At the age of 140

• 31-August-2006 : Edvard Munch paintings ''The Scream'' and ''Madonna'' are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway. >
• 27-January-2006 : Celebrations are held in Salzburg and around the , for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• 22-August-2004 : Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's ''The Scream'', ''Madonna'', and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
• 08-June-2004 : The pickled heart of Louis XVII of France is buried in the royal crypt at SaintSaintDenis.
• 11-May-2003 : Benvenuto Cellini's ''Saliera'' is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
• 10-July-2002 : At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" (first version) is sold for ?49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.
• 05-November-1998 : The journal ''Nature'' publishes a genetic study showing compelling evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered his slave Sally Hemings' son Eston Hemings Jefferson.
• 17-June-1991 : U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
• 02-July-1979 : The Susan B. Anthony dollar is introduced in the U.S.
• 25-September-1978 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Otello'' makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one.