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Events

363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.

1284 the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany

1409 Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.

1483 Richard III is crowned king of England.

1541 Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.

1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.

1723 After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.

1848 End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.

1857 The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.

1870 The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.

1909 The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.

1917 The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I.

1918 World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.

1924 American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.

1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.

1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.

1936 Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.

1940 World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.

1942 The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.

1945 The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.

1948 The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.

1948 William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.

1948 Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.

1952 The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.

1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.

1960 The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland .

1960 Madagascar gains its independence from France.

1963 John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.

1973 At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.

1974 The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio

1975 Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India.

1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.

1976 The CN Tower, the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, is opened to general public.

1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.

1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.

1991 Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.

1993 The United States launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.

1994 Microsoft no longer supports MS-DOS and the development of FreeDOS begins.

1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.

1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin

1997 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.

2008 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional.

Births

1575 Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)

1681 Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)

1689 Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)

1694 Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)

1702 Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (d. 1751)

1703 Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)

1730 Charles Messier, French Astronomer (d. 1817)

1798 Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)

1817 Branwell Bronte, British painter and poet (d. 1848)

1819 Abner Doubleday, American Major General (d. 1893)

1821 Bartolome Mitre, Argentine historian and politician (d. 1906)

1824 Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (d. 1907)

1835 Thomas W. Knox, American author (d. 1896)

1838 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (d. 1894)

1854 Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician (d. 1937)

1865 Bernard Berenson, American art historian (d. 1959)

1866 George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)

1869 Martin Andersen Nex, Danish writer (d. 1954)

1880 Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952)

1881 Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli poet (d. 1960)

1892 Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)

1895 George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)

1898 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)

1898 Chesty Puller, American military officer (d. 1971)

1899 Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)

1901 Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)

1902 Hugues Cunod, Swiss Tenor

1904 Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)

1904 Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (d. 1964)

1906 Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer (d. 1974)

1906 Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008)

1907 Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)

1908 Salvador Allende, Former President of Chile (1970-1973) (d. 1973)

1909 Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)

1911 Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (d. 1956)

1913 Aim Csaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)

1913 Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist

1914 Kathryn Johnston, American police shooting victim (d. 2006)

1914 Laurie Lee, British writer (d. 1997)

1915 Paul Castellano, American organized crime figure (d. 1985)

1915 Charlotte Zolotow, American author

1916 Giuseppe Taddei, Italian opera singer

1919 Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003)

1921 Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945)

1922 Eleanor Parker, American actress

1923 Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)

1924 Kostas Axelos, Greek philosopher

1925 Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970)

1928 Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)

1928 Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor

1929 Milton Glaser, American Designer

1933 Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor

1933 Gene Green, American baseball player (d. 1981)

1934 Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)

1934 Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist

1936 Robert Maclennan, British politician

1936 Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte, Archbishop of Montreal

1937 Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor

1937 Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate

1938 Gerald North, American climatologist

1940 Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The 5th Dimension)

1941 Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist

1942 Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer and Minister of Culture

1942 James J. Dillon, American professional wrestling manager

1943 John Beasley, American actor

1943 Georgie Fame, British singer

1943 Warren Farrell, American author

1945 Malachi York, Nuwaubian leader

1951 Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer

1953 Robert Davi, American actor

1954 Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)

1955 Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite)

1956 Chris Isaak, American singer

1957 Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal)

1957 Philippe Couillard, Quebec neurosurgeon and politician

1959 Mark McKinney, Canadian actor

1960 Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (d. 1997)

1961 Greg LeMond, American cyclist

1961 Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)

1962 Jerome Kersey, American basketball player

1962 Preston A. Whitmore II, American screenwriter and film director

1963 Harriet Wheeler, British singer (The Sundays)

1963 Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman

1963 Richard Garfield, American game designer

1963 Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian oligarch and convicted felon

1966 Minaguchi Yuko, Japanese voice actress

1966 Jrgen Reil, American drummer (Kreator)

1967 Todd Pletcher, American horse trainer

1968 Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer

1968 Shannon Sharpe, American football player

1969 Colin Greenwood, British musician

1969 Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer

1969 Mike Myers, American baseball player

1970 Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker

1970 Irv Gotti, American record producer

1970 Sean Hayes, American actor

1970 Matt Letscher, American actor

1970 Chris O'Donnell, American actor

1970 Nick Offerman, American actor

1971 Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer

1972 Garou, Canadian singer

1972 Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper

1973 Gretchen Wilson, American singer

1973 Rebecca Budig, American actress

1973 Pawe Maaszyski, Polish actor

1973 Jussi Sydnmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)

1974 Matt Striker, American professional wrestler

1974 Derek Jeter, American baseball player

1974 Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys)

1974 Jason Kendall, American baseball player

1974 Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer

1975 Jonah Sorrentino, American hip hop artist

1975 Terry Skiverton, English football player

1976 Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player

1976 Chad Pennington, American football player

1977 Kubo Tite, Japanese cartoonist

1977 Mark Jindrak, American Professional Wrestler

1978 Alexandra, French singer, L5's singer

1979 Wlter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player

1979 Andy O'Brien, English footballer

1979 Ryo Fukuda, Japanese racing driver

1979 Ryan Tedder, American Musician

1980 Jason Schwartzman, American actor

1980 Michael Vick, American football player

1980 Chris Shelton, American baseball player

1980 Sinik, French singer and rapper

1980 Hamlton, naturalized Togolese footballer

1981 Damien Sargue, French singer

1984 Elijah Dukes, American baseball player

1984 Raymond Felton, American basketball player

1984 Deron Williams, American basketball player

1984 Jose Juan Barea, American basketball player

1984 Aubrey Plaza, American comedian, writer and actress

1984 Gabrielle Walcott, winner of Miss Trinidad & Tobago World 2008

1985 Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader

1987 Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian racing driver

1987 Samir Nasri, French footballer

1992 Jennette McCurdy, American actress

2005 Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

Deaths

363 Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (b. 331)

1291 Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England

1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru

1688 Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)

1784 Caesar Rodney, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)

1793 Gilbert White, English ornithologist (b. 1720)

1810 Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)

1836 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (b. 1760)

1856 Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)

1878 Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)

1918 Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (b. 1843)

1922 Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)

1939 Ford Madox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)

1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)

1945 Emil Hcha, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)

1946 Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)

1946 Max Kgel, SS officer (b. 1895)

1947 Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)

1948 Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)

1949 Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)

1955 Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895)

1956 Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)

1957 Alfred Dblin, German writer (b. 1878)

1958 George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)

1958 Andrija tampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)

1964 Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian sports executive (b. 1889)

1964 Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)

1967 Franoise Dorlac, French actress (b. 1942)

1975 St. Josemara Escriv, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902)

1990 Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (b. 1909)

1992 Herman Rohde, professional wrestler (b. 1921)

1993 William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)

1993 Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)

1994 Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and activist (b. 1929)

1996 Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)

1997 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)

2001 Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)

2002 Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)

2002 Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)

2003 Marc-Vivien Fo, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)

2003 Denver Randleman, U.S. Army Seargent (b. 1920)

2003 Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902)

2003 Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)

2004 Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)

2004 Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer and song-writer (b. 1930)

2005 Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)

2006 Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (b. 1953)

2007 Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (b. 1929)

2007 Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (b. 1914)

2007 Natasja Saad, Danish Reggae singer (b. 1974)

Holidays and observances

International Day in Support of Torture Victims

International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

Madagascar: Independence Day

Thailand: Sunthorn Phu Day

Romania: Flag Day

Mar Abhai

Anthelm of Belley

Saint Hermogius

Saints John and Paul

Saint Josemara Escriv (d. 1975)

St. Vigilius of Trent

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