| Shibu Soren | 1/11/1944 | Birth | Indian politician |
| James McNeill | 3/27/1869 | Birth | Irish politician |
| Andreas Papandreou | 2/5/1919 | Birth | Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece |
| Aris Spiliotopoulos | 10/28/1966 | Birth | Greek politician |
| João Maurício Wanderley | 10/23/1815 | Birth | Brazilian magistrate and politician |
| Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenho... | 11/17/1894 | Birth | Austrian politician |
| Edward J. King | 9/18/2006 | Death | 66th Governor of Massachusetts |
| Joaquin Murieta | 7/25/1853 | Death | California outlaw |
| Marla Ruzicka | 4/16/2005 | Death | US humanitarian worker and peace activist |
| Duff Cooper | 1/1/1954 | Death | British diplomat and writer |
| Henrietta Anne Stuart | 6/30/1670 | Death | Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland |
| Dmitry Konstantinovich | 6/5/1383 | Death | Russian prince |
| Count Galeazzo Ciano | 1/11/1944 | Death | Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolin... |
| Rudolph I of Germany | 7/15/1291 | Death | Holy Roman Emperor |
| Tom O'Higgins | 2/25/2003 | Death | Irish Chief Justice |
| Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg an... | 7/30/1900 | Death | |
| Archduke Albert VI of Austria | 12/2/1463 | Death | |
| Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Et... | 12/12/1817 | Death | |
| Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba | 12/2/1515 | Death | Spanish general and statesman |
| Emperor Gaozu | 6/25/635 | Death | first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty |
| King Peter III of Aragon | 11/2/1285 | Death | |
| Maximilian I of Bavaria | 10/13/1825 | Death | |
| * 5/1/1886 — The Haymarket riots in Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois are the start of the general strike which ev... |
| * 9/18/1850 — The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. |
| * 12/22/1807 — The Embargo Act forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urg... |
| * 6/10/2002 — The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried... |
| * 8/29/1350 — Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a... |
| * 11/7/1956 — Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom Fran... |
| * 11/22/1837 — Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie called for a rebellion against Great Britain in... |
| * 6/25/1935 — Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established. |
| * 7/5/1977 — Military coup in Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto the very first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan overthrow... |
| * 7/25/1593 — Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. |
| * 1/26/1565 — Battle of Talikota fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, lea... |
| * 5/16/1975 — India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote was in favour... |
| * 9/18/2006 — Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest Hungary, one day after... |
| * 1/11/1996 — Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
| * 4/6/1911 — Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj Leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuz... |
| * 9/3/1189 — Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster. |
| * 10/23/1867 — 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate. |
| * 4/21/1792 — Tiradentes a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and q... |
| * 1/1/2006 — Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometer peaked at 45 degr... |
| * 1/11/1996 — Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space... |
| * 3/2/1946 — Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam. |
| * 4/16/1953 — Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Britannia. |
| * 6/5/1851 — Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-mont... |
| * 8/4/1791 — The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. |
| * 8/24/49 BC — Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by... |