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What happend on 13. December in History
In our data base we found 320 events happened on 13. December:
• 558: Childebert I, Frankish king (b. 496) [category: Deaths]
• 558: King Chlothar I reunites the Frankish Kingdom after his brother Childebert I has died. He becomes sole ruler of the Franks. [category: Events]
• 1048: Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Persian scholar and polymath (b. 973) [category: Deaths]
• 1124: Pope Callixtus II (b. 1065) [category: Deaths]
• 1126: Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1075) [category: Deaths]
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• 1204: Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135) [category: Deaths]
• 1250: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194) [category: Deaths]
• 1294: Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. [category: Events]
• 1404: Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1336) [category: Deaths]
• 1466: Donatello, Florentine painter and sculptor (b. 1386) [category: Deaths]
• 1516: Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer and historian (b. 1462) [category: Deaths]
• 1521: Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590) [category: Births]
• 1521: Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469) [category: Deaths]
• 1533: Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577) [category: Births]
• 1545: The Council of Trent begins. [category: Events]
• 1553: Henry IV of France (d. 1610) [category: Births]
• 1557: Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (b. 1499) [category: Deaths]
• 1565: Conrad Gessner, Swiss botanist (b. 1516) [category: Deaths]
• 1577: Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage. [category: Events]
• 1585: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649) [category: Births]
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• 1603: Franciscus Vieta, French mathematician (b. 1540) [category: Deaths]
• 1621: Catherine Stenbock, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535) [category: Deaths]
• 1636: The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National Guard of the United States. [category: Events]
• 1640: Robert Plot, English chemist (d. 1696) [category: Births]
• 1642: Abel Tasman reaches New Zealand. [category: Events]
• 1643: English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire. [category: Events]
• 1662: Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729) [category: Births]
• 1678: Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735) [category: Births]
• 1684: Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian, philosopher, and author (d. 1754) [category: Births]
• 1716: Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640) [category: Deaths]
• 1720: Carlo Gozzi, Italian playwright (d. 1804) [category: Births]
• 1721: Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (b. 1676) [category: Deaths]
• 1724: Franz Aepinus, German philosopher (d. 1802) [category: Births]
• 1729: Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676) [category: Deaths]
• 1754: Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1696) [category: Deaths]
• 1769: Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (b. 1715) [category: Deaths]
• 1769: Dartmouth College is founded by Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth. [category: Events]
• 1780: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (d. 1849) [category: Births]
• 1783: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717) [category: Deaths]
• 1784: Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864) [category: Births]
• 1784: Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (b. 1709) [category: Deaths]
• 1797: Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856) [category: Births]
• 1804: Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1809: Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor. [category: Events]
• 1814: Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (d. 1880) [category: Births]
• 1814: Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Belgian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1735) [category: Deaths]
• 1816: Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1818: Mary Todd Lincoln, American wife of Abraham Lincoln, 17th First Lady of the United States (d. 1882) [category: Births]
• 1835: John Storm, American soldier (b. 1760) [category: Deaths]
• 1836: Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1837: Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (b. 1756) [category: Deaths]
• 1854: Herman Bavinck, Dutch theologian and churchman (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1856: Svetozar Boroević, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1860: Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1862: American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose Burnside. [category: Events]
• 1863: Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (b. 1813) [category: Deaths]
• 1864: Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1867: Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian scientist (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1867: A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, England, United Kingdom, killing six. [category: Events]
• 1868: Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (b. 1794) [category: Deaths]
• 1870: Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1871: Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1874: Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1881: August Šenoa, Croatian author and poet (b. 1838) [category: Deaths]
• 1883: Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and archivist (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1883: Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 1884: Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1887: Alvin York, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1887: George Pólya, Hungarian-American mathematician (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1893: Georg August Rudolph, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816) [category: Deaths]
• 1895: Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800) [category: Deaths]
• 1897: Albert Aalbers, Dutch architect, designed the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1897: Drew Pearson, American journalist (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1900: Jonel Perlea, Romanian conductor (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1902: Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1902: Talcott Parsons, American sociologist (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1903: Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1903: Ella Baker, American activist (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1906: Laurens van der Post, South African author (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1906: Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1908: Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: Sol Saks, American actor, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1910: Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1911: Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1911: Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1913: Archie Moore, American boxer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1913: Arnold Brown, English 11th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1914: Alan Bullock, English historian and author (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1915: B. J. Vorster, South African politician,4th State President of South Africa (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1915: Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1915: Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1917: John Hart, American actor (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1919: Hans-Joachim Marseille, German pilot (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1919: Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850) [category: Deaths]
• 1920: George P. Shultz, American economist and politician, 60th United States Secretary of State [category: Births]
• 1922: Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Larry Doby, American baseball player (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1923: Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1924: Samuel Gompers, English-American labor leader (b. 1850) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and producer [category: Births]
• 1926: George Rhoden, Jamaican runner [category: Births]
• 1928: Eve Meyer, American model and actress (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1929: Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1930: Robert Prosky, American actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1930: Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1931: Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1934: Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Joe Christopher, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1935: Kenneth Hall, American football player [category: Births]
• 1935: Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1935: Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Aga Khan IV, Swiss-French 49th Nizari Ismaili Imam [category: Births]
• 1936: J. C. Martin, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1937: Rob Houwer, Dutch film producer [category: Births]
• 1937: Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player [category: Births]
• 1937: Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1937: Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing. [category: Events]
• 1937: Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. [category: Events]
• 1938: Alvin Curran, American musician and composer (Musica Elettronica Viva) [category: Births]
• 1938: Heino, German singer [category: Births]
• 1938: The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany. [category: Events]
• 1939: Eric Flynn, Chinese-Welsh actor and singer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1939: World War II: Battle of the River Plate – Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles. [category: Events]
• 1940: George Regas, Greek actor (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Manuel de Escandón, Mexican polo player (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Bessel Kok, Dutch businessman [category: Births]
• 1941: John Davidson, American actor and game show host [category: Births]
• 1941: World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. [category: Events]
• 1942: Anna Eshoo, American politician [category: Births]
• 1942: Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player [category: Births]
• 1943: World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece. [category: Events]
• 1944: Dick Dees, Dutch politician [category: Births]
• 1944: Hwang Jang Lee, Japanese-Korean martial artist and actor [category: Births]
• 1944: Marti Webb, English actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1944: Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1945: Herman Cain, American businessman, radio host, and politician [category: Births]
• 1945: Kathy Garver, American actress [category: Births]
• 1945: Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Irma Grese, German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Josef Kramer, German nazi commandant (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Darlene Cates, American actress [category: Births]
• 1947: Dave Hamilton, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1947: Rex Hagon, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Brian Wilson, Scottish politician [category: Births]
• 1948: Jeff Baxter, American guitarist (Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers) [category: Births]
• 1948: Lester Bangs, American journalist and author (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1948: Lillian Board, South African-English sprinter (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1948: Ted Nugent, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Amboy Dukes, Damn Yankees, and Damnocracy) [category: Births]
• 1949: Luc Sala, Dutch businessman [category: Births]
• 1949: Paula Wilcox, English actress [category: Births]
• 1949: Randy Owen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alabama) [category: Births]
• 1949: Robert Lindsay, English actor [category: Births]
• 1949: Tom Verlaine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Television and Neon Boys) [category: Births]
• 1949: The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. [category: Events]
• 1950: Heather North, American actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Tom Vilsack, American politician, 30th United States Secretary of Agriculture [category: Births]
• 1950: Wendie Malick, American actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Junkyard Dog, American wrestler (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1952: Larry Kenon, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1953: Ben Bernanke, American economist, 14th Chairman of the Federal Reserve [category: Births]
• 1953: Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1953: Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1953: Jim Davidson, English comedian [category: Births]
• 1954: Emma Bull, American author [category: Births]
• 1954: John Anderson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1954: Steve Forbert, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1954: Tamora Pierce, American author [category: Births]
• 1954: John Raymond Hubbell, American director and composer (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Dale Berra, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1956: Majida El Roumi, Lebanese soprano and actress [category: Births]
• 1956: Phil Hubbard, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1957: Eric Marienthal, American saxophonist (Chick Corea Elektric Band and Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band) [category: Births]
• 1957: Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman [category: Births]
• 1957: Morris Day, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Time and Flyte Tyme) [category: Births]
• 1957: Steve Buscemi, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1958: Lynn-Holly Johnson, American figure skater and actress [category: Births]
• 1958: Tim Moore, American actor (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Jim Barrell, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1959: Johnny Whitaker, American actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus. [category: Events]
• 1960: Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Rusty Cundieff, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Dora Marsden, English author and activist (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: While Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor. [category: Events]
• 1961: Gary Zimmerman, American football player [category: Births]
• 1961: Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer, conductor, and producer [category: Births]
• 1961: Irene Sáez, Venezuelan model and politician, Miss Universe 1981 [category: Births]
• 1961: Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Jamie Raskin, American academic and politician [category: Births]
• 1962: Rex Ryan, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1962: Rob Ryan, American football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1962: Roger Ilegems, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1962: Harry Barris, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Rhythm Boys) (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. [category: Events]
• 1964: Hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (X Japan and Zilch) (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1965: Jackie Clune, English actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1965: Marko Mäetamm, Estonian illustrator [category: Births]
• 1966: Don Roff, American screenwriter and director [category: Births]
• 1966: Mike Tirico, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1966: Ross Burden, New Zealand chef [category: Births]
• 1967: Bo Pelini, American football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1967: Jamie Foxx, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1967: NeNe Leakes, American actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels [category: Events]
• 1968: Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 (or the fifth Institutional Act), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military government. [category: Events]
• 1969: Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1969: Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1969: Tony Curran, Scottish actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Spencer Williams, American actor and director (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Austrian mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1972: Chris Grant, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Niki Evans, English singer [category: Births]
• 1972: Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon. [category: Events]
• 1973: Christie Clark, American actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Henry Green, English author (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Debbie Matenopoulos, American actress and television host [category: Births]
• 1974: Nicholas McCarthy, English singer and guitarist (Franz Ferdinand and Box Codax) [category: Births]
• 1974: Sara Cox, English television and radio host [category: Births]
• 1974: Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations [category: Events]
• 1975: Bates Battaglia, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1975: Kostas Kiassos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Tom DeLonge, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (blink-182, Angels & Airwaves, and Box Car Racer) [category: Births]
• 1976: Josh Fogg, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Søren Friis, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Peter Stringer, Irish rugby player [category: Births]
• 1977: Sascha Kindred, German-English swimmer [category: Births]
• 1977: A DC-3 aircraft chartered from the Indianapolis, Indiana-based National Jet crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff and boosters of the team. [category: Events]
• 1978: B.J. Penn, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1978: Olav Bjortomt, English quiz player [category: Births]
• 1978: Ryo Kawakita, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (Maximum the Hormone) [category: Births]
• 1979: Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election. [category: Events]
• 1980: Bosco Wong, Hong Kong singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Patrik Antonius, Finnish poker player [category: Births]
• 1980: Ryan France, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Amy Lee, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Evanescence) [category: Births]
• 1981: Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity. [category: Events]
• 1982: Anthony Callea, Australian singer-songwriter and actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1982: Dominik Werling, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1983: Matt Deis, American bass player and songwriter (CKY and All That Remains) [category: Births]
• 1983: Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer [category: Births]
• 1983: Alexander Schmemann, Estonian priest and theologian (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Hanna-Maria Seppälä, Finnish swimmer [category: Births]
• 1984: Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Alby Mathewson, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1985: Laurence Leboeuf, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Michael Bumpus, American football player [category: Births]
• 1986: Dennis Bermudez, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1986: Mathieu Gnanligo, Beninese sprinter [category: Births]
• 1986: Ella Baker, American activist (b, 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Heather Angel, English actress (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Smita Patil, Indian actress (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: James Eagan Holmes, American spree killer [category: Births]
• 1988: Rickie Fowler, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1988: Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter the United States. [category: Events]
• 1989: Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded. [category: Events]
• 1991: Senah Mango, Togolese footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Vanessa Duriès, French author (b. 1972) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Michalis Nikolinakos, Greek actor (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Norman Beaton, Guyanese actor (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Ann Nolan Clark, American author (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Edward Blishen, English author (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: The "Texas Seven" escape from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed. [category: Events]
• 2001: Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Death Control Denied, and Voodoocult) (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: The Parliament of India Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists. [category: Events]
• 2002: Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004. [category: Events]
• 2003: William V. Roth, Jr., American politician (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn). [category: Events]
• 2004: Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: David Wheeler, English computer scientist (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Stanley Williams, American gang leader, co-founded the Crips (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Timothy Jordan II, American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter (Jonezetta) (b. 1981) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor and activist (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Mark Partridge, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: John Drake, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Kathy Staff, English actress (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Enrique Morente, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Woolly Wolstenholme, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Barclay James Harvest) (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Kabir Chowdhury, Bangladeshi academic (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Murder-suicide in the city of Liège (Belgium), killing 6 and wounding 125 people at a Christmas market. [category: Events]
• 2012: Abdesslam Yassine, Moroccan educator, founder and leader of Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ian Black, Scottish footballer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jack Hanlon, American actor (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Natalya Kustinskaya, Russian actress (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Rob Talbot, New Zealand politician (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: T. Shanmugham, Indian footballer and coach (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Willie Ackerman, American drummer (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• _: Acadian Remembrance Day (Acadians) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Lucy [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Odile of Alsace [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Republic Day (Malta) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Saint Lucy's Day (mainly Scandinavia, some regions of Italy (for example, Sicily, Veneto and Trentino), and Malta), and its related observances: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Tellus was worshipped in the district Carinae at the Esquiline Hill, and a lectisternium or table was spread for Ceres. (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]