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Events

★ 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy was sacked and burned, according to the calculations of Eratosthenes.

★ 1429 - Hundred Years' War: The start of the Battle of Jargeau.

★ 1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon.

★ 1594 - Philip II recognized the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the creation of the Principalía [''i.e.'', elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines].

★ 1774 - Jews in Algiers escape the attacks of the Spanish army.

★ 1776 - Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to a committee to draft a declaration of independence.

★ 1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.

★ 1825 - The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.

★ 1837 - The Broad Street Riot occurred in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans.

★ 1866 - The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India.

★ 1892 - The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.

★ 1898 - Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships start to sail for Cuba.

★ 1901 - New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.

★ 1907 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.

★ 1932 - William Forgan Smith becomes Premier of the Australian state of Queensland.

★ 1935 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.

★ 1936 - International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.

★ 1937 - Great Purge: The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.

★ 1938 - Johnny Vander Meer, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, throws a no-hitter against the Boston Bees in Cincinnati.

★ 1938 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.

★ 1938 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Nationalist government created the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt the Japanese forces. 500000 to 900000 civilians are killed.

★ 1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy.

★ 1940 - World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.

★ 1942 - World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.

★ 1945 - William Lyon Mackenzie King is re-elected as Canadian prime minister.

★ 1955 - Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

★ 1956 - First Puerto Rican Parade was held in Harlem, New York.

★ 1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.

★ 1963 - American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students from attending that school.

★ 1963 - Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

★ 1964 - World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.

★ 1967 - Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

★ 1970 - After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.

★ 1972 - Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126

★ 1977 - Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

★ 1978 - Altaf Hussain founded students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation a.k.a (APMSO) in Karachi University

★ 1985 - A Fabergé Egg was sold for £1,375,00 in New York.

★ 1988 - Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Wembley Stadium, London.

★ 1988 - The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned for the first time.

★ 1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in largest high-tech acquisition.

★ 2001 - Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

★ 2002 - Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

★ 2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.

★ 2004 - Ronald Reagan's funeral held at Washington National Cathedral.

★ 2005 - G8 finance ministers agree to cancel the debt owed by 18 of the poorest countries.

★ 2007 - Senator Larry Craig arrested for soliciting for sex in a men's room in MN

Births

★ 1403 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)

★ 1456 - Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)

★ 1540 - Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)

★ 1572 - Ben Jonson, English dramatist (d. 1637)

★ 1588 - George Wither, English writer (d. 1667)

★ 1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)

★ 1696 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)

★ 1704 - Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)

★ 1713 - Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)

★ 1723 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)

★ 1741 - Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)

★ 1776 - John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)

★ 1815 - Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)

★ 1842 - Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)

★ 1846 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)

★ 1847 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929)

★ 1864 - Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)

★ 1867 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (d. 1945)

★ 1876 - Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (d. 1960)

★ 1877 - Renee Vivien, English-born poet (d. 1909)

★ 1879 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball player (d. 1944)

★ 1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)

★ 1880 - Jeannette Rankin, American politician, feminist, and pacifist (d. 1973)

★ 1888 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)

★ 1895 - Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d. 1975)

★ 1903 - Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)

★ 1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer and inventor (d. 1997)

★ 1910 - Carmine Coppola, American composer, director and songwriter (d. 1991)

★ 1913 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)

★ 1913 - Risë Stevens, American operatic soprano

★ 1915 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (d. 1999)

★ 1919 - Richard Todd, British actor

★ 1920 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (d. 1981)

★ 1920 - Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (d. 1993)

★ 1922 - John Bromfield, American actor (d. 2005)

★ 1922 - Michael Cacoyannis, Greek Cypriot film maker

★ 1924 - Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)

★ 1925 - William Styron, American author (d. 2006)

★ 1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, Queen of the Belgians

★ 1932 - Athol Fugard, South African playwright

★ 1933 - Gene Wilder, American actor

★ 1934 - Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark

★ 1936 - Jud Strunk, American musician and comedian (d. 1981)

★ 1936 - Chad Everett, American actor

★ 1937 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

★ 1937 - Johnny Brown, American comic

★ 1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver

★ 1939 - Bernard Purdie, American session drummer

★ 1940 - Joey Dee, American musician (Joey Dee and the Starliters)

★ 1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, American actress

★ 1947 - Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician

★ 1947 - Henry Cisneros, American politician, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

★ 1947 - Richard Palmer-James, British lyricist and guitarist (King Crimson and Supertramp)

★ 1947 - Bob Evans, British racing driver

★ 1948 - Dave Cash, Major league baseball player

★ 1949 - Frank Beard, American drummer (ZZ Top)

★ 1949 - Benjamin Vasserman, Estonian graphic artist

★ 1950 - Lynsey De Paul, British singer and songwriter

★ 1950 - Graham Russell, British guitarist and vocalist (Air Supply)

★ 1952 - Donnie Van Zant, American rock musician

★ 1953 - Peter Bergman, American actor

★ 1955 - Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet hammer thrower

★ 1956 - Joe Montana. American football player

★ 1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician

★ 1959 - Hugh Laurie, English actor and comedian

★ 1961 - Caroline Quentin, English actress

★ 1962 - Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist, Olympian

★ 1964 - Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver

★ 1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist (Pixies)

★ 1968 - Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein

★ 1969 - Peter Dinklage, American actor

★ 1969 - Steven Drozd, American drummer

★ 1969 - Bryan Fogarty, professional ice hockey player (d. 2002)

★ 1970 - Chris Rice, singer/songwriter

★ 1974 - David Starie, British boxer

★ 1975 - Choi Ji Woo, South Korean actress and model

★ 1975 - Thomas Bimis, Greek diver

★ 1977 - Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer

★ 1977 - Ryan Dunn, American actor

★ 1978 - Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor

★ 1981 - Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer

★ 1982 - Diana Taurasi, American basketball player

★ 1982 - Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier

★ 1982 - Johnny Candido, American professional wrestler

★ 1982 - Joey Graham, American basketball player

★ 1983 - Jose Reyes, American baseball player

★ 1984 - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer

★ 1985 - Anja Rubik, Polish supermodel

★ 1986 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor

★ 1988 - Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress and model

★ 1994 - Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress

Deaths

★ 1183 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)

★ 1216 - Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire

★ 1488 - King James III of Scotland

★ 1557 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)

★ 1695 - André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)

★ 1712 - Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)

★ 1727 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)

★ 1796 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)

★ 1847 - John Franklin, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1786)

★ 1852 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)

★ 1858 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)

★ 1879 - Prince Willem of the Netherlands, disgraced heir apparent to the Dutch throne (b. 1840)

★ 1882 - Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1804)

★ 1903 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)

★ 1903 - Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876)

★ 1911 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)

★ 1924 - Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (b. 1837)

★ 1927 - William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)

★ 1934 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)

★ 1936 - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)

★ 1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)

★ 1941 - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)

★ 1963 - Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk, self-immolation (b. 1897)

★ 1970 - Frank Laubach, Christian missionary (b. 1884)

★ 1970 - William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)

★ 1974 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)

★ 1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)

★ 1976 - Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)

★ 1979 - John Wayne (born Marion Morrison), American actor (b. 1907)

★ 1984 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)

★ 1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954)

★ 1985 - Sapfo Notara, Greek actress (b. 1907)

★ 1986 - Chesley Bonestell, American-born engineer, architect, and artist (b. 1888)

★ 1991 - Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)

★ 1993 - Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952)

★ 1996 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)

★ 1998 - Catherine Cookson, British novelist (b. 1906)

★ 1999 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)

★ 2001 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)

★ 2001 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (b. 1923)

★ 2003 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (b. 1920)

★ 2004 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946)

★ 2004 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)

★ 2005 - Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general (b. 1922)

★ 2006 - Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)

★ 2006 - Michael Bartosh, computer expert and author (b. 1977)

★ 2007 - Imre Friedmann, American scientist (b. 1921)

★ 2007 - Mala Powers, American film actress (b. 1931)

Holidays and Observances

★ Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawaii, United States, in honor of its first monarch, celebrated with floral parades, hula competition, and festivals

★ Davis Day, in remembrance of William Davis, observed in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

★ Roman Empire, Matralia in honor of Mater Matuta

★ Roman Empire, fifth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta

★ National Puerto Rican Day, Started in 1956, Festivals and Parades will be held

Liturgical observances

★ Saint Barnabas, apostle, martyr in 62 AD [common; PCP (Paris), WTS (Bruges), 6082, in red]^[1]

★ Saint Eskil, medieval patron saint of the Diocese of Strängnäs in Sweden (later moved to June 12 outside that diocese in order not to collide with the Feast of Barnabas)

★ Saint Onuphrius, hermit, confessor [GTZ: Basel, Freising, Worms]

★ Saint Reimbert, bishop of Bremen, confessor

★ Saint Aleidis of Schaarbeek (died 1250)

★ Blessed Flora (died 1347)

★ Blessed Tochumra, virgin [BLS: Kilmore, Ireland]

★ Blessed Tochumra, virgin [BLS: Tochumra in Munster]

References

1. Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Saints''. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0140513124.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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