1099 The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem began.
1329 Robert the Bruce (died), Scottish husband of Isabella of Mar (born 1274)
1394 Anne of Bohemia (died) (born 1367)
1494 Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas which divided the New World between the two countries.
1654 Louis XIV was crowned King of France.
1692 Port Royal, Jamaica, was hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people were killed and 3,000 were seriously injured.
1761 John Rennie the Elder (born), Scottish engineer (died 1821)
1778 Beau Brummell (born), English fashion designer (died 1840)
1800 David Thompson reached the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres was first published in Argentina.
1811 James Young Simpson (born), Scottish obstetrician (died 1870)
1832 Asian cholera reached Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and killed about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1840 Carlota of Mexico (born) (died 1927)
1848 Paul Gauguin (born), French painter (died 1903)
1862 The United States and the United Kingdom agreed to suppress the slave trade.
1863 During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City was captured by French troops.
1879 Knud Rasmussen (born), Danish anthropologist and explorer (died 1933)
1883 Sylvanus Morley (born), American archaeologist and scholar (died 1948)
1892 Benjamin Harrison became the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
1892 Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the “whites-only” car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
1893 Mohandas Gandhi committed his first act of civil disobedience.
1897 George Szell (born), Hungarian-American conductor and composer (died 1970)
1899 American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation began her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
1906 Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1909 Jessica Tandy (born), English-American actress and singer (died 1994)
1909 Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
1910 Bradford Washburn (born), American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (died 2007)
1911 Brooks Stevens (born), American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (died 1995)
1917 Dean Martin (born), American singer, actor, and producer (died 1995)
1938 The Douglas DC-4E made its first test flight.
1942 World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Japanese soldiers began occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway ended.
1952 Liam Neeson (born), Irish-American actor
1954 Alan Turing (died), English mathematician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist (born 1912)
1955 Tim Richmond (born), American race car driver (died 1989)
1955 William Forsythe (born), American actor and producer
1958 Prince (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (The Revolution and The New Power Generation)
1962 Michael Cartellone (born), American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Damn Yankees)
1963 ZaSu Pitts (died), American actress and singer (born 1894)
1965 The Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1966 Eric Kretz (born), American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Stone Temple Pilots and Talk Show)
1967 Dave Navarro (born), American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Deconstruction, The Panic Channel, and Camp Freddy)
1967 Dorothy Parker (died), American author, poet, and critic (born 1893)
1967 Israeli soldiers entered Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
1968 Dan Duryea (died), American actor (born 1907)
1971 The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raided the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
1971 The United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1974 Bear Grylls (born), English adventurer, author, and television host
1977 500 million people watched the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
1979 Asa Earl Carter (died), American Ku Klux Klan leader and author (born 1925)
1980 Henry Miller (died), American author (born 1891)
1981 The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
1982 Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits.
1991 Mount Pinatubo exploded, generating an ash column 7 km (4.3 mi) high.
1992 Bill France, Sr. (died), American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (born 1909)
1995 The long-range Boeing 777 entered service with United Airlines.
1996 Max Factor, Jr. (died), American businessman (born 1904)
1998 James Byrd, Jr., of Texas was killed by white supremacists who dragged him behind a pickup truck on asphalt pavement.
2008 Jim McKay (died), American sportscaster (born 1921)
2009 Hugh Hopper (died), English bass player and songwriter (The Wilde Flowers and Soft Machine) (born 1945)
2012 Bob Welch (died), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac and Paris) (born 1945)
2012 Cotton Owens (died), American race car driver (born 1924)
2012 Phillip V. Tobias (died) South African palaeontologist and educator (born 1925)
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