816 Pope Leo III (died) (born 750)
1381 Peasants’ Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1429 Hundred Years’ War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
1519 Cosimo I de’ Medici (born), Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1574)
1577 Paul Guldin (born), Swiss astronomer and mathematician (died 1643)
1647 Thomas Farnaby (died), English scholar and educator (born 1575)
1665 England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
1775 American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adam and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1776 The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1802 Harriet Martineau (born), English sociologist (died 1876)
1806 John A. Roebling (born), German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (died 1869)
1812 Edmond Hébert (born), French geologist (died 1890)
1841 Watson Fothergill (born), English architect, designed the Woodborough Road Baptist Church (died 1928)
1860 The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
1864 Frank Chapman (born), American ornithologist (died 1945)
1903 Emmett Hardy (born), American cornet player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (died 1925)
1912 Carl Hovland (born), American psychologist (died 1961)
1914 Go Seigen (born), Japanese Go player
1915 David Rockefeller (born), American banker and businessman
1920 Jim Siedow (born), American actor (died 2003)
1923 Monty Westmore (born), American make-up artist (died 2007)
1924 George H. W. Bush (born), American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States
1928 Vic Damone (born), American singer-songwriter and actor
1929 Anne Frank (born), German-Dutch author and Holocaust victim (died 1945)
1930 Innes Ireland (born), Scottish race car driver and engineer (died 1993)
1930 Jim Nabors (born), American actor and singer
1931 Trevanian (born), American author and scholar (died 2005)
1939 Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1939 The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1940 World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1941 Chick Corea (born), American pianist and composer (Chick Corea Elektric Band, Return to Forever, and Five Peace Band)
1941 Marv Albert (born), American sportscaster
1941 Reg Presley (born), English singer-songwriter (The Troggs) (died 2013)
1942 Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1951 Brad Delp (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Boston RTZ, and Beatlejuice) (died 2007)
1951 Bun E. Carlos (born), American drummer (Cheap Trick and Tinted Windows)
1952 Pete Farndon (born), English bass player (The Pretenders) (died 1983)
1957 Jimmy Dorsey (died), American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (born 1904)
1963 Civil rights leader Medgar Evers (born 1925) is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
1964 Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1967 –Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet’s atmosphere and successfully return data).
1967 The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1968 Bobby Sheehan (born), American bass player and songwriter (Blues Traveler) (died 1999)
1978 David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
1979 Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
1982 Karl von Frisch (died), Austrian ethologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
1985 Blake Ross (born), American software developer, co-created Mozilla Firefox
1987 Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1990 The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1991 Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
1994 Nicole Brown Simpson (born 1959) and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
1994 The Boeing 777, the world’s largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
1996 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
1997 Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
1998 Leo Buscaglia (died), American author and educator (born 1924)
1999 Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2002 Bill Blass (died), American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (born 1922)
2003 Gregory Peck (died), American actor (born 1916)
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