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Events
- 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses
- 1586 – Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir
- 1654 – Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates
- 1716 – The first volume of Alexander Pope's* translation of the lliad is published. Admonishes classical scholar Richard Bentley: "It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer."
- 1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River
- 1745 – Sir William Pepperell captures the French fortress of Louisburg during the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza
- 1755 – French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians
- 1774 – Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
- 1779 – Spain declares war on Britain and the siege of Gibraltar begins
- 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
- 1836 – Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement
- 1846 – Pope Pius IX is elected pope.
- 1858 – Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois
- 1858 – Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.
- 1871 – University Tests Act allow students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
- 1884 – The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
- 1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
- 1902 – Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
- 1903 – Ford Motor Company incorporates.
- 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
- 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
- 1904 – Leopold Bloom walks around Dublin. (see Ulysses)
- 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
- 1915 – foundation of the British Women's Institute
- 1922 – General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin
- 1924 – Whampoa Military Academy is founded
- 1925 — The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek established.
- 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France
- 1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania
- 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.
- 1955 – Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón
- 1956 – Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath
- 1960 – Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York
- 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris
- 1963 – Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
- 1972 – Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building
- 1972 – Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 1972 – Opening of the New York Jazz Museum
- 1972 – Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland
- 1976 – Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
- 1977 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR
- 1981 – Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis
- 1983 – Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR
- 1994 – A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160
- 1996 – First round of voting in the Russian presidential election
- 1997 – Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
- 1999 – Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa.
- 2001 – George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin meet in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia
- 2002 – Politically Incorrect is cancelled (from sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher makes controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W. Bush.
- 2003 – The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.
Births
- 1313 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375)
- 1514 – John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
- 1583 – Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
- 1613 – John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
- 1644 – Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
- 1738 – Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
- 1792 – John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
- 1792 – Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
- 1801 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
- 1806 – Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
- 1813 – Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
- 1820 – Athanase Coquerel, French protestant preacher (d. 1875)
- 1826 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
- 1829 – Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader (d. 1909)
- 1836 – Wesley Merritt, soldier (d. 1910)
- 1837 – Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
- 1838 – Cushman Davis, politician (d. 1900)
- 1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, engineer (d. 1913)
- 1858 – King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950)
- 1874 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
- 1880 – Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
- 1890 – Stan Laurel, American actor and comedian (d. 1965)
- 1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- 1902 – Barbara McClintock, geneticist (d. 1992)
- 1902 – George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist (d. 1984)
- 1903 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
- 1907 – Jack Albertson, actor (d. 1981)
- 1909 – Archie Fairley Carr, biologist and expert on turtles (d. 1987)
- 1910 – Juan Velasco, President of Peru from 1968 to 1975 (d. 1977)
- 1912 – Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
- 1914 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athlete (d. 1956)
- 1916 – Hank Luisetti, baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher (d. 2001)
- 1917 – Irving Penn, photographer
- 1920 – José López Portillo, President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982 (d. 2004)
- 1920 – John Howard Griffin, writer (d. 1980)
- 1927 – Tom Graveney, English cricketer
- 1927 – Herbert Lichtenfeld, author and playwright (d. 2001)
- 1930 – Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer
- 1934 – Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
- 1935 – Jim Dine, artist
- 1937 – Erich Segal, author
- 1938 – James Bolam, English actor
- 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, novelist
- 1940 – Neil Goldschmidt, governor of Oregon
- 1941 – Lamont Dozier, record company executive
- 1942 – Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
- 1942 – Eddie Levert, R&B singer
- 1947 – -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
- 1951 – Roberto Durán, boxer
- 1952 – Michel Blanc, French actor
- 1952 – George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician
- 1952 – Gino Vannelli, vocalist, songwriter
- 1955 – Laurie Metcalf, actress Dennis Lippincott,Printer
- 1966 – Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete
- 1967 – John Franklin, actor
- 1970 – Phil Mickelson, golfer
- 1971 – Tupac Shakur, musician (d. 1996)
- 1977 – Kerry Wood, baseball pitcher
- 1980 – Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
- 1988 – Marinó Sigurðsson, Iceland actor/director
- 1988 – Keshia Chante, Canadian R&B Singer
Deaths
- 1750 BC – King Hammurabi of Babylon
- AD 1216 – Pope Innocent III
- 1464 – Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
- 1468 – Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
- 1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, chancellor of Scotland (b. ca. 1555)
- 1626 – Christian the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, Protestant military commander (b. 1599)
- 1666 – Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator and diplomat (b. 1608)
- 1671 – Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) (b. ca. 1630)
- 1707 – Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel, best known for her Mémoires (b. 1625)
- 1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
- 1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
- 1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
- 1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
- 1778 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
- 1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
- 1804 – Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
- 1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, statesman and financier (b. 1759)
- 1848 – Ludwig II, Grand-Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, (b. 1777)
- 1849 – Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
- 1855 – John Gorrie, physician, early pioneer in refrigeration (b. 1803)
- 1858 – John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813)
- 1866 – Auguste Barthelemy, French satirical poet (b. 1796)
- 1869 – Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
- 1872 – Norman MacCleod, Scottish clergyman to Queen Victoria (b. 1812)
- 1878 – Crawford Long, physician (b. 1815)
- 1881 – Sir Josiah Mason, English pen-manufacturer (b. 1795)
- 1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
- 1894 – William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813)
- 1900 – Prince François, Duke of Joinville, third son of Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1818)
- 1925 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
- 1925 – Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (b. 1903)
- 1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor (b. 1860)
- 1940 – DuBose Heyward, writer
- 1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
- 1953 – Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
- 1958 – Imre Nagy, former Premier of Hungary (b. 1895)
- 1959 – George Reeves, actor, played Superman (b. 1914)
- 1969 – Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
- 1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player
- 1971 – Lord Reith, first Director-General of the BBC (b. 1889)
- 1976 – Hector Pieterson, one of the first children (566 in all) killed during the Soweto Uprising.
- 1977 – Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (b. 1912)
- 1979 – Vernon Presley, father of Elvis Presley (b. 1916)
- 1979 – Nicholas Ray, film director (b. 1911)
- 1981 – Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist
- 1986 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
- 1988 – Kim Milford, actor (b. 1951)
- 1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
- 1996 – Mel Allen, baseball announcer
- 1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of Britain's Official Monster Raving Loony Party (b. 1940)
- 2000 – Dowager Empress Nagako of Japan, consort of Emperor Hirohito (b. 1903)
- 2003 – Enrico Baj, Italian avantgarde artist
- 2003 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finland-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
Holidays and observances
- South Africa – Youth Day
- Roman Catholic Church – Feast of Saint John Regis, patron of medical social workers
- Bloomsday, in honour of James Joyce's Ulysses
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