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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Liturgical feasts

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Events

★ 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.

★ 1539 - Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had had traveling to Venice.

★ 1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.

★ 1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".

★ 1719 - Battle of Glen Shiel

★ 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

★ 1793 - The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris (becoming, a year later, the first public zoo).

★ 1793 - French Revolution: Following arrests of Girondin leaders the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the ''revolutionary dictatorship''.

★ 1805 - First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States.

★ 1829 - First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.

★ 1846 - Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.

★ 1854 - The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.

★ 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads – Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.

★ 1871 - Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.

★ 1886 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.

★ 1898 - Spanish-American War: US Marines land on the island of Cuba.

★ 1918 - Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.

★ 1924 - Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

★ 1925 - Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto arena

★ 1935 - Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob.

★ 1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.

★ 1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with [ftp://webstorage2.mcpa.virginia.edu/library/nara/fdr/audiovisual/speeches/fdr_1940_0610.mp3 "Stab in the Back"] speech from the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.

★ 1940 - World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel.

★ 1940 - World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.

★ 1940 - World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces.

★ 1941 - Rudolf Heß crashes a Luftwaffe fighter-bomber in England in an attempt to put an end to World War 2.

★ 1942 - World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.

★ 1944 - World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.

★ 1944 - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 children,women and men were massacred by German troops.

★ 1944 - In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.

★ 1945 - Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.

★ 1947 - Saab produces its first automobile.

★ 1965 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai begins.

★ 1967 - Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.

★ 1967 - Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

★ 1973 - John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.

★ 1977 - James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.

★ 1977 - Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.

★ 1978 - Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

★ 1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.

★ 1980 - Percy Wood, president of United Airlines, is injured by an exploding package sent by the Unabomber.

★ 1991 - In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.

★ 1992 - Fatal ambush of U.S. Army Humvee in Panama on eve of President George H. W. Bush's visit to that country

★ 1996 - Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Féin.

★ 1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.

★ 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

★ 2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Saint Rafqa

★ 2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Births

★ 1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher

★ 1632 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)

★ 1637 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)

★ 1657 - James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721) (baptism: date of birth not recorded)

★ 1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart (d. 1766)

★ 1706 - John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)

★ 1710 - James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)

★ 1803 - Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)

★ 1804 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)

★ 1825 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)

★ 1819 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)

★ 1835 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator (d. 1930)

★ 1839 - Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)

★ 1861 - Pierre Duhem, French physicist (d. 1916)

★ 1862 - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)

★ 1863 - Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist (d. 1923)

★ 1880 - André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)

★ 1889 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (d. 1973)

★ 1895 - Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)

★ 1897 - Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918)

★ 1901 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born composer (d. 1988)

★ 1907 - Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)

★ 1908 - Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990)

★ 1910 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (d. 1976)

★ 1910 - Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)

★ 1910 - Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)

★ 1911 - Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)

★ 1912 - Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)

★ 1913 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer

★ 1915 - Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)

★ 1918 - Barry Morse, British-born Canadian actor

★ 1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)

★ 1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

★ 1921 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)

★ 1922 - Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)

★ 1923 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born newspaperman (d. 1991)

★ 1926 - Lionel Jeffries, British actor

★ 1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician

★ 1927 - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)

★ 1928 - Maurice Sendak, American writer

★ 1929 - Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)

★ 1929 - Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician

★ 1929 - E. O. Wilson, American biologist

★ 1931 - João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist

★ 1932 - Branko Lustig, film producer

★ 1933 - Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian Prime Minister

★ 1933 - F. Lee Bailey, American attorney

★ 1935 - Vic Elford, British racing driver

★ 1940 - Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (d. 2007)

★ 1940 - John Stevens, British drummer (d. 1994)

★ 1941 - Jürgen Prochnow, German actor

★ 1941 - Mickey Jones, American musician and actor

★ 1941 - Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)

★ 1941 - David Walker, Australian racing driver

★ 1942 - Preston Manning, Canadian politician

★ 1947 - Ken Singleton, American baseball player

★ 1949 - John Sentamu, Archbishop of York

★ 1950 - Elias Sosa, Major League Baseball pitcher

★ 1951 - Dan Fouts, American football player

★ 1953 - John Edwards, American politician

★ 1957 - Lindsay Hoyle, British politician

★ 1957 - Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect

★ 1959 - Eliot Spitzer, American politician

★ 1959 - Carlo Ancelotti, A.C. Milan coach

★ 1960 - Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor, Son of actor and politician N. T. Rama Rao

★ 1961 - Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders)

★ 1961 - Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders)

★ 1962 - Gina Gershon, American actress

★ 1962 - Koma Wong Ka-Kui, Hong Kong musician (Beyond) (d. 1993)

★ 1962 - Vincent Perez, Swiss actor

★ 1962 - Akie Abe, current First Lady of Japan

★ 1963 - Brad Henry, American politician (current Oklahoma governor)

★ 1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress

★ 1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)

★ 1964 - Ben Daniels, British actor

★ 1964 - Tony Martin, Australian comedian

★ 1965 - Elizabeth Hurley, British actress

★ 1966 - David Platt, English footballer

★ 1967 - Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing (band))

★ 1968 - Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer

★ 1968 - The D.O.C., American rapper

★ 1969 - Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer

★ 1970 - Mike Doughty, American singer

★ 1971 - Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Congressman

★ 1971 - Joel Hailey, American singer

★ 1971 - Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer

★ 1971 - Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host and TV personality

★ 1972 - Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician

★ 1973 - Faith Evans, American singer

★ 1973 - Pokey Reese, American baseball player

★ 1975 - Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer

★ 1975 - Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper

★ 1976 - Freddy García, American baseball player

★ 1976 - Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka

★ 1976 - Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer

★ 1977 - Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress

★ 1978 - Shane West, American actor

★ 1979 - Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek footballer

★ 1979 - Jake Tsakalidis, Georgian-Greek basketball player

★ 1980 - Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer

★ 1980 - Jessica Di Cicco, American actress

★ 1981 - Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer

★ 1981 - Hoku, American singer and actress

★ 1981 - Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, of Jordan

★ 1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden

★ 1982 - Tara Lipinski, American figure skater

★ 1983 - Leelee Sobieski, American actress

★ 1985 - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player

★ 1985 - Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer

★ 1987 - Amobi Okoye, Nigeria-born American football player

Deaths

★ 323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC)

★ 1075 - Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)

★ 1190 - Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (drowned) (b. 1122)

★ 1424 - Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)

★ 1552 - Alexander Barclay, English poet

★ 1556 - Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)

★ 1580 - Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet

★ 1607 - John Popham, English politician

★ 1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)

★ 1680 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)

★ 1735 - Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)

★ 1776 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)

★ 1791 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)

★ 1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)

★ 1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)

★ 1849 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)

★ 1896 - Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)

★ 1899 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)

★ 1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)

★ 1902 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)

★ 1909 - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)

★ 1912 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)

★ 1918 - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)

★ 1923 - Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850)

★ 1930 - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)

★ 1934 - Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)

★ 1937 - Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)

★ 1940 - Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (b. 1887)

★ 1944 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)

★ 1946 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)

★ 1947 - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)

★ 1949 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)

★ 1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)

★ 1959 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)

★ 1967 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)

★ 1971 - Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)

★ 1973 - William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)

★ 1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)

★ 1974 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)

★ 1976 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born producer (b. 1873)

★ 1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German author (b. 1945)

★ 1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1940)

★ 1986 - Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)

★ 1987 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)

★ 1988 - Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)

★ 1991 - Vercors, French writer (b. 1902)

★ 1992 - U.S. Army Sgt. Zak Hernández (b. 1973)

★ 1996 - George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)

★ 1996 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)

★ 1998 - Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)

★ 1998 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)

★ 2000 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)

★ 2000 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)

★ 2001 - Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)

★ 2001 - Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)

★ 2002 - John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)

★ 2003 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)

★ 2003 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)

★ 2003 - Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)

★ 2004 - Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1930)

★ 2005 - Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)

★ 2007 - Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

★ Roman Empire – fourth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta

★ Portugal Day – National day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities

Liturgical feasts

★ Saint Anianus, bishop of Chartres

★ Saint Aster (died 362)

★ Saint Bardo

★ Saint Censurius, bishop of Auxerre

★ Saint Evremundus, abbot [GTZ: Senlis]

★ Saint Fortunatus, bishop of Trier, confessor

★ Blessed Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus, martyrs [GTZ: Trier]

★ Blessed Henry of Treviso, confessor

★ Jodocus, abbot, confessor [GTZ: Liège]

★ Saint Landericus, bishop of Paris (Landry), confessor [BLS; GTZ: Paris; PCP (Paris)]

★ Saint Landoald, bishop [WTS (Bruges)]

★ Saint Maurinus, abbot, martyr [GTZ: Cologne]

★ Saint Onuphrius, hermit, confessor [GTZ: Augsburg]

★ Blessed priest Ward Poppe

★ Blessed Margaret, queen of Scotland [PRI: England]

★ Saint Olivia

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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