47 BC Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point.
604 Augustine of Canterbury, Benedictine monk and archbishop
735 Bede (died), English monk, historian, and theologian (born 672)
818 Ali Al-Ridha (died), Saudi Arabian 8th of The Twelve Imams (born 766)
946 King Edmund I of England (born 921) is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine’s Mass Day.
1135 Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator totius Hispaniae, “Emperor of all of Spain”.
1293 An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1328 William of Ockham, the Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
1421 Mehmed I (died), Ottoman sultan (born 1389)
1538 Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
1566 Mehmed III (born), Ottoman sultan (died 1603)
1602 Philippe de Champaigne (born), Dutch-French painter (died 1674)
1623 William Petty (born), English economist and philosopher (died 1687)
1637 A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under the English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
1647 Alse Young (born 1600), hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
1703 Samuel Pepys (died), English politician (born 1633)
1736 Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under the governor of Louisiana, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
1783 A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
1799 James Burnett (died), Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge and scholar (born 1714)
1805 Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
1830 The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1857 Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
1864 Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1865 American Civil War: the Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1869 Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1883 Mamie Smith (born), American singer, dancer, pianist, and actress (died 1946)
1895 Dorothea Lange (born), American photographer and journalist (died 1965)
1896 Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1896 Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1897 Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
1904 Georges Gilles de la Tourette (died), French physician (born 1857)
1906 Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
1907 Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States (born 1847)
1907 Jean Bernard (born), French physician and haematologist (died 2006)
1907 John Wayne (born), American actor, singer, director, and producer (died 1979)
1908 At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
1908 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (died), Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (born 1835)
1908 Robert Morley (born), English actor and screenwriter (died 1992)
1912 Jay Silverheels (born), Canadian-American actor (died 1980)
1913 Peter Cushing (born), English actor (died 1994)
1914 Jacob August Riis (died), Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (born 1849)
1916 Moondog (born), American drummer, composer, and poet (died 1999)
1918 The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
1920 Peggy Lee (born), American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2002)
1922 Troy Smith, American businessman, founded Sonic Drive-In (died 2009)
1923 24 Hours of Le Mans, was first held, and has since been run annually in June.
1923 James Arness (born), American actor and producer (died 2011)
1924 Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (born 1859)
1926 Miles Davis (born), American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (Miles Davis Quintet) (died 1991)
1928 Jack Kevorkian (born), American pathologist, author, and activist (died 2011)
1933 Jimmie Rodgers (died), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1897)
1938 In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1939 Brent Musburger (born), American sportscaster
1939 Charles Horace Mayo (died), American medical practitioner, co-founder of Mayo Clinic (born 1865)
1940 Levon Helm (born), American singer-songwriter, drummer, producer, and actor (The Band) (died 2012)
1940 World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
1940 World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
1941 Reg Bundy (born), English drag queen performer, dancer, and actor (died 2003)
1943 Edsel Ford (died), American businessman (born 1893)
1944 Sam Posey (born), American race car driver and journalist
1945 Garry Peterson (born), Canadian-American drummer (The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
1946 Mick Ronson (born), English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Spiders from Mars and Mott the Hoople) (died 1993)
1948 Stevie Nicks (born), American singer-songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
1948 The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1949 Hank Williams, Jr. (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 Philip Michael Thomas (born), American actor and singer
1949 Ward Cunningham (born), American computer programmer, developed the first wiki
1951 Sally Ride (born), American physicist and astronaut (died 2012)
1955 Alberto Ascari (died), Italian race car driver (born 1918)
1962 Bobcat Goldthwait (born), American actor, director, and screenwriter
1964 Lenny Kravitz (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1966 British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1966 Zola Budd (born), South African runner
1969 –Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1969 Allan Haines Loughead (died), American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (born 1889)
1970 The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1971 Matt Stone (born), American actor, animator, screenwriter, producer, and composer
1972 The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1972 Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
1976 Martin Heidegger (died), German philosopher (born 1889)
1977 George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City’s World Trade Center.
1977 William Powell (died), American singer (The O’Jays) (born 1942)
1983 A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyedied
1986 The European Community adopts the European flag.
1998 The first “National Sorry Day” was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
1998 The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
2004 The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2005 Eddie Albert (died), American actor and singer (born 1906)
2008 Sydney Pollack (died), American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1934)
2010 Art Linkletter (died), Canadian-American radio and television host (born 1912)
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