1430 Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
1524 Ismail I (died), Iran ruler (born 1487)
1533 The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1617 Elias Ashmole (born), English astrologer and politician (died 1692)
1670 Ferdinando II de’ Medici (died), Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1610)
1696 Johann Caspar Vogler (born), German organist and composer (died 1763)
1701 After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Scottish pirate Captain William Kidd (born 1645) is hanged in London, England.
1707 Carl Linnaeus (born), Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (died 1778)
1718 William Hunter (born), Scottish anatomist and physician (died 1783)
1754 John Wood (died), the Elder, English architect, designed The Circus and Queen Square (born 1704)
1788 South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the 8th American state.
1815 Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (died), American clergyman and botanist (born 1753)
1820 James Buchanan Eads (born), American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (died 1887)
1829 Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
1844 Declaration of the Báb: a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá’í Faith, and Bahá’ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
1846 President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
1868 Kit Carson (died), American general (born 1809)
1873 The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1875 Alfred P. Sloan (born), American businessman (died 1966)
1883 Douglas Fairbanks (born), American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1939)
1906 Henrik Ibsen (died), Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (born 1828)
1910 Artie Shaw (born), American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (died 2004)
1910 Scatman Crothers (born), American actor singer, dancer, and guitarist (died 1986)
1911 The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1914 Celestine Sibley (born), American journalist and author (died 1999)
1921 August Nilsson (died), Swedish tug of war competitor (born 1872)
1925 Mac Wiseman (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Foggy Mountain Boys)
1928 Rosemary Clooney (born), American singer and actress (died 2002)
1933 Joan Collins(born), English actress, singer, and author
1934 The American bank robbers Bonnie Parker (born 1910) and Clyde Barrow (born 1909) are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
1934 The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the “Battle of Toledo”, a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1937 John D. Rockefeller (died), American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company and Rockefeller University (born 1839)
1939 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
1943 Alan Walden (born), American businessman and manager, co-founder of Capricorn Records
1951 Anatoly Karpov (born), Russian chess player
1958 Drew Carey (born), American actor and game show host
1960 Georges Claude (died), French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (born 1870)
1963 Wally Dallenbach, Jr. (born), American race car driver and sportscaster
1970 Bryan Herta (born), American race car driver
1970 Matt Flynn (born), American drummer and producer (Maroon 5)
1970 Yigal Amir (born), Israeli assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
1972 Rubens Barrichello (born), Brazilian race car driver
1975 Moms Mabley (died), American comedian and actor (born 1894)
1981 George Jessel (died), American actor, singer, and producer (born 1898)
1991 Mariah “Kerrytown” Van Ermen (born), American Palm Reader
1992 Italy’s most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than 2 months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
1995 The first version of the Java programming language is released.
2002 Sam Snead (died), American golfer (born 1912)
2004 Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport’s Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
2010 Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed.
2012 Adam Lambert becomes the first openly gay musician to debuted at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts, with his album Trespassing.
2013 The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
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