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Events
- 678 - Saint Agatho begins his reign as a Catholic
Pope.
- 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik founded
- 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
- 1743 - War of the Austrian Succession:
Battle of Dettingen On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally led troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would
command troops in the field.
- 1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of
Quebec.
- 1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires during the
British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
- 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr. was murdered at the
Carthage, Illinois jail, along with his brother, Hyrum
Smith, by a mob.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
- 1867 - The Bank of California is created.
- 1893 - Crash of the New York Stock
Exchange.
- 1898 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe
is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island,
Nova Scotia.
- 1905 - (June 14 according to the Julian calendar):
Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship
Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's classic film on
the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).
- 1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight
in the Korean War.
- 1953 - Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of
France.
- 1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in
Obninsk, near Moscow.
- 1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in
Louisiana and Texas.
- 1966 - The first broadcast of Dark Shadows is
aired on ABC-TV.
- 1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in
Enfield, London.
- 1973 - The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads
a coup.*
- 1974 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the
U.S.S.R..
- 1976 - Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
- 1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti.
- 1979 - Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from
boxing.
- 1980 - A commercial DC-9 (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870) crashes near Ustica,
Italy, killing 81
- 1981 - First Paintball Match Was Held
- 1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
- 1985 - U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S.
highway.
- 1986 - The International Court of
Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States.
- 1988 - 59 are killed and 55 are injured as a runaway train in Gare de Lyon, France plows into a packed rush-hour train.
- 1991 - Slovenia, after declaring independence two days
previous, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft,
starting the Ten-Day War.
- 1997 - President Rahmonov, UTO leader Said Abdullah Nuri, and Special Representative of the
United Nations Secretary-General Gerd Merrem signed the "General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in
Tajikistan" and the "Moscow Protocol" on 27 June 1997 in Moscow, Russia, ending the war.[5]
- 1998 - Opening of the Kuala Lumpur
International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia.
- 2001 - International Court of Justice
finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
- 2001 - Pope John Paul II beatified 28
Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed
by the Soviet secret police. Beatification took place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
- 2003 - The United States National
Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolled almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its
first day.
- 2005 - AMD files broad antitrust complaint
against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of
monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
- 2007 - Tony Blair formally tenders his resignation as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to Queen Elizabeth II. Gordon Brown is his
successor.
Births
- 1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d.
1095)
- 1350 - Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor
- 1462 - King Louis XII of France (d.
1515)
- 1550 - King Charles IX of France (d.
1574)
- 1696 - William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier
(d. 1759)
- 1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French
botanist (d. 1799)
- 1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d.
1914)
- 1846 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish
independence fighter (d. 1891)
- 1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d.
1904)
- 1850 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
- 1869 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist and
feminist (d. 1940)
- 1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
- 1880 - Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d.
1968)
- 1882 - Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and
educator (d. 1963)
- 1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet
(d. 1962)
- 1888 - Antoinette Perry, American theater director
(d. 1946}
- 1888 - Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
- 1892 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (d.
1985)
- 1899 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d.
1981)
- 1905 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 1976)
- 1907 - John McIntire, American actor (d.
1991)
- 1908 - João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d.
1967)
- 1913 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d.
1993)
- 1914 - Robert Aickman, English author (d.
1981)
- 1914 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (d. 1988)
- 1923 - Jacques Berthier, French composer (d.
1994)
- 1924 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey
(d. 2003)
- 1924 - Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
- 1925 - Doc Pomus, American blues singer/songwriter (d.
1991)
- 1927 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1928 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (d.
1995)
- 1929 - William Afflis, American wrestler (d.
1991)
- 1930 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician
- 1931 - Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist
- 1931 - Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1932 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
- 1932 - Eddie Kasko, baseball player
- 1932 - Magali Noël, French actress
- 1935 - Laurent Terzieff, French actor
- 1938 - Tommy Cannon, British comedian
- 1938 - Shirley Anne Field, British actress
- 1939 - Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor
(d. 1994)
- 1941 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director
(d. 1996)
- 1941 - Bill Baxley, American politician
- 1941 - James P. Hogan, British science fiction author
- 1941 - Avi Lerner, Israeli-born American film producer
- 1942 - Bruce Johnston, American musician
(The Beach Boys)
- 1942 - Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
- 1943 - Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
- 1943 - Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress
- 1944 - Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist
- 1948 - Camile Baudoin, American musician
- 1949 - Vera Wang, American fashion designer
- 1951 - Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
- 1951 - Julia Duffy, American actress
- 1955 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
- 1956 - Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
- 1956 - Brad Childress, American football coach
- 1958 - Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
- 1958 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
(The Gun Club) (d. 1996)
- 1959 - Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer
- 1959 - Lorrie Morgan, American country music singer
- 1961 - Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and
actress
- 1961 - Margo Timmins, Canadian folk-rock singer
(Cowboy Junkies)
- 1962 - Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
- 1962 - Michael Ball, British singer
- 1962 - James Duncan, (truck driver) Australian
- 1963 - Paul Roos, Australian
rules footballer
- 1963 - Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
- 1964 - Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film
producer and director
- 1964 - Chuck Person, American basketball player
- 1966 - J. J. Abrams, American television writer and
producer
- 1967 - Sylvie Fréchette, French-Canadian synchronized
swimmer
- 1968 - Pascale Bussières, French-Canadian
actress
- 1970 - John Eales , Australian Rugby Player
- 1970 - Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
- 1971 - Jo Frost, English nanny and television host
- 1974 - Big Moe, American musician (Screwed Up Click)
- 1975 - Tobey Maguire, American actor
- 1975 - Daryle Ward, American baseball player
- 1975 - Ace Darling, American professional wrestler
- 1975 - Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer
- 1976 - Johnny Estrada, American baseball player
- 1977 - Raúl, Spanish footballer
- 1977 - Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footbaler
- 1979 - Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean actress
- 1979 - John Warne, American musician (Relient K;
Ace Troubleshooter)
- 1980 - Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
- 1980 - Craig Terrill, American football player
- 1983 - Alsou, Russian singer
- 1983 - Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
- 1983 - Evan Taubenfeld, American musician
- 1984 - Julie Ordon, Swiss model
- 1984 - Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
- 1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis
player
- 1985 - Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
- 1986 - Drake Bell, musician/ songwriter /actor, best known
for his role on Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh
- 1988 - Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
- 1989 - Matthew Lewis, English actor
- 1991 - Madylin Sweeten, American actress
Deaths
- 1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b.
1118)
- 1458 - King Alfonso V of Aragon (b.
1396)
- 1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect
(b. 1511)
- 1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop,
writer, and diplomat (b. 1539)
- 1627 - John Hayward, English historian
- 1655 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
- 1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b.
1597)
- 1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu,
French poet (b. 1639)
- 1773 - Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)
- 1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian
statesman (b. 1711)
- 1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b.
1715)
- 1827 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German
theologian (b. 1754)
- 1829 - James Smithson, English scientist and
philanthropist (b. 1765)
- 1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b.
1776)
- 1844 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b.
1800)
- 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
- 1907 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American
educator (b. 1822)
- 1912 - George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b.
1855)
- 1917 - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (b. 1896)
- 1920 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French
Canadien lyricist (O Canada) (b. 1839)
- 1944 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
- 1952 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
- 1954 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field
marshal (b. 1881)
- 1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
- 1962 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
- 1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b.
1902)
- 1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli American guitarist (b.
1962)
- 1991 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (b.
1953)
- 1991 - Milton Subotsky, American TV and Film producer/screenwriter (b.
1921)
- 1996 - Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer
(b. 1909)
- 1998 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician
(b. 1935)
- 1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b.
1919)
- 2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author, the creator of the
Moomins (b. 1914)
- 2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2002 - John Entwistle, English bassist
(The Who) (b. 1944)
- 2003 - David Newman, American filmmaker (b.
1937)
- 2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b.
1923)
- 2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
- 2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b.
1917)
- 2005 - John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
- 2005 - Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran
(b. 1914)
- 2005 - Domino Harvey, English-born bounty
hunter (b. 1969)
- 2006 - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz,
Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
- 2007 - Patrick Allotey, Ghana footballer (b. 1979)
- 2007 - Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian
poet (b. 1905)
- 2007 - William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
Holidays and observances
Liturgical feasts
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