the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1975 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
1975 - Michel Simon, Swiss-French actor (b. 1895)
1978 - Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1909)
1980 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
1981 – Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
1986 - James Rainwater, American physicist (b. 1917)
1989 - Claude Pepper, American politician (b. 1899)
1993 – Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, American Mormon Church leader (b. 1899)
1994 - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
2000 - Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer and bandleader (b. 1914)
2006 - Shohei Amamura, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2007 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (b. 1933)
2009 – Luis Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1931)
2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli scientist and politician, President of Israel (b. 1916)
2009 – Gaafar Nimeiry, President of Sudan (b. 1930)
2010 - Peter Orlovsky, American author and actor (b. 1933)
2010 - Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1917)
2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist (b. 1921)
2012 - Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist (b. 1917)
2012 - Jack Twyman, American basketball player (b. 1934)
2013 - Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist (b. 1928)
2013 - Dean Brooks, American physician and actor (b. 1916)
2014 - Hanna Maron, German-Israeli actress (b. 1923)
2014 - Hienadz Buraukin, Belarussian poet, journalist and diplomat (b. 1936)
2014 - Henning Carlsen, Danish director (b. 1927)
2014 - Joan Lorring, American actress (b. 1926)
2015 - Beau Biden, American politician (b. 1969)
2015 - Lennie Merullo, American baseball player (b. 1917)
2015 - L. Tom Perry, American apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1922)
2015 - Julie Harris, English costume designer (b. 1921)
2015 - Tony McNamara, English footballer (b. 1929)
2016 - Kenne Fant, Swedish actor (b. 1923)
2016 - Tom Lysiak, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1953)
2016 - Rick MacLeish, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1950)
2017 - Molly Peters, British actress and model (b. 1942)
2017 - Dasari Narayana Rao, Indian film director and politician (b. 1942)
2017 - Elena Verdugo, American actress (b. 1925)
2017 - Gordon Brunton, British businessman (b. 1921)
2018 - Madiha Yousri, Egyptian actress (b. 1921)
2020 - Michael Angelis, English actor (b. 1952)
Anguilla Day
Canary Islands Day
Mother's Day (Nicaragua)
Traditional date for Memorial Day (United States)
February 21 – The trial of Joan of Arc
March 3 – Eugenius IV becomes Pope
May 30 – In Rouen, France, 19-year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.
Foundation of University of Poitiers
Battle of Inverlochy
April 14 – Battle of Mookerheyde:  Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau.
Louis is killed.
May 30 – On the death of King Charles IX of France, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III.
His mother, Catherine of Medici, acts as Regent until Henry arrives from Poland.
October 3 – The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, is relieved by a Sea Beggar fleet under Louis Boisot.
Murad III succeeds Selim II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
January - June
January 4 - Rapeye series by Paramount Pictures.
March 22 – People said the teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California were abusing the children in the school.
The police found out that this was not true.
March 23 – Sarah Tisdall, who told The Guardian newspaper that cruise missiles were coming to Britain, was sentenced to six months imprisonment.
March 24 – The Wran Government was chosen in NSW for a 4th term.
March 28 - The 1984 Carolinas tornado outbreak causes many deaths in North and South Carolina.
April 4 – President Ronald Reagan said that no one should use chemical weapons.
April 12 – Four young Palestinians took an Israeli bus hostage.
Israeli special forces got onto the bus and freed the hostages.
They killed 1 hostage and two of the hijackers.
Two other hijackers were captured and killed by Ehud Yatom.
He crushed their skulls while they were tied up.
Shin Bet chief Abraham Shalom told them to do this.
It caused a major scandal (Kav 300 affair).
April 13 – India started Operation Meghdoot.
They took control of most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir.
April 17 – WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead by a hidden gunman outside the Libyan Embassy in London during the event known as the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege.
April 19 – Advance Australia Fair was named as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
April 25 – The end of Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah's as the 7th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
April 26-  Her Highness The Queen Of North Last Heir Of The Great Stark Lineage Mellissa Elkin The Indestructible was born.
April 26 – Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail, the Sultan of Johor becomes the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
May 2 – The Liverpool Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
May 8 – The Soviet Union announced that it was not going to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
May 8 – Denis Lortie killed three people who worked for the government in the National Assembly of Quebec building.
May 11 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
May 14 – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
May 19 – Game show contestant Michael Larson won $100,000 on the game show Press Your Luck.
Later, people found out that he won the money by mainly using only two squares of the Press Your Luck "Big Board."
May 22 – Helen Branch was declared legally dead (she disappeared 1977).
May 27 – Fluminense won the Brazilian soccer league, against C.R. Vasco da Gama.
June 5 – The Indian government began Operation Blue Star.
It was a planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
June 6 – Indian troops attack the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh's holiest shrine.
They killed about 10,000 people.
June 8 – A deadly tornado almost destroyed Barneveld, Wisconsin.
It killed nine people, injured almost 200 people, and caused over $25,000,000 in damage.
June 8 – The movie Ghostbusters comes out in theaters.
It becomes a summer blockbuster hit.
The song "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. became a Top 40 hit.
July - December
October 26 - The Terminator is first shown in movie theaters.
October 26 - The 1984-85 NBA regular season begins.
November 4 – Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale in the largest landslide in United States History during the presidential elections.
November 29 - West Hollywood, California, a predominantly gay community, was incorporated as a city.
April 27 - Patrick Stump, American singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist
January 17 – Calvin Harris, Scottish singer and songwriter
January 23 – Lina Hahne, Miss Sweden 2007
January 25 – Stefan Kießling, German footballer
February 9 – Anna Jurkiewicz, Polish figure skater
February 12 – Alexandra Dahlström, Swedish actress
February 21 – David Odonkor, German footballer
March 25 – Katharine McPhee, American singer
April 10 – Mandy Moore, American actress and singer
April 30 – Shawn Daivari, Iranian-American professional wrestler
May 29 – Carmelo Anthony, NBA star
June 30 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
July 2 – Johnny Weir, American figure skater
July 11 – Tanith Belbin, American figure skater
August 1 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
August 21 – Alizée, French singer
September 2 – Jack Peñate, English singer-songwriter and musician
September 27 – Angela Haynes, American tennis player
September 27 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
September 29 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
October 2 – Marion Bartoli, French tennis player
October 3 – Ashlee Simpson, American singer and actress
October 26 – Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
October 27 – Kelly Osbourne, English singer
November 14 – Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer
November 23 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor, singer and songwriter
November 25 – Hồ Ngọc Hà, Vietnamese singer, model and actress
December 7 – Robert Kubica, Polish Formula 1 driver
December 22 – Basshunter, Swedish singer, record producer and DJ
January 20 – Johnny Weissmuller
April 1 – Marvin Gaye
May 16 – Andy Kaufman
July 26 – Ed Gein, serial killer (b. 1906)
October 28 - Wells Kelly, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans) (b. 1949)
Van Halen – Jump
Ray Parker, Jr. – Ghostbusters (Los Cazafantasmas)
Phil Collins – Against All Odds
The Aquitaine Progression – Robert Ludlum
The Big U – Neal Stephenson (debut novel)
Brother in the Land – Robert Swindells
The Butter Battle Book – Dr. Seuss
Empire of the Sun – James Ballard
First Among Equals – Jeffrey Archer
The Fourth Protocol – Frederick Forsyth
Full Circle – Danielle Steel
Lincoln: A Novel – Gore Vidal
Love and War – John Jakes
Hotel du Lac – Anita Brookner
The Lover () – Marguerite Duras
Money – Martin Amis
Neuromancer – William Gibson
The Outsider – Howard Fast
The Practice Effect – David Brin
Random Hearts – Warren Adler
Role of Honour – John Gardner
A Shock to the System – Simon Brett
The Sicilian – Mario Puzo
Slow Learner: Early Stories – Thomas Pynchon
Stanley and the Women – Kingsley Amis
The Talisman – Stephen King, Peter Straub
Thinner – Richard Bachman (nom de plume for Stephen King)
The Tie That Binds – Kent Haruf
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
White Noise – Don DeLillo
The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike
January 20 - President Ronald Reagan is inaugurated for the second time.
February 18 - NBA player Larry Bird barely misses a quadruple-double in a game against the Utah Jazz.
March 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
April 1 - Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble removed the moon & stars symbol from its packaging.
July 13 – Live Aid concerts take place in London and Philadelphia
September 1 – The wreckage of the RMS Titanic was found.
November 18 – Bill Watterson first publishes "Calvin and Hobbes".
November 20 – Microsoft ships the first version of Microsoft Windows out to be sold.
December 6 - The Boston Celtics pick up their only home loss of the 1985-86 NBA season, losing to the Portland Trail Blazers at Boston Garden.
They establish the best single-season NBA home court record of all time.
January 14 – Shawn Sawyer, Canadian figure skater
February 5 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
February 9 – David Gallagher, American actor
February 18 - Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican-American spree killer
February 19 – Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
March 26 – Keira Knightley, English actress
April 3 – Leona Lewis, English singer
May 2 – Lily Allen, English singer
May 2 – Kyle Busch, American NASCAR driver
June 2 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
June 4 – Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
June 4 – Lukas Podolski, Polish-born German footballer
June 30 – Charley Uchea, English Big Brother contestant
June 30 – Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler
July 2 – Mario Gómez, German footballer
July 6 – Naomi Nari Nam, American figure skater
August 18 – Rachel Smith, Panamanian-born Miss USA 2007
August 19 – Lindsey Jacobellis, American Olympic snowboarder
August 26 – Christopher Mabee, Canadian figure skater
September 14 – Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
September 17 – Alexander Ovechkin, Professional ice hockey player for the Washington Capitals
September 17 – Jon Walker, American guitarist
September 21 – Reza Alinejad, Iranian criminal
October 11 – Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
October 23 - Lachlan Gillespie, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
October 25 – Ciara, American R&B/Pop singer
November 4 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
December 10 – Raven Symone, American actress
Lindsay Hawker, British murder victim (d. 2007)
Charlotte Lindström, Swedish criminal and model
March 10 – Konstantin Chernenko, leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
May 16 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress
July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature winner (b. 1917)
August 8 – Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (b. 1906)
August 10 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born American actor (b. 1920)
August 12 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (b. 1941)
September 30 – Charles Richter, American scientist, creator of the Richter scale (b. 1900)
October 1 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
October 2 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
October 10 – Orson Welles, American director, writer and actor (b. 1915)
October 12 - Johnny Olson, American television announcer (b. 1910)
October 21 – Dan White, American politician who assassinated Harvey Milk and George Moscone in 1978 (b. 1946)
November 14 – Wellington Koo, Chinese diplomat (b. 1887)
December 6 - Carroll Cole, American serial killer (b. 1938) (executed)
December 14 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
December 26 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (b. 1932)
December 31 - Ricky Nelson, American singer (b. 1940)
"Glory Days" – Bruce Springsteen
"Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" – Judas Priest
"Crazy for You" – Madonna
"Reviens-moi" – Dalida
"C'était mon ami" – Dalida
"Le temps d'aimer" – Dalida
"Le Vénitien de Levallois" – Dalida
"Find A Way" – Amy Grant
"Wise Up" – Amy Grant
"Say You, Say Me" – Lionel Richie
"We Are the World" – USA for Africa
"Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore" – REO Speedwagon
"I'm Going Down" – Bruce Springsteen
"Freeway of Love" – Aretha Franklin
Forrest Gump – Winston Groom
January 24 – Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
January 24 – Ricky Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
February 1 – Johan Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer
February 19 – Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
February 21 – Charlotte Church, Welsh soprano
March 1 – Jonathan Spector, American footballer
March 9 – Brittany Snow, American actress
March 14 – Jamie Bell, English actor
March 16 – Alexandra Daddario, American actress
March 28 – Lady Gaga, American singer
April 3 – Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
April 9 – Leighton Meester, American actress
May 13 – Robert Pattinson, Actor, Singer & Model
May 16 – Megan Fox, American actress
June 3 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
June 10 – Joey Zimmerman, American actor
June 13 – Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
June 24 – Solange Knowles, American actress and singer
June 25 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
June 27 – Drake Bell, American actor
July 2 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress
July 4 – Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
July 17 – Brando Eaton, American actor
August 16 – Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
September 9 – Michael J. Sox, German singer
September 12 – Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
October 16 - Inna, Romanian singer and songwriter
October 31 – Christie Hayes, Australian actress
November 1 – Penn Badgley, American actor
November 2 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
November 3 – Jasmine Trias, American singer
November 5 – BoA, Korean singer
November 17 – Nani, Portuguese footballer
November 25 – Amber Hagerman, American murder victim (d. 1996)
December 28 – Tom Huddlestone, English football player
December 30 – Ellie Goulding, British singer
January 1 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
January 4 - Phil Lynott, Irish bass guitarist (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949)
January 8 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
January 14 – Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
January 24 – L. Ron Hubbard, American fiction writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
January 24 – Gordon MacRae, American actor, singer (b. 1921)
January 24 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (b. 1903)
January 27 – Lilli Palmer, actress (b. 1914)
January 28 – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe.
February 11 – Frank Herbert, American science fiction writer (b. 1920)
February 27 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)
February 28 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
March 6 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
March 10 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor (b. 1907)
March 30 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
April 14 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer and intellectual (b. 1908)
April 15 - Tim McIntire, American actor (b. 1944)
April 24 – Wallis Simpson, wife of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1896)
April 26 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
May 9 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain guide (b. 1914)
June 14 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899)
August 26 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
August 31 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
September 1 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
September 24 – Cliff Burton, American bassist and songwriter from Metallica (b. 1962)
October 14 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
October 19 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
November 2 – Paul Frees, American actor, comedian (b. 1920)
November 8 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890)
November 21 – Jerry Colonna, American comedian (b. 1904)
November 22 – Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician (b. 1910)
November 29 – Cary Grant, English actor (b. 1904)
December 2 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, musician and television producer (b. 1917)
December 26 – Elsa Lanchester, British-American actress (b. 1902)
December 28 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (b. 1932)
December 29 – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the UK (b. 1894)
January 1 – Spain and Portugal enter the European Community
January 1 – Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles.
January 9 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
January 12 – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.
January 20 – The first federal Martin Luther King Day, honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
January 24 – Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with Uranus
January 28 – Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven astronauts on board.
January 29 – Yoweri Kaguta Museveni became President of the Republic of Uganda after leading a successful five-year liberation struggle.
February 25 – Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines.
February 28 – Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated.
April 20 - NBA player Michael Jordan scores a playoff record 63 points in a game against the Boston Celtics.
April 21 – Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live television and finds nothing.
April 26 – An explosion occurs at a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl.
August 21 – A leak of volcanic gases at Lake Nyos in Cameroon kills many people nearby as they sleep.
September 24 — Metallica bassist Cliff Burton is killed in a bus crash
October 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan hold a meeting in Iceland.
October 19 – Mozambique's President Samora Machel dies in a plane crash.
Bubble Bobble is created, a video game popular world-wide
The Delta Force
My Little Pony: The Movie
16 Candles
"Stimulation – Wa Wa Nee
"You're The Voice" – John Farnham #1
"No Lies" – Noiseworks
"Funkytown" – Psudeo Echo #1
"Throw Your Arms Around Me" – Hunters + Collectors
"(There's Gonna Be) A Showdown – The Johnnys
"Walk Like an Egyptian" – The Bangles
"The Final Countdown" – Europe
"French Kissin' In The USA" – Debbie Harry
"True Colors" – Cyndi Lauper
"Hip To Be Square" – Huey Lewis and the News
"Real Wild Child (Wild One)" – Iggy Pop
"Hymn To Her" – The Pretenders
"War" – Bruce Springsteen
"Breakout" – Swing Out Sister
"I Want To Wake Up With You" – Boris Gardiner
"Two Of Hearts" – Stacey Q
"Whole Of The Moon" – Waterboys
"Take My Breath Away" – Berlin
"Glory Of Love" – Peter Cetera
"The Next Time I Fall" – Peter Cetera
"You Give Love A Bad Name" – Bon Jovi
"Move Away" – Culture Club
"That's What Friends Are For" – Dionne Warwick
"Hey, You!" –
"Little Baby" – Divine
"Sara" – Starship
"Parce que je ne t'aime plus" – Dalida
"Le sixième jour" – Dalida
"Addicted To Love" – Robert Palmer
"Stuck With You" – Huey Lewis & the News
"How Will I Know" – Whitney Houston
"When I Think of You" – Janet Jackson
"West End Girls" – Pet Shop Boys
"Live to Tell" – Madonna
"Holding Back The Years" – Simply Red
"Stay For Awhile" – Amy Grant
"Papa Don't Preach" – Madonna
"Rock Me Amadeus" – Falco
"On My Own" – Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald
"Notorious" – Duran Duran
"Sometimes" – Erasure
"Kyrie" – Mr. Mister
"That Was Then, This Is Now" – The Monkees
"Kiss" – Prince
"The Greatest Love of All" – Whitney Houston
"Manic Monday" – The Bangles
"Locked In" – Judas Priest
"Turbo Lover" – Judas Priest
"Love Walks In" – Van Halen
"La Isla Bonita" – Madonna
"Sledgehammer" – Peter Gabriel
"Invisible Touch" – Genesis
"Living In America" – James Brown
"Lady In Red" – Chris de Burgh
"Holding Out For A Hero" – Bonnie Tyler
"My Hometown" – Bruce Springsteen
"Venus" – Bananarama
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
The Bourne Supremacy – Robert Ludlum
The Bridge – Iain Banks
Cadillac Desert – Marc Reisner
The Fence Post Chronicles – W.P. Kinsella
The Fisher King – Anthony Powell
Ghost – Piers Anthony
The Golden Cup – Belva Plain
Hollywood Husbands – Jackie Collins
I'll Take Manhattan – Judith Krantz
In the Hollow of His Hand – James Purdy
It – Stephen King
Kara Kush – Idries Shah
Kate Vaiden – Reynolds Price
Last of the Breed – Louis L'Amour
Leo Africanus – Amin Maalouf
The Light Fantastic – Terry Pratchett
Love You Forever – Robert Munsch
A Matter of Honour – Jeffrey Archer
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America – Martin Amis
Nobody Lives For Ever – John Gardner
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
A Perfect Spy – John le Carré
The Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy
Red Storm Rising – Tom Clancy
Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
Sportswriter – Richard Ford
Tourist Season – Carl Hiaasen
Wanderlust – Danielle Steel
Whirlwind – James Clavell
The Wizards and the Warriors – Hugh Cook
30 BC  Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, commits suicide.
1099  First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders defeat Saracens and the Kingdom of Jerusalem is established under Godfrey of Bouillon.
1121  Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under David IV of Georgia wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
1164  Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
1323  Treaty of Nöteborg - Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time
1332  Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under the Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
1480  Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
1499  Battle of Zonchio: between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
1596  The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is created.
1624  The President of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.
1665  The naval battle of the Bay of Bergen takes place during the Anglo-Dutch War, ending in a Dutch victory over English forces.
1676  King Philip's War ends.
1793  Rhone and Loire departments in France are created.
1806  Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires retakes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, after the first British invasion.
1825  Simón Bolívar become president of Colombia.
1831  French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to crush the Belgian Revolution.
1833  Chicago, Illinois is incorporated as a city.
1851  Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1854  Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon is executed by shooting, for his part in the Battle of Guaymas.
1877  Asaph Hall discovers Deimos, a moon of Mars.
1881  The National Theater in Prague burns down.
1883  The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam
1898  Armistice ends the Spanish-American War
1898  The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
1908  First Model T Ford built
1914  World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
1914  Beginning of the Battle of Cer between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.
1928  The 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam end.
1933  Cuban leader Gerardo Machado is deposed by a general strike and flees the country.
1944  Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time 40,000 people were killed either randomly or by mass executions.
1944  SS officers murder almost all residents of the Italian village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, killing 560 people; 116 of them children.
1948  The United States recognizes the government of South Korea but not the government of North Korea.
1950  Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre - American POWs are killed by the North Korean army.
1952  13 Jewish intellectuals are murdered in one night in Moscow.
1953  Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb.
1953  The Greek islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia are severely damaged by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake.
1958  Art Kane photographs 57 important jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait "A Great Day in Harlem" in front of a brownstone in New York City.
1960  Echo I, the first communications satellite, is launched.
1964  South Africa is banned from the Olympics, because of its Apartheid policy.
It is reinstated in the 1990s, after Nelson Mandela was released.
1969  Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot.
1976  Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zataar massacre.
1977  First free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
1977  The 1977 Sri Lankan riots, targeting the Tamil minority, begin.
They ultimately result in the killings of around 300 Tamil people.
1980  The Montevideo Treaty, creating the Latin American Integration Association, is signed.
1981  The IBM PC, an early personal computer, is introduced.
1982  The Debt Crisis affecting Latin America and less-developed countries begins when Mexico announces that it is unable to pay its enormous external debt.
1985  Japan Airlines flight 123 Boeing 747 jumbo jet crashes into Mount Ogura, Japan killing 520, in the world's worst single-plane air disaster.
1990  Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to-date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
1992  Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the NAFTA.
1994  The Woodstock '94 rock concert takes place.
1994  Major League Baseball players go on strike.
The strike forces the cancellation of the World Series.
2000  Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea.
2000  Ronald Venetiaan becomes President of Suriname.
2004  Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's 3rd Prime Minister.
2004  Sweden announces that it has reached a population of 9 million.
2005  The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter space probe, of NASA, is sent to the planet Mars.
2010  Desi Bouterse becomes President of Suriname.
2012  The 2012 Summer Olympics in London end.
The Great Britain team, hosting the event, finishes with 29 gold medals, coming third behind the United States and China.
2014  Iranian-born Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman to win the Fields Medal, one of the biggest prizes in mathematics.
2015  Two explosions at a warehouse storing chemicals kill about 173 people in the city of Tianjin, China, and injure hundreds more.
2017  A car attack occurs in Unite the Right rally.
2018  NASA launches the unmanned Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun at close range and the solar wind.
2018  The first multi-sport European Championships in Glasgow and Berlin come to an end.
1503  King Christian III of Denmark and Norway (died 1559)
1517  Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Stadholder of the Netherlands (died 1604)
1566  Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (died 1633)
1604  Tokugawa Iemitsu, 3rd Tokugawa shogun (died 1651)
1629  Tsar Alexei I of Russia (died 1676)
1643  King Afonso IV of Portugal (died 1683)
1644  Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer (died 1704)
1681  Vitus Bering, Danish explorer (died 1741)
1720  Konrad Ekhof, German actor (died 1778)
1762  King George IV of the United Kingdom (died 1830)
1774  Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (died 1843)
1781  Robert Mills, American architect (died 1855)
1816  Ion Ghica, Romanian mathematician and politician (died 1897)
1831  Helena Blavatsky, Russian writer (died 1891)
1837  Sven Berggren, Swedish naturalist and botanist (died 1917)
1843  Colmar von der Goltz, Prussian field marshal (died 1916)
1856  Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1917)
1859  Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (died 1929)
1860  Klara Hitler, mother of Adolf Hitler (died 1907)
1866  Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (died 1954)
1866  Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter (died 1907)
1867  Edith Hamilton, German-American writer, teacher and classicist (died 1963)
1871  Gustavs Zemgals, 2nd President of Latvia (died 1939)
1872  Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1956)
1876  Mary Roberts Rinehart, American writer (died 1958)
1877  Albert Bartha, Hungarian general and politician (died 1960)
1880  Christy Mathewson, American Baseball Hall of Famer (died 1925)
1880  Radclyffe Hall, British writer (died 1943)
1881  Cecil B. DeMille, American director (died 1959)
1883  Pauline Frederick, American stage and movie actress (died 1938)
1885  Jean Cabannes, French physicist (died 1959)
1886  Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist (died 1952)
1887  Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist (died 1961)
1889  Zerna Sharp, American author and educator (died 1981)
1892  Alfred Lunt, actor (died 1977)
1896  Ejner Federspiel, Danish actor (died 1981)
1897  Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer (died 1981)
1902  Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia (died 1980)
1902  Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Egyptian Coptic Church leader (died 1971)
1903  Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Italian cardinal (died 1988)
1904  Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, heir to the throne of Russia (died 1918)
1906  Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player (died 1985)
1906  Tedd Pierce, animator (died 1972)
1907  Benjamin Sheares, 2nd President of Singapore (died 1981)
1907  Joe Besser, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges (died 1988)
1910  Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (died 1970)
1910  Gustav Lantschner, Austrian skier (died 2011)
1910  Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (died 1995)
1911  Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), Mexican actor, comedian and filmmaker (died 1993)
1912  Feroze Gandhi, Indian politician and journalist (died 1960)
1913  Richard L. Bare, American film director (died 2015)
1914  Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (died 2001)
1918  Sid Bernstein, American record producer (died 2013)
1919  Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (died 1971)
1919  Margaret Burbidge, English-American astrophysicist
1924  Hajo Meyer, German-Dutch physicist (died 2014)
1924  Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan (died 1988)
1924  Derek Shackleton, English cricketer, coach and umpire (died 2007)
1925  Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (died 2004)
1925  Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (died 1975)
1925  Thor Vilhjalmsson, Icelandic writer (died 2011)
1925  Dale Bumpers, American politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas (died 2016)
1926  John Derek, actor (died 1998)
1927  Don Shepherd, Welsh cricketer (died 2017)
1928  Bob Buhl, American Major League Baseball player (died 2001)
1928  Porter Wagoner, American country and western singer (died 2007)
1929  Buck Owens, American country and western singer (died 2006)
1930  George Soros, American businessman
1930  Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician
1931  William Goldman, American screenwriter (died 2018)
1932  Sirikit, Queen consort of Thailand
1935  Jan Popluhar, Slovakian footballer (died 2011)
1935  John Cazale, American actor (died 1978)
1936  André Kolingba, President of the Central African Republic (died 2010)
1937  Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (died 2014)
1939  George Hamilton, American actor
1939  Roy Romanow, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Saskatchewan
1939  David King, South African chemist and academic
1941  Dana Ivey, American actress and singer
1942  Martin Seligman, American psychologist
1945  Dorothy E. Denning, American computer scientist
1945  Jean Nouvel, French architect
1946  Terry Nutkins, English television presenter and author (died 2012)
1947  Stefano Benni, Italian writer and journalist
1948  Siddaramaiah, Indian politician, 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka
1949  Mark Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits)
1949  Terry Oldfield, British musician and composer
1949  Fernando Collor de Mello, former President of Brazil
1950  George McGinnis, American basketball player
1951  Andrzej Blumenfeld, Polish actor (died 2017)
1953  Carlos Mesa, former President of Bolivia
1954  François Hollande, former President of France
1954  Sam J. Jones, American actor
1954  CY Leung, 3rd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1954  Pat Metheny, American guitarist
1957  Amanda Redman, English actress
1960  Laurent Fignon, French cyclist (died 2010)
1960  Steven Hartley, English actor
1961  Roy Hay, English guitarist, keyboardist and composer (Culture Club)
1963  Koji Kitao, Japanese sumo wrestler
1965  Peter Krause, American actor, director and producer
1966  Tobias Ellwood, English politician
1967  Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
1970  Alan Brown, Scottish politician
1970  Toby Perkins, English politician
1971  Rebecca Gayheart, American actress
1971  Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1972  Del the Funky Homosapien, American rapper and producer
1972  Takanohana Kōji, Japanese sumo wrestler (65th Yokozuna)
1972  Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer
1973  Mark Iuliano, Italian footballer
1973  Richard Reid, alleged Al-Qaida operative; "the shoe bomber"
1973  Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi theologian and political leader
1975  Casey Affleck, American actor
1976  Wednesday 13, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976  Brad Lukowich, Canadian ice hockey player
1976  Richard McCourt, English comedian and actor
1976  Henry Tuilagi, Samoan rugby player
1976  Antoine Walker, American basketball player
1977  Jesper Gronkjaer, Danish footballer
1979  Austra Skujyte, Lithuanian athlete
1980  Royda Demirer, Turkish actress
1981  Djibril Cissé, French footballer
1982  Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
1983  Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Dutch footballer
1983  Kana Asumi, Japanese voice actress and singer
1986  Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player
1988  Tyson Fury, English boxer
1988  Justin Gaston, American singer-songwriter, model and actor
1988  Leah Pipes, American actress
1989  Tom Cleverley, English footballer
1990  Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer
1992  Cara Delevingne, English model and actress
1993  Luna, South Korean actress, singer and dancer
1998  Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
30 BC  Cleopatra VII, Egyptian Queen (born 69 BC)
875  Louis II of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor
1424  Yongle Emperor of China (born 1360)
1484  George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (born 1395)
1512  Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (born 1463)
1633  Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (born 1561)
1648  Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (born 1615)
1674  Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (born 1602)
1689  Pope Innocent XI (born 1611)
1809  Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (born 1738)
1827  William Blake, English poet (born 1757)
1848  George Stephenson, English engineer (born 1781)
1849  Albert Gallatin, American politician (born 1761)
1861  Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman (born 1793)
1891  James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (born 1819)
1900  Wilhelm Steinitz, German chess player (born 1836)
1900  James Edward Keeler, American astrophysicist (born 1857)
1901  Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Swedish polar explorer (born 1832)
1901  Francesco Crispi, Italian politician (born 1819)
1904  William Renshaw, British tennis player (born 1861)
1914  John Philip Holland, early submarine designer (born 1840)
1918  Anna Held, actress and singer (born 1872)
1920  Louisa Lawson, Australian writer and activist (born 1848)
1920  Hermann Struve, Baltic German astronomer and mathematician (born 1854)
1921  Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (born 1836)
1922  Arthur Griffith, Irish politician (born 1871)
1923  Vatrslav Jagić, Croatian philologist (born 1838)
1928  Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (born 1854)
1934  Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (born 1856)
1935  Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (born 1851)
1936  Victoria Diez Bustos de Molina, Spanish religious teacher (born 1903)
1941  Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India (born 1866)
1943  Bobby Peel, Yorkshire cricketer (born 1857).
1944  Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., American pilot, brother of John F. Kennedy (born 1915)
1948  Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel (born 1871)
1955  Thomas Mann, German writer (born 1875)
1955  James B. Sumner, American chemist (born 1887)
1964  Ian Fleming, British novelist (born 1908)
1973  Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist (born 1881)
1973  Karl Ziegler, German chemist (born 1898)
1979  Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906)
1982  Henry Fonda, American actor (born 1905)
1982  Salvador Sanchez, world champion boxer (born 1959)
1985  Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver (born 1951)
1985  Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (born 1941)
1989  William Shockley, physicist (born 1910)
1990  Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress and singer (born 1903)
1992  John Cage, American composer (born 1912)
1997  Luther Allison, American blues musician, guitarist (born 1939)
1999  Jean Drapeau, Canadian politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (born 1916)
2000  Loretta Young, American actress (born 1913)
2004  Godfrey Hounsfield, English engineer and inventor (born 1919)
2007  Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (born 1925)
2007  Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (born 1963)
2010  Isaac Bonewits, American author and activist (born 1949)
2010  Guido de Marco, President of Malta (born 1931)
2013  Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Dutch royal (born 1968)
2013  Tompall Glaser, American country music singer (born 1933)
2013  Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov, Russian writer (born 1930)
2013  David McLetchie, Scottish politician (born 1952)
2014  Lauren Bacall, American actress (born 1924)
2014  Abel Laudonio, Argentine boxer and actor (born 1938)
2014  Arlene Martel, American actress (born 1936)
2015  Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher (born 1929)
2015  Stephen Lewis, English actor (born 1926)
2015  Meshulim Feish Lowy, Hungarian-Canadian rabbi (born 1921)
2017  Heather Heyer, American counter-protestor (born 1985)
2017  Bryan Murray, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1942)
2018  Samir Amin, Egyptian-French economist (born 1931)
2018  Kazimiera Utrata, Polish actress (born 1932)
2019  DJ Arafat, Ivorian DJ and musician (born 1986)
2019  José Luis Brown, Argentine footballer (born 1956)
2019  Florin Halagian, Romanian footballer and manager (born 1939)
2019  Jim Marsh, American basketball player (born 1946)
2019  Hussein Salem, Egyptian-Spanish businessman (born 1933)
2019  Jan Simonsen, Norwegian politician (born 1953)
Astronomical events and holidays
The Annual Perseid Meteor Shower occurs around this date.
Mother's Day (Thailand)
Glorious Twelfth (United Kingdom)
International Youth Day (United Nations)
January 2 – Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, German type designer and educator
January 15 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt (d. 1970)
February 22 – Robert Wadlow, American record holder, world's tallest man (d. 1940)
February 26 – Otis R. Bowen, American politician, Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 (d. 2013)
March 5 – James Tobin, American economist (d. 2002)
March 29 – Sam Walton, American businessman, Wal-Mart (d. 1992)
April 8 – Betty Ford, American First Lady, wife of Gerald Ford (d. 2011)
May 25 – Edith Massey, American actress (d. 1984)
July 4 – Ann Landers, American writer and advice columnist (d. 2002)
July 14 – Ingmar Bergman Swedish movie director
July 18 – Nelson Mandela, South African prisoner of conscience and president (d. 2013)
August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
September 4 – Paul Harvey, American radio host
October 4 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist
October 17 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
October 18 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch liberal politician, former leader of the VVD party (d. 1992)
November 7 – Billy Graham, American religious leader (d. 2018)
November 9 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
November 29 – Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (d. 2007)
November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)
December 21 – Kurt Waldheim, President of Austria, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2007)
December 23 – Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982 (d. 2015)
January 6 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
January 9 – Émile Reynaud, French science teacher and maker of the first animated movies (b. 1844)
January 28 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (b. 1872)
February 6 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
February 10 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
March 13 – César Cui, Lithuanian composer (b. 1835)
March 25 – Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
March 27 – Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
April 20 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
April 21 – Manfred von Richthofen, "Red Baron", German World War I pilot (b. 1892)
May 14 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
May 19 – Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (b. 1885)
June 10 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (b. 1842)
July 3 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
July 17 – Tsar Nicholas II | Nicholas II  Alix of Hesse of Russia  (b. 1868) and his family (executed)
August 1 – John Riley Banister, law officer, cowboy, and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
August 18 – Henry Norwest, Canadian World War I sniper (b. 1884)
September 3 - Fanya Kaplan, attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin (b. 1890)
September 12 – George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
September 28 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
October 15 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. 1838)
October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American stage and screen actress (b. 1891)
November 4 – Wilfred Owen, English poet (killed in action) (b. 1893)
November 9 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
November 19 – Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
November 11 – The Armistice ends World War I
Fire Brigades Union founded in London
Çanakkale Conquest
End of German Empire
End of Austria-Hungary
End of German colonial Empire
Foundation of Royal Air Force
The Influenza pandemic of 1918 affected the United States, then lead to the world, which result to 100 million of people dead.
The economic could have have dropped half of the percent in the world.
A wombat is a marsupial in the family Vombatidae.
It lives in the Australian eucalyptus forests.
There are two genera with three living wombat species; the Common Wombat and the Hairy-nosed Wombats.
It is a medium-sized animal that makes a burrow by digging holes in the ground.
Wombats are usually around a metre (40 in) long when they are fully grown.
It is a kind of animal known as a marsupial because it has a pouch on its belly that holds its young, although it faces back instead of forward like most marsupials.
Having the pouch face backwards prevents dirt from building up in the pouch and hitting the offspring in the face when digging.
When its young are born they spend some time growing in their mother's pouch before going into the world.
Wombats are herbivores.
They eat plants, roots, and grasses.
They are nocturnal which means they sleep in the day and come out at night.
Some wombats have thick brown fur and very small ears.
They can weigh from 20 to 35 kilograms (45 to 80 lb).
They can live up to 7 years.
Wombats are commonly known and recognised by their waste products.
They are the only known mammals that excrete feces in cubic shape.
This lets people easily know when wombat habitats are nearby.
It also tells simply what the wombat may have eaten by examining the feces thoroughly.
Family Vombatidae: Wombats
Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus)
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons)
Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat or Yaminon (Lasiorhinus krefftii)
Wombania's Wombat Information Index
Russell The Wombat's Burrow
Diprotodonts
Marsupials of Australia
49 BC – Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon which signalled civil war.
9 - Beginning of the Xin dynasty in China.
69 - Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as Deputy Roman Emperor.
236 - Fabian became Pope.
1072 – Robert Guiscard conquered Palermo.
1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1776 – Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
1806 – Dutch in Cape Town surrendered to the British.
1810 – The marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais is annulled.
1821 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovered an island near Antarctica which he names Tsar Peter I Island.
1840 - Isaac Pitman introduced long-distance learning; his students are able to send him their work by post.
1861 – Florida seceded from the United States.
1863 – The first section of the London Underground Railway opened (Paddington to Farringdon Street).
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
1901 – The first great Texas gusher - oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1910 - British passenger ship Loodiana disappeared off Port Louis, Mauritius - a mystery that has not been solved to-date.
1916 - World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeated the Ottoman Empire.
1920 – League of Nations held its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
1923 – Lithuania seized and annexed Memel.
1927 – The movie Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiered.
1929 – Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, made his debut.
He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages.
1941 – Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
1946 – First General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London.
51 nations are represented.
1946 - The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1954 - BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.
106 Comet 1 aircraft, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea off Italy, killing 35 people.
1957 – Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1962 - NASA announces plans to build what would become the Saturn V rocket.
1964 - Panama temporarily breaks off diplomatic relations with the United States.
These are restored on April 3.
1969 – After 147 years, the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post is published.
1971 – Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS.
1972 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman becomes President of Bangladesh.
1984 – The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
1985 - Daniel Ortega becomes President of Nicaragua.
1989 – Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
1990 – Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
2000 – America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.
2001 – Wikipedia started as part of Nupedia.
It becomes a separate site five days later.
2005 - A ban on smoking in public places came into force in Italy.
2005 - A mudslide occurred in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people.
2007 - Daniel Ortega became President of Nicaragua for the second time.
2011 - 2010-2011 Queensland floods: Severe flooding occurred in the Lockyer Valley around Toowoomba, Queensland.
2013 - Over 100 people are killed in bomb attacks in Pakistan.