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What happened in history on this day: April 23?
On April 23 in ...
- 303 - George, knight of Cappadocië/saint/patron of England, beheaded.
- 871 - Ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies.
- 990 - Ekkehart II [Palatinus] monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies.
- 997 - Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague second bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at age 40.
- 1014 - Brian Boru king of Ireland, dies in battle at age 87.
- 1014 - King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf.
- 1014 - Sweyn Forkbeard Viking king of England (1013-14), dies.
- 1016 - Aethelbred II "the Unready" king of England (979-1016), dies.
- 1154 - Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo.
- 1348 - First English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter).
- 1464 - Birth of Johanna van Valois, Queen of France.
- 1484 - Birth of Julius Caesar Scaliger Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things).
- 1500 - Birth of Johannes Stumpf in Bruchsal, Germany; Swiss chronicler (Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen und Völckeren chronikwirdiger Thaaten Beschreybung).
- 1500 - Birth of Alexander Alesius [Aless/Alane] System theologist/physician.
- 1500 - Pedro Álvarez Cabral lands and annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz).
- 1504 - King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria.
- 1551 - Birth of Boris Godunov tsar of Muscovy (1598-1605) in Time of Troubles.
- 1564 - Birth (estimated) of William Shakespeare in Stratford-on-Avon, England; dramatist and poet (Hamlet, MacBeth, Julius Caesar) (dies 1616).
- 1598 - Birth of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp naval commander.
- 1616 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at age 69.
- 1616 - Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England.
- 1616 - William Shakespeare, English author (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet), dies on his 52nd birthday, in Stratford-on-Avon, England.
- 1623 - Birth of Jan Adam Reincken composer.
- 1625 - Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange, dies at age 57.
- 1629 - Birth of John Commelin director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam).
- 1633 - Sweden and Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn.
- 1635 - The first public school in America, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1649 - Birth of Andreas Kneller composer.
- 1660 - Sweden concludes peace with Poland at Oliva, near Danzig. The Polish king renounces claims on the Swedish throne, and on Livonia. Brandenburg and Austria agree to evacuate Pomerania.
- 1661 - King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westmister Abbey.
- 1662 - Connecticut chartered as an English colony.
- 1670 - Loreto Vittori composer, dies at age 69.
- 1691 - Jean-Henri D'Anglebert composer, dies.
- 1695 - Henry Vaughan poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at age 72.
- 1697 - Birth of George Baron Anson British Admiral/explorer.
- 1708 - Birth of Friedrich von Hagedorn in Hamburg, Germany; Anacreontic poet (Versuch in poetischen Fabeln und Erzählungen (1738), Oden und Lieder (3 volumes, 1742-1752)).
- 1723 - Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht.
- 1728 - Birth of Samuel Wallis explorer (Wallis Island).
- 1775 - Birth of Joseph Mallord Turner England, landscape painter (Shipwreck).
- 1775 - The opera "Il Ré Pastore" is produced (Salzburg).
- 1791 - Birth of James Buchanan in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, USA; Federalist/Democrat, 15th US President (1857-61).
- 1795 - William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason.
- 1798 - Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution.
- 1803 - Birth of Jules J baron d'Anethan; Belgian minister of Justice.
- 1804 - Birth of Guillaume Nerenburger; Belgian General (Triangulatie of Belgium).
- 1813 - Birth of Stephen Arnold Douglas; US Senator (Lincoln debates).
- 1823 - Birth of Abdül-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61) (dies 1861).
- 1826 - Missolonghi captured by Turks.
- 1827 - Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at age 65.
- 1828 - Birth of Albert; king of Saxon (1873-1902).
- 1838 - John W Janssens, Governor-General of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies, dies at age 75.
- 1852 - Birth of Edwin Markham; US poet (first winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937).
- 1855 - Birth of Ernst L Wolzogen; German writer/founder (Cabaret Überbrettl).
- 1857 - Birth of Ruggero Leoncavallo in Naples, Italy; composer (I Medici).
- 1858 - Birth of Max Ludwig Planck; German physicist (Quanta Physics, Planck Constant, Nobel Prize 1918).
- 1861 - Birth of Edmund Henry Hynman; first viscount Allenby of Megiddo, Fieldmarshal.
- 1861 - Arkansas troops seize Fort Smith.
- 1865 - James Dearing, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at age 24.
- 1867 - Birth of Simon Abramsz; Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones).
- 1867 - Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel.
- 1871 - Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay is blown up.
- 1878 - First Dutch test drive of steam tram.
- 1881 - Birth of Claude Carter; South African slow lefty cricket player (1912-22).
- 1882 - Birth of Albert Coates in Saint Petersburg, Russia; conductor/composer (Eagle).
- 1882 - Birth of Max [G M J] Winders in Maximilien, Belgium; architect (WWII).
- 1883 - John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch government.
- 1890 - Birth of Marcel L'Herbier; French director/screenwriter (El Dorado).
- 1891 - Birth of Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev in Sontsovka, Ukraine; composer (Peter and the Wolf).
- 1891 - Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia.
- 1893 - Birth of Frank Borzage in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo).
- 1894 - Birth of Basil Sydney in Saint Osyth, Essex, England; actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife).
- 1894 - Birth of George Renevant in Paris, France; actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X).
- 1896 - Vitascope system of movie projection first demonstrated (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, New York City).
- 1897 - Birth of Harold French; director (Encore), actor.
- 1897 - Birth of John Wengraf in Vienna, Austria; actor (12 to Moon, Pride and Passion).
- 1897 - Birth of Lester Bowles Pearson in Newtonbrook, Ontario, Canada; ambassador to Washington, assistant undersecretary, undersecretary, secretary of state fof external affairs, president of General Assembly, Nobel Peace Prize 1957 for diplomacy during Suez Crisis, opposition leader 1958-63, 14th Prime Minister 1963-68 (dies 1972).
- 1897 - Birth of Lucius du Bignon Clay; US General (WWII)/Governor (Federal Republic of Germany).
- 1898 - US President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers for war duty.
- 1898 - Birth of Edwin E Dwinger; German writer (General Vlassov).
- 1899 - Birth of Edith Ngaio Marsh in Christchurch, New Zealand; mystery writer (Black Beech and Honeydew).
- 1899 - Birth of Vladimir Nabokov in Saint Petersburg, Russia; novelist (Lolita, Ada).
- 1900 - First known occurrence of word "hillbillie" (New York Journal).
- 1902 - Birth of Halldór Laxness in Iceland; novelist (Salka Valka, Nobel Prize 1955).
- 1904 - American Academy of Arts and Letters forms.
- 1904 - Birth of Duncan Renaldo in Spain; actor (Cisco Kid).
- 1904 - Birth of Leslie French; actor/singer ("More than a Miracle").
- 1906 - Birth of Marcel Hillaire in Cologne, Germany; actor (Adventures in Paradise).
- 1908 - Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands and Sweden sign North Sea accord.
- 1910 - Birth of Simone Simon in France; actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love).
- 1910 - International Exhibition opens in Brussels, Belgium.
- 1911 - Birth of Ronald Neame; director (First Monday in October, The Poseidon Adventure).
- 1914 - Birth of Andrew Martin; Lord-Lieutenant (Lechestershire, England).
- 1914 - Birth of John Hubbard in Indiana Harbor, Indiana, USA; actor (Don't Call Me Charlie).
- 1915 - ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA).
- 1915 - Birth of Arnold Hall; CEO (Hawker Siddeley Group).
- 1915 - Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at age 27.
- 1916 - Birth of Bud Wilkinson; college football coach (Oklahoma).
- 1917 - Birth of Jacob Kistemaker; nuclear physicist (ultra centrifuge).
- 1918 - Battle of Zeebrugge ends.
- 1918 - Birth of Maurice Druon; French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt).
- 1919 - US Baseball Major Leagues open a reduced 140-game season.
- 1920 - Birth of Eric Yarrow; CEO (Clydesdale Bank).
- 1920 - Turkish Grand National Assembly first meets, in Ankara.
- 1921 - Birth of Janet Blair in Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family).
- 1921 - Birth of Warren Spahn; left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves).
- 1921 - Charles Paddock runs world record 100 metre (10.4 seconds).
- 1923 - Birth of Avram Davidson; American sci-fi writer (Joyleg, Phoenix and the Mirror, Peregrine Primus, Rork!).
- 1923 - Birth of James Kirkup; travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland).
- 1923 - Birth of Nathan "Dambuzza" Mdledle; singer (played a major role in the evolution of South African music).
- 1924 - Birth of Arthur Frackenpohl in Irving, New Jersey, USA; composer (Natural Superiority of Music).
- 1924 - Birth of Malcolm Anson; CEO (Wessex Water Authority, England).
- 1924 - British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley.
- 1925 - André Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de Jésus), dies at age 45.
- 1926 - Birth of James P Donleavy in Brooklyn, New York, USA; novelist (The Ginger Man, Onion Eaters).
- 1926 - Birth of Richard Laws; Master (Saint Edmunds College, Cambridge, USA).
- 1926 - Birth of Virgil I [Gus] Grissom, astronaut (Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3).
- 1928 - Birth of Bill Cotton; CEO (Noel Gay TV).
- 1928 - Birth of Shirley Temple Black in Santa Monica, California, USA; child actress (Heidi)/ambassador (United Nations).
- 1929 - Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at age 28.
- 1930 - Birth of Alan Oppenheimer in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Six Million Dollar Man, Eischied).
- 1930 - Birth of Michael Bowen; Roman Catholic Archbishop (Southwark).
- 1932 - Birth of Halston [R Halston Frowick]; fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame).
- 1932 - Birth of Jim Fixx; jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running).
- 1932 - Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon.
- 1936 - Birth of Estelle Harris; actress (Estelle Castanza - Seinfeld).
- 1936 - Birth of John D'Arcy; cricket player (New Zealand Test batsman on 1958 England tour).
- 1936 - Birth of Roy Orbison in Vernon, Texas, USA; rocker ("Pretty Woman", "Only The Lonely") (dies 1988).
- 1936 - Carl Hubbell's first start of season is his 17th straight win.
- 1937 - Birth of Barry Shepherd; cricket player (Australian lefty bat early 1960s).
- 1937 - Birth of Don Massengale in Jackson, Texas, USA; PGA golfer (1966 Bing Crosby Celebrity).
- 1937 - Birth of Victoria Glendinning; author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions).
- 1938 - Birth of Russell Hillhouse; under-secretary Scottish Office.
- 1938 - Birth of Steven D Symms; American politician (Senator-Republican-Idaho, 1981-).
- 1938 - Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self-government.
- 1939 - Birth of David Birney in Washington DC, USA; actor (Brigette Loves Bernie, St. Elsewhere).
- 1939 - Birth of Lee Majors [Harvey Lee Yearly] in Wyandotte, Michigan, USA; TV actor (Big Valley, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fall Guy).
- 1939 - Birth of Ray Peterson in Denton, Texas, USA; singer ("Tell Laura I Love Her").
- 1939 - Birth of William Hagerty; editor (People).
- 1940 - Birth of Richard Monaco; American sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest).
- 1940 - Dance hall fire kills 198 in Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
- 1940 - New York Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert.
- 1941 - Birth of Hal Daub; American politician (Representative-Republican-Nebraska, 1981-).
- 1941 - Greece surrenders to Italy.
- 1942 - Four-day Allied bombing on Rostock begins.
- 1942 - Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at age 73.
- 1943 - Birth of Herve Villechaize in France; actor (Tatoo - Fantasy Island, "Da Plane! Da Plane!").
- 1943 - Birth of Tony Esposito in Ontario, Canada; NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks).
- 1943 - Birth of [Gerardus] Bob van Toll; actor/interpreter/director (Pastorale 1943).
- 1943 - British and US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta.
- 1944 - Birth of Niklaus Schilling in Basel, Germany; director (Dormire, Atem, Rheingold).
- 1944 - Birth of Sandra Dee [Alexandra Zuck] in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA; actress (Gidget, A Summer Place, Tammy and the Doctor, Imitation of Life).
- 1945 - Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated.
- 1945 - US troops in Italy cross river Po.
- 1946 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0.
- 1947 - Birth of Saskia [Trudy van den Berg]; singer (S and Serge, Spinning Wheel).
- 1948 - Birth of Tessa Wyatt; actress (Beast in the Cellar, Wedding Night).
- 1949 - Birth of Blair Brown in Washington DC, USA; actress (Altered States, Molly Dodd).
- 1949 - Birth of John Miles; vocal/guitar/keyboards (John Miles Band - "Rebel", "Zaragon").
- 1949 - Birth of Joyce DeWitt in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA; actress (Janet Wood - Three's Company).
- 1949 - Birth of Walter Sweeney; British Member of Parliament.
- 1949 - Chinese Red army conquers Nanjing.
- 1949 - Netherlands annexes Elten and Tudderen.
- 1950 - First major league baseball day game completed under lights (Philadelphia Phillies 6, Boston Braves 5).
- 1950 - 4th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 2.
- 1950 - Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island.
- 1950 - NHL Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 3.
- 1951 - Death of Charles Keck in New York City, New York, USA; American sculptor (Stonewall Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James Duke, Booker T. Washington, Liberty Monument, Boy with Fish, Pandora's Box, statue of Mohammed), coin designer (US 1915 Panama-Pacific gold dollar, 1927 Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar, 1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar).
- 1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open.
- 1951 - Birth of Loek Hermans; Dutch Member of Parliament (VVD).
- 1952 - Birth of Lionel Johnston in Augusta, Georgia, USA; actor (Sons and Daughters).
- 1952 - Birth of Narada Michael Walden in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA; rocker/producer ("I Don't Want Nobody Else", "I Shoulda Loved Ya").
- 1952 - Bob Cain of Saint Louis Browns and Bob Feller of Cleveland Indians each pitch a one-hitter.
- 1952 - New York Giants' Hoyt Wilhelm wins his first relief game and hits his only homerun.
- 1952 - Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed.
- 1953 - Birth of Fred Upton; American politician (Representative-Republican-Michigan).
- 1953 - Birth of James Russo in New York City, New York, USA; actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl).
- 1953 - General Charles P Cabell, US Air Force, becomes deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1954 - Birth of Michael Moore; documentary film maker.
- 1955 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open.
- 1955 - Birth of Captain Sensible; bassist (Damned - "Happy Talk").
- 1955 - Birth of Judy Davis in Perth, Australia; actress (Husbands and Wives).
- 1955 - Birth of Su Ingle in London, England; British TV hostess (Tomorrow's World).
- 1955 - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at age 76.
- 1956 - Birth of Peter Teravainen in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; Australasia golfer.
- 1956 - US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses.
- 1957 - Birth of Jan Hooks in Decatur, Georgia, USA; comedienne actress (Saturday Night Live, Designing Women).
- 1957 - Birth of Kathleen Lynch in Motueka, New Zealand; cyclist (Olympics-1996).
- 1957 - William Orlamond, actor (Flesh and Devil, Words and Music), dies at age 89.
- 1958 - Gil Hodges hits his 300th homerun and Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game.
- 1959 - Destry Rides Again opens at Imperial Theater in New York City for 472 performances.
- 1959 - First heliport in Britain opens in London.
- 1960 - Birth of Joseph Martin Mudd in Louisville, Kentucky, USA; PGA golfer (1988 Federal Express).
- 1960 - Birth of Steve Clark in Hillsborough, England; rock guitarist (Def Leppard - "Hysteria").
- 1960 - Birth of Valerie Bertinelli in Wilmington, Delaware, USA; actress (One Day at a Time, Sydney).
- 1960 - Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies.
- 1960 - Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at age 71.
- 1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open.
- 1962 - New York Mets win their first game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1.
- 1962 - Ranger 4, first US satellite to reach Moon, launched from Cape Canaveral.
- 1962 - Stirling Moss, auto racer, killed while racing at age 32.
- 1963 - Birth of Benoit Doucet in Montréal, Québec, Canada; hockey forward (Team Germany 1998).
- 1964 - Birth of Dan Frischman in Whippany, New Jersey, USA; actor (Arvid Engen - Head of the Class).
- 1964 - Birth of General [Simon Matthews]; English pop drummer (Jesus Jones - "Zeroes and Ones").
- 1964 - Birth of Martin Lopez-Zubero; Spanish backstroke swimmer (world record 200 metre).
- 1964 - Houston Colt 45s' Ken Johnson becomes first major league pitcher to lose a 9-inning no-hitter, Cincinnati Reds win 1-0.
- 1964 - New York State Theater opens.
- 1965 - Birth of Donna Weinbrecht; skier (Olympics-gold).
- 1965 - Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Pygmalion), dies at age 67.
- 1965 - Launch of first Soviet communications satellite.
- 1966 - Birth of Jacques "Jacq" Koumans; soccer player (NAC).
- 1966 - Birth of Richard Greenwood in Los Angeles, California, USA; Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Napa Valley).
- 1966 - Birth of Wayne Drinkwalter; Canadian Football League defensive tackle (British Columbia Lions).
- 1967 - Birth of Brent Muscat; rocker (Faster Pussycat - "Wake Me When It's Over").
- 1967 - Birth of Melina Kanakaredes in Akron, Ohio, USA; actress (Dr Sydney Hanson - Providence, Eleni Andros - Guiding Light).
- 1967 - Birth of Rheal Cormier in New Brunswick, Canada; pitcher (Montreal Expos).
- 1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational.
- 1967 - Soviet Soyuz 1 launched.
- 1968 - First decimal coins issued in Britain (5 and 10 pence).
- 1968 - Birth of Susan Emily Savastano in East Providence, Rhode Island, USA; Miss Rhode Island-America (1991).
- 1968 - United Methodist Church forms.
- 1969 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney.
- 1969 - Birth of Nadeem Shahid; cricket player.
- 1969 - Los Angeles Lakers' Jerry West scores 53 points.
- 1969 - Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province, China.
- 1969 - Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing US Senator Robert Kennedy.
- 1970 - Birth of Cristiano Caratti in Italy; tennis star (1987 Orange Bowl boys doubles).
- 1970 - Birth of Frank Temming; WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals).
- 1970 - Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at age 51.
- 1971 - Birth of Chuck Adams in Pacific Palisades, California, USA; tennis star (1989 USTA Boys).
- 1971 - Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike.
- 1971 - Soyuz 10 launched; soft docks with Salyut 1.
- 1971 - William Tubman, President of Liberia (1944-71), dies at age 76.
- 1972 - 26th Tony Awards: Sticks and Bones and Two Gentlemen of Verona win.
- 1972 - Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic.
- 1972 - Birth of Rachel Hetherington in Port Macquarie, New South Wales; golfer (1993 New South Wales champion).
- 1973 - Birth of Derek Armstrong in Ottawa, Canada; NHL center (New York Islanders).
- 1973 - Birth of Patrick Poulin in Vanier, Quebec, Canada; NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning).
- 1973 - Otto Eissfeldt; German old testament scholar, dies at age 85.
- 1974 - Birth of Joey Kent; wide receiver (Tennessee Oilers).
- 1974 - Birth of Sam Madison; cornerback (Miami Dolphins).
- 1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan.
- 1974 - Carl Barnett dies at age 59 of a heart attack while conducting Bach's Come, Sweet Death at the Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1975 - Birth of Bret Anderson; Canadian Football League slot back (British Columbia Lions).
- 1975 - Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at age 27.
- 1976 - Birth of Tamas Buday Junior in Budapest, Hungary; Canadian canoeist (Olympics-1996).
- 1976 - James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at age 69.
- 1976 - Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at age 47.
- 1976 - Shimen Ruskin, actor (Meyer - Corner Bar), dies at age 68.
- 1977 - Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously and only loses 10.
- 1977 - Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops.
- 1977 - Military workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa.
- 1978 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic.
- 1978 - Cincinnati Reds' Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 consecutive errorless games at second base.
- 1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 1979 - Birth of Lauri Ylönen; Finnish singer (The Rasmus).
- 1979 - Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of New Zealand-born protestor Blair Peach.
- 1980 - Soviet submarine catches fire off Japan, nine die.
- 1980 - 146 people die near Los Rodeos, Tenerife, Spain, as a Dan Air Boeing 727 crashes while attempting to land.
- 1981 - Birth of Gabriella Windsor, daughter of English prince Michael.
- 1982 - Dennis Wardlow, Mayor of Key West, Florida, declares the independent Conch Republic for a day.
- 1983 - Stern magazine announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turns out to be a hoax).
- 1983 - David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143 versus Sri Lanka.
- 1983 - Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at age 78.
- 1983 - Corinne Hermès wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 for Luxembourg with the song "Si la vie est cadeau".
- 1983 - Buster Crabbe, 400 metre US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)/actor, dies from a heart attack in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 76.
- 1984 - In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a magnitude 4.4 earthquake occurs.
- 1984 - August "Guus" Oster, actor/director (Carrie), dies at age 68.
- 1985 - Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational.
- 1985 - Coca-Cola changes its secret flavor formula and releases New Coke.
- 1985 - Kent Smith, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders), dies at age 78.
- 1985 - Sam J Ervin Junior, American politician (Senator-Democrat-North Carolina) dies at age 88.
- 1986 - Harold Arlen [Hyman Arluck], American music composer, murdered at age 81 (born 1905).
- 1986 - Jim Laker, cricket player (193 wickets for England at 21 24), dies.
- 1986 - Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60 metre indoor (7 seconds).
- 1986 - Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (Advise and Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at age 79 (born 1906).
- 1987 - Birth of Emily Fox; American cupstacking champion.
- 1987 - 28 construction workers are killed in an apartment building (under construction) collapse in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
- 1987 - New Jersey Devils' farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) New York.
- 1988 - A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft 74 miles.
- 1988 - Arthur Michael, Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury, dies (born 1904).
- 1988 - US Federal smoking ban begins during domestic airline flights of two hours or less.
- 1988 - Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25km (1:29:30)/30km (1:47:06).
- 1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic.
- 1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game with the Los Angeles Lakers.
- 1989 - Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning.
- 1989 - Students in Beijing, China announce class boycotts.
- 1990 - Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies.
- 1990 - Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies of heart failure in Ronco, Switzerland at age 78 (born 1910).
- 1990 - In an election in Karl-Marx-Stadt over 75 percent of the voters vote to change the name of the city back to Chemnitz. The name had been changed on May 5, 1953 in honor of the 135th birthday of Karl Marx.
- 1991 - Björn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off.
- 1991 - Gordon Greenidge scores 223 versus Australia, his last Test Cricket knock at home.
- 1991 - USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions.
- 1992 - Deron Johnson, 1965 National League run leader, dies of cancer at age 53.
- 1992 - Marion Berry (former mayor of Washington DC) is released from prison.
- 1992 - McDonald's opens its first fast-food restaurant in China.
- 1992 - Satyajit Ray, Indian film director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at age 70 (born 1921).
- 1992 - Victoria Kellem Lederman, model, dies of amyloidosis at age 52.
- 1993 - Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at age 78.
- 1993 - Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia.
- 1993 - Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at age 59.
- 1993 - The WHO declares tuberculosis a Global Emergency.
- 1993 - Birth of Akrit Jaswal, child physician.
- 1993 - Death of César Estrada Chávez, civil rights activist (born 1927).
- 1994 - Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives, Haiti.
- 1994 - Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at age 30.
- 1994 - General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke.
- 1995 - Death of Howard Cosell at age 77 of a heart embolism; sportscaster (WABC Radio in New York, WABC-TV, Monday Night Football).
- 1995 - John Stennis, American politician (Senator-Democrat-Mississippi), dies at age 93.
- 1995 - Laura Davis wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship.
- 1995 - President Bill Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City bombing victims.
- 1996 - Pamela Lyndon Travers, writer (Mary Poppins), dies at age 96.
- 1997 - Omaria massacre in Algeria; 42 villagers killed.
- 1997 - 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines, Brooks and Dunn win.
- 1998 - Death of Philip Abbott at age 75 of cancer; actor (Arthur Ward - The FBI).
- 1998 - Death of James Earl Ray, convicted American assassin of Martin Luther King Junior. (born 1928).
- 2001 - Royal Mail issues its first postage stamps for England (since 1840, the issues have been for all of the United Kingdom).
- 2003 - Birth of Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, daughter of Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este and Princess Astrid of Belgium.
- 2003 - US President George W. Bush signs legislation authorizing changes to the design of the 5-cent coin through 2005, to commemorate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition.
- 2003 - Beijing closes all of its schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus.
- 2003 - Death of Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (born 1910).
- 2005 - Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, re-forms the government after its dissolution three days earlier.
- 2007 - Bogotá, Colombia, begins its term as World Book Capital.
- 2007 - Death of Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (born 1931).
- 2009 - In Baghdad, Iraq, two suicide bombers blow themselves up in separate attacks, killing 76 people.
- 2010 - The X-37B unmanned military prototype spaceplane is launched atop an Atlas V rocket into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 9m long reusable spaceplane is about one-quarter the size of the space shuttle.
- 2017 - Death of Imre Földi, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter (born 1938).
- 2017 - Death of Luis Pércovich Roca, 118th Prime Minister of Peru (born 1931).
- 2017 - Death of FrantiÜek Rajtoral, Czech footballer (born 1986).
- 2018 - Birth of Prince Louis of Cambridge.
- 2018 - 25-year-old Alek Minassian drives rented van down Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada, killing 10, injuring 16. Seven minutes after the start, the driver is in police custody.
- 2021 - SpaceX launches the Crew-2 mission, carrying four crew members of Expedition 65 and 66 to the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon Endeavour.
- 2021 - UEFA announces that due to a lack of guarantees regarding spectators caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland would be removed as a tournament host for the UEFA Euro 2020.
- 2022 - The Democratic Republic of Congo declares an Ebola outbreak.
- 2022 - Death of Wynn Bruce at age 50 after setting himself on fire the previous day in Washington DC; environmental activist.
- 2022 - Death of Orrin Hatch at age 88; US Republican Senator from Utah.
- 2023 - American retailer Bed Bath & Beyond files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and announces plans to close its 360 stores.
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