Year | Description | Category |
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2012 | Chess grandmaster from Serbia, Svetozar Gligorić died. | Death day |
2005 | Helios Airways Flight 522 aircraft incident at Grammatiko, Greece, killed 121 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
2000 | Polish-American poet Czeslaw Milosz died. | Death day |
1996 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Maxim Lugovskoy was born. | Birthday |
1996 | Chess grandmaster from Hungary, Károly Honfi died. | Death day |
1994 | German author Elias Canetti died. | Death day |
1993 | Chess grandmaster from Italy, Andrea Stella was born. | Birthday |
1992 | Sumo wrestler Sakaefuji was born. | Birthday |
1990 | Chess grandmaster from India, Ashwin Jayaram was born. | Birthday |
1990 | South Korean badminton player Kim Gi Jung was born. | Birthday |
1985 | American actress Gale Sondergaard died. | Death day |
1981 | Accident in Hamburger Dom, located at Hamburg, Germany killed 7. | Man-Made Disaster |
1973 | Nigerian footballer Jay-Jay Okocha was born. | Birthday |
1972 | Interflug (DM-SEA) aircraft incident at Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany, killed 156 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
1969 | Astronaut from United States, Tracy Caldwell Dyson was born. | Birthday |
1966 | American actress Halle Berry was born. | Birthday |
1959 | American actress Marcia Gay Harden was born. | Birthday |
1958 | French chemist Frederic Joliot-Curie died. | Death day |
1958 | KLM Flight 607E aircraft incident at Atlantic Ocean, area of Shannon, Ireland, killed 99 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
1958 | American businessman Steve Burke was born. | Birthday |
1953 | American music composer James Horner was born. | Birthday |
1952 | Astronaut from United States, Mark Lee was born. | Birthday |
1948 | The closing ceremony of Games of the XIV Olympiad, or 1948 Summer olympics was held in London. | |
1943 | Hollywood film This Is the Army was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing movies. | Release Date |
1943 | Astronaut from United States, Jon McBride was born. | Birthday |
1941 | French chemist Paul Sabatier died. | Death day |
1933 | Swiss chemist Richard R. Ernst was born. | Birthday |
1932 | The closing ceremony of Games of the X Olympiad, or 1932 Summer olympics was held in Los Angeles. | |
1919 | American electrical engineer Hubert Schlafly was born. | Birthday |
1887 | Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt was born. | Birthday |
1867 | English novelist and playwright John Galsworthy was born. | Birthday |
1777 | Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Orsted was born. | Birthday |
1742 | Pope Pius VII was born. | Birthday |
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