/dates/stories/june/12/newsid_4464000/4464939.stm"> Three escape from Alcatraz. three inmates convicted of bank robbery are missing from America's most notorious prison in California.
• 1962 - Julio Cesar Chavez was born. Mexican boxeur who was World Champion.
• 1962 - Paul Clark was born. English musician (The Bolshoi)
• 1962 - John Ireland dies (b. 1879). English composer.
• 1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot dead in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
• 1963 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
• 1963 - Jerry Lynn was born. American professional wrestler
• 1963 - Johnny Weiss was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1963 - Medgar Evers dies (b. 1925). American civil rights activist.
• 1964 - South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison.
• 1964 - Paula Marshall was born. American actress
• 1965 - Filip Topol was born. Czech musician and writer
• 1965 - Vicky Vette was born. Norwegian-born adult film actress
• 1966 - Hermann Scherchen dies (b. 1891). German conductor.
• 1967 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• 1967 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
• 1967 - Frances O'Connor was born. Australian actress
• 1968 - Scott Aldred was born. American baseball player
• 1968 - Bobby Sheehan was born (d. 1999). American musician (Blues Traveler).
• 1969 - Mathieu Schneider was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1969 - Alexander Deyneka dies (b. 1899). Ukrainian painter.
• 1971 - U.S. President Richard Nixon's daughter Patricia marries Edward Finch Cox in a White House Rose Garden ceremony.
• 1971 - Mark Henry was born. American professional wrestler
• 1971 - Ryan Klesko was born. American baseball player
• 1972 - Ludwig von Bertalanffy dies. Austrian biologist.
• 1973 - Victor Ikpeba was born. Nigerian footballer.
• 1973 - Takis Fyssas was born. Greek footballer
• 1973 - Darryl White was born. Australian rules footballer
• 1973 - Fyssas Panagiotis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1974 - Flávio da Conceição. Brazilian footballer.
• 1974 - Jason Mewes was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Hideki Matsui was born. Japanese baseball player
• 1975 - España: se inaugura en Barcelona la Fundació Miró.
• 1975 - day/hi/dates/stories/june/12/newsid_2511000/2511691.stm"> Gandhi found guilty of corruption : Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is barred from holding office for six years after she being found guilty of electoral corruption.
• 1976 - Thomas Sørensen was born. Danish footballer.
• 1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd was born. American blues-rock guitarist
• 1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
• 1978 - Guo Moruo dies (b. 1892). Chinese writer.
• 1979 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
• 1979 - Dallas Clark was born. American football player
• 1979 - Wil Horneff was born. American actor
• 1980 - Larry Foote was born. American football player
• 1980 - Patrícia Barros was born. Brazilian actress and model.
• 1980 - Milburn Stone dies. American actor
• 1980 - Masayoshi Ohira dies (b. 1910). Prime minister of Japan
• 1980 - Egon Sharpe Pearson dies (b. 11 Aug 1895). English mathematician.
• 1981 - Major League Baseball players begin a 49 day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
• 1981 - Adriana Lima was born. Brazilian supermodel
• 1982 - 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt are in attendance.
• 1982 - Ben Blackwell was born. American musician
• 1982 - Jason David was born. American football player
• 1982 - Marie Rambert dies. British ballet dancer and teacher.
• 1982 - Karl von Frisch dies (b. 1886). Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1983 - Josh Dies was born. American author and musician (Showbread)
• 1983 - Bryan Habana was born. South African rugby player
• 1983 - Christine Sinclair was born. Canadian soccer player
• 1983 - Norma Shearer dies (b. 1902). Canadian actress.
• 1985 - Portugal (represented by Mario Soares) and 8 hours later Spain sign treaty of adhesion to European Economic Comunity.
• 1985 - Tasha-Ray Evin was born. Canadian musician (Lillix)
• 1985 - Kendra Wilkinson was born. American Playboy bunny/Playmate
• 1985 - Chris Young was born. American musician
• 1985 - Marcela Paz (Esther Huneus de Claro) dies. Chilean writer.
• 1985 - Loo-Keng Hua dies in Tokyo (b. 12 Nov 1910 in Jintan, Jiangsu Province, China Mathematician.
• 1987 - The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
• 1987 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• 1987 - Predator opens in theaters, directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• 1988 - Rusty Wallace wins the last Nascar Winston Cup race at the Riverside International Raceway
• 1989 - Lou Monte dies (b. 1917). American singer.
• 1990 - Day" href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_Day">Russia Day – The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
• 1990 - Davíð Jóhannesson was born. Icelandic Film Maker
• 1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
• 1991 - Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win their first National Basketball Association championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.
• 1991 - A series of major explosions began inside Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in western Luzon, Philippines - its first eruption in 600 years.
• 1993 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the first annual of their live concert Weenie Roat with Terence Trent D'Arby, Dramarama, Gin Blossoms, The Lemonheads, The London Suede, The Posies, Rocket From the Crypt, Bettie Serveert, Stone Temple Pilots, The The and X.
• 1993 - Presidencial elections in Nigeria. Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (popularly known and called M. K. O.), an international businessman and politician, who was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party overwhelmingly defeated rival Alhaji Bashir Tofa, candidate of the National Republican Convention. After most of the results were announced, the election was annulled by military president Ibrahim Babangida
• 1994 - German districts Röbel and Waren are merged to form Müritz
• 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
• 1994 - At the Tony Awards, "Angels in America: Perestroika" won best play while "Passion" won best musical.
• 1994 - Ronald Goldman dies murdered (b. 1969). American actor and model.
• 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson dies murdered (b. 1959). American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson
• 1994 - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson dies (b. 1902). Lubavitcher Rebbe.
• 1994 - Christopher Collins dies (b. 1949). American actor and comedian.
• 1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli dies (b. 1920). Italian pianist
• 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
• 1996 - Ilona Ference dies at 78. Actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night).
• 1997 - Interleague play begins in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.
• 1997 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
• 1997 - Mary Robinson, Pres. of Ireland, was named the top human rights official for the United Nations.
• 1997 - Bulat Okudzhava dies (b. 1924). Russian writer and musician.
• 1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.
• 1998 - The Philippines celebrates its centennial year of Independence from Spain.
• 1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins - NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enter the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 2000 - Luis Figo scores one of the greatest goals of all time against England at the UEFA European Championship. Portugal won 3-2 after have being to lose 0-2
• 2000 - Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
• 2000 - Hafez-Al-Assad dies. King of Syria. ´
• 2000 - P.L.Deshpande dies (b. 1919). Marathi Writer.
• 2002 - Bill Blass dies (b. 1922). American fashion designer.
• 2003 - Gregory Peck dies (b. 1916). American actor.
• 2003 - Itamar Assumpção dies (b. 13 Sep 1949). Brazilian musician, poet and composer.
• 2004 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the twelfth annual of their live concert Weenie Roast with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.
• 2004 - A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite struck a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
• 2004 - Portugal Euro 2004 begins with Open Cerimony in Dragão's Stadium (Porto). Portugal lost in front Greece (1-2). Portugal reached the final against Greece and lost again (0-1). Começa em Portugal o Campeonato Europeu de Futebol
• 2006 - György Ligeti dies (b. 1923). Hungarian composer
• 2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet dies (b. 1923). Canadian businessman and art collector.
• Roman Empire - sixth day of the Nothingandall
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  A pianista Maria João Pires é a vencedora da terce...

  A pianista Maria João Pires é a vencedora da terceira edição do Prémio Eduardo Lourenço, no valor de 10 mil euros, atribuído pelo Centro de Estudos Ibéricos (CEI), sedeado na Guarda.
  A decisão foi anunciada esta sexta-feira por António Avelãs Nunes, vice-reitor da Universidade de Coimbra, no final de uma reunião do júri realizada na Câmara Municipal da Guarda. (no diário digital)

  
  

  

  
  

  traduções - love will tear us apart (ian curtis, joy division)
  Quando a penosa rotina magoa, / e frágeis são as ambições, / e o ressentimento alto voa, / mas não crescerão as emoções. / E estamos a mudar os nossos caminhos, seguindo por estradas diferentes. // Então o amor, o amor afastar-nos-á de novo. // Por que está o quarto tão frio? / Voltaste-te para teu lado do leito. / Não intervim em tempo digno? / Expirou o nosso mútuo respeito. / Porém ainda resiste esta atracção que sobreviveu às nossas vidas. // Mas o amor, o amor afastar-nos-á de novo. // Choras durante o teu sono, / expõem-se todos os meus fracassos. / Na minha boca forma-se um gosto, / sempre que o desespero aperta o laço. / E como algo tão bom deixou de poder continuar. // Enquanto o amor, o amor afastar-nos-á de novo. (andré moura e cunha)

  
  

  Quando a rotina morde e a ambição se esfuma / o ressentimento domina e a emoção se muda / e mudamos os nossos modos em diferentes caminhos / o amor / o amor é que nos desfaz // A cama está fria pois escolheste o outro lado / o meu tempo desfeito e o respeito deslaçado / mas há sempre este mote que nos guiou toda a vida / o amor / o amor é que nos desfaz // Choras enquanto dormes e expões o meu fracaso / deixas-me um gosto na boca de desespero e cansaço / uma coisa tão feliz que agora se desfez / o amor / o amor é que nos desfaz (pedro mexia)

  
  
  

  In Berlin, by the wall / You were five foot ten inches tall / It was very nice / Candlelight and Dubonnet on ice // We were in a small café / You could hear the guitars play / It was very nice / It was paradise // You're right and I'm wrong / Hey babe, I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone / One sweet day // Oh, you're right and I'm wrong / You know I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone / One sweet day / … Don't forget, hire the vet / He hasn't had much fun yet / It was very nice / Hey honey, it was paradise // You're right and I'm wrong / Hey babe, I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone / One sweet day …

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