The List (events)

When I started on this collecting topic, my first thought was that it should include any stamp, cover or related item that was released or shows a cancellation on March 4 of any year.  Then I thought it should also include materials that relate to events that occurred on that anniversary date as well.  So, here is The List of subjects that I consider within this collecting topic, sorted by year.

This list, which is nowhere near complete despite its length, includes text copied from the Wikipedia entry for March 4. Although I would love to just pore over history books and stamp catalogs to find more data to include here, I just don't have the time to look for and categorize everything that should be included in this topic. So I've enabled comments on this page as a place for you to leave notes on stamp issues that would be appropriate or subjects that should be included here.


51

251

303

480

561

852

  • 852 – Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.

932

1152

1172

1188

1193

  • 1193 – Saladin, Kurdish sultan, dies (b. 1137).

1215

1238

1303

  • 1303 – Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy, dies (b. 1261).

1351

1386

1394

1461

1484

1492

1493

  • 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.

1496

1519

  • 1519 – Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.

1525

1540

  • 1540 – Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries his 2nd wife.

1570

1583

  • 1583 – Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North," dies (b. 1517).

1590

  • 1590 – Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda.

1602

1604

1610

  • 1610 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter, is born (d. 1646).

1611

1615

1619

1621

  • 1621 – Jakarta, Java, is renamed Batavia.

1629

1634

  • 1634 – Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts.

1651

1665

1675

1678

1681

  • 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

1699

  • 1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany.

1702

  • 1702 – Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee, is born (d. 1724).

1706

  • 1706 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer, is born (d. 1759).

1710

1715

1719

1729

1733

1741

  • 1741 – English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena.

1744

  • 1744 – John Anstis, Garter King of Arms, dies (b. 1669).

1745

1747

  • 1747 – Casimir Pulaski, a hero of the American Revolution, was born in Poland.

1751

  • 1751 – The first silk factory in America opens in Savannah, Georgia.

1754

  • 1754 – Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician and scientist who pioneered smallpox vaccination, is born (d. 1846).

1756

1762

  • 1762 – Johannes Zick, German fresco painter, dies (b. 1702).
  • 1762 – The Georgia Colonial General Assembly passes a law requiring attendance at church on Sunday and prohibiting travel on Sunday except to/from church and a few other instances.

1766

  • 1766 – The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.

1770

  • 1770 – Joseph Jacotot, French teacher and educational philosopher, is born (d. 1840).

1774

  • 1774 – 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel).

1776

  • 1776 – The American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.

1778

1781

  • 1781 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist, is born (d. 1869).

1782

1789

  • 1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.

1790

  • 1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
  • 1790 – David "Robber" Lewis, American robber known for giving stolen money to the poor, is born (d. 1820).

1791

  • 1791 – Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
  • 1791 – A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
  • 1791 – 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office.
  • 1791 – President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session.

1792

  • 1792 – Samuel Slocum, American inventor, is born (d. 1861).
  • 1792 – Oranges are introduced to Hawaii.

1793

  • 1793 – Louis de Bourbon, French admiral, dies (b. 1725).
  • 1793 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist, is born (d. 1851).
  • 1793 – French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
  • 1793 – George Washington is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States; he delivers the shortest inauguration speech (133 words).

1794

  • 1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.

1795

  • 1795 – John Collins, American politician, dies (b. 1717).

1797

  • 1797 – In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as the 2nd President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.

1798

  • 1798 – Catholic women are forced to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews.

1801

  • 1801 – Thomas Jefferson is sworn in as the 3rd President of the United States.

1804

  • 1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.

1805

1807

1809

  • 1809 – James Madison is sworn in as the 4th President of the United States. He is the first president sworn in while wearing American-made clothing.

1813

  • 1813 – Russian troops fighting the army of Napoleon reach Berlin in Germany and the French garrison evacuates the city without a fight.

1814

  • 1814 – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario, and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.

1817

  • 1817 – Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman and the 34th United States Attorney General, is born (d. 1892).
  • 1817 – James Monroe is sworn in as the 5th President of the United States.
  • 1817 – William Rabun, president of the Georgia (U.S.) Senate, assumes the office of Governer of Georgia.

1819

1820

1821

1822

1823

  • 1823 – George Caron, Canadian businessman and politician, is born (d. 1902).
  • 1823 – Sir William Siemens, German-born English engineer and inventor, is born (d. 1883).

1824

  • 1824 – The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" is founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.

1825

  • 1825 – John Quincy Adams is sworn in as the 6th President of the United States.

1826

  • 1826 – Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer, is born (d. 1863).
  • 1826 – John Buford, American Civil War Union cavalry officer, is born (d. 1863).
  • 1826 – Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher, is born (d. 1887).
  • 1826 – 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachusetts.

1828

  • 1828 – Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), Welsh clergyman and author, is born (d. 1870).

1829

  • 1829 – Andrew Jackson is sworn in as the 7th President of the United States.
  • 1829 – Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball.

1830 (Thursday)

  • 1830 – V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice.

1831 (Friday)

1832 (Sunday)

1833 (Monday)

1834 (Tuesday)

1835 (Wednesday)

  • 1835 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist, is born (d. 1911).
  • 1835 – HMS Beagle moves into the Bay of Concepcion.

1836 (Friday)

1837 (Saturday)

  • 1837 – Chicago is incorporated as a city.
  • 1837 – Martin Van Buren is sworn in as the 8th President of the United States.
  • 1837 – Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American.

1838 (Sunday)

  • 1838 – Paul Lacome, French composer, is born (d. 1920).

1839 (Monday)

1840 (Wednesday)

  • 1840 – The world's first commercial photography studio is opened in New York City by John Johnson and Alexander S. Wolcott.

1841 (Thursday)

  • 1841 – William Henry Harrison is sworn in as the 9th President of the United States. He delivers the longest inauguration speech (8,443 words).
  • 1841 – Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London.

1842 (Friday)

1843 (Saturday)

1844 (Monday)

1845 (Tuesday)

  • 1845 – James K. Polk is sworn in as the 11th President of the United States.

1846 (Wednesday)

1847 (Thursday)

  • 1847 – Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist, is born (d. 1904).

1848 (Saturday)

1849 (Sunday)

  • 1849 – U.S. had no president, Polk's term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (President pro tem) is acting President from noon on March 4 until noon on March 5 for Taylor's inauguration.

1850 (Monday)

1851 (Tuesday)

1852 (Thursday)

1853 (Friday)

  • 1853 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist, dies (b. 1774).
  • 1853 – Franklin Pierce is sworn in as the 14th President of the United States.
  • 1853 – William Rufus de Vane King (D) is sworn in as 13th U.S. Vice President.
  • 1853 – Pope Pius IX recovers the Catholic hierarchy in the Netherlands.
  • 1853 – The Kenosha & Beloit Railroad is chartered to connect its namesake cities in Wisconsin.
  • 1853 – The Wisconsin Central Railway is chartered.

1854 (Saturday)

  • 1854 – Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist, is born (d. 1945).

1855 (Sunday)

1856 (Tuesday)

  • 1856 – Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author, is born (d. 1877).
  • 1856 – Alfred William Rich, English painter, is born (d. 1921).
  • 1856 – Georgia Governor Herschel Johnson approves legislation authorizing the Governor to call a statewide convention if the U.S. Congress would enact any law regulating or barring slavery.

1857 (Wednesday)

  • 1857 – James Buchanan is sworn in as the 15th President of the United States.

1858 (Thursday)

1859 (Friday)

1860 (Sunday)

1861 (Monday)

  • 1861 – First national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
  • 1861 – Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as the 16th President of the United States.
  • 1861 – President Lincoln opens the Government Printing Office.

1862 (Tuesday)

1863 (Wednesday)

  • 1863 – The Idaho Territory is created as a political division of the United States.
  • 1863 – Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist, is born (d. 1947).
  • 1863 – John Henry Wigmore, American jurist, is born (d. 1943).
  • 1863 – Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee.

1864 (Friday)

  • 1864 – Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War, dies (b. 1824).
  • 1864 – David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect, is born (d. 1940).

1865 (Saturday)

  • 1865 – The third (and last) national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
  • 1865 – Abraham Lincoln is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States.

1866 (Sunday)

  • 1866 – Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer, is born (d. 1931).
  • 1866 – Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ, dies (b. 1788).

1867 (Monday)

1868 (Wednesday)

  • 1868 – Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail, dies (b. 1805).

1869 (Thursday)

  • 1869 – Ulysses S. Grant is sworn in as the 18th President of the United States.

1870 (Friday)

1871 (Saturday)

1872 (Monday)

1873 (Tuesday)

1874 (Wednesday)

1875 (Thursday)

  • 1875 – Mihály Károlyi, former Prime Minister and President of Hungary, is born (d. 1955).

1876 (Saturday)

  • 1876 – Theodore Hardeen, Founder of the Magician's Guild, is born (d. 1945).
  • 1876 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet, is born (d. 1947).
  • 1876 – U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap.

1877 (Sunday)

  • 1877 – Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
  • 1877 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor, is born (d. 1963).
  • 1877 – Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist, is born (d. 1934).
  • 1877 – Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer, is born (d. 1957).
  • 1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th President of the United States.
  • 1877 – Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow.
  • 1877 – Emile Berliner invents the microphone.

1878 (Monday)

1879 (Tuesday)

1880 (Thursday)

  • 1880 – Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic, is born (d. 1946).
  • 1880 – New York Daily Graphic publishes the 1st half-tone engraving, by S. H. Horgan.

1881 (Friday)

  • 1881 – Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary, is born (d. 1924).
  • 1881 – Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer, is born (d. 1965).
  • 1881 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist, is born (d. 1948).
  • 1881 – Maude Fealy, American actress, is born (d. 1971).
  • 1881 – James A. Garfield is sworn in as the 20th President of the United States.
  • 1881 – Eliza Ballou Garfield becomes the first mother of a United States President to live in the executive mansion.
  • 1881 – California becomes the 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation.
  • 1881 – Holmes and Watson (fiction) begin "A Study in Scarlet," their first case together.
  • 1881 – South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire.

1882 (Saturday)

  • 1882 – Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, is born (d. 1941).
  • 1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.

1883 (Sunday)

  • 1883 – Sam Langford, Canadian boxer, is born (d. 1956).
  • 1883 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America, dies while in office as Governor of Georgia (b. 1812).
  • 1883 – John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi.

1884 (Tuesday)

  • 1884 – Red Murray, American baseball player, is born (d. 1958).

1885 (Wednesday)

  • 1885 – Grover Cleveland is sworn in as the 22nd President of the United States.
  • 1885 – Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London.

1886 (Thursday)

  • 1886 – Paul Bazelaire, French cellist, is born (d. 1958).
  • 1886 - The National League meets and adopts the stolen base and the four foot by seven foot pitcher's box, but the NL retains seven balls for a walk and rejects the American Association rule giving a batter first base on a hit by a pitch.

1887 (Friday)

1888 (Sunday)

  • 1888 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress, is born (d. 1942).
  • 1888 – Knute Rockne, American football player and coach, is born (d. 1931).
  • 1888 – Jeff Pfeffer, American baseball player, is born (d. 1972).
  • 1888 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher, dies (b. 1799).

1889 (Monday)

  • 1889 – Robert William Wood, American landscape artist, is born (d. 1979).
  • 1889 – Pearl White, American actress, is born (d. 1938).
  • 1889 – Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician, is born (d. 1967).
  • 1889 – Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii and United States Senator from Hawaii, is born (d. 1965).
  • 1889 – Jean-Gabriel Domergue, French painter, is born (d. 1962).
  • 1889 – Benjamin Harrison is sworn in as the 23rd President of the United States.

1890 (Tuesday)

  • 1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales (who later becomes King Edward VII).

1891 (Wednesday)

  • 1891 – Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon, is born (d. 1988).
  • 1891 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player, is born (d. 1961).

1892 (Friday)

1893 (Saturday)

  • 1893 – Charles Herbert Colvin, American aeronautical engineer, is born (d. 1985).
  • 1893 – Adolph Lowe (born Adolf Löwe), German sociologist and economist, is born (d. 1995).
  • 1893 – Grover Cleveland is sworn in as the 24th President of the United States.
  • 1893 – Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe.

1894 (Sunday)

  • 1894 – Great fire in Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.

1895 (Monday)

  • 1895 – Shemp Howard, American comedian, is born (d. 1955).
  • 1895 – Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator, is born (d. 1953).
  • 1895 – Jesse Baker, American baseball player, is born (d. 1976).
  • 1895 – Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin.

1896 (Wednesday)

  • 1896 – Kai Holm, Danish film actor, is born (d. 1985).

1897 (Thursday)

  • 1897 – Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player, is born (d. 1969).
  • 1897 – William McKinley is sworn in as the 25th President of the United States.

1898 (Friday)

  • 1898 – Hans Krebs, German general of infantry, is born (d. 1945).
  • 1898 – Georges Dumézil, French philologist, is born (d. 1986).

1899 (Sunday)

  • 1899 – Liana Del Balzo, Italian film actress, is born (d. 1982).
  • 1899 – Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor, is born (d. 1962).
  • 1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metre (39 ft) high wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.

1900 (Sunday)

1901 (Monday)

  • 1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist, is born (d. 1986).
  • 1901 – Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet, is born (d. 1937).
  • 1901 – Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer, is born (d. 1991).
  • 1901 – The first advanced copy of a U.S. Presidential inaugural speech (Jefferson-National Intelligencer) is published.
  • 1901 – William McKinley is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States.
  • 1901 – The term of George H. White, the last of the post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends.

1902 (Tuesday)

  • 1902 – Russell Reeder, United States Army officer and author, is born (d. 1998).
  • 1902 – The American Automobile Association is established.
  • 1902 – Fred Mallin, English boxer, is born (d. 1987).

1903 (Wednesday)

1904 (Friday)

  • 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese soldiers.
  • 1904 – Luis Carrero-Blanco, Spanish admiral and 1st Duke of Carrero-Blanco Grandee of Spain, is born (d. 1973).
  • 1904 – Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor, is born (d. 1942).
  • 1904 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist, is born (d. 1968).
  • 1904 – Chief Tahachee, American actor, is born (d. 1978).

1905 (Saturday)

  • 1905 – Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin.

1906 (Sunday)

1907 (Monday)

1908 (Wednesday)

  • 1908 – Thomas Shaw, American musician, is born (d. 1977).
  • 1908 – The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
  • 1908 – T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader, is born (d. 1976).
  • 1908 – The New York board of education bans whipping as a form of punishment in schools within the state.
  • 1908 – France notified signatories of Algeciras that it would send troops to Chaouia, Morocco.

1909 (Thursday)

  • 1909 – William Taft is sworn in as the 27th President of the United States.
  • 1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • 1909 – Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur, is born (d. 1997).
  • 1909 – George Edward Holbrook, American chemical engineer, is born (d. 1987).
  • 1909 – U.S. prohibits interstate transportation of game birds.

1910 (Friday)

1911 (Saturday)

  • 1911 – Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in the U.S.
  • 1911 – Appropriation of first funds for experiments in U.S. naval aviation.

1912 (Monday)

1913 (Tuesday)

  • 1913 – Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer, is born (d. 1976).
  • 1913 – John H. Fremlin, English nuclear physicist, is born (d. 1995).
  • 1913 – John Garfield, American actor, is born (d. 1952).
  • 1913 – Woodrow Wilson is sworn in as the 28th President of the United States.
  • 1913 – The New York Yankees become the first major league team to conduct spring training outside of the United States, when they begin the spring in Bermuda.
  • 1913 – 1st U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed.
  • 1913 – The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments.
  • 1913 – Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo.

1914 (Wednesday)

  • 1914 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist, is born (d. 2002).
  • 1914 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect, is born (d. 2000).
  • 1914 – Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer, is born (d. 1991).
  • 1914 – Allan Beckett, English engineer who designed the Mulberry Harbours, is born (d. 2005).

1915 (Thursday)

1916 (Saturday)

  • 1916 – William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director, is born (d. 1997).
  • 1916 – Michael Howard, British actor and comedian, is born (d. 1988).
  • 1916 – Maurice Argent, American actor, is born (d. 1981).
  • 1916 – Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist, is born (d. 1997).
  • 1916 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer, is born (d. 2000).
  • 1916 – Franz Marc, German artist, dies (b. 1880).

1917 (Sunday)

1918 (Monday)

  • 1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
  • 1918 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player, is born.
  • 1918 – The Terek Autonomous Republic is established in RSFSR (until 1921).

1919 (Tuesday)

  • 1919 – Tan Chee Khoon, Malaysian politician, is born (d. 1996).
  • 1919 – Buck Baker, American racecar driver, is born (d. 2002).
  • 1919 – The New York Giants sell Slim Sallee to the Cincinnati Reds.

1920 (Thursday)

1921 (Friday)

  • 1921 – Joan Greenwood, English actress, is born (d. 1987).
  • 1921 – Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer, is born.
  • 1921 – Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player, is born (d. 1986).
  • 1921 – Warren G. Harding is sworn in as the 29th President of the United States.
  • 1921 – The Boston Red Sox trade Harry Hooper to the Chicago White Sox for Nemo Leibold and Shano Collins.
  • 1921 – Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas.

1922 (Saturday)

  • 1922 – Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director, is born (d. 2005).
  • 1922 – Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress, is born (d. 1998).
  • 1922 – Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre and film actress, is born (d. 2002).
  • 1922 – Bert Williams, American entertainer, dies (b. 1874).

1923 (Sunday)

  • 1923 – Willie Johnson, American guitarist, is born (d. 1995).
  • 1923 – Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer, is born.
  • 1923 – Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy).

1924 (Tuesday)

  • 1924 – Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to US President John F. Kennedy, is born (d. 1977).
  • 1924 – "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny.

1925 (Wednesday)

  • 1925 – Paul Mauriat, French musician, is born (d. 2006).
  • 1925 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer, dies (b. 1854).
  • 1925 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player, dies (b. 1860).
  • 1925 – James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher, dies (b. 1843).
  • 1925 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
  • 1925 – Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by U.S.
  • 1925 – Congress authorizes restoration of USS Constitution.

1926 (Thursday)

  • 1926 – Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway, is born.
  • 1926 – Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer, is born (d. 1977).
  • 1926 – James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri, is born (d. 2000).
  • 1926 – Fran Warren, American singer, is born.
  • 1926 – Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger, is born.
  • 1926 – The De Geer government in Netherlands takes office.

1927 (Friday)

1928 (Sunday)

  • 1928 – Samuel Adler, American composer, is born.
  • 1928 – Alan Sillitoe, English writer, is born (d. 2010).
  • 1928 – The "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne.

1929 (Monday)

1930 (Tuesday)

  • 1930 – Floods hit Languedoc and the surrounding area in south-west France, resulting in twelve départements being submerged and causing the death of over 700 people.
  • 1930 – The Coolidge Dam in Arizona is dedicated.
  • 1930 – Emma Fahning bowls the first sanctioned 300 game by a woman.

1931 (Wednesday)

  • 1931 – William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop, is born.
  • 1931 – Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host, is born (d. 1997).
  • 1931 – The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
  • 1931 – Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach, is born (d. 1991).
  • 1931 – Alice Rivlin, American economist, is born.
  • 1931 – Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test.
  • 1931 – West Indies beats Australia for the first time, by 30 runs at SCG.

1932 (Friday)

1933 (Saturday)

  • 1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
  • 1933 – Nino Vaccarella, Italian racing driver, is born.
  • 1933 – John W Mills, British sculptor, is born.
  • 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
  • 1933 – Ann Burton, Dutch jazz singer, is born (d. 1989).
  • 1933 – Franklin Roosevelt is sworn in as the 32nd President of the United States.
  • 1933 – Henderson, DeSylva and Brown's "Strike Me Pink," premieres in New York City.
  • 1933 – The Noordwijk soccer team forms.

1934 (Sunday)

  • 1934 – Sandra Reynolds, South African tennis player, is born.
  • 1934 – Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer, is born.
  • 1934 – John Duffey, American bluegrass musician, is born (d. 1996).
  • 1934 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist, is born.
  • 1934 – Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident, is born.
  • 1934 – Barbara McNair, American singer and actress, is born (d. 2007).
  • 1934 – Anne Haney, American actress, is born (d. 2001).
  • 1934 – The Easter Cross on Mount Davidson (SF) is dedicated.

1935 (Monday)

  • 1935 – Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer, is born (d. 2003).
  • 1935 – Edward Dębicki, Polish Romani poet, musician and composer, is born.
  • 1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player, is born.
  • 1935 – Babe Ruth reports for spring training in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the newest member of the Boston Braves.

1936 (Wednesday)

  • 1936 – Robert Garrow, American serial killer, is born (d. 1978).
  • 1936 – Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish racing driver, is born (d. 1968).
  • 1936 – Eric Allendale, West Indian trombonist and songwriter, is born (d. 2001).
  • 1936 – Aribert Reimann, German composer, is born.
  • 1936 – 1st flight of airship Hindenburg in Germany.

1937 (Thursday)

  • 1937 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian medical doctor, explorer and TV anchorman, is born (d. 2003).
  • 1937 – Richard B. Wright, Canadian novelist, is born.
  • 1937 – Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor, is born.
  • 1937 – Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer, is born.
  • 1937 – Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist, is born (d. 1996).

1938 (Friday)

1939 (Saturday)

1940 (Monday)

1941 (Tuesday)

  • 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
  • 1941 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, dies (b. 1858).
  • 1941 – Linda Obermoeller, American painter, is born.
  • 1941 – John Aprea, American actor, is born.
  • 1941 – James Zagel, United States district judge and novelist, is born.
  • 1941 – Bobby Shew, American jazz musician, is born.
  • 1941 – Adrian Lyne, English film director, is born.
  • 1941 – Grace Comiskey, widow of J. Louis Comiskey, is elected president of the Chicago White Sox.
  • 1941 – 18 Geuzen resistance fighters are sentenced to death in The Hague.
  • 1941 – NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots.
  • 1941 – Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler.

1942 (Wednesday)

  • 1942 – Zorán Sztevanovity, Serbian born Hungarian musician, singer and composer, is born.
  • 1942 – Lynn Sherr, American broadcast journalist and author, is born.
  • 1942 – Ji-Tu Cumbuka, American stage and screen actor, is born.
  • 1942 – James Speth, American environmental lawyer and advocate, is born.
  • 1942 – Henk van der Kroon, Dutch founder and president of the Federation of European Carnival Cities, is born.
  • 1942 – Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter, is born.
  • 1942 – David Matthews, American keyboardist, is born.
  • 1942 – Charles C. Krulak, American general and the 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, is born.
  • 1942 – "Junior Miss" starring Shirley Temple is aired on CBS radio for the first time.
  • 1942 – The Stage Door Canteen opens on West 44th Street in New York City.

1943 (Thursday)

  • 1943 – Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer, is born.
  • 1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
  • 1943 – Malcolm Barber, English scholar of medieval history, is born.
  • 1943 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter, is born.
  • 1943 – Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor.

1944 (Saturday)

  • 1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
  • 1944 – Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter, is born (d. 2003).
  • 1944 – René Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance, dies (b. 1879).
  • 1944 – Michael "Mick" Wilson, drummer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), is born.
  • 1944 – Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure, is executed (b. 1896).
  • 1944 – Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster, is executed (b. 1897).
  • 1944 – Len Walker, English footballer and manager, is born.
  • 1944 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English automotive engineer, is born (d. 1999).
  • 1944 – Greg Weld, American racecar driver, is born (d. 2008).
  • 1944 – Glen Baxter, English cartoonist, is born.
  • 1944 – Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist, dies (b. 1855).
  • 1944 – Emanuel Weiss, American hitman, is executed (b. 1906).
  • 1944 – Bobby Womack, American singer, is born.
  • 1944 – Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Japanese-American particle physicist, is born.
  • 1944 – The Philadelphia Phillies announce their new nickname, the Blue Jays.
  • 1944 – World War II: 1st U.S. bombing of Berlin.
  • 1944 – World War II: Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy.
  • 1944 – Alexander Stanley Elmore, British technologist, dies (b. 1867).

1945 (Sunday)

  • 1945 – Tony Allen, English comedian and writer, is born.
  • 1945 – Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager, is born.
  • 1945 – Tim Weigel, American broadcaster, is born (d. 2001).
  • 1945 – Tara Browne, British socialite, is born (d. 1966).
  • 1945 – Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer, dies (b. 1900).
  • 1945 – Lucille La Verne, American actress, dies (b. 1872).
  • 1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
  • 1945 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service as a driver.
  • 1945 – Greg Craig, Washington-based lawyer and current (as of 2010) White House Counsel to President Barack Obama, is born.
  • 1945 – Gary Williams, American basketball coach, is born.
  • 1945 – Frank Novak, American actor, is born.
  • 1945 – Femi Benussi, Italian film actress, is born.
  • 1945 – Dieter Meier, Swiss singer, is born.

1946 (Monday)

1947 (Tuesday)

  • 1947 – Pēteris Plakidis, Latvian composer and pianist, is born.
  • 1947 – Mike Sheahan, Australian journalist and sports television personality, is born.
  • 1947 – John Hinch, English Professor of fluid dynamics, Cambridge University, is born.
  • 1947 – Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician, is born.
  • 1947 – Gwen Welles, American actress, is born (d. 1993).
  • 1947 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor, is born.
  • 1947 – Greg Guma, American progressive journalist and author, is born.
  • 1947 – David Franzoni, American screenwriter, is born.
  • 1947 – Bob Lewis, American musician, is born.
  • 1947 – Aura Lewis, South African singer, is born.
  • 1947 – WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting.
  • 1947 – France and Britain sign an alliance treaty.
  • 1947 – Operation Highjump, air operations in Antarctica, ends.

1948 (Thursday)

  • 1948 – Tom Grieve, American baseball player, is born.
  • 1948 – Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer, is born.
  • 1948 – Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author, is born.
  • 1948 – Leron Lee, American baseball player, is born.
  • 1948 – Jean O'Leary, American activist and politician, is born (d. 2005).
  • 1948 – James Ellroy, American writer, is born.
  • 1948 – Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes), is born.
  • 1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor/director, dies (b. 1896).
  • 1948 – Stan Musial ends his holdout with the St. Louis Cardinals and signs a one-year contract for $31,000.

1949 (Friday)

  • 1949 – Tomislav Trifić, Serbian graphic artist, is born.
  • 1949 – Sergei Bagapsh, President of the partially recognized de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia, is born.
  • 1949 – Cookie Mueller, American actress and writer, is born (d. 1989).
  • 1949 – Clarence Kingsbury British track cyclist, dies (b. 1882).
  • 1949 – Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter, is born.
  • 1949 – Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister.
  • 1949 – Piet Van de Pol (Netherlands) becomes the world champion billiard player.
  • 1949 – The Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel.
  • 1949 – Shing-Tung Yau, Chinese-born American mathematician, is born.

1950 (Saturday)

  • 1950 – Safet Plakalo, Bosnian playwright, is born.
  • 1950 – Rick Perry, 47th Governor of Texas, is born.
  • 1950 – Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter, is born.
  • 1950 – Francis Affleck, Canadian race car driver, is born (d. 1985).
  • 1950 – Barrie Cassidy, Australian political journalist, is born.
  • 1950 – Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant, dies (b. 1899).
  • 1950 – Disney releases the animated film "Cinderella."

1951 (Sunday)

1952 (Tuesday)

  • 1952 – Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer, is born.
  • 1952 – Svend Robinson, Canadian politician, is born.
  • 1952 – Ronn Moss, American actor, is born.
  • 1952 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist and Nobel laureate, dies (b. 1857).
  • 1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman dedicates the "Courier," the first seagoing radio broadcasting station.
  • 1952 – Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis are married.

1953 (Wednesday)

1954 (Thursday)

  • 1954 – Yvan Lachaud, French politician, is born.
  • 1954 – Willie Thorne, English snooker player, is born.
  • 1954 – Timur Apakidze, Russian major general and Hero of the Russian Federation, is born (d. 2001).
  • 1954 – St Clair L. Palmer, vocalist (Sweet Sensation), is born.
  • 1954 – Ricky Ford, American jazz tenor saxophonist, is born.
  • 1954 – Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer, is born.
  • 1954 – Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
  • 1954 – Noel Gay, English composer, dies (b. 1898).
  • 1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor, is born (d. 2005).
  • 1954 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident, is born.
  • 1954 – François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France, is born.
  • 1954 – Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress, is born.
  • 1954 – Adrian Zmed, American actor, is born.
  • 1954 – J. E. Wilkins is appointed as the first Black U.S. sub-cabinet member.

1955 (Friday)

  • 1955 – Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42), is born.
  • 1955 – Joey Jones, Welsh professional footballer, is born.
  • 1955 – James Weaver, English race car driver, is born.
  • 1955 – Dominique Pinon, French actor, is born.
  • 1955 – 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent.

1956 (Sunday)

1957 (Monday)

  • 1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
  • 1957 – Ron Fassler, American film and television actor, is born.
  • 1957 – Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver, is born.
  • 1957 – Nicholas Coleridge, British entrepreneur, is born.
  • 1957 – Jim Dwyer, American journalist, is born.
  • 1957 – Evarts Graham, American surgeon who performed the first operation to remove a lung as a treatment for lung cancer, dies (b. 1883).

1958 (Tuesday)

1959 (Wednesday)

  • 1959 – Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter, is born.
  • 1959 – Maxey Long, American athlete, dies (b. 1878).
  • 1959 – U.S. Pioneer IV misses the Moon and becomes the second (U.S. 1st) artificial planet.
  • 1959 – The first Grammy Awards are held in New York; winners include "Tequila" for best R&B song, "Volare" by Domenico Modugno for Record of the Year and the Peter Gunn soundtrack for Album of the Year.

1960 (Friday)

  • 1960 – Thierry Pastor, French singer, is born.
  • 1960 – Mykelti Williamson, American actor, is born.
  • 1960 – Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter, is born.
  • 1960 – Leonard Warren, American baritone, dies (b. 1911).
  • 1960 – John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer, is born.
  • 1960 – Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the U.S. State of Maryland, dies (b. 1896).
  • 1960 – The French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
  • 1960 – Christina Sussiek, German athlete, is born.
  • 1960 – Lucille Ball files for divorce from Desi Arnaz.

1961 (Saturday)

1962 (Sunday)

  • 1962 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation.
  • 1962 – Simon Bisley, British comic artist, is born.
  • 1962 – Paul Canoville, English former professional footballer, is born.
  • 1962 – Mikko Nissinen, Finnish ballet dancer, is born.
  • 1962 – Jon Durno, bassist (Roman Holliday), is born.
  • 1962 – Greg Kragen, American footballer, is born.
  • 1962 – George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher, dies (b. 1889).
  • 1962 – David Sparrow, English actor, is born.

1963 (Monday)

  • 1963 – William Carlos Williams, American poet, dies (b. 1883).
  • 1963 – Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica, Voivod), is born.
  • 1963 – Janey Lee Grace, English singer and disc jockey, is born.
  • 1963 – Daniel Roebuck, American actor, is born.
  • 1963 – Barbara Bubula, Polish politician, is born.
  • 1963 – Alexei Kyrilloff, Russian artist, is born.
  • 1963 – Édouard Belin, French engineer, dies (b. 1876).
  • 1963 – Six people receive a death sentence in Paris for plotting to kill French President Charles de Gaulle.
  • 1963 – U.S. Navy Hercules aircraft completes a 12-day rescue operation of a critically ill Danish seaman from a Danish freighter off the coast of the Antarctic.

1964 (Wednesday)

  • 1964 – Tom Lampkin, American baseball player, is born.
  • 1964 – Paul Bostaph, American drummer (Testament, Slayer, Exodus, Forbidden), is born.
  • 1964 – Paolo Virzì, Italian screenwriter and director, is born.
  • 1964 – Karen Knowles, Australian singer and entertainer, is born.
  • 1964 – Cheryl Fergison, British actress, is born.
  • 1964 – Brian Crowley, Irish politician, is born.
  • 1964 – Jimmy Hoffa is convicted of jury tampering.

1965 (Thursday)

1966 (Friday)

  • 1966 – Wash West, English gay porn film director, is born.
  • 1966 – Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor, is born.
  • 1966 – Patrick Hannan, drummer (The Sundays), is born.
  • 1966 – Fiona Ma, California State Assembly Majority Whip and San Francisco politician, is born.
  • 1966 – Nick Scandone, American paralympian yachtsman, is born (d. 2009).
  • 1966 – Mike Small American professional golfer, is born.
  • 1966 – Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and Mayor of Sacramento, California, is born.
  • 1966 – Grand Puba, American rapper, is born.
  • 1966 – Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater, is born.
  • 1966 – Dav Pilkey, American author, is born.
  • 1966 – Daniela Amavia, American actress and model, is born.
  • 1966 – Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
  • 1966 – John Lennon, says "We [the Beatles] are more popular than Jesus."
  • 1966 – North Sea Gas is first pumped ashore by British Petroleum.

1967 (Saturday)

  • 1967 – Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer, dies (b. 1905).
  • 1967 – Tim Vine, English actor and comedian, is born.
  • 1967 – Sam Taylor-Wood, English conceptual artist, is born.
  • 1967 – Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician, dies (b. 1885).
  • 1967 – Kubilay Türkyılmaz, former Turkish-Swiss footballer, is born.
  • 1967 – Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads), is born.
  • 1967 – Dave Rayner, English racing cyclist, is born (d. 1994).
  • 1967 – Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer, is born.
  • 1967 – Andrew Osmond, English writer, is born.
  • 1967 – Andreas Wistuba, German taxonomist and botanist, is born.
  • 1967 – Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB).
  • 1967 – Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.).
  • 1967 – Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT).
  • 1967 – Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.).

1968 (Monday)

  • 1968 – Shafiek Abrahams, South African cricket player, is born.
  • 1968 – Patsy Kensit, English actress, is born.
  • 1968 – Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician, is born.
  • 1968 – Jorge Celedón, Colombian musician and singer, is born.
  • 1968 – Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player, is born.
  • 1968 – Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Australian cricketer, is born.
  • 1968 – Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for the heavyweight boxing title.
  • 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign.
  • 1968 – Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 is launched.

1969 (Tuesday)

1970 (Wednesday)

  • 1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes.
  • 1970 – Caroline Vis, Dutch professional tennis player, is born.
  • 1970 – Andrea Bendewald, American actress, is born.
  • 1970 – Àlex Crivillé, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, is born.
  • 1970 – Jacksonville becomes the first college basketball team to average 100+ points per game.
  • 1970 – The New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out.

1971 (Thursday)

1972 (Saturday)

  • 1972 – Robert Smith, American footballer, is born.
  • 1972 – Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast, is born.
  • 1972 – Katherine Center, American fiction author, is born.
  • 1972 – Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver, is born.
  • 1972 – Ivy Queen, American composer and singer, is born.
  • 1972 – Ian Garbutt, English professional golfer, is born.
  • 1972 – Giorgos Mazonakis, Greek pop singer, is born.
  • 1972 – Buck 65, Canadian hip hop artist, MC and turntablist, is born.
  • 1972 – Brittney Powell, German-American actress, is born.
  • 1972 – Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South), is born.
  • 1972 – The Texas Rangers trade Denny McLain to the Oakland Athletics for two minor league pitchers.
  • 1972 – Erhard Keller (Germany) skates the world record time for the 1000m race (1:18.5).
  • 1972 – The last regular train is run between Penrith and Keswick, United Kingdom.
  • 1972 – Libya and U.S.S.R. sign a cooperation treaty.

1973 (Sunday)

  • 1973 – Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy, dies (b. 1907).
  • 1973 – Phillip Daniels, American footballer, is born.
  • 1973 – Massimo Brambilla, Italian football player, is born.
  • 1973 – Mark Lavine, West Indian cricketer, is born (d. 2001).
  • 1973 – Len Wiseman, American director, is born.
  • 1973 – Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, Tollywood film director, is born.
  • 1973 – 15th Grammy Awards: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America.

1974 (Monday)

  • 1974 – Virginijus Praškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player, is born.
  • 1974 – Tommy Phelps, American baseball player, is born.
  • 1974 – Mladen Krstajić, Serbian footballer, is born.
  • 1974 – Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player, is born.
  • 1974 – ICS Vortex, Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus), is born.
  • 1974 – Gabriel o Pensador, Brazilian hip hop rapper, is born.
  • 1974 – David Wagner, American wheelchair tennis player, is born.
  • 1974 – Crowbar, American professional wrestler, is born.
  • 1974 – Bill Young, Australian rugby union footballer, is born.
  • 1974 – Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer, is born.
  • 1974 – Adolph Gottlieb, American painter, dies (b. 1903).
  • 1974 – David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London.
  • 1974 – Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier.
  • 1974 – "People" magazine was available for the first time.

1975 (Tuesday)

  • 1975 – Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player, is born.
  • 1975 – Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player, is born.
  • 1975 – Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler, is born.
  • 1975 – Julie Dibens, British triathlete, is born.
  • 1975 – Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, is born.
  • 1975 – El-P, American hip hop artist and entrepreneur, is born.
  • 1975 – Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player, is born.
  • 1975 – Queen Elizabeth knights Charlie Chaplin.

1976 (Thursday)

  • 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist, dies (b. 1886).
  • 1976 – Vic Wunderle, American archer, is born.
  • 1976 – Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player, is born.
  • 1976 – Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player, is born.
  • 1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland; direct rule of Northern Ireland begins from London via the British parliament.
  • 1976 – The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
  • 1976 – Sean Covel, American film producer, is born.
  • 1976 – Scott Sturgeon, American musician (Choking Victim, Leftöver Crack), is born.
  • 1976 – Sam Mraovich, American screenwriter and film director, is born.
  • 1976 – Sabrina Sabrok, Argentine television host, singer, and producer, is born.
  • 1976 – Robbie Blake, English footballer, is born.
  • 1976 – Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer, is born.
  • 1976 – Nikolai Semashko, Soviet sports administrator, dies (b. 1907).
  • 1976 – Kim Jung-eun, South Korean actress, is born.
  • 1976 – John Marvin Jones, Texan member of the United States House of Representatives and Chief Judge of the US federal Court of Claims, dies (b. 1882).
  • 1976 – Jim Walsh, American basketball player, dies (b. 1930).
  • 1976 – Jasin Thomason, American guitarist (The Ataris), is born.
  • 1976 – Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player, is born.
  • 1976 – Hayley Evetts, English singer, TV presenter and stage actor, is born.
  • 1976 – Gary Shortland, British professional figure skater, is born.
  • 1976 – Christian Nicolay, German javelin thrower, is born.
  • 1976 – Cho In-Chul, World Champion South Korean judoka, is born.
  • 1976 – Brian Diego Fuentes, Argentine soccer player, is born.
  • 1976 – Alireza Heidari, Iranian Olympic wrestler, is born.
  • 1976 – The San Francisco Giants are sold to businessmen Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth for an estimated $8 million.
  • 1976 – John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio.
  • 1976 – The "Maguire Seven" in the United Kingdom are found guilty of possessing explosives and jailed; they are later acquitted.

1977 (Friday)

  • 1977 – William Paul, American attorney, legislator, and political activist, dies (b. 1885).
  • 1977 – Traver Rains, American designer (Heatherette), is born.
  • 1977 – Tonga Lea'aetoa, New Zealand-Tongan rugby union player, is born.
  • 1977 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor, dies (b. 1925).
  • 1977 – The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
  • 1977 – Ron Horsley, American author and artist, is born.
  • 1977 – Rockell (Rachel Alexandra Mercaldo), American musician, is born.
  • 1977 – Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator, dies (b. 1912).
  • 1977 – Nacho Figueras, Argentine polo player, is born.
  • 1977 – Miles C. Allgood, U.S. Representative from Alabama, dies (b. 1878).
  • 1977 – Mike Kinsella, American musician (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, American Football, and Owen), is born.
  • 1977 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician, dies (b. 1887).
  • 1977 – Juha Helppi, Finnish professional poker player, is born.
  • 1977 – Jeremiah Green, American indie rock band drummer (Modest Mouse), is born.
  • 1977 – Jason Marsalis, American musician, is born.
  • 1977 – Grégory Le Corvec, French rugby union footballer, is born.
  • 1977 – Gareth Wyatt, Welsh rugby union player, is born.
  • 1977 – Daniel Klewer, German footballer, is born.
  • 1977 – Dan Wells, American horror fiction author, is born.
  • 1977 – Christian Jessen, English doctor and television presenter, is born.
  • 1977 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer, dies (b. 1951).
  • 1977 – Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian modernist poet, essayist, translator, novelist, publisher, literary and art critic, dies (b. 1925).
  • 1977 – Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete, is born.
  • 1977 – Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan in cricket at Port-of-Spain.

1978 (Saturday)

  • 1978 – Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona, dies (b. 1909).
  • 1978 – Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player, is born.
  • 1978 – John Meighan, Irish Clann na Talmhan politician, dies (b. 1891).
  • 1978 – Joe Marsala, Chicago-based jazz clarinetist and songwriter, dies (b. 1907).
  • 1978 – Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player, is born.
  • 1978 – Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer, is born.
  • 1978 – César Morales, Mexican bantamweight boxer, is born.
  • 1978 – The Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes its last issue.

1979 (Sunday)

  • 1979 – Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber, dies (b. 1926).
  • 1979 – Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian football goalkeeper, is born.
  • 1979 – Trenton Hassell, American basketball player, is born.
  • 1979 – Stelios Theocharous, Greek Cypriot actor, is born.
  • 1979 – Sarah Stock, Canadian professional wrestler, is born.
  • 1979 – Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant, dies (b. 1893).
  • 1979 – Paul Terry, English footballer, is born.
  • 1979 – Neil Best, Irish rugby union footballer, is born.
  • 1979 – Mike Patto, (Michael Thomas McCarthy), English vocalist and front man for The Bow Street Runners, dies (b. 1942).
  • 1979 – Mark Anthony Parrish, American actor, producer, and social and liberal political activist, is born.
  • 1979 – Karima Delli, French politician, is born.
  • 1979 – Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis), is born.
  • 1979 – Harry Hopkinson, British yodeler, dies (b. 1902).
  • 1979 – Gladys McConnell, American movie actress and aviatrix, dies (b. 1905).
  • 1979 – Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer, is born.
  • 1979 – Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist, is born.
  • 1979 – Ariel Carreño, Argentine football striker, is born.
  • 1979 – "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 61 performances.
  • 1979 – The 200th episode of "All in the Family" airs on television.
  • 1979 – Sally Little wins the LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic.
  • 1979 – A U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings.

1980 (Tuesday)

  • 1980 – Scott Hamilton, New Zealand rugby union footballer, is born.
  • 1980 – Rohan Bopanna, Indian tennis player, is born.
  • 1980 – Phil McGuire, Scottish football player, is born.
  • 1980 – Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer, is born.
  • 1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
  • 1980 – Michael Henrich, Canadian ice hockey player, is born.
  • 1980 – Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess master, dies (b. 1905).
  • 1980 – Kamalinee Mukherjee, (Kamalini Mukherjee) Indian film actress, is born.
  • 1980 – Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress, is born (d. 2007).
  • 1980 – Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer, dies (b. 1892).
  • 1980 – Jack Hannahan, American baseball player, is born.
  • 1980 – J. F. A. McManus, Canadian pathologist, dies (b. 1911).
  • 1980 – Greg Lamb, Zimbabwean cricketer, is born.
  • 1980 – Giedrius Gustas, Lithuanian professional basketball player, is born.
  • 1980 – Eric Kerfoot, English footballer, dies (b. 1924).
  • 1980 – Arash Markazi, American sportswriter, is born.
  • 1980 – Alfred Plé, Olympic French rower, dies (b. 1888).
  • 1980 – Alex Vetchinsky, British film designer, dies (b. 1904).
  • 1980 – Alex Ribeiro Garcia, Brazilian professional basketball player, is born.
  • 1980 – Alan Hardaker, English football administrator, dies (b. 1912).
  • 1980 – Mike Bossy achieves the 40th hat trick in Islander ice hockey history.

1981 (Wednesday)

1982 (Thursday)

  • 1982 – Uma Blasini, Puerto Rican beauty queen, is born.
  • 1982 – NASA launches the Intelsat V-508 satellite.
  • 1982 – Mariano Altuna, Argentine racing driver, is born.
  • 1982 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player, is born.
  • 1982 – Elia Rigotto, Italian road bicycle racer, is born.
  • 1982 – Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-born English novelist, dies (b. 1912).
  • 1982 – Bossy and D Potvin achieve the 2nd double hat trick in Islander ice hockey history.

1983 (Friday)

  • 1983 – Samuel Contesti, French-Italian figure skater, is born.
  • 1983 – Ryan Lonie, Australian football player, is born.
  • 1983 – Jaque Fourie, South African rugby union footballer, is born.
  • 1983 – Dante Senger, Argentine footballer, is born.
  • 1983 – Bertha Wilson is appointed as the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
  • 1983 – Akeem Omolade, Nigerian footballer, is born.
  • 1983 – Adam Deacon, English Actor, is born.

1984 (Sunday)

1985 (Monday)

  • 1985 – Whitney Port, American reality television personality, is born.
  • 1985 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
  • 1985 – Scott Michael Foster, American actor, is born.
  • 1985 – Mathieu Montcourt, professional French tennis player, is born (d. 2009).
  • 1985 – Jonas Troest, Danish professional football player, is born.
  • 1985 – Jake Buxton, English professional footballer, is born.
  • 1985 – Hrvoje Čale, Croatian footballer, is born.
  • 1985 – Guillermo Diaz Puerto Rican professional basketball player, is born.
  • 1985 – Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player, is born.
  • 1985 – The STS-51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission canceled.
  • 1985 – A virtual ban on leaded gas is ordered by the U.S. EPA.
  • 1985 – War veterans return to the "Bridge over the River Kwai."

1986 (Tuesday)

  • 1986 – Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer, is born.
  • 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Comet Halley and the first images ever of its nucleus.
  • 1986 – Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band), dies (b. 1943).
  • 1986 – Park Min Young, South Korean model and actress, is born.
  • 1986 – Margo Harshman, American actress, is born.
  • 1986 – John Spence, British Conservative Party politician, dies (b. 1920).
  • 1986 – Howard Greenfield, American songwriter, dies (b. 1936).
  • 1986 – Erin O'Kelley, American beauty queen, is born.
  • 1986 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist, dies (b. 1913).
  • 1986 – Edward MacLysaght, Irish genealogist, dies (b. 1887).
  • 1986 – Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer, is born.
  • 1986 – Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist, dies (b. 1917).
  • 1986 – Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. New Zealand in cricket.
  • 1986 – "Today" debuts in London as England’s newest, national, daily newspaper.

1987 (Wednesday)

  • 1987 – Tamzin Merchant, British actor and poetess, is born.
  • 1987 – Cameron Wood, Australian footballer, is born.
  • 1987 – Ben McKinley, Australian footballer, is born.
  • 1987 – Ash Wednesday.

1988 (Friday)

  • 1988 – Mikuru Uchino, Japanese gravure idol, is born.
  • 1988 – Cody Longo, American film actor, is born.
  • 1988 – Beatriz Guido, Argentine novelist and screenwriter, dies (b. 1924).
  • 1988 – Adam Watts, English footballer, is born.

1989 (Saturday)

  • 1989 – Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist, dies (b. 1916).
  • 1989 – Erin Heatherton, American fashion model, is born.
  • 1989 – Bradley Middleton, English footballer, is born.
  • 1989 – Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline.
  • 1989 – Eastern Airlines machinists strike.
  • 1989 – Javier Sotomayor high jumps to a new indoor world record (2.43 m).
  • 1989 – Time, Inc., and Warner Communications Inc. announce a plan to merge.
  • 1989 – Six people die and 80 more are injured in a railway crash in Purley.

1990 (Sunday)

  • 1990 – Paddy Madden, Irish footballer, is born.
  • 1990 – Maximiliano Oliva, Argentine footballer, is born.
  • 1990 – Loyola Marymount University, All-American basketball player Hank Gathers (b. 1967) dies of a heart attack on the court during a conference semifinal game.
  • 1990 – Harry Worthington, American track and field athlete, dies (b. 1891).
  • 1990 – Georgi Pashov, Bulgarian footballer, is born.
  • 1990 – Fran Mérida, Spanish footballer, is born.
  • 1990 – Andrea Bowen, American actress, is born.
  • 1990 – 20th Easter Seal Telethon.
  • 1990 – Beth Daniel wins the LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open.
  • 1990 – U.S. 65th manned space mission STS-36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space.

1991 (Monday)

  • 1991 – Stuart O'Keefe, English footballer, is born.
  • 1991 – Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
  • 1991 – Kenneth Lindsay, British Labour Party politician, dies (b. 1897).
  • 1991 – Godfrey Bryan, English cricketer, dies (b. 1902).
  • 1991 – Diandra Newlin, American actress and fashion model, is born.
  • 1991 – Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank.
  • 1991 – Iraq releases 6 American, 3 British and 1 Italian prisoners of war.
  • 1991 – Dr. Maurice Buchbinder announces the "Rotoblator," a tool for clearing arteries, at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.

1992 (Wednesday)

  • 1992 – Peter Judge, English cricketer, dies (b. 1916).
  • 1992 – Pare Lorentz, American filmmaker, dies (b. 1905).
  • 1992 – Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer, dies (b. 1930).
  • 1992 – Mary Osborne, American jazz electric guitarist, dies (b. 1921).
  • 1992 – Larry Rosenthal, American professional baseball outfielder, dies (b. 1910).
  • 1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, is born.
  • 1992 – Art Babbitt, American animator, dies (b. 1907).
  • 1992 – Ash Wednesday.

1993 (Thursday)

  • 1993 – Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor, is born.
  • 1993 – Tomislav Ivčić, Croatian singer, songwriter and politician, dies (b. 1953).
  • 1993 – Richard Sale, American screenwriter and film director, dies (b. 1911).
  • 1993 – Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, British politician and government minister, dies (b. 1929).
  • 1993 – Michael Beecher, Australian-based model and actor, dies (b. 1939).
  • 1993 – Jenna Boyd, American actress, is born.
  • 1993 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist, dies (b. 1894).
  • 1993 – Art Hodes, American jazz pianist, dies (b. 1904).
  • 1993 – Abigail Mavity, American actress, is born.
  • 1993 – "Goodbye Girl" opens at the Marquis Theater New York City for 188 performances.
  • 1993 – Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion.
  • 1993 – Authorities announce the arrest of Mohammad Salameh. He was later convicted for his role in the World Trade Center Bombing in New York City.

1994 (Friday)

  • 1994 – Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16) launches into orbit.
  • 1994 – Paul Solomon, American psychic, dies (b. 1939).
  • 1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian, dies (b. 1950).
  • 1994 – George Edward Hughes, Irish-born philosopher and logician, dies (b. 1918).
  • 1994 – Chris Seydou, Malian fashion designer, dies (b. 1949).
  • 1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
  • 1994 – Michael Jordan comes to bat for the first time in a Chicago White Sox uniform, playing in a spring training game.
  • 1994 – Four Arab terrorists are found guilty of bombing the World Trade Center.

1995 (Saturday)

  • 1995 – Matt Urban, Lieutenant Colonel United States Army, dies (b. 1919).
  • 1995 – Iftekhar, Bollywood character actor, dies.
  • 1995 – eden ahbez, American composer, dies (b. 1908).
  • 1995 – Bill Milner, English actor, is born.
  • 1995 – 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years.
  • 1995 – Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital.
  • 1995 – George Foreman loses the WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
  • 1995 – Michael Johnson runs a new world record 400m indoor race (44.63 sec).
  • 1995 – Replacement New York Yankees beat the New York Mets 2-1.

1996 (Monday)

  • 1996 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian, dies (b. 1912).
  • 1996 – Johnny Sauer, American football player, coach, and broadcaster, dies (b. 1925).
  • 1996 – DISH Network, a Direct Broadcast Satellite service, is launched in the United States by EchoStar.

1997 (Tuesday)

  • 1997 – U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
  • 1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist, dies (b. 1916).
  • 1997 – Joe Baker-Cresswell, English Royal Navy officer, dies (b. 1901).
  • 1997 – Edouard Klabinski, Polish professional racing cyclist, dies (b. 1920).
  • 1997 – Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman, dies (b. 1914).
  • 1997 – The Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks.
  • 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp is positioned directly above the Sun (1.04 AU).
  • 1997 – Zeya Start-1 is launched in Russia.

1998 (Wednesday)

  • 1998 – Jules Fontaine Sambwa, Zairean political officeholder and economist, dies (b. 1940).
  • 1998 – Ivan Dougherty, Australian World War II Army Major General, dies (b. 1907).
  • 1998 – Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
  • 1998 – Donald Rodney, British artist, dies (b. 1961).

1999 (Thursday)

  • 1999 – Teddy McRae, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger, dies (b. 1908).
  • 1999 – Milosz Magin, Polish composer and pianist, dies (b. 1929).
  • 1999 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, dies (b. 1921).
  • 1999 – Joseph Regenstein Jr., American business leader and philanthropist, dies (b. 1923).
  • 1999 – Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dies (b. 1908).
  • 1999 – Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician, dies (b. 1917).
  • 1999 – Del Close, American actor, dies (b. 1934).
  • 1999 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist who was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, dies (b. 1904).
  • 1999 – U.S. Marine Captain Richard Ashby is acquitted in a military court of the charge of recklessly flying his jet. 20 people were killed in Italy when his jet hit a gondola cable.

2000 (Saturday)

  • 2000 – Ta-You Wu, Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist, dies (b. 1907).
  • 2000 – Michael Noonan, Australian-born New Zealander novelist and radio script writer, dies (b. 1921).
  • 2000 – Kyi Kyi Htay, four-time Myanmar Academy Award winning film actress, singer, opera performer and dancer, dies (b. 1924).
  • 2000 – Hermann Brück, German-born UK astronomer, dies (b. 1905).
  • 2000 – Alphons Silbermann, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist, dies (b. 1909).

2001 (Sunday)

  • 2001 – Martin Wright, British bioengineer, dies (b. 1912).
  • 2001 – Jim Rhodes, American politician, dies (b. 1909).
  • 2001 – Jean René Bazaine, French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer, dies (b. 1904).
  • 2001 – Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
  • 2001 – Harold Stassen, American politician, dies (b. 1907).
  • 2001 – Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People), dies (b. 1950).
  • 2001 – Gerardo Barbero, Argentine chess grandmaster, dies (b. 1961).
  • 2001 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist, dies (b. 1916).
  • 2001 – 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.

2002 (Monday)

  • 2002 – Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer, dies (b. 1939).
  • 2002 – Ugnė Karvelis, Lithuanian writer and translator, dies (b. 1935).
  • 2002 – Shirley Ann Russell, award-winning British costume designer, dies (b. 1935).
  • 2002 – Margarete Neumann, German writer and lyrical poet, dies (b. 1917).
  • 2002 – Eric Flynn, British actor/singer, dies (b. 1939).
  • 2002 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author, dies (b. 1913).
  • 2002 – Claire Davenport, English actress, dies (b. 1933).
  • 2002 – Canada bans human cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
  • 2002 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.

2003 (Tuesday)

  • 2003 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director, dies (b. 1931).
  • 2003 – Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber, dies (b. 1926).
  • 2003 – In the southern Philippines, a bomb hidden in a backpack exploded and kills at least 19 people at an airport.
  • 2003 – In the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, at least 9 people are killed and 52 are injured when a bus falls into a deep gorge.

2004 (Thursday)

2005 (Friday)

  • 2005 – Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman, dies (b. 1951).
  • 2005 – Una Hale, Australian soprano, dies (b. 1922).
  • 2005 – The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by U.S. soldiers after it runs a roadblock in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
  • 2005 – Robert Consoli, American actor and musician, dies (b. 1964).
  • 2005 – Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent, dies (b. 1953).
  • 2005 – Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer, dies (b. 1934).
  • 2005 – Martha Stewart leaves federal prison after serving five months for her role in a stock scandal.

2006 (Saturday)

  • 2006 – Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer, dies (b. 1952).
  • 2006 – No response is received in the final attempt to contact Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network.
  • 2006 – John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer, dies (b. 1944).
  • 2006 – Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist, dies (b. 1929).
  • 2006 – Dave Rose, American artist, dies (b. 1910).

2007 (Sunday)

  • 2007 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician, dies (b. 1929).
  • 2007 – Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist, dies (b. 1934).
  • 2007 – Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian, dies (b. 1966).
  • 2007 – Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer, dies (b. 1954).
  • 2007 – Natalie Bodanya, American soprano, dies (b. 1908).
  • 2007 – Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian politician, dies.
  • 2007 – Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist, dies (b. 1932).
  • 2007 – Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
  • 2007 – Bob Hattoy, American activist, dies (b. 1950).

2008 (Tuesday)

  • 2008 – Tina Lagostena Bassi, Italian lawyer, Italian deputy for Forza Italia party, showoman and writer, dies (b. 1926).
  • 2008 – Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress, dies (b. 1935).
  • 2008 – Robert Bruning, Australian actor and producer, dies (b. 1928).
  • 2008 – Leonard Rosenman, American film composer, dies (b. 1924).
  • 2008 – George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, dies (b. 1928).
  • 2008 – Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator, dies (b. 1938).
  • 2008 – Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress, dies (b. 1941).

2009 (Wednesday)

  • 2009 – Yvon Cormier, Canadian professional wrestler, dies (b. 1938).
  • 2009 – Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist, dies (b. 1942).
  • 2009 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
  • 2009 – Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director, dies (b. 1944).
  • 2009 – Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer, dies (b. 1957).
  • 2009 – Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist, dies (b. 1917).
  • 2009 – John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist, dies (b. 1930).
  • 2009 – Horton Foote, American playwright, dies (b. 1916).
  • 2009 – Harry Parkes, English footballer, dies (b. 1920).
  • 2009 – George McAfee, American football player, dies (b. 1918).
  • 2009 – The Los Angeles Dodgers sign Manny Ramirez to a two-year, $45 million contract.
  • 2009 – Eight people are killed, several injured, after gunmen attack a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketeers in Lahore, Pakistan.

2010 (Thursday)

  • 2010 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician, dies (b. 1945).
  • 2010 – Tony Richards, British footballer, dies (b. 1934).
  • 2010 – Tetsuo Kondo, Japanese politician, dies (b. 1929).
  • 2010 – Samuel J. Eldersveld, U.S. academic, political scientist, and Democratic politician, dies (b. 1917).
  • 2010 – Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer, dies (b. 1940).
  • 2010 – Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect, dies (b. 1933).
  • 2010 – Nan Martin, American actress, dies (b. 1927).
  • 2010 – Lolly Vegas, American singer, dies (b. 1939).
  • 2010 – Johnny Alf, Brazilian singer and composer, dies (b. 1929).
  • 2010 – Joaquim Fiúza, Portuguese sailor, dies (b. 1908).
  • 2010 – Joanne Simpson, American meteorologist, dies (b. 1923).
  • 2010 – Hilario Chávez Joya, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, dies (b. 1928).
  • 2010 – Fred Wedlock, British folk musician, dies (b. 1942).
  • 2010 – Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor, dies (b. 1939).
  • 2010 – Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler, dies (b. 1925).
  • 2010 – Taiwan is hit by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake, twelve people are injured, communications and rail services are disrupted.

2011 (Friday)

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