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686 __NOTOC__ Year 686 (Roman numerals, DCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 686 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent ...
– The
Ummayad The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (, ; ) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty. Uthman ibn Affan, the third of the Rashidun caliphs, was also a member o ...
forces suffer a deceisive defeat against the pro-Alid forces under
Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar Ibrahim ibn Malik al-Ashtar ibn al-Harith al-Nakha'i (; died October 691), better known as Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar () was an Arab commander who fought in the service of Caliph Ali (r. 656–661) and later served the pro-Alid leader al-Mukhtar al-Th ...
in the
battle of Khazir The Battle of Khazir () took place in August 686 near the Khazir River in Mosul's eastern environs, in modern-day Iraq. The battle occurred during the Second Muslim Civil War and was part of the larger struggle for control of Iraq between the Sy ...
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1284 Year 1284 ( MCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Aragonese Crusade: The first French armies under King Philip III (the Bold) and his 14-year-old son Charles of Valois enter ...
– The
Republic of Pisa The Republic of Pisa () was an independent state existing from the 11th to the 15th century centered on the Tuscan city of Pisa. It rose to become an economic powerhouse, a commercial center whose merchants dominated Mediterranean and Italian t ...
is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the
Republic of Genoa The Republic of Genoa ( ; ; ) was a medieval and early modern Maritime republics, maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italy, Italian coast. During the Late Middle Ages, it was a major commercial power in ...
, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean. *
1538 __NOTOC__ Year 1538 ( MDXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 14 – Leonard Grey, England's Lord Deputy of Ireland, successfully negotiates a truce in the semi-inde ...
Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ...
,
Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
, is founded by
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as Ximénez and De Quezada, (; 1509 – 16 February 1579) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern South America, territories currently known as Colombia. He explored the territory n ...
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1601–1900

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1661 Events January–March * January 6 – The Fifth Monarchists, led by Thomas Venner, unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London; George Monck's regiment defeats them. * January 29 – The Rokeby baronets, a Br ...
– The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the
Dutch Republic The United Provinces of the Netherlands, commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. It was a predecessor state of the present-day Netherlands ...
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1777 Events January–March * January 2 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of the Assunpink Creek: American general George Washington's army repulses a British attack by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, in a second ...
American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which Am ...
: The bloody
Battle of Oriskany The Battle of Oriskany ( or ) was a major engagement of the Saratoga campaign during the American Revolutionary War. On August 6, 1777, an American column of Tryon County militia and Oneida people, Oneidas marching to relieve the siege of Fort ...
prevents American relief of the
Siege of Fort Stanwix The siege of Fort Stanwix (also known as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777, and ended on August 22, 1777. Fort Stanwix, at the western end of the Mohawk River Valley, was a primary defense point for the Continental Army against the British ...
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1787 Events January–March * January 9 – The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners to purchase of land for the seat of Chatham County. The town is named Pittsborough (later shortened to Pittsboro), for W ...
– Sixty proof sheets of the
Constitution of the United States The Constitution of the United States is the Supremacy Clause, supreme law of the United States, United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally includi ...
are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...
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1806 Events January–March *January 1 ** The French Republican Calendar is abolished. ** The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon. *January 5 – The body of British naval leader Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state ...
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II and I (; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Hungary, List of rulers of Croatia, Croa ...
, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the
Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a Multinational state, multinational European Great Powers, great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the Habsburg monarchy, realms of the Habsburgs. Duri ...
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1819 Events January–March * January 2 – The Panic of 1819, the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States, begins. * January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia. * January 29 – Si ...
Norwich University Norwich University is a private university in Northfield, Vermont, United States. The university was founded in 1819 as the "American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy". It is the oldest of six senior military college, senior militar ...
is founded in
Vermont Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York (state), New York to the west, and the Provinces and territories of Ca ...
as the first private military school in the United States. *
1824 Events January–March * January 1 – John Stuart Mill begins publication of The Westminster Review. The first article is by William Johnson Fox * January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of th ...
Peruvian War of Independence The Peruvian War of Independence () was a series of military conflicts in Peru from 1809 to 1826 that resulted in the country's independence from the Spanish Empire. Part of the broader Spanish American wars of independence, it led to the dis ...
: Patriot forces led by
Simón Bolívar Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (24July 178317December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bol ...
defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the
Battle of Junín The Battle of Junín was a large cavalry engagement of the Peruvian War of Independence, fought in the highlands of the Junín Region on 6 August 1824. The preceding February the royalists had regained control of Lima, and having regrouped in T ...
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1825 Events January–March * January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies in Naples and is succeeded by his son, Francis. * February 3 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula forming westernmost Denmark, becomes an ...
– The
Bolivian Declaration of Independence Bolivia's independence was definitively proclaimed on 6 August 1825 at a congress held in Chuquisaca. Battle of Junín While the Gran Colombian troops disembarked in the port of Callao under the command of General Antonio José de Sucre, Gener ...
is proclaimed. *
1861 This year saw significant progress in the Unification of Italy, the outbreak of the American Civil War, and the emancipation reform abolishing serfdom in the Russian Empire. Events January * January 1 ** Benito Juárez captures Mexico Ci ...
– Britain imposes the
Lagos Treaty of Cession The Treaty of Cession, 6 August 1861 or the Lagos Treaty of Cession was a treaty between the British Empire and Oba Dosunmu of Lagos (spelt 'Docemo' in English documents) wherein Dosunmu, under the threat of military bombardment, ceded Lagos Is ...
to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria. *
1862 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria. * January 6 – Second French intervention in Mexico, French intervention in Mexico: Second French Empire, French, Spanish and British ...
American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...
: The
Confederate A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issu ...
ironclad An ironclad was a steam engine, steam-propelled warship protected by iron armour, steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or ince ...
is scuttled on the
Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Ita ...
after suffering catastrophic engine failure near
Baton Rouge, Louisiana Baton Rouge ( ; , ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It had a population of 227,470 at the 2020 United States census, making it List of municipalities in Louisiana, Louisiana's second-m ...
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1870 Events January * January 1 ** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England. ** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed. * January 3 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge be ...
Franco-Prussian War The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 Janua ...
: The
Battle of Spicheren The Battle of Spicheren, also known as the ''Battle of Forbach'', was a battle during the Franco-Prussian War. The German victory compelled the French to withdraw to the defenses of Metz. The Battle of Spicheren, on 6 August, was the second of ...
is fought, resulting in a German victory. * 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The
Battle of Wörth The Battle of Wörth, also known as the Battle of Reichshoffen or as the Battle of Frœschwiller, refers to the second battle of Wörth, which took place on 6 August 1870 in the opening stages of the Franco-Prussian War (the first Battle of W ...
results in a decisive German victory. *
1890 Events January * January 1 – The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony in the Horn of Africa. * January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House. * January 11 – 1890 British Ultimatum: The Uni ...
– At
Auburn Prison Auburn Correctional Facility is a state prison on State Street in Auburn, New York, United States. It was built on land that was once a Cayuga village. It is classified as a maximum security facility. History In 1816, assemblyman John H. Bea ...
in New York, murderer
William Kemmler William Francis Kemmler (May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890) was an American murderer who was the first person executed by electric chair. He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a year earlier.Ruddick, N. (199 ...
becomes the first person to be
executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence (law), sentence ordering that an offender b ...
by
electric chair The electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution. The condemned is strapped to a custom wooden chair and electrocuted via electrodes attached to the head and leg. Alfred P. Southwick, a Buffalo, New Yo ...
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1901–present

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1901 December 13 of this year is the beginning of signed 32-bit Unix time, and is scheduled to end in January 19, 2038. Summary Political and military 1901 started with the unification of multiple British colonies in Australia on January ...
Kiowa Kiowa ( ) or Cáuigú () people are a Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe and an Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colora ...
land in
Oklahoma Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northea ...
is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation. *
1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as the First World War, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip ...
World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
:
U-boat campaign The U-boat campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies, largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean, as part of a mutual blockade betwe ...
: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German
U-boat U-boats are Submarine#Military, naval submarines operated by Germany, including during the World War I, First and Second World Wars. The term is an Anglicization#Loanwords, anglicized form of the German word , a shortening of (), though the G ...
s leave their base in
Heligoland Heligoland (; , ; Heligolandic Frisian: , , Mooring Frisian: , ) is a small archipelago in the North Sea. The islands were historically possessions of Denmark, then became possessions of the United Kingdom from 1807 to 1890. Since 1890, the ...
to attack
Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
warships in the
North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. A sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Se ...
. * 1914 – World War I:
Serbia , image_flag = Flag of Serbia.svg , national_motto = , image_coat = Coat of arms of Serbia.svg , national_anthem = () , image_map = , map_caption = Location of Serbia (gree ...
declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. *
1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 * ...
– World War I:
Battle of Sari Bair The Battle of Sari Bair (), also known as the August Offensive (), represented the final attempt made by the British in August 1915 to seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. At the time of ...
: The
Allies An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not an explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are calle ...
mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at
Suvla Bay View of Suvla from Battleship Hill Suvla () is a bay on the Aegean coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey, south of the Gulf of Saros. On 6 August 1915, it was the site for the Landing at Suvla Bay by the British IX Corps as ...
. *
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...
– World War I:
Battle of Mărășești The Battle of Mărășești (6 August 1917 – 3 September 1917) was the last major battle fought by the Central Powers against the Kingdom of Romania and Russian Empire, Russia on the Romania in World War I, Romanian front during World War I. ...
between the
Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
n and German armies begins. *
1926 In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the ...
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the
English Channel The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France. It links to the southern part of the North Sea by the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end. It is the busi ...
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1926 In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the ...
– First public screening using the
Vitaphone Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National Pictures, First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone is the last major analog sound-on-disc sys ...
process *
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, events related to World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *Janu ...
Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
is annexed by the
Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
. *
1942 The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...
– Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands Wilhelmina (; Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was List of monarchs of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest- ...
becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the
United States Congress The United States Congress is the legislature, legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a Bicameralism, bicameral legislature, including a Lower house, lower body, the United States House of Representatives, ...
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1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...
– The
Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising (; ), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (), or the Battle of Warsaw, was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from ...
occurs on
August 1 Events Pre-1600 * 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic. *AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt u ...
. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the
Kraków Uprising The Kraków Uprising ( Polish: ''powstanie krakowskie'', ''rewolucja krakowska''; German: ''Krakauer Aufstand''; Russian: ''краковское восстание'') of 1846 was an attempt, led by Polish insurgents such as Jan Tyssowski and ...
, that was planned but never carried out. *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be ...
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
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Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...
, Japan is devastated when the
atomic bomb A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission or atomic bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear weapon), producing a nuclear expl ...
"
Little Boy Little Boy was a type of atomic bomb created by the Manhattan Project during World War II. The name is also often used to describe the specific bomb (L-11) used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress ...
" is dropped by the United States
B-29 The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a retired American four-engined Propeller (aeronautics), propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War. Named in allusion to ...
''
Enola Gay The ''Enola Gay'' () is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel (United States), Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the Atomi ...
''. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and
radiation poisoning Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness or radiation poisoning, is a collection of health effects that are caused by being exposed to high amounts of ionizing radiation in a short period of time. Symptoms can start wit ...
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1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
– After going bankrupt in
1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...
, the American broadcaster
DuMont Television Network The DuMont Television Network (also the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont ) was one of America's pioneer commercial television networks, rivaling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in ...
makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the ''
Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena ''Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena'' is an American Broadcasting of sports events, sports program originally broadcast on NBC from 1946 to 1948, and later on the DuMont Television Network from 1954 to the network's closure in 1955, and was their f ...
'' series. *
1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...
Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the
Communist Party of Chile The Communist Party of Chile (, ) is a communist party in Chile. It was founded in 1912 as the Socialist Workers' Party () and adopted its current name in 1922. The party established a youth wing, the Communist Youth of Chile (, JJ.CC), in 1932. ...
and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile. *
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...
Cuban Revolution The Cuban Revolution () was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew ...
:
Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation. *
1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
becomes independent from the United Kingdom. *
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
– US President
Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served a ...
signs the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights move ...
into law. *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...
– A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the
New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...
coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on
Sydney, New South Wales Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...
, Australia. *
1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
Gulf War , combatant2 = , commander1 = , commander2 = , strength1 = Over 950,000 soldiers3,113 tanks1,800 aircraft2,200 artillery systems , page = https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-PEMD-96- ...
: The
United Nations Security Council The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, an ...
orders a global
trade embargo Economic sanctions or embargoes are commercial and financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals. Economic sanctions are a form of coercion that attempts to get an actor to change its behavior throu ...
against
Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...
in response to Iraq's invasion of
Kuwait Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia and the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the head of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Kuwait ...
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1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow a ...
releases files describing his idea for the
World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables Content (media), content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond Information technology, IT specialists and hobbyis ...
. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the
Internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ...
. * 1991 –
Takako Doi was a prominent Japanese politician from 1980 until her retirement in 2005. She was the first female Lower House Speaker in Japan, the highest position a female politician has ever held in the country's modern history, as well as the country' ...
, chair of the
Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Form ...
, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the
House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entities. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often ...
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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from
Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...
, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. *
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
Korean Air Flight 801 Korean Air Flight 801 (KE801, KAL801) was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air, from Gimpo International Airport, Seoul to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam. On August 6, 1997, the Boeing 747-300 operatin ...
crashed at
Nimitz Hill Nimitz Hill may refer to: * Nimitz Hill (geographic feature), a hill in Asan, Guam surrounded by the Nimitz Hill Annex census-designated place * Nimitz Hill (CDP), a census-designated place in Piti, Guam located adjacent to the Nimitz Hill Annex CDP ...
,
Guam Guam ( ; ) is an island that is an Territories of the United States, organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. Guam's capital is Hagåtña, Guam, Hagåtña, and the most ...
, killing 229 of the 254 people on board. *
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
Erwadi fire incident The Erwadi fire incident was an incident that occurred on 6 August 2001, when 28 inmates of a faith-based mental asylum died in the fire. All these inmates were bound by chains at the Moideen Badusha Mental Home in Erwadi village in Tamil Nadu ...
: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at
Erwadi Erwadi is a village in Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu. It belongs to Kilakarai Taluk and town panchayat. The village is at the location of the grave and shrine of Qutb-us-Sultan Syed Ibrahim Badshah Shaheed, a ruler of Madurai. Erwadi als ...
,
Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. The List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of Indi ...
. *
2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
– A military junta led by
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (; born 20 December 1956) is a retired Mauritanian military officer and politician who served as the 8th President of Mauritania from 2009 to 2019. A career soldier and high-ranking officer, he was a leading figure in ...
stages a
coup d'état A coup d'état (; ; ), or simply a coup , is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to powe ...
in
Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...
, overthrowing president
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (‎; 193822 November 2020) was a Mauritania, Mauritanian politician who was List of heads of state of Mauritania, President of Mauritania from 2007 to 2008. He served in the government during the 1970s, and ...
. *
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
Flash floods A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, or tropical storm, or by meltwater from ice and snow. Flash fl ...
across a large part of
Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to: * Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory since 2019 * Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered by India as a state from 1952 to 2019 * Jammu and Kashmir (prin ...
, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people. *
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
War in Afghanistan War in Afghanistan, Afghan war, or Afghan civil war may refer to: *Conquest of Afghanistan by Alexander the Great (330 BC – 327 BC), the conquest of Afghanistan by the Macedonian Empire * Muslim conquests of Afghanistan, a series of campaigns in ...
: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan. *
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
's ''Curiosity'' rover lands on the surface of
Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...
. *
2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
– A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of
Abha Abha (, ') is the capital of Asir, Asir Province in Saudi Arabia. It is situated above sea level in the fertile Asir Mountains of south-western Saudi Arabia, near Asir National Park. Abha's mild climate makes it a popular tourist destination fo ...
.


Births


Pre-1600

* 1180
Emperor Go-Toba was the 82nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1183 through 1198. This 12th-century sovereign was named after Emperor Toba, and ''go-'' (後), translates literally as "later"; ...
of Japan (died 1239) *
1504 __NOTOC__ Year 1504 ( MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 1 – French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish, under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba. * J ...
Matthew Parker Matthew Parker (6 August 1504 – 17 May 1575) was an English bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England from 1559 to his death. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder (with Thomas Cranmer ...
, English archbishop (died 1575) *
1572 Year 1572 ( MDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 16 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is tried for treason, for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholi ...
Fakhr-al-Din II Fakhr al-Din Ma'n (; 6 August 1572 13 April 1635), commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II (), was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the strongman ...
, Druze emir (died 1635)


1601–1900

*1605 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (died 1675) *1609 – Richard Bennett (governor), Richard Bennett, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (died 1675) *1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer-songwriter (died 1677) *1622 – Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Dutch admiral (died 1666) *1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher (died 1715) *1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (died 1710) *1651 – François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet (died 1715) *1656 – Claude de Forbin, French general (died 1733) *1666 – Maria Sophia of Neuburg (died 1699) *1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1748) *1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1745) *1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author (died 1747) *1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, 2nd List of Prime Ministers of Greece, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1848) *1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (died 1828) *1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician (died 1813) *1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (died 1847) *1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (died 1892) *1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (died 1915) *1835 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (died 1900) *1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1900) * 1844 – James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (died 1896) *1848 – Susie Taylor, American writer and first black Army nurse (died 1912) *1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant (died 1888) *1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (died 1955) *1874 – Charles Fort, American author (died 1932) *1877 – Wallace H. White Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 1952) *1880 – Hans Moser (actor), Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer (died 1964) *1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (died 1961) * 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955) * 1881 – Louella Parsons, American journalist (died 1972) *1883 – Constance Georgina Adams, South African botanist (died 1968) * 1883 – Scott Nearing, American economist and educator (died 1983) *1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic (died 1971) *1887 – Dudley Benjafield, English racing driver (died 1957) *1889 – George Kenney, Canadian-American general (died 1977) * 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet and author (died 1957) *1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English field marshal and politician, 13th Governor-General of Australia (died 1970) *1895 – Frank Nicklin, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Queensland (died 1978) *1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (died 2003)


1901–present

*
1901 December 13 of this year is the beginning of signed 32-bit Unix time, and is scheduled to end in January 19, 2038. Summary Political and military 1901 started with the unification of multiple British colonies in Australia on January ...
– Dutch Schultz, American gangster (died 1935) *1903 – Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (died 1999) *1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (died 1970) * 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (died 1993) *1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (died 1984) *1908 – Maria Ludwika Bernhard, Polish classical archaeologist and a member of WWII Polish resistance (died 1998) * 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and commander (died 1997) * 1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter and illustrator (died 1941) *1909 – Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (died 2013) *1910 – Adoniran Barbosa, Brazilian musician, singer, composer, humorist, and actor (died 1982) * 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999) *1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (died 1989) * 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (died 2014) * 1911 – Constance Heaven, English author and actress (died 1995) *1912 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer (died 2010) *
1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as the First World War, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip ...
– Gordon Freeth, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia), Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 2001) *1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic (died 1970) * 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (died 2012) *
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...
– Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (died 2000) * 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (died 1997) *1918 – Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer and manager (died 2001) *1919 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (died 2011) *1920 – John Graves (author), John Graves, American author (died 2013) * 1920 – Ella Raines, American actress (died 1988) *1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways (died 2006) * 1922 – Dan Walker (politician), Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (died 2015) *1923 – Jess Collins, American painter (died 2004) * 1923 – Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer and politician, 16th Minister of National Defence (Canada), Canadian Minister of Defence (died 2021) *1924 – Samuel Bowers, American White supremacy, white supremacist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (died 2006) *1924 – Ella Jenkins, American folk singer (died 2024) *
1926 In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the ...
– Elisabeth Beresford, English journalist and author (died 2010) * 1926 – Frank Finlay, English actor (died 2016) * 1926 – Clem Labine, American baseball player and manager (died 2007) * 1926 – János Rózsás, Hungarian author (died 2012) * 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (died 1999) *1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (died 2005) * 1928 – Andy Warhol, American painter, photographer and film director (died 1987) *1929 – Mike Elliott (saxophonist), Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist * 1929 – Roch La Salle, Canadian politician, 42nd Minister of Public Works (Canada), Canadian Minister of Public Works (died 2007) *1930 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2010) *1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author (died 2010) *1932 – Michael Deeley, English screenwriter and producer * 1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter (died 2017) * 1932 – Charles Wood (playwright), Charles Wood, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2020) *1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (died 1987) *1934 – Piers Anthony, English-American soldier and author * 1934 – Chris Bonington, English mountaineer and author * 1934 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby player and soldier *1935 – Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (died 2012) * 1935 – Octavio Getino, Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter (died 2012) *1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 2000) * 1937 – Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (died 2014) * 1937 – Barbara Windsor, English actress (died 2020) *1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2000) * 1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor and director * 1938 – Bert Yancey, American golfer (died 1994) *
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, events related to World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *Janu ...
– Mukhu Aliyev, Russian philologist and politician, 2nd President of Dagestan * 1940 – Egil Kapstad, Norwegian pianist and composer (died 2017) * 1940 – Louise Sorel, American actress *1941 – Ray Culp, American baseball player *
1942 The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...
– Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist and flute player (died 2012) *1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (died 1998) *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...
– Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist and actress (died 2003) * 1944 – Michael Mingos, English chemist and academic * 1944 – Martin Wharton, English bishop *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be ...
– Ron Jones (television director), Ron Jones, English director and production manager (died 1993) *1946 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 2017) *1947 – Radhia Cousot, French computer scientist and academic (died 2014) *1949 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler (died 1993) *1950 – Dorian Harewood, American actor *1951 – Catherine Hicks, American actress * 1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television host and singer *1952 – Pat MacDonald (musician), Pat MacDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1952 – David McLetchie, Scottish lawyer and politician (died 2013) * 1952 – Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch keyboard player, songwriter, and producer *1954 – Mark Hughes (rugby league, born 1954), Mark Hughes, English-Australian rugby league player *
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
– Bill Emmott, English journalist and author *1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball player * 1957 – Jim McGreevey, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey * 1958 – Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player *1959 – Rajendra Singh (environmentalist), Rajendra Singh, Indian environmentalist * 1959 – Joyce Sims, American singer (died 2022) *
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...
– Dale Ellis, American basketball player *1961 – Mary Ann Sieghart, English journalist and radio host *
1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
– Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer *1963 – Charles Ingram, English soldier, author, and game show contestant * 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker (died 2023) *1964 – Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, Nigerian journalist, activist, social media expert, and pharmacist *
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
– Stéphane Peterhansel, French racing driver * 1965 – Yuki Kajiura, Japanese pianist and composer * 1965 – David Robinson (basketball), David Robinson, American basketball player and lieutenant *1968 – Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer *1969 – Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster * 1969 – Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003) *1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter *1972 – Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress * 1972 – Jason O'Mara, Irish actor *1973 – Vera Farmiga, American actress * 1973 – Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist *1975 – Jason Crump, English-Australian motorcycle racer * 1975 – Renate Götschl, Austrian skier * 1975 – Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player *1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress * 1976 – Melissa George, Australian-American actress *1977 – Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer * 1977 – Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager * 1977 – Luciano Zavagno, Argentinian footballer *1979 – Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist * 1979 – Jaime Correa (footballer), Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer * 1979 – Travis Reed, American basketball player *1981 – Leslie Odom Jr., American actor and singer * 1981 – Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater *1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer *1984 – Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer * 1984 – Maja Ognjenović, Serbian volleyball player * 1984 – Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer *1985 – Mickaël Delage, French cyclist * 1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer * 1985 – Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...
– Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player *1987 – Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer *
1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
– Wilmer Flores, Venezuelan baseball player * 1991 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer *1995 – Rebecca Peterson, Swedish tennis player *1999 – Hunter Greene (baseball), Hunter Greene, American baseball player * 1999 – Rebeka Masarova, Spanish-Swiss tennis player * 2002 – Nessa Barrett, American singer-songwriter. * 2004 – Takhmina Ikromova, Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 258 – Pope Sixtus II * 523 – Pope Hormisdas (born 450) * 750 – Marwan II, Umayyad general and caliph (born 688) *1027 – Richard III, Duke of Normandy *1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (born 1113) *1195 – Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (born 1129) *1221 – Saint Dominic, Spanish priest, founded the Dominican Order (born 1170) *1272 – Stephen V of Hungary (born 1239) *1384 – Francesco I Gattilusio, Francesco I of Lesbos *1412 – Margherita of Durazzo, Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (born 1347) *1414 – Ladislaus of Naples (born 1377) *1458 – Pope Callixtus III (born 1378) *1530 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (born 1458) *1553 – Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (born 1478) *1588 – Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1578–1588) (born 1554)


1601–1900

*1628 – Johannes Junius, German lawyer and politician (born 1573) *1637 – Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (born 1572) *1645 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant and politician (born 1575) *1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (born 1595) *1660 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter and educator (born 1599) *1666 – Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander (born 1622) *1679 – John Snell, Scottish-English soldier and philanthropist, founded the Snell Exhibition (born 1629) *1694 – Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1612) *1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (born 1625) *1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Estonian-Russian physicist and academic (born 1711) *1757 – Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (born 1673) *1794 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1714) *1815 – James A. Bayard (elder), James A. Bayard, American lawyer and politician (born 1767) *1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (born 1785) *1850 – Edward Walsh (poet), Edward Walsh, Irish poet (born 1805) *1866 – John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (born 1818) *1881 – James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (born 1821) *1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1811)


1901–present

*1904 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian author and critic (born 1825) *1906 – George Waterhouse (politician), George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1824) *
1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 * ...
– Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier, American physician (born 1841) *1920 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (born 1890) *1925 – Surendranath Banerjee, Indian academic and politician (born 1848) * 1925 – Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (born 1853) *1931 – Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (born 1903) *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be ...
– Richard Bong, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1920) * 1945 – Hiram Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of California (born 1866) *1946 – Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and coach (born 1903) *1952 – Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (born 1905) *1959 – Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (born 1898) *1964 – Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (born 1893) *1968 – Ye Gongchuo, Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher (born 1881) *1969 – Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1903) *1970 – Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1912) *1973 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th List of Presidents of Cuba, President of Cuba (born 1901) *1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (born 1903) *1978 – Pope Paul VI (born 1897) * 1978 – Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (born 1902) *1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911) *1983 – Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (born 1944) *1985 – Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (born 1923) *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...
– Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1904) *1987 – Ira C. Eaker, American general (born 1896) *
1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
– Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (born 1912) *
1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
– Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (born 1915) * 1991 – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (born 1900) * 1991 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist, co-created ''60 Minutes'' (born 1923) *1992 – Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (born 1949) *1993 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (born 1916) *1994 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and politician (born 1928) *
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
– Shin Ki-ha, South Korean lawyer and politician (born 1941) *1998 – André Weil, French-American mathematician and academic (born 1906) *
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
– Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (born 1912) * 2001 – Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Naval officer (born 1914) * 2001 – Wilhelm Mohnke, German general (born 1911) * 2001 – Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (born 1928) * 2001 – Dorothy Tutin, English actress (born 1930) *2002 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (born 1930) *2003 – Julius Baker, American flute player and educator (born 1915) *2004 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948) * 2004 – Donald Justice, American poet and academic (born 1925) *2005 – Robin Cook, Scottish educator and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1946) * 2005 – Creme Puff (cat), Creme Puff, tabby domestic cat, List of longest-living cats, oldest recorded cat (born 1967) *2007 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (born 1969) *
2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
– Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and author (born 1934) *2009 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (born 1909) * 2009 – Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950) * 2009 – John Hughes (filmmaker), John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1950) *
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
– Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator (born 1911) *
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
– Richard Cragun, American-Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1944) * 2012 – Marvin Hamlisch, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1944) * 2012 – Robert Hughes (critic), Robert Hughes, Australian-American author and critic (born 1938) * 2012 – Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (born 1913) * 2012 – Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (born 1954) * 2012 – Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (born 1918) * 2012 – Dan Roundfield, American basketball player (born 1953) *2013 – Stan Lynde, American author and illustrator (born 1931) * 2013 – Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (born 1929) * 2013 – Jerry Wolman, American businessman (born 1927) *2014 – Ralph Bryans, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (born 1941) * 2014 – Ananda W.P. Guruge, Sri Lankan scholar and diplomat (born 1928) * 2014 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (born 1927) *
2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
– Ray Hill (American football), Ray Hill, American football player (born 1975) * 2015 – Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (born 1924) *2017 – Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (born 1938) * 2017 – Darren Daulton, American baseball player (born 1962) *2018 – Joël Robuchon, French Chef (born 1945) * 2018 – Margaret Heckler, American politician (born 1931) * 2018 – Anya Krugovoy Silver, American poet (born 1968) * 2024 – Billy Bean, American baseball player (born 1964) * 2024 – Connie Chiume, South African actress and filmmaker (born 1952)


Holidays and observances

*Christian holidays and observances **Transfiguration of Jesus **Anna Maria Rubatto **Pope Hormisdas, Hormisdas **Justus and Pastor **August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) *Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates) *Independence Day (Bolivia), celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825. *Independence Day (Jamaica), celebrates the independence of
Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
from the United Kingdom in 1962. *Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (
Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...
, Japan) *Public holidays in Russia#List of other public holidays, commemorative and professional days, Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)


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