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Events

1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally 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.
1838 - Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
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 "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.
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 canonized Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa

2002 - First direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.

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)

1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart (d. 1766)

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

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

1753 - William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)

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)

1825 - Princess Hildegard of Bavaria d. 1864

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)

1891 - Al Dubin, American lyricist (d. 1945)

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 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, american musician and musicologist (d. 1984)

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 (d. 2008)

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

1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007)

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)

1925 - Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz critic, and columnist

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

1956 - Georg Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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

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

1962 - Brent Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player

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)

1968 - Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer

1968 - The D.O.C., American rapper

1969 - Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer

1969 - Kate Snow, American TV journalist

1970 - Mike Doughty, American singer

1971 - Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Congressman, Governor

1971 - Joel Hailey, American singer

1971 - Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer

1971 - Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host and TV personality

1972 - Steven Fischer, American film producer and director

1972 - Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician

1973 - Faith Evans, American singer

1973 - Pokey Reese, American baseball player

1973 - Flesh-N-Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)

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

1976 - Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals

1977 - Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress

1977 - Adam Darski, Polish musician most known for being the leader of Behemoth

1978 - Shane West, American actor

1978 - Brian West, American soccer player

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

1981 - Jonathan Bennett, actor (Mean Girls)

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

1987 - Martin Harnik, Austrian footballer

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)

1926 - Antoni Gaudí, Spanish, Catalan architect (b. 1852)

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)

1993 - Les Dawson, English Comedian (b. 1934)

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

Saint Anianus, bishop of Chartres

Blessed Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus, martyrs

Saint Landericus, bishop of Paris (Landry), confessor

Saint Onuphrius, hermit, confessor

Blessed Margaret, queen of Scotland

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