1158 Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
1381 Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants’ Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1479 Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (born), Italian poet and scholar (died 1552)
1497 Giovanni Borgia (died), 2nd Duke of Gandia, Italian son of Pope Alexander VI (born 1474)
1529 Ferdinand II (born), Archduke of Austria (died 1595)
1662 Henry Vane the Younger (died), English-American politician, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1613)
1667 The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1775 The Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
1777 The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1780 Henry Salt (born), English artist, diplomat, and Egyptologist (died 1827)
1789 HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
1789 Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
1800 The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
1801 Benedict Arnold (died), American general (born 1741)
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe (born), American author and activist (died 1896)
1820 John Bartlett (born), American author and publisher (died 1905)
1822 Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables”.
1825 Pierre Charles L’Enfant (died), French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (born 1754)
1837 Giacomo Leopardi (died), Italian poet and philosopher (born 1798)
1839 Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
1846 Bear Flag Revolt begins Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1856 Andrey Markov (born), Russian mathematician (died 1922)
1864 Alois Alzheimer (born), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (died 1915)
1868 Karl Landsteiner (born), Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
1872 Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
1883 Edward FitzGerald (died), English poet (born 1809)
1886 Alexander Ostrovsky (died), Russian playwright (born 1823)
1900 Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1903 Alonzo Church (born), American mathematician and logician (died 1995)
1907 Norway gives women the right to vote.
1909 Burl Ives (born), American actor and singer (died 1995)
1914 Adlai Stevenson I (died), American politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (born 1835)
1916 Dorothy McGuire (born), American actress (died 2001)
1919 Gene Barry (born), American actor (died 2009)
1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John’s, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919 Sam Wanamaker (born), American actor and director (died 1993)
1920 Max Weber (died), German sociologist and economist (born 1864)
1922 Kevin Roche (born), Irish-American architect, designed Bank of America Plaza and the Central Park Zoo
1925 Pierre Salinger (born), American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (died 2004)
1926 Brazil leaves the League of Nations
1926 Hermann Kant (born), German author
1928 Che Guevara (born), Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, and guerrilla leader (died 1967)
1931 Junior Walker (born), American saxophonist and singer (died 1995)
1936 G. K. Chesterton (died), English author, poet, and playwright (born 1874)
1936 Renaldo Benson (born) American singer-songwriter (The Four Tops) (died 2005)
1937 Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1937 U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
1939 Steny Hoyer (born), American politician
1940 World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
1941 June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
1943 Barry Burman (born), English painter (died 2001)
1943 Harold Wheeler (born), American composer, conductor, and producer
1943 John Miles (born), English race car driver
1943 Spooner Oldham (born), American organist and songwriter
1945 Rod Argent (born), English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Zombies and Argent)
1946 Donald Trump (born), American businessman, founded the Trump Entertainment Resorts
1946 Robert Louis-Dreyfus (born), French businessman (died 2009)
1947 Barry Melton (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish and The Dinosaurs)
1949 Alan White (born), English drummer (Yes, Plastic Ono Band, White, and Circa)
1949 Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
1949 Jim Lea (born), English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Slade)
1951 UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1952 The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
1956 Sam Irvin (born) American director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 Eric Heiden (born), American skater
1959 Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1961 Boy George (born), English singer-songwriter and producer (Culture Club, Bow Wow Wow, and Jesus Loves You)
1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Parislater becoming the European Space Agency.
1966 The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (“index of prohibited books”), which was originally instituted in1557.
1967 Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
1967 The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
1968 Salvatore Quasimodo (died), Italian author and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1901)
1969 Steffi Graf (born), German tennis player
1986 Alan Jay Lerner (died), American composer (born 1918)
1994 Henry Mancini (died), American composer and conductor (born 1924)
1994 The 1994 Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated CA$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
2000 Attilio Bertolucci (died), Italian poet (born 1911)
2002 June Jordan (died), American author and activist (born 1936)
2002 Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
2009 Bob Bogle (died), American guitarist (The Ventures) (born 1934)
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