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Events
350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 – The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
1559 – King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising – the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, continuing the struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
1758 – Seven Years War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for public use, resort and recreation.
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the shooting death of President James Garfield.
1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in Siberia.
1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada s deadliest tornado event.
1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abbysinia appeals for aid to the League of nations against Mussolinis invasion of his country
1941 – World War II: Operation Barbarossa – Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 (Flight 718) collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, killing all 128 on board the two planes.
1960 – Congo gains independence from Belgium.
1963 – Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
1968 – Solemni hac liturgia by Pope Paul VI.
1969 – Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
1972 – One leap second is added to the UTC time system, also the first.
1977 – Virginia Wade wins the Ladies Singles title at Wimbledon, the last British champion at the All England Club to date.
1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
1988 – French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church.
1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1992 – Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People s Republic of China.
2005 – Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
2007 – A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.

Births
1286 – John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)
1470 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
1503 – John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
1641 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
1685 – John Gay, British writer (d. 1732)
1755 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
1789 – Horace Vernet, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
1803 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (d. 1849)
1807 – Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist, and philosopher (d. 1887)
1817 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (d. 1911)
1823 – Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
1843 – Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
1884 – Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
1891 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
1891 – Ed Strangler Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
1892 – Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951)
1893 – Walter Ulbricht, German politician (d. 1973)
1899 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
1899 – Harry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1971)
1906 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
1906 – Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (d. 1967)
1907 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
1908 – Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003)
1911 – Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1912 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
1912 – Dan Reeves – Owner of the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams (d. 1971)
1913 – Harry Wismer, owner of the New York Jets (d. 1967)
1913 – Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (d. 2007)
1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
1917 – Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
1917 – Lena Horne, American actress and singer
1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
1926 – Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 – James Goldman, American screenwriter (d. 1998)
1929 – Hans Krondahl, Swedish painter and textile designer
1931 – Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
1931 – Andrew Hill, American jazz pianist (d. 2007)
1933 – Lea Massari, Italian actress
1933 – Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player
1934 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (d. 1997)
1936 – Nancy Dussault, American actress
1936 – Tony Musante, American actor
1936 – Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 2002)
1938 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
1939 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet
1940 – Mark Spoelstra, American folk singer (d. 2007)
1941 – Peter Pollock, South African cricket player
1942 – Robert Ballard, Oceanographer
1942 – Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
1944 – Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
1944 – Terry Funk, American professional wrestler
1944 – Glenn Shorrock, Australian singer-songwriter; co-founding member of Little River Band
1944 – Ron Swoboda, American baseball player
1950 – Leonard Whiting, British actor
1951 – Stanley Clarke, American musician
1952 – David Garrison, Broadway and television actor
1952 – Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician
1953 – Hal Lindes, British-American musician (Dire Straits)
1954 – Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
1955 – David Alan Grier, American actor and comedian
1957 – Sterling Marlin, American race car driver (NASCAR)
1958 – Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
1959 – Vincent D Onofrio, American actor
1959 – Brendan Perry, British musician (Dead Can Dance)
1960 – Murray Cook, Australian children s singer (The Wiggles)
1962 – Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player
1963 – Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
1964 – Alexandra Christina Manley, Former Danish princess, now countess
1965 – Mitch Richmond, American basketball player
1965 – Steve Duchesne, French Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Gary Pallister, English footballer
1966 – Mike Tyson, American former boxer
1966 – Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
1968 – Philip Anselmo, American musician
1969 – Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer
1970 – Brian Bloom, American actor
1970 – Mark Grudzielanek, American baseball player
1971 – Anette Michel, Mexican actress
1971 – Monica Potter, American actress
1972 – Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer
1972 – James Martin, English celebrity chef
1973 – Chan-ho Park, South Korean baseball player
1974 – Melanie Lambert American ice skater
1975 – Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver (F1)
1978 – Owen Lafave, ex-husband of Debra Lafave
1978 – Ben Cousins, Australian Football League player
1979 – Matisyahu, Hasidic Jewish Reggae singer
1979 – Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor
1979 – Travis Minor, National Football League Runningback
1980 – Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
1981 – Can Artam, Turkish racing driver
1981 – Matt Kirk, Canadian football Player
1981 – Karolina Sadalska, Polish kayaker
1981 – Ben Utecht, American football Player
1982 – Dan Jacobs, American guitarist (Atreyu)
1982 – Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1982 – Mitch Maier, American baseball player
1982 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress
1983 – Brendon James, British drummer (Thirteen Senses)
1983 – Marlin Jackson, American football player
1983 – Patrick Wolf, British musician
1983 – Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)
1984 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
1984 – Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
1985 – Rafal Blechacz, Polish classical pianist
1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer
1985 – Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
1985 – Cody Runnels, American wrestler
1986 – Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model
1991 – Kaho, Japanese actress

Deaths
350 – Nepotianus, Roman usurper
1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1364 – Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
1538 – Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
1579 – Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, Turkish Janissary
1607 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
1660 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
1666 – Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
1670 – Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
1704 – John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
1709 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1796 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1857 – Alcide d Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
1890 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
1917 – Antonio de La Gandara, painter (b. 1861)
1919 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
1934 – Night of the Long Knives murders
Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
Gregor Strasser, former Nazi politician (b. 1892)
Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
Karl Ernst, SA-gruppenführer (b. 1904)
Erich Klausener, Catholic politician (b. 1885)
1953 – Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
1959 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
1961 – Lee DeForest, American inventor (b. 1873)
1966 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian Formula One champion. First person to win an F1 championship. (b. 1906)
1971 – Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1971 – Crew of Soyuz 11
Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933)
Georgi Dobrovolski (b. 1928)
Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)
1973 – Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1976 – Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1984 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
1993 – George Spanky McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
1993 – Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1962)
1995 – Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
1995 – Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)
1995 – Phyllis Hyman, American jazz vocalist (b. 1949)
1997 – Larry O Day, wrestler (b. 1944)
2001 – Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924)
2001 – Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
2002 – Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
2003 – Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
2003 – Robert McCloskey, American children s book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
2004 – Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (b. 1924)
2006 – Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances
Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
First Martyrs of the See of Rome.
Saint Martialis
Saint Theobald of Provins

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Events
1149 – Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1534 – Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
1659 – The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
1749 – New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1850 – Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
1850 – Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled Who s to Blame? in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 – France annexes Tahiti.
1888 – First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel s Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
1891 – Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes.
1925 – Canada House opens in London, England.
1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull s Controllable pitch propeller.
1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.
1937 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)
1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2002 – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush s plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2007 – Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
2007 – iPhone is released

Births
1397 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1482 – Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
1803 – John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
1849 – John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
1858 – George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
1861 – William Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)
1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (d. 1934)
1865 – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 1986)
1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
1881 – Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
1881 – Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
1886 – Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
1889 – Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
1903 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1911 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
1912 – John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
1915 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
1919 – Lloyd Richards, American director (d. 2006)
1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
1921 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
1922 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
1924 – Flo Sandon s, Italian singer (d. 2006)
1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer
1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
1925 – Hale Smith, American composer and editor
1925 – Cara Williams, American actress
1925 – Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (d. 1999)
1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
1928 – Radius Prawiro, Indonesia Finance Minister (d.2005)
1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
1930 – Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
1931 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
1930 – Robert Evans, American film producer
1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
1933 – Bob Shaw, baseball player
1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian
1934 – Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor
1935 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player
1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
1939 – Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player
1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
1942 – Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
1944 – Sean O Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
1946 – Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
1947 – Michael Carter, British actor
1947 – Richard Lewis, American comedian
1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer
1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician
1951 – Don Rosa, American ilustrator
1952 – Joe Johnson, English snooker player
1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer
1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player
1955 – Terence M. O Sullivan, American activist
1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
1956 – Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician
1957 – Robert Forster, Australian musician
1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
1958 – Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress
1961 – Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress
1962 – Amanda Donohoe, British actress
1962 – George Zamka, American astronaut
1963 – Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
1964 – Stedman Pearson, British singer
1965 – Tripp Eisen, American musician
1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player
1967 – Jeff Burton, American racing driver
1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian musician
1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress, singer
1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
1969 – Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
1970 – Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian musician
1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
1972 – Samantha Smith, American activist (d. 1985)
1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician
1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
1978 – Sam Farrar, American bassist
1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
1979 – Abs Breen, English singer
1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
1979 – Baris Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
1980 – Mel Peachey, British television personality
1980 – Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer
1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player
1986 – Austin Drage, English singer
1986 – Iya Villania, Filipina actress
1987 – Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
1988 – Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
1992 – Adam G. Sevani, American actor
1993 – George Sampson, English dancer

Deaths
1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1252 – King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
1315 – Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
1509 – Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1744 – André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
1764 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
1852 – Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
1855 – John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
1875 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
1921 – Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
1933 – Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
1935 – Jack O Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1958 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
1960 – Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
1964 – Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
1969 – Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
1973 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1977 – Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
1978 – Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
1979 – Lowell George, American country-rock singer (b. 1945)
1982 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
1982 – Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
1990 – Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1992 – Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
1993 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
1995 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
1997 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
1998 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
1999 – Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
2000 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2002 – François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 – Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
2006 – Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
2006 – Fabián Bielinsky, Argentine film director (b. 1959)
2006 – Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
2007 – Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
2007 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)
2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances
Seychelles – Independence Day.
The Netherlands – Veterans Day.
Malta – l-Imnarja
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, i.e., the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the Antiochian Orthodox Church and diamond workers
Saint Cassius of Narni

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Events
1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1389 – Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1519 – Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1651 – Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts.
1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, was hanged for mutiny and sedition.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton. Washington appoints Molly Pitcher a sergeant.
1807 – Second British invasion; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals.
1838 – The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1841 – The Théâtre de l Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
1855 – The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University
1859 – First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
1880 – Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
1881 – Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
1886 – First scheduled Canadian transcontinental passenger train departs from Montreal, Quebec for Port Moody, British Columbia.
1887 – Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1904- The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
1948 – Cominform circulates the Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beat Vince Hawkins at Villa Park, Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1950 – Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
1956 – Protests and demonstrations in Poznan. Also called Poznanski czerwiec (June of Poznan).
1964 – Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1976 – The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
1983 – The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
1986 – ¡A Luchar! holds its first congress in Bogotá, Colombia.
1990 – Paperback Software International Ltd. found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
1997 – Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II – Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield s ear.
2000 – Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
2004 – The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2004 – Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
2005 – Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
2005 – A final design for Manhattan s Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.
2006 – The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.

Births
1476 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
1490 – Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
1491 – King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1503 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1547 (baptism) – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (d. 1599)
1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640)
1641 – Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d Arquien, queen of Poland (d. 1716)
1703 – John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
1806 – Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
1824 – Paul Broca, French physician (d. 1880)
1831 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1873 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1944)
1875 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1883 – Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1884 – Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
1891 – Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
1891 – Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
1891 – Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
1902 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972)
1909 – Eric Ambler, English writer (d. 1998)
1912 – Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d. 1996)
1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
1913 – Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
1913 – Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 – Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
1917 – Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
1920 – A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
1922 – Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
1923 – Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
1926 – Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1928 – Dr Hans Blix, Swedish head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 2000-2003
1928 – Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times
1930 – Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
1931 – Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
1931 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
1932 – Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
1933 – Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
1934 – Carl Levin, United States Senator
1935 – John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
1936 – Chuck Howley, American football player
1937 – Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
1937 – George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
1937 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
1938 – John Byner, American comedian
1938 – Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
1938 – Leon Panetta, American White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton
1940 – Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1940 – Roderick Wright, ex-Scottish bishop (d. 2005)
1941 – Al Downing, American baseball player
1941 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
1942 – Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party (d. 1993)
1942 – David Miner, American musician and record producer
1943 – Donald Johanson, American paleoanthropologist
1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 – David Knights, English musician (Procol Harum)
1946 – Bruce Davison, American actor
1946 – Gilda Radner, American comedienne (d. 1989)
1946 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician.
1947 – Robert Bondi, American politician
1947 – Mark Clark (Black Panther), murdered in 1969 Chicago Police raid
1947 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
1947 – Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
1947 – Mark Helprin, American writer
1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress
1950 – Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
1952 – Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
1954 – Alice Krige, South African actress
1955 – Shirley Cheriton, English actress
1955 – Eric Gates, English footballer
1955 – Thomas Hampson, American baritone
1956 – Noel Mugavin, Australian Rules Football player
1957 – Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1957 – Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
1957 – Mike Skinner, American racecar driver
1958 – Félix Gray, French singer and songwriter
1960 – John Elway, American football player
1963 – Beverley Craven, English singer-songwriter
1964 – Mark Grace, American baseball player
1965 – Jessica Hecht, American actress
1966 – John Cusack, American actor
1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
1967 – Gil Bellows, Canadian actor
1967 – Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
1968 – Adam Woodyatt, English actor
1968 – Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer
1969 – Danielle Brisebois, American actress
1969 – Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
1970 – Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
1970 – Steve Burton, American actor
1970 – Mike White, American filmmaker and actor
1971 – Tichina Arnold, American actress
1971 – Fabien Barthez, French footballer
1971 – Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
1971 – Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
1971 – Ron Mahay, American baseball player
1971 – Aileen Quinn, American actress
1972 – Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
1972 – Alessandro Nivola, American actor
1973 – Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
1974 – Rob Dyrdek, Professional skateboarder
1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician, Dissection
1976 – Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1976 – Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
1977 – Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
1977 – Chris Spurling, American baseball player
1977 – Harun Tekin, Turkish musician, Mor ve Ötesi
1978 – Simon Larose, Canadian professional tennis player
1979 – Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
1979 – Randy McMichael, American football player
1979 – Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright
1981 – Michael Crafter, Australian musician (Confession)
1983 – Maui Taylor, Filipino model and singer
1985 – Phil Bardsley, English football player
1986 – Kellie Pickler, American singer
1986 – Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
1988 – Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer
1990 – Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
1994 – Madeline Duggan, English actress
1994 – Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan

Deaths
548 – Theodora, Byzantine empress
767 – Pope Paul I
928 – Louis the Blind, King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor
1061 – Floris I, Count of Holland
1175 – Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
1389 – Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b. 1527)
1716 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
1834 – Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1836 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1892 – Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
1913 – Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
1914 – Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
1915 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1916 – Stefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1922 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1929 – Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
1960 – Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
1962 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1962 – Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1965 – Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1971 – Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
1974 – Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
1975 – Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975 – Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
1975 – Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
1976 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1927)
1978 – Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1980 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1981 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
1985 – Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1989 – Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
1992 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
1993 – GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
2000 – Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
2000 – Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
2001 – Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
2001 – Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
2003 – Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2004 – Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
2005 – Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
2006 – Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
2006 – George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
2006 – George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2007 – Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
2008 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)

Holidays and observances
Vidovdan, Orthodox religious holiday commemorating St. Vitus

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Events
1358 – Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: on the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1759 – General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1806 – The British capture Buenos Aires during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
1867 – The Bank of California is created.
1880 – The birth of deafblind Helen Keller
1893 – Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1905 – (June 14 according to the Julian calendar): Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1941 – German troops capture the city of Bialystok during Operation Barbarossa.
1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1954 – The world s first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1957 – Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
1966 – The first broadcast of Dark Shadows is aired on ABC-TV.
1967 – The world s first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
1969 – The Stonewall riots that mark the beginning of the gay liberation movement begin in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.
1973 – The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d état.
1974 – U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
1980 – A commercial DC-9 (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870) crashes near Ustica, Italy, killing 81.
1984 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
1985 – U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
1986 – The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States.
1987 – A commercial HS 748 (Philippine Airlines Flight 206) crashes near Baguio City, Philippines, killing 50.
1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
1998 – Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
2001 – The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2001 – Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
2003 – The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
2005 – AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
2007 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
2008 – Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Births
1040 – King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor
1462 – King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1550 – King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
1696 – William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
1717 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1838 – Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1846 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891)
1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d. 1904)
1850 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
1869 – Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961)
1869 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian/American anarchist and feminist (d. 1940)
1869 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
1880 – Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968)
1882 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and educator (d. 1963)
1884 – Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
1888 – Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946)
1888 – Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
1892 – Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)
1899 – Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
1905 – Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1907 – John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
1908 – João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
1913 – Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d. 1993)
1914 – Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
1914 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (d. 1988)
1921 – Muriel Pavlow, British actress
1923 – Jacques Berthier, French composer (d. 1994)
1924 – Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (d. 2003)
1924 – Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
1925 – Doc Pomus, American blues singer/songwriter (d. 1991)
1927 – Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004)
1928 – Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1929 – William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991)
1930 – Ross Perot, American businessman and politician
1931 – Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist
1931 – Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
1932 – Eddie Kasko, baseball player
1932 – Magali Noël, French actress
1935 – Laurent Terzieff, French actor
1935 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (d. 2007)
1936 – Lucille Clifton, American poet
1938 – Tommy Cannon, British comedian
1938 – Shirley Anne Field, British actress
1938 – Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress
1939 – Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor (d. 1994)
1941 – Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
1941 – Bill Baxley, American politician
1941 – James P. Hogan, British science fiction author
1941 – Avi Lerner, Israeli-born American film producer
1942 – Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942 – Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
1943 – Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
1943 – Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress
1944 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist
1948 – Camile Baudoin, American musician
1949 – Vera Wang, American fashion designer
1951 – Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
1951 – Julia Duffy, American actress
1952 – Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
1955 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress
1956 – Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
1956 – Brad Childress, American football coach
1956 – Ted Haggard, American evangelical preacher
1958 – Lisa Germano, American singer, songwriter and musician
1958 – Brian Helicopter, Musician, bass guitarist (The Shapes, HellsBelles, Rogue Male)
1958 – Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
1958 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (d. 1996)
1959 – Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer
1959 – Lorrie Morgan, American country music singer
1961 – Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress
1961 – Margo Timmins, Canadian folk-rock singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1962 – Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
1963 – Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer
1963 – Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
1964 – Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film producer and director
1964 – Chuck Person, American basketball player
1966 – J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
1967 – Sylvie Fréchette, French-Canadian synchronized swimmer
1968 – Pascale Bussières, French-Canadian actress
1970 – John Eales, Australian Rugby Player
1970 – Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
1971 – Yancey Arias, American actor
1971 – Jo Frost, English nanny and television host
1971 – Kieren Keke, Nauruan politician
1972 – Dawud Wharnsby Ali, Canadian poet and singer/songwriter
1974 – Big Moe, American musician (Screwed Up Click)
1974 – Christian Kane, American actor and singer
1975 – Tobey Maguire, American actor
1975 – Daryle Ward, American baseball player
1975 – Ace Darling, American professional wrestler
1975 – Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer
1976 – Johnny Estrada, American baseball player
1977 – Raúl, Spanish footballer
1977 – Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
1978 – Anna Kumble, British singer, also known as Lolly
1979 – Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean actress
1979 – Benjamin Speed, Australian musician and film composer
1979 – John Warne, American musician (Relient K; Ace Troubleshooter)
1980 – Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
1980 – Craig Terrill, American football player
1981 – Andrew Embley, Australian rules footballer
1983 – Alsou, Russian singer
1983 – Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
1983 – Evan Taubenfeld, American musician
1984 – Rocio Guirao Diaz, Argentinian Model
1984 – Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
1984 – D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Julie Ordon, Swiss model
1984 – Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
1984 – Khloe Kardashian, American reality television star
1985 – Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
1985 – Coby Linder, American musician (Say Anything)
1985 – Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
1985 – James Hook, Welsh rugby player
1986 – Drake Bell, musician/ songwriter / American actor
1986 – LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
1987 – Ed Westwick, American actor
1988 – Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
1988 – Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer
1989 – Matthew Lewis, English actor
1989 – Travis Curtis, American artist, amateur skateboarder
1990 – Aselin Debison, Canadian singer
1991 – Madylin Sweeten, American actress

Deaths
1162 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1458 – King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1574 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
1603 – Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)
1627 – John Hayward, English historian
1655 – Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1672 – Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
1720 – Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1773 – Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. c. 1706)
1794 – Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French nobleman (b. 1715)
1794 – Anne d Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (b. 1729)
1827 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
1829 – James Smithson, English scientist and philanthropist (b. 1765)
1831 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1844 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
1907 – Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1912 – George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
1917 – Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (b. 1896)
1935 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944 – Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
1952 – Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
1954 – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1960 – Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1962 – Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
1970 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1986 – George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1989 – Alfred Jules Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
1991 – Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (b. 1953)
1991 – Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
1996 – Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
1998 – Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935)
1999 – George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
2001 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
2001 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
2002 – John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944)
2003 – David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
2004 – George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
2004 – Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
2005 – Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
2005 – Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
2005 – John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
2005 – Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
2005 – Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
2006 – Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as The Railway Killer (b. 1959)
2007 – Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2007 – Dragutin Tadijanovic, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
2007 – William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
2008 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
2008 – Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshall (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances
Mixed Race Day in Brazil
National HIV Testing Day in United States
National Veterans Day in the United Kingdom
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Saint Cyril of Alexandria
Saint Ladislas
Seven Sleepers Day (Siebenschläfertag) in Germany

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/june-history/june-27th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 June 26th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/june-history/june-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/june-history/june-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/june-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today June 26th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
363 – Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
1284 – the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 youths out of Hamelin, Germany
1409 – Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1483 – Richard III is crowned king of England.
1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great s son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1723 – After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1917 – the first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1940 – World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1948 – The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
1948 – William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America s Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
1960 – The former British Protectorate of Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence.
1960 – Madagascar achieved independence from France.
1963 – John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words Ich bin ein Berliner on a visit to West Berlin.
1973 – On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 – Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India.
1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1976 – The CN Tower, the world s tallest free-standing structure on land, is opened to general public.
1977 – The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
1978 – Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
1991 – Ten-Day War- the Yugoslav people s army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1993 – The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
1996 – Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment
2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2008 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional.

Births
1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
1681 – Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
1689 – Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)
1694 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
1702 – Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (d. 1751)
1703 – Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)
1730 – Charles Messier, French Astronomer (d. 1817)
1817 – Branwell Bronte, British painter and poet (d. 1848)
1819 – Abner Doubleday, American Major General (d. 1893)
1824 – Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (d. 1907)
1835 – Thomas W. Knox, American author (d. 1896)
1838 – Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali Novelist (d. 1894)
1854 – Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician (d. 1937)
1865 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian (d. 1959)
1866 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
1869 – Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (d. 1954)
1880 – Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952)
1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1895 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
1898 – Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (d. 1971)
1899 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1902 – Hugues Cuénod, Swiss Tenor
1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
1904 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1964)
1906 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer (d. 1974)
1906 – Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008)
1907 – Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1908 – Salvador Allende, Former President of Chile (1970-1973) (d. 1973)
1909 – Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley s manager (d. 1997)
1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (d. 1956)
1913 – Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
1914 – Kathryn Johnston, US victim of police shooting (d. 2006)
1914 – Laurie Lee, British writer (d. 1997)
1915 – Paul Castellano, American mafia boss (d. 1985)
1915 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author
1919 – Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003)
1921 – Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945)
1922 – Eleanor Parker, American actress
1923 – Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)
1924 – Costas Axelos, Greek philosopher
1925 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970)
1928 – Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)
1928 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
1929 – Milton Glaser, American Designer
1933 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
1933 – Gene Green, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1934 – Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
1934 – Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
1936 – Robert Maclennan, British politician
1936 – Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte, Archbishop of Montreal
1937 – Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor
1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1938 – Gerald North, American climatologist
1940 – Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1941 – Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
1942 – Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer and Minister of Culture
1942 – James J. Dillon, American professional wrestling manager
1943 – John Beasley, American actor
1943 – Georgie Fame, British singer
1945 – Malachi York, Nuwaubian leader
1951 – Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer
1953 – Robert Davi, American actor
1954 – Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
1955 – Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite)
1956 – Chris Isaak, American singer
1957 – Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal)
1957 – Philippe Couillard, Quebec neurosurgeon and politician
1959 – Mark McKinney, Canadian actor
1960 – Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist
1961 – Greg LeMond, American cyclist
1961 – Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
1962 – Preston A. Whitmore II, American screenwriter and film director
1963 – Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman
1963 – Richard Garfield, American game designer
1966 – Minaguchi Yuko, japanese voice actress
1967 – Todd Pletcher, American horse trainer
1968 – Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
1968 – Shannon Sharpe, American football player
1969 – Colin Greenwood, British musician (Radiohead)
1969 – Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer
1969 – Mike Myers, American baseball player
1970 – Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker
1970 – Irv Gotti, American record producer
1970 – Sean Hayes, American actor
1970 – Matt Letscher, American actor
1970 – Chris O Donnell, American actor
1970 – Nick Offerman, American actor
1971 – Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
1972 – Garou, Canadian singer
1972 – Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper
1973 – Gretchen Wilson, American singer
1973 – Pawel Malaszynski, Polish actor
1973 – Jussi Sydänmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1974 – Matt Striker, American professional wrestler
1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player
1974 – Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys)
1974 – Jason Kendall, American baseball player
1974 – Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer
1975 – Jonah Sorrentino, American hip hop artist
1975 – Terry Skiverton, English football player
1976 – Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Chad Pennington, American football player
1976 – Joe Landon, American pornographic actor
1977 – Kubo Tite, Japanese cartoonist
1977 – Mark Jindrak,American Professional Wrestler
1978 – Alexandra, French singer, L5 s singer
1979 – Wálter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
1979 – Andy O Brien, English footballer
1979 – Ryo Fukuda, Japanese racing driver
1979 – Ryan Tedder, American Musician
1980 – Jason Schwartzman, American actor
1980 – Michael Vick, American football player
1980 – Chris Shelton, American baseball player
1980 – Sinik, French singer and rapper
1984 – Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
1984 – Raymond Felton, American basketball player
1984 – Deron Williams, American basketball player
1984 – Jose Juan Barea, American basketball player
1984 – Gabrielle Walcott, winner of Miss Trinidad & Tobago World 2008
1985 – Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
1986 – Casey Desmond, American singer
1987 – Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian racing driver
1987 – Samir Nasri, French footballer
1992 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress
2005 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

Deaths
363 – Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (b. 331)
1291 – Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England
1541 – Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru
1688 – Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)
1784 – Caesar Rodney, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)
1793 – Gilbert White, English ornithologist (b. 1720)
1810 – Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
1836 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (b. 1760)
1878 – Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)
1918 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
1922 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
1939 – Ford Madox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)
1945 – Emil Hácha, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
1946 – Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
1946 – Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)
1947 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
1948 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)
1949 – Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
1956 – Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)
1957 – Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
1958 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1958 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
1964 – Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian sports executive (b. 1889)
1964 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
1967 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
1975 – St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902)
1990 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (b. 1909)
1992 – Herman Rohde, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1993 – William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)
1993 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)
1994 – Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and activist (b. 1929)
1996 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
1997 – Israel Kamakawiwo ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
2001 – Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)
2002 – Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
2002 – Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
2003 – Denver Randleman, U.S. Army Seargent (b. 1920)
2003 – Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902)
2003 – Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
2004 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)
2004 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer and song-writer (b. 1930)
2005 – Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)
2006 – Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (b. 1953)
2007 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (b. 1929)
2007 – Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (b. 1914)
2007 – Natasja Saad, Danish Reggae singer (b. 1974)

Holidays and observances
International Day in Support of Torture Victims
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Madagascar: Independence Day
Thailand: Sunthorn Phu Day
Romania: Flag Day
Mar Abhai
Anthelm of Belley
Saints John and Paul
Saint Josemaría Escrivá (d. 1975)
St. Vigilius of Trent

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/june-history/june-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 June 25th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/june-history/june-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/june-history/june-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/june-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today June 25th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
524 – Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians.
841 – Battle of Fontenay.
1530 – The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1678 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1935 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated the first President of Ireland.
1944 – The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
1947- The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
1948 – The Berlin Airlift begins.
1949 – Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
1967 – First global satellite television programme – Our World
1975 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares Emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.
1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
1976 – Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
1983 – India wins the final of the Cricket World Cup against the mighty West Indies at the MCC s Lord s Cricket Ground in London.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space station, Mir.
1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
2007 – 2007 United Kingdom floods, parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire flood including Louth, Horncastle and worst affected, Hull.

Births
1242 – Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittanny (d. 1275)
1328 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1715 – Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
1726 – Thomas Pennant, British naturalist
1755 – Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
1852 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (d. 1926)
1858 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1860 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
1863 – Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier (d. 1935)
1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
1865 – Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
1886 – Henry H. Arnold, American Army Air Force commander (d. 1950)
1887 – George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995)
1894 – Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
1900 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
1902 – Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, brother of Emperor Showa (d. 1953)
1903 – George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
1912 – William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1913 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
1921 – Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
1923 – Nicholas Mosley, British writer
1924 – Sidney Lumet, American film director
1925 – June Lockhart, American actress
1925 – Ted Stepien, American business (d. 2007)
1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 – Michel Brault, Quebec film director, screenwriter and producer
1928 – Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
1928 – Bill Russo, American jazz composer (d. 2003)
1929 – Eric Carle, American author
1930 – George Murdock, American actor
1930 – Mary Beth Peil, American singer
1932 – Peter Blake, British artist
1933 – James Meredith, American civil rights activist
1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
1935 – Eddie Floyd, American singer
1936 – Jusuf Habibie, President of Indonesia
1939 – Harold Melvin, American musician (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
1939 – Allen Fox, American Tennis Player
1939 – Clint Warwick, English musician (The Moody Blues) (d. 2004)
1940 – A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)
1941 – Denys Arcand, Canadian film director
1942 – Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
1944 – Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
1945 – Carly Simon, American singer
1946 – Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator
1946 – Ian McDonald, English musician (King Crimson and Foreigner)
1947 – Jimmie Walker, American actor (Good Times)
1950 – Nitza Saul, Israeli actress
1952 – Tim Finn, Kiwi singer/songwriter
1952 – Alan Green, Northern Irish BBC sports broadcaster/commentator
1954 – David Paich, composer (Toto)
1954 – Daryush Shokof, Iranian filmmaker
1956 – Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1956 – Anthony Bourdain, Chef and author
1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper, Winter Olympics medalist
1959 – Paris Themmen, American actor
1960 – Craig Johnston, Australian soccer player
1961 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian
1962 – Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
1963 – Yann Martel, Canadian author
1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
1963 – George Michael, British musician
1964 – Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
1964 – Emma Suárez, Spanish actress
1964 – Greg Raymer, Professional poker player
1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese (DRC) basketball player
1968 – Oleg Taktarov, Russian martial artist
1969 – Matt Gallant, American television host
1969 – Zim Zum, American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist)
1970 – Lucy Benjamin, British actress
1970 – Ariel Gore, American journalist and author
1970 – Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete
1970 – Roope Latvala, Finnish musician
1971 – Scott Maslen, Actor
1971 – Angela Kinsey, American actress
1971 – Santiago de Tezanos, Uruguayan architect
1971 – Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
1971 – Michael Tucker, American baseball player
1972 – Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 – Mike Kroeger, Canadian musician (Nickelback)
1973 – Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
1974 – Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
1974 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
1974 – Nisha Ganatra, Canadian film director
1975 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
1975 – Chenoa, Spanish singer
1975 – Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
1975 – Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
1976 – José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
1976 – Dubravka Vukotic, Montenegrin female actor
1978 – Aftab Shivdasani, Bollywood actor
1978 – Layla El, 2006 WWE Diva Search winner
1978 – Luke Scott, American baseball player
1979 – Brandi Burkhardt, American vocalist, theater actress, and beauty queen
1979 – Katie Doyle, American actress and reality television star
1979 – Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1979 – Busy Philipps, American actress
1979 – Richard Hughes, Scottish footballer
1980 – Maja Latinovic, Serbian model
1980 – Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
1981 – Sheridan Smith, British actress
1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1981 – Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
1982 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
1982 – Rain, Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
1983 – Todd Cooper, British swimmer
1984 – Indigo, American actress
1986 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
1986 – Charlie Davies, American soccer player
1993 – Barney Clark, English actor

Deaths
635 – Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
1134 – King Niels of Denmark
1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
1483 – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
1522 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
1533 – Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
1593 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
1665 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
1669 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France (b. 1611)
1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
1686 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
1715 – Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
1792 – Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)
1798 – Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
1822 – E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
1838 – François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1875 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
1876 – George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839)
1876 – Thomas Custer, Brother of George A. Custer & 2-time Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1845)
1876 – Boston Custer, Brother of George A. Custer (b. 1848)
1876 – James C. Calhoun, Brother-in-Law of George Armstrong Custer & U.S. Soldier (b. 1845)
1876 – Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier & Irish Soldier of Fortune (b. 1840)
1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
1916 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
1918 – Jake Beckley, baseball player (b. 1867)
1937 – Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
1944 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
1948 – William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
1949 – Buck Freeman, baseball player (b. 1871)
1959 – Charles Starkweather, spree killer (b. 1938)
1960 – Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)
1971 – John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)
1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
1979 – Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
1987 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer
1992 – Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
1995 – Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1907)
1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1996 – Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (b. 1914)
1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
1998 – Lounès Matoub, a famous Berber Kabyle singer (b. 1956)
1999 – Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 – Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
2005 – John Fiedler, American Actor (b. 1925)
2006 – Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (b. 1918)
2007 – Mahasti, Persian singer (b. 1946)
2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer and teacher (b. 1933)
2008 – Lyall Watson, South African Anthroplogist & Author (b.1939)

Holidays and observances
Statehood Day in Slovenia and Croatia
National Catfish Day
Mozambique – Independence Day
Prosper of Aquitaine
Prosper of Reggio
Saint William (d. 1142)
Spain – Fiesta of Santa Orosia

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/june-history/june-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 June 24th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/june-history/june-24th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/june-history/june-24th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/june-24th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today June 24th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães:Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat his mother D. Teresa and D. Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself Prince of Portugal, the first step towards official independence in 1139, after the Battle of Ourique.
1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory of the Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce. Scotland regains its independence in the aftermath of this battle.
1340 – Hundred Years War: Battle of Sluys: The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by Edward III of England.
1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1441 – Eton College is founded.
1497 – John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
1497 – Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London.
1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
1571 – Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines, is founded by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi.
1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
1662 – The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1692 – Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
1748 – The Kingswood School is opened by John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in Bristol. The school later moved to Bath.
1793 – The first republican constitution in France is adopted.
1794 – Bowdoin College is founded.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon s Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia.
1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams : A British, and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army.
1821 – The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
1859 – Battle of Solferino: (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
1901 – First exhibition of Pablo Picasso s work opens.
1902 – King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
1928 – With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada.
1932 – A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
1938 – A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
1940 – France and Italy sign an armistice.
1945 – The Moscow Victory Parade takes place.
1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
1949 – The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States.
1963 – Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the United Kingdom.
1975 – An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
1981 – The Humber Bridge is opened to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world s longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years.
1982 – British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7: Sally Ride, the first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completed its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
1993 – Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
1994 – A United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing all four members of its crew.
1995 – South Africa defeats New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The 1995 World cup is the first major sporting event in South Africa after Apartheid.
2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2007 – The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours.

Births
1244 – Henry I of Hesse (d. 1308)
1343 – Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)
1386 – Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)
1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)
1519 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)
1533 – Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (d. 1588)
1535 – Joan of Spain, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1573)
1542 – St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite mystic and poet (d. 1591)
1546 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (d. 1610)
1587 – William Arnold, English, pioneer settler of Providence Plantation (d. 1675)
1663 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (d. 1742)
1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
1694 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss publicist (d. 1748)
1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
1774 – François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838)
1777 – John Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1856)
1795 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878)
1803 – George James Webb, English-born composer (d. 1887)
1804 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
1811 – John Archibald Campbell, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1889)
1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887)
1825 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1844)
1826 – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American author
1850 – Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, British field marshal (d. 1916)
1860 – Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
1882 – Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
1882 – Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1953)
1883 – Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
1886 – George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949)
1888 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964)
1893 – Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
1895 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (d. 1983)
1897 – Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992)
1900 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
1901 – Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974)
1904 – Phil Harris, American singer, songwriter and comedian (d. 1995)
1906 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
1906 – Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (d. 1971)
1907 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989)
1908 – Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942)
1908 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d. 1987)
1908 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military officer (d. 1976)
1911 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine Formula One driver and five-time World Driving Champion (d. 1995)
1911 – Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer
1912 – Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (d. 1994)
1914 – Pearl Witherington CBE, British WW II secret agent (d. 2008)
1915 – Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001)
1922 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1924 – Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2008)
1924 – Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1991)
1927 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 – Claude Chabrol, French film director
1930 – William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006)
1931 – Billy Casper, American golfer
1934 – Jean-Pierre Ferland, Québec singer
1935 – Terry Riley, American composer
1938 – Lawrence Block, American writer
1939 – Michael Gothard, English actor (d. 1992)
1941 – Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist
1942 – Michele Lee, American actress
1944 – Jeff Beck, English musician (The Yardbirds)
1944 – Arthur Brown, English musician
1944 – John Charlie Whitney, English guitarist (Family, Streetwalkers, Axis Point)
1944 – Chris Wood, English musician (d. 1983)
1945 – Colin Blunstone, English musician (The Zombies)
1945 – George Pataki, American politician
1945 – Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 – Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1946 – Robert Reich, American politician and political commentator
1946 – David Collenette, Canadian politician
1947 – Peter Weller, American actor
1947 – Mick Fleetwood, English musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1948 – Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player (Yes)
1949 – John Illsley, English bassist (Dire Straits)
1950 – Mercedes Lackey, American author
1950 – Nancy Allen, American actress
1951 – David Rodigan, radio DJ/actor
1952 – Stephen Pusey, British-born artist
1953 – Ivo Lill, Estonian artist
1955 – Betsy Randle, American actress
1956 – Joe Penny, English actor
1958 – Jean Charest, Premier of Québec
1958 – John Tortorella, American ice hockey coach
1960 – Trisha Meili, the Central Park Jogger
1960 – Karin Pilsäter, Swedish politician
1960 – Erik Poppe, Norwegian film director
1961 – Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (d. 2000)
1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish actor
1961 – Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Curt Smith, English musician and songwriter (Tears for Fears)
1963 – Anatoly Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer
1963 – Preki, Serbian-born American soccer player
1963 – Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007)
1964 – Gary Suter, American ice hockey player
1965 – Uwe Krupp, German ice hockey player
1966 – Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter
1966 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1967 – Bill Huard, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German musician (Rammstein)
1967 – Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director
1967 – Scott Oden, American writer
1967 – Sherry Stringfield, American actress
1969 – Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
1970 – Glenn Medeiros, American singer
1971 – Christopher Showerman, American actor
1972 – Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
1972 – Denis Zvegelj, Slovenian rower
1973 – Alexander Beyer, German actor
1973 – Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor
1975 – Carla Gallo, American actress
1975 – Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Louisa Leaman, English author
1976 – Brock Olivo, American football player
1977 – Dimosthenis Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
1977 – Cas Jansen, Dutch actor
1977 – Jeff Farmer, Australian footballer
1978 – Luis García, Spanish footballer
1978 – Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer
1978 – Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
1978 – Ariel Pink, American musician
1978 – Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
1978 – Erno Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
1979 – Petra Nemcová, Czechoslovakian-born model
1979 – Craig Shergold, British internet folklore subject
1979 – Mindy Kaling, American actress and TV producer
1980 – Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
1980 – Andrew Jones, Australian racing driver
1980 – Minka Kelly, American actress
1982 – Brian Fitzgerald, American writer
1982 – Kevin Nolan, English footballer
1982 – Mark Penney, Canadian film director
1982 – Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Clint Bajada, Maltese television and radio presenter
1983 – John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino Actor
1984 – J.J. Redick, American basketball player
1985 – Kyle Searles, American actor
1985 – Yukina Shirakawa, Japanese gravure idol
1986 – Stuart Broad, English cricketer
1986 – Phil Hughes, American baseball player
1986 – Solange Knowles, American singer
1987 – Arturo Lupoli, Italian footballer
1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
1990 – Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths
803 – Higbald of Lindisfarne
1398 – Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)
1439 – Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382)
1519 – Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480)
1520 – Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
1604 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550)
1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
1643 – John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595)
1766 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)
1778 – Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
1803 – Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
1817 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734)
1835 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician, commander of Greek naval forces in Greek War of Independence (b. 1769)
1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837)
1908 – Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure) (b. 1837)
1909 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
1922 – Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1867)
1935 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)
1946 – Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
1947 – Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864)
1968 – Tony Hancock, British comedian (b. 1924)
1977 – André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
1978 – Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909)
1984 – Clarence Campbell, Canadian NHL president (b. 1905)
1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (b. 1916)
1991 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (b. 1917)
1991 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899)
1997 – Don Hutson, American athlete (b. 1913)
1997 – Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
2000 – Vera Atkins, Romanian-born British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
2000 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
2002 – Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
2003 – Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987)
2004 – Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (b. 1957)
2005 – Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
2005 – Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran (b. 1908)
2006 – Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)
2007 – Byron Baer, American politician (b. 1929)
2007 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
2007 – Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1938)
2007 – Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dancehall artist (b. 1974)
2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances
Fête nationale du Québec, also called St-Jean-Baptiste Day
One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish Calendar.
Discovery Day in Newfoundland and Labrador (celebrating the 1497 discovery by John Cabot)
Inti Raymi in Cusco
Jani – Latvia
Jonines – Lithuania
Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821)
Bahá í Faith – Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) – First day of the sixth month of the Bahá í calendar
Midsummer Day in England

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Events
1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan
1305 – The Flemish-French peace treaty is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn, south of Stirling, begins.
1532 – Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
1565 – Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman Navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson s fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
1661 – Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
1683 – William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
1757 – Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
1758 – Seven Years War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1760 – Seven Years War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township.
1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
1860 – The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
1865 – American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for Type-Writer.
1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating the nation s first national park, Banff National Park.
1888 – Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for U.S. president.
1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1914 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1919 – Estonian Liberation War: The decisive defeat of German Freikorps forces in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
1941 – The Lithuanian Activist Front initiates independence from the Soviet Union; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
1942 – World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train load of Jews from Paris.
1942 – World War II: Germany s latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1943 – World War II: The British destroyers Eclipse and Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1958 – The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
1967 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
1968 – 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.
1972 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
1972 – 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
1988 – James Hansen testifies to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it was 99% probable that global warming had begun.
1991 – Moldova declares independence.

Births
47 BC – Pharaoh Ptolemy XV of Egypt
1373 – Queen Joan II of Naples (d. 1435)
1433 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
1456 – Margaret of Denmark, wife of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
1534 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
1596 – Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (d. 1641)
1612 – André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660)
1668 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
1683 – Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
1703 – Maria Leszczynska, queen of Louis XV of France (d. 1768)
1716 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789)
1750 – Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
1763 – Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d. 1814)
1799 – John Milton Bernhisel, American physician (d. 1881)
1800 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
1824 – Carl Reinecke, German musician and composer (d. 1910)
1884 – Cyclone Taylor, ice hockey player (d. 1979)
1888 – Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
1889 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
1894 – Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
1894 – King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
1902 – Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969)
1903 – Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (d. 1992)
1905 – Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
1907 – James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1907 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (d. 2008)
1909 – David Lewis, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981)
1910 – Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
1910 – Gordon B. Hinckley, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2008)
1910 – Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
1912 – Alan Turing, English mathematician, often considered to be the father of modern computer science (d. 1954)
1916 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
1919 – Muhammad Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992)
1922 – Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1925 – Miriam Karlin, English actress
1927 – Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987)
1929 – June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
1935 – Maurice Ferre, former mayor of Miami
1936 – Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece
1937 – Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland
1937 – Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets)
1940 – Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
1940 – Lord Irvine of Lairg, Scottish Lord Chancellor
1940 – Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
1940 – Stuart Sutcliffe, English musician (The Beatles) (d. 1962)
1941 – Robert Hunter, American lyricist and poet (The Grateful Dead)
1941 – Roger McDonald, Australian author
1941 – Richard M. Richie Roberts, former Marine and New Jersey Police Detective, Criminal Defense Attorney
1943 – Vint Cerf, American Internet pioneer, Turing Award laureate
1943 – James Levine, American conductor
1945 – John Garang, Sudanese leader and politician (d. 2005)
1945 – Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and writer.
1946 – Ted Shackleford, American actor
1947 – Bryan Brown, Australian actor
1948 – Myles Goodwyn, Canadian guitarist and vocalist (April Wine)
1948 – Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author
1948 – Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1949 – Gordon Bray, Australian sports broadcaster
1950 – Douglas C. Lord, Canadian businessman
1951 – Michèle Mouton, French race car driver
1955 – Pierre Corbeil, Canadian politician
1955 – Glenn Danzig, American musician (The Misfits and Danzig)
1955 – Maggie Greenwald, American film director and writer
1955 – Jordan, British actress and model
1955 – Jean Tigana, French footballer
1956 – Tony Hill, American football player
1956 – Randy Jackson, American music producer
1957 – Frances McDormand, American actress
1960 – Donald Harrison, American musician
1960 – Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese musician and programmer
1961 – Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
1962 – Chuck Billy, American singer (Testament)
1962 – Kari Takko, Finnish ice hockey player
1962 – Kevin Yagher, TV/film special effects technician
1963 – Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
1963 – Steve Shelley, American musician (Crucifucks and Sonic Youth)
1964 – Yun Lou, Chinese gymnast
1964 – Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter
1965 – Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis)
1966 – Chico DeBarge, American musician (DeBarge)
1966 – Richie Ren, Taiwanese musician
1967 – Helen Geake, British archaeologist
1967 – Paul King, New Zealand politician
1969 – Martin Klebba, American actor
1970 – Robert Brooks, American football player
1970 – Martin Deschamps, Quebec rock singer
1970 – Yann Tiersen, French musician
1971 – Félix Potvin, Canadian hockey player
1971 – Fred Ewanuick, Canadian actor
1972 – Selma Blair, American actress
1972 – Ron Corning, American television anchor
1972 – Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
1973 – Marie N, Latvian singer
1974 – Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
1975 – Kevin Dyson, American football player
1975 – KT Tunstall, Scottish singer and songwriter
1976 – Wade Barrett, American soccer player
1976 – Joe Becker, American musician
1976 – Patrick Monahan, British comedian
1976 – Brandon Stokley, American football player
1976 – Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
1976 – Patrick Vieira, French footballer
1977 – Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer
1977 – Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer
1977 – Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter
1978 – Memphis Bleek, American rapper
1978 – Frédéric Leclercq, French bassist (DragonForce)
1978 – Matt Light, American football player
1979 – LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
1980 – Becky Cloonan, American comic book artist
1980 – Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
1983 – Jason Berrent, American performer
1983 – Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Duffy, Welsh Singer
1988 – Isabella Leong Lok-Sze, Hong Kong singer, actress and model
1988 – Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
1992 – Bridget Sloan, American gymnast
1996 – Charlie Jones, British actor

Deaths
79 – Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)
1018 – Henry I of Austria
1222 – Constance of Aragon, Aragonese princess
1555 – Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
1582 – Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
1615 – Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
1677 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
1686 – William Coventry, English statesman
1707 – John Mill, English theologian
1733 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
1770 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
1775 – Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
1779 – Ras Mikael Sehul, warlord of Ethiopia
1806 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
1832 – James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
1836 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian, (b. 1773)
1856 – Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
1891 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
1893 – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
1926 – Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1956 – Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
1959 – Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
1969 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)
1970 – Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895)
1980 – Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
1980 – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894)
1980- Sanjay Gandhi, Son of Indira Gandhi died in a plane crash. (b. 1946)
1981 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
1982 – Vincent Chin, Chinese-American hate crime victim (b. 1955)
1989 – Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (b. 1903)
1992 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (b. 1966)
1995 – Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)
1995 – Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
1996 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
1997 – Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X (b. 1936)
1998 – Maureen O Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
1999 – Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920)
2001 – Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
2002 – Pedro El Rockero Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
2003 – Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938)
2005 – Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926)
2005 – Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (b. 1925)
2006 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
2006 – Luke Graham, American wrestler (b. 1940)
2006 – Harriet, Galápagos tortoise (b. 1830)
2007 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (b. 1968)

Holidays and observances
Jani (Ligo) – Latvia
Midsummer s Eve, Christianized as the eve of the feast of Saint John the Baptist, is celebrated in much of Northern Europe
Victory Day – Estonia
Father s Day – Poland, Nicaragua and Uganda
Grand Duke s Official Birthday – Luxembourg
Saint Etheldreda
Saint Jonas Day – especially celebrated in Lithuania
Saint Lietbert of Brakel (d. 1076)
Blessed Mary of Oignies (d. 1213)

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Events
217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
1783 – Poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
1825 – British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1844 – Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1866 – Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet s commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
1898 – Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
1918 – Hammond circus train wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
1922 – Herrin massacre, 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
1940 – France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
1941 – Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
1941 – First anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe founded by Croatian partisans near Sisak, Croatia.
1941 – The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins.
1941 – Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union s Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
1957 – The Soviet Union launches R-12 missile for the first time (in Kapustin Yar).
1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113.
1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river.
1976 – Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered.
1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launched, first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
2002 – An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.

Births
1680 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
1684 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
1704 – John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
1713 – Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)
1738 – Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
1757 – George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)
1767 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
1805 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (d. 1872)
1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess master (d. 1884)
1845 – Tom Dula, American folk character (Tom Dooley) (d. 1868)
1856 – H. Rider Haggard, English author (d. 1925)
1861 – Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
1864 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)
1871 – William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
1879 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)
1884 – James Rector, American athlete (d. 1949)
1885 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
1887 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
1888 – Harold Burton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1964)
1892 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1897 – Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
1897 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)
1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
1899 – Michal Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)
1902 – Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
1903 – Carl Hubbell, baseball player (d. 1988)
1903 – John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (d. 2001)
1906 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (d. 2002)
1907 – Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)
1909 – Maurice Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
1910 – Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
1910 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computer pioneer (d. 1995)
1912 – Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
1916 – Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
1919 – Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
1920 – Paul Frees, American voice actor (d. 1986)
1921 – Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
1922 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer (d. 2002)
1922 – Geza Vermes, Hungarian author and scholar of religious history and the Dead Sea Scrolls
1922 – Mona Lisa, Filipino actress
1927 – Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (d. 2003)
1930 – Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
1932 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1932 – Prunella Scales, English actress
1933 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician
1933 – Jacques Martin, French TV host (d. 2007)
1933 – Libor Pešek, Czech conductor
1936 – Kris Kristofferson, American singer/songwriter and actor
1936 – Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician
1939 – Don Matthews, American football coach in the CFL
1940 – Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter
1940 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker/poet
1941 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
1941 – Michael Lerner, American actor
1943 – Brit Hume, American news anchor and commentator
1943 – Eumir Deodato, Brazilian artist, producer and arranger
1943 – Judith Barker.English Actress
1944 – Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
1944 – Peter Asher, British singer, guitarist and producer (Peter & Gordon)
1946 – Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1947 – Octavia Butler, American author (d. 2006)
1947 – Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana
1947 – David Lander, American actor and baseball scout
1947 – Howard Kaylan, founding member of The Turtles
1947 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
1948 – Todd Rundgren, American songwriter and record producer
1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress
1949 – Lindsay Wagner, American actress
1949 – Alan Osmond, American singer
1952 – Graham Greene, Canadian actor
1953 – Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1953 – Bruce McAvaney, Australian sports broadcaster
1954 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
1955 – Green Gartside, Welsh singer songwriter
1956 – Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist
1956 – Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani Politician and Foreign Minister
1956 – Tim Russ, American actor
1957 – Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist from group INXS
1957 – Danny Baker, English comedy writer and radio presenter
1958 – Bruce Campbell, American actor
1959 – Wayne Federman, American comedian
1959 – Ed Viesturs, American Mountain Climber.
1959 – Nicola Sirkis, French singer and lyricist (Indochine)
1959 – Mike O Meara, host of The Mike O Meara Show and former co-host of Don and Mike Show
1960 – Erin Brockovich-Ellis
1961 – Stephen Batchelor
1961 – Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards)
1962 – Clyde Drexler, former American NBA player
1962 – Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor and director
1962 – Bobby Gillespie, Scottish musician (Primal Scream)
1963 – Randy Couture, American mixed martial artist
1963 – John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1964 – Amy Brenneman, American actress
1964 – Dan Brown, American author
1965 – Lubomír Moravcík, Slovakian footballer
1965 – Uwe Boll, German film director
1966 – Schooly D, American rapper
1966 – Michael Park, WRC co-pilot (d. 2005)
1966 – Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
1968 – Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
1970 – Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 – Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman
1971 – Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress
1971 – Kurt Warner, American football player
1972 – David Rees, American cartoonist
1973 – Carson Daly, American television personality
1974 – Donald Faison, American actor
1974 – Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
1975 – Andreas Klöden, German professional road bicycle racer
1975 – Laila Rouass, Moroccan-Indian actress
1976 – Gordon Moakes, English musician (Bloc Party)
1978 – Champ Bailey, American football player
1978 – Jai Rodriguez, American TV personality
1978 – Dan Wheldon, British race car driver
1979 – Joey Cheek, American speed skater
1979 – Thomas Voeckler, French road bicycle racer
1979 – Brad Hawpe, American baseball player
1981 – Chris Urbanowicz, guitarist of British rock band Editors
1982 – Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
1982 – Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
1984 – Jerome Taylor, West Indies international cricketer
1984 – Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player
1985 – Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
1985 – Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Greek-Cameroonian basketball player
1986 – Ramin Ott, American Samoan football player
1987 – Joe Dempsie, English Actor
1987 – Lee Min Ho, Korean Actor
1987 – Nikita Rukavytsya, Australian football player
1988 – Kieran Lee, English football player
1990 – Kei Inoo, Japanese Actor and Singer

Deaths
1276 – Pope Innocent V
1429 – Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed)
1632 – James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)
1634 – Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (b. 1588)
1699 – Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
1714 – Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)
1868 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
1874 – Howard Staunton, English chess master (b. 1810)
1892 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
1894 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)
1905 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1913 – Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1928 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
1931 – Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)
1932 – Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (b. 1892)
1933 – Henry Birkin, British racing driver (b. 1896)
1935 – Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1936 – Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher (b. 1882)
1938 – C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876)
1959 – Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961 – Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
1963 – Maria Tanase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)
1964 – Havank, Dutch writer (b. 1904)
1965 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)
1969 – Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
1974 – Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player (b. 1912)
1974 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
1977 – Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (b. 1952)
1979 – Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (b. 1899)
1984 – Joseph Losey, American theater and film director (b. 1909)
1987 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
1988 – Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
1989 – Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (b. 1916)
1990 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1992 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
1993 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
1995 – Al Hansen, American artist (b. 1927)
1995 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (b. 1931)
1997 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)
1997 – Don Henderson, English actor (b. 1932)
1997 – Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1919)
2002 – Darryl Kile, American baseball player (b. 1968)
2002 – Ann Landers, American columnist (b. 1918)
2004 – Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
2004 – Bob Bemer, American computer scientist (b. 1920)
2004 – Kim Sun-il, South Korean translator (b. 1970)
2006 – Moose (dog actor), dog actor popular for role on Frasier (b. 1990)
2007 – Nancy Benoit, former professional wrestling valet(b. 1964)
2007 – Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)
2008 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor (b. 1937)
2008 – Dody Goodman, American comedienne (b. 1914)
2008 – Jane McGrath, British-born Australian cancer support campaigner (b. 1966)

Holidays and observances
School-teachers Day in El Salvador.
Aaron of Aleth (fl. 6th century)
Saint Alban
Saint John Fisher (d. 1535)
Saint Paulinus of Nola (d. 431)
Saint Thomas More (d. 1535)

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Events
524 – Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
1582 – The Incident at Honno-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan.
1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1734 – In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
1813 – Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario during the War of 1812.
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1854 – First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
1864 – New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1898 – Guam becomes a U.S. territory.
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of World War I.
1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends.
1948 – The Manchester Baby (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
1952 – Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1957 – Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada s first woman Cabinet Minister.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law.
1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1999 – Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad starts his work in Perdana Putra, Putrajaya.
2000 – Section 28 (outlawing the promotion of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2006 – Pluto s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
2007 – TEENick s last airing of the short-lived reality series, Dance on Sunset.
2008 – Russia beats Holland 3:1 at the European Football Championship

Births
1002 – Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
1226 – King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
1528 – Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1603)
1535 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
1639 (O.S.) – Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
1646 – Maria Francisca of Nemours, queen of Portugal (d. 1683)
1676 (O.S.) – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1712 – Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
1730 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese scholar (d. 1801)
1732 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
1736 (O.S.) – Enoch Poor, American general in the Continental Army (d. 1780)
1750 – Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French artist (d. 1818)
1759 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
1763 – Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher (d. 1845)
1764 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
1774 – Daniel D. Tompkins, Congressman, Governor of New York, and sixth Vice President of the United States (d. 1825)
1781 – Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
1782 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1852)
1786 – Charles Edward Horn, British musician
1788 – Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
1791 – Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
1798 – Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
1805 – Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880)
1811 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
1812 – Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)
1823 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
1825 – William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)
1828 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (d. 1904)
1839 – Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
1850 – Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)
1850 – Enrico Cecchetti
1858 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928)
1859 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter (d. 1937)
1862 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
1863 – Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
1864 – Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945)
1868 – Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
1870 – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
1876 – Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (d. 1956)
1879 – Gemma Doyle, Victorian Debutante, developer of the Realms theology (d. 1949)
1880 – Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
1880 – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941)
1882 – Rockwell Kent, American artist (d. 1971)
1882 – Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
1883 – Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958)
1884 – Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (d. 1981)
1887 – Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
1889 – Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
1890 – Frank Sherman Land, The order of DeMolay founder (d. 1959)
1891 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (d. 1979)
1891 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
1892 – Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (d. 1971)
1893 – Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
1894 – Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
1896 – Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
1898 – Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
1902 – Howie Morenz, professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)
1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
1906 – Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
1908 – William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994)
1910 – Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
1912 – Mary McCarthy, American writer (d. 1989)
1912 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot and officer of the Home Army s intelligence and counter-intelligence (d. 2000)
1914 – William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1916 – Joseph Cyril Bamford, English inventor and industrialist (d. 2001)
1916 – Buddy O Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)
1918 – Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
1918 – James Clyde Mitchell, English sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1995)
1919 – Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
1919 – Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess master and teacher (d. 1968)
1919 – Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect
1921 – Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965)
1921 – Jane Russell, American actress
1921 – Jean de Broglie, French politician
1923 – Jacques Hébert, French Canadian author, journalist and politician
1924 – Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director (d. 2006)
1924 – Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker
1924 – Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)
1925 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
1925 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
1926 – Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)
1927 – Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1996)
1929 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
1929 – Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
1930 – Sir Gerald Kaufman, British politician
1930 – Mike McCormack, American professional football player
1931 – Margaret Mary O Shaughnessy Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
1932 – O.C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)
1932 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist and composer
1935 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
1938 – Ron Ely, American actor
1939 – Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician
1940 – Mariette Hartley, American actress
1940 – Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
1941 – Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
1941 – Lyman Ward, Canadian actor
1942 – Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official
1942 – Dan Henning, American football player
1942 – Henry S. Taylor, American writer
1943 – Salomé, Spanish singer
1944 – Ray Davies, English musician (The Kinks)
1944 – Corinna Tsopei, Greek beauty pageant winner, the first Greek Miss Universe
1945 – Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher, poet
1946 – Brenda Holloway, American musician
1946 – Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author
1947 – Meredith Baxter, American actress
1947 – Michael Gross, American actor
1947 – Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1947 – Joey Molland, English musician (Badfinger)
1948 – Ian McEwan, English writer
1948 – Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
1948 – Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
1950 – Anne Carson, Canadian poet
1950 – Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith)
1950 – Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and musician
1950 – Gérard Lanvin, French actor
1951 – Nils Lofgren, American musician
1951 – Jim Douglas, American politician, governor of Vermont
1952 – Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director
1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)
1953 – Michael Bowen, American actor
1954 – Müjde Ar, Turkish actress
1954 – Mark Kimmitt, US Army general
1954 – Anne Kirkbride, English actress
1954 – Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
1954 – Robert Pastorelli, American actor (d. 2004)
1955 – Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
1955 – Leigh McCloskey, American actor
1955 – Aloysius Amwano, Nauruan politician
1955 – Jean-Pierre Mader, French singer-songwriter
1955 – Michel Platini, French footballer
1957 – Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author
1957 – Lucien DeBlois, professional ice hockey player
1958 – Gennady Padalka, cosmonaut
1959 – Tom Chambers, American basketball player
1959 – Marcella Detroit, singer and songwriter (Shakespear s Sister)
1959 – Kathy Mattea, American country singer
1961 – Kip Winger, American musician
1961 – Manu Chao, French musician
1961 – Sascha Konietzko, German musician
1961 – Karen Barber, ice skater
1962 – Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician
1962 – Takeshi Asami, Japanese racing driver
1964 – Sammi Davis, British actress
1964 – David Morrissey, British actor
1964 – Doug Savant, American actor
1965 – Larry Wachowski, film director
1965 – Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut
1966 – Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
1966 – Mancow Muller, American radio personality
1966 – Nan Woods, American actress
1967 – Jim Breuer, American comedian
1967 – Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American billionaire
1967 – Derrick Coleman, American basketball player
1968 – Sonique, British DJ
1969 – Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier
1970 – Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress
1970 – Pete Rock, American rapper/producer
1971 – Anette Olzon, Swedish singer
1972 – Alon Hilu, Israeli writer
1972 – Neil Doak, former Irish cricketer
1973 – Juliette Lewis, American actress
1974 – Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
1974 – Craig Lowndes, Australian racing driver
1974 – Rob Kelly, American football player
1974 – Neely Jenkins, American musician
1976 – Antonio Cochran, American football player
1976 – Mike Einziger, American musician
1976 – Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer
1977 – Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
1978 – Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer
1978 – Jack Guzman, American actor
1978 – Erica Durance, Canadian actress
1978 – Dejan Ognjanovic, Montenegrin football player
1979 – Chris Pratt, American actor
1980 – Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
1980 – Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
1981 – Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
1981 – Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Prince William of Wales, British prince
1984 – Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress
1984 – Franck Perera, French racing driver
1985 – Anthony Morelli, American football player
1985 – Byron Schammer, AFL footballer
1987 – Dale Thomas, AFL footballer
1987 – Kim Ryeowook, Korean pop singer
1987 – Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer
1988 – Alejandro Ramírez, chess Grandmaster

Deaths
223 – Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu Han (b. 161)
1205 – Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
1208 – Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and duke of Swabia (b. 1177)
1305 – King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 – King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
1421 – Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)
1527 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
1529 – John Skelton, English poet
1547 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
1582 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
1591 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)
1621 – Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
1631 – John Smith, English explorer
1652 – Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
1738 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
1796 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
1824 – Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
1865 – Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1874 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
1893 – Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
1908 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
1914 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1934 – Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
1940 – Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
1951 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
1952 – Wilfrid Wop May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
1954 – Gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
1957 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1964 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
1964 – Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
1964 – Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
1969 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
1970 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
1976 – Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
1979 – Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
1980 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
1985 – Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
1986 – Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923)
1987 – Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer, TV commercial actor (b. 1914)
1993 – Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
1997 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
1997 – Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
1998 – Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
1999 – Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
2000 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
2001 – John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
2001 – Carroll O Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
2001 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
2003 – Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
2003 – Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
2003 – Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
2004 – Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
2005 – Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila, prominent leader during the People Power Revolution(b. 1928)
2007 – Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
2008 – Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)

Holidays and observances
Summer solstice (Northern Hemisphere) and winter solstice (Southern Hemisphere) celebrations
National Aboriginal Day in Canada (starting in 1996, not nationally recognized)
Midsummer – Neopagan festival – Litha
National Day of Greenland
Fête de la Musique World Music Day, since 1982.
Secular Humanists: World Humanist Day
National Go Skateboarding Day
Saint Alban
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, patron saint of youth (d. 1591)
Saint Engelmond
Saint Martin of Tongeren (d. 350)

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