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2012 Event - New findings from MESSENGER, NASA's space probe, indicate almost definitively, that the north pole of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has water ice buried beneath the surface

2011 Event - In South Korea, 1.4 million domestic pigs are buried alive to combat an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

2010 Event - Rescuers search for over 200 people believed to be buried in their homes by a landslide in Murro do Bumba near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2010 Event - Egypt announces the discovery of a granite head from a statue of Tutankhamun's grandfather, Amenhotep III, buried at a temple in Luxor

2010 Event - A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, devastating its capital city, Port-au-Prince, an estimated 150,000 were killed and buried later in mass graves

2009 Event - Buddhist Treasures buried during the 1930's Mongolian Communist Purge, were discovered in the Gobi desert

2007 Event - Gerald Ford is buried in Grand Rapids, Michigan

1996 Event - "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater New York City after 77 performances

1996 Event - "Buried Child," opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 77 performances

1995 Death - Shlomo Averbach, Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend

1994 Death - Georgi, Czar Nicholas II's brother, buried

1994 Death - Elias Canetti, buried next to James Joyce

1994 Death - Kim II Sung, President of North-Korea (1948-94), buried

1994 Event - President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California

1989 Event - Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake

1988 Event - Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington

1983 Death - Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried

1980 Event - Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried

1979 Death - Julius Sommer, dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio

1979 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"

1978 Event - Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," premieres in New York City

1978 Death - Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49

1975 Event - Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent

1972 Death - Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder (SF Zen Center), ashes buried

1971 Event - Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow

1971 Death - Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow

1968 Event - Ex-premier Papandreou buried/300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta

1968 Event - Martin Luther King, Jr., buried in Atlanta

1967 Death - Arnhem "Tata" Joseph Weiss, "the Zigeunerbaron," buried

1958 Event - Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and Korean War buried in Arlington

1953 Event - Josef Stalin buried in Moscow

1945 Event - Hannie Buy buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina

1945 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt buried on grounds of Hyde Park home

1944 Death - Colijn, Netherlands PM, buried

1942 Death - Buck Jones, Hollywood's last cowboy hero actor (Headin' East), buried

1941 Event - 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine

1938 Event - Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm)

1938 Birthday - James Farentino, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Dead and Buried, Final Countdown

1937 Death - Betty Carver, wife of Bernard Montgomery, buried

1930 Event - President and Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington

1910 Event - 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history

1909 Event - Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels

1907 Death - Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahlers eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever and diptheria at 4 years and 7 months of age in Maiernigg, Austria, five days after her father, Gustav Mahler's 47th birthday. She is buried at Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna.

1891 Death - Charles Stewart Parnells, remains buried in Ireland

1890 Event - Willem III, Dutch king, buried

1890 Death - Willem III, Dutch king, buried

1874 Death - David Livingstone, buried in Westminster Abbey

1859 Birthday - Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet, A Buried Life

1842 Death - Stendhal [Marie-H Beyle], French writer (The Love), buried at 59

1836 Event - Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)

1832 Death - John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried

1832 Death - Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church

1775 Event - 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)

1759 Death - Georg Friedrich Handel, buried in Westminster Abbey

1758 Death - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78

1720 Death - Pieter van Flowers, Flemish painter, buried at 63

1719 Death - Jan Weenix, Dutch painter, buried

1719 Death - Steven J Vennekool, Amsterdam's master builder, buried

1711 Death - Gerard Lairesse, painter, buried

1708 Death - Romeyn de Hooghe, painter/goldsmith, buried at 62

1702 Death - John de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69

1698 Death - Justus Vingboons, Architect, buried

1697 Death - Constantine Huygens, Jr., Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried

1697 Death - Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island

1694 Death - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, buried at 64

1691 Death - Albert Cuyp, landscape painter, buried at 71

1689 Death - Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried

1688 Death - Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68

1688 Death - Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant, buried

1687 Death - Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried

1685 Death - Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter, buried

1684 Death - Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48

1680 Death - Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried

1679 Death - Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried

1678 Death - Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried

1676 Death - Daniel Stalpaert, Amsterdams master builder, buried

1675 Death - Gerard Dou, Dutch painter, buried

1673 Death - Adam Pijnacker, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51

1669 Death - Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 31

1668 Death - Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried

1667 Death - Gabriel Metsu, Dutch painter, buried

1667 Death - Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33

1667 Death - John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried

1667 Death - Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried

1662 Death - Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64

1661 Death - Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73

1660 Death - Judith Jansdochter Leyster, Dutch painter, buried

1656 Death - Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55

1654 Death - Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried

1653 Death - Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49

1650 Death - Abraham de Verwer, painter, buried at about 55

1649 Death - Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried

1638 Death - Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish painter, buried at about 63

1633 Death - Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62

1632 Death - Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38

1631 Death - John Pijnas, Dutch painter, buried at about 47

1630 Death - Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried

1620 Death - Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam

1619 Death - John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried

1616 Death - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet, buried at 68

1612 Death - Maarten van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 77

1611 Death - Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72

1610 Death - Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32

1609 Death - Cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried

1597 Death - Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 61

1558 Event - Charles V, German emperor, buried

1488 Death - Hermann Vischer, "the Old", buried

1094 Death - St. Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice

1073 Event - Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII













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