Year | Description | Category |
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2019 | Golfer from United States, Gene Littler died. | Death day |
1999 | American physicist Henry Way Kendall died. | Death day |
1995 | 64 people died in Restaurant fire at Taichung, Taiwan. | Man-Made Disaster |
1991 | Chess grandmaster from Georgia, Davit Benidze was born. | Birthday |
1991 | 171 people died in Thung Maphrao truck explosion. | Man-Made Disaster |
1990 | Chess grandmaster from Armenia, Hovik Hayrapetyan was born. | Birthday |
1988 | American physicist Richard Feynman died. | Death day |
1977 | Chess grandmaster from Soviet Union, Isaac Boleslavsky died. | Death day |
1977 | Aeroflot Flight 5003 aircraft incident at near Mineralnye Vody, Russian SFSR, USSR, killed 77 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
1976 | The closing ceremony of XIX Olympic Winter Games, or 1976 Winter olympics was held in Innsbruck. | |
1976 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Daniel Fridman was born. | Birthday |
1972 | Sumo wrestler Tominohana was born. | Birthday |
1970 | Chess grandmaster from Montenegro, Dragan Kosic was born. | Birthday |
1970 | Dominicana de AviaciĆ³n (HI-177) aircraft incident at Caribbean, off Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, killed 102 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
1968 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Thorsten Michael Haub was born. | Birthday |
1968 | Chess grandmaster from United States, Patrick Wolff was born. | Birthday |
1964 | Astronaut from United States, Leland Melvin was born. | Birthday |
1961 | Sabena Flight 548 aircraft incident at Brussels, Belgium, killed 73 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
1960 | Chess grandmaster from Iceland, Margeir Petursson was born. | Birthday |
1959 | British physicist Owen Willans Richardson died. | Death day |
1958 | Chess grandmaster from England, Mark Hebden was born. | Birthday |
1958 | Chess grandmaster from Spain, Juan Mario Gomez Esteban was born. | Birthday |
1956 | West Indian cricketer Desmond Haynes was born. | Birthday |
1947 | Avianca (C-114) aircraft incident at Mt. El Tablazo, Subachoque, Colombia, killed 53 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
1944 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Aleksandr Serebrov was born. | Birthday |
1934 | Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth was born. | Birthday |
1932 | The closing ceremony of III Olympic Winter Games, or 1932 Winter olympics was held in Lake Placid. | |
1931 | German inventor Gerhard Sessler was born. | Birthday |
1928 | British politician H. H. Asquith died. | Death day |
1913 | Chess grandmaster from Austria, Erich Eliskases was born. | Birthday |
1909 | 250 people died in Flores Theater fire at Acapulco, Mexico. | Man-Made Disaster |
1899 | American actress Gale Sondergaard was born. | Birthday |
1873 | chemist Hans von Euler-Chelpin was born. | Birthday |
1861 | Swiss physicist Charles Edouard Guillaume was born. | Birthday |
1858 | American inventor John J. Montgomery was born. | Birthday |
1845 | American lawyer and statesman Elihu Root was born. | Birthday |
1844 | British politician Henry Addington died. | Death day |
1841 | Brazilian politician Campos Sales was born. | Birthday |
1775 | Papacy of Pope Pius VI began. | Papacy began |
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