- 363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by troops on the battlefield.
- 684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1243 Battle of Köse Dağ: Mongols under Baiju defeat Seljuk army of Sultan Kaykhusraw II during Mongol attacks in north east Turkey
King Richard III
1483 Duke of Gloucester succeeds as KingRichard III of England after Parliament declaredEdward V illegitimate
- 1539 Battle of Chausa: Afghan and northern Indian leader Sher Shah Suri defeats Mughal Emperor Humayun in Bihar in major battle involving 200,000 forces
- 1593 Maurice, Prince of Orange conquers the Spanish-held Southern Dutch city of Geertruidenberg after a siege of two months, establishing his fame
- 1604 French expedition led by Pierre Dugua de Monts lands at Île Sainte-Croix to found settlement of Acadia in New France - later moved to Port Royal[1]
- 1630 Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
- 1714 Spain & Netherlands sign peace and trade agreement
- 1718 Peter the Great's son, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia dies from the effects of torture after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him
- 1721 Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
- 1723 After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
Battle of Fleurus
1794 Battle of Fleurus: Major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) with the first use of a reconnaissance balloon
Ellen G. White Baptized
1842Ellen G. White is baptized by John Hobart in Portland, Maine
1st Victoria Cross Recipients
1857 The first 62 recipients receive the Victoria Cross for valor in the Crimean War fromQueen Victoria
Valkyrie Premieres
1870Richard Wagner's opera "Die Walküre" (The Valkyrie), the second in his Ring Cycle, premieres in Munich, featuring "Ride of the Valkyries"
- 1879 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
- 1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
- 1900 Japan mobilizes 20,000 troops to help put down the Boxer uprising in China and to advance their long-term interest in gaining land and power in mainland Asia
- 1900 The Russian Tsar orders that Russian must be the official language of Finland, despite growing unrest within Finland and increasing international concern over Russia's behavior there
Aga Khan III Honored
1902Aga Khan III is appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
Mahler's 9th Symphony
1912Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna, Austria with Bruno Walter conducting the Vienna Philharmonic
Indian Relief Act
1914 The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led byM.K. Gandhi; it abolishes a £3 tax imposed on Indians who had not renewed their indentures and recognizes "the validity of Indian customary marriages"
- 1915 Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
- 1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on jerseys in a game against Chicago WS; first time MLB players identified by numbers corresponding to those on scorecard
- 1917 First US troops arrive in France during World War I
- 1918 The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed
- 1919 NY Daily News begins publishing
- 1922 The emergency decrees under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution are invoked by the government to deal with deteriorating economic conditions
- 1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic
- 1924 Theatrical revue "Ziegfeld Follies of 1924", featuring Billie Burke and W.C. Fields, opens at the New Amsterdam Theatre, NYC
The Gold Rush
1925 Silent film "The Gold Rush," directed, starring, and written byCharlie Chaplin, is released and becomes the fifth highest-grossing silent film of all time
- 1927 Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
- 1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
International Congresses of Modern Architects
1928 First meeting of the International Congresses of Modern Architects (CIAM) at Lake Leman, Switzerland organized byLe Corbusier
Federal Credit Union Act
1934 US PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act into law, establishing Credit Unions
- 1934 US PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt signs National Firearms Act into law, requiring registration and imposition of excise tax on firearms including machine guns. short-barreled shotguns and rifles, and silencers; exceptions made for pistol, revolvers, and long guns
W.E.B. Du Bois Resigns
1934W.E.B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP
- 1935 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
- 1935 SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam
- 1935 Work service for recent graduates becomes obligatory in Germany
- 1936 Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ
- 1936 First flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter, piloted by Ewald Rohlfs
- 1937 Test cricket debut of all-time great English batsman Len Hutton v New Zealand in 1st Tests at Lord's; scores 0 & 1
- 1938 Cincinnati Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
- 1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
- 1941 Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
- 1942 German assault on British railroad terminal at Mersa Matruh, Egypt
- 1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
- 1944 MLB New York Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Giants play unique 6 inning game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0
- 1945 England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs
United Nations Charter
1945 The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
- 1946 Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years
Fred Allen's Last Show
1946Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest isJack Benny
Mandela Infringes Curfew
1952Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa's curfew
- 1953 KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
Lavrentiy Beria Ousted
1953Lavrentiy Beria, one of the trio of Soviet leaders after Stalin's death and the former secret police chief, is ousted from power and arrested
- 1954Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
- 1955 Freedom Charter signed in South Africa
PM Gaston Eyskens
1958 Leading a minority government,Gaston Eyskens is selected Prime Minister of Belgium for the second time
- 1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
- 1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
Johansson KOs Patterson
1959Ingemar Johansson of Sweden floorsFloyd Patterson 7 times in the 3rd round in NYC to win the world heavyweight boxing title
St. Lawrence Seaway
1959Queen Elizabeth II and US PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower open the St. Lawrence Seaway, allowing oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America
- 1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
- 1960 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
- 1960 Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian administration
- 1960 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Joyce Ziske wins on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with Barbara Romack
- 1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
- 1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
- 1962 Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0
- 1962 WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1963 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
- 1963 Dutch Second Chamber condemns commercial TV
PM Levi Eshkol
1963 Levi Eshkol replacesDavid Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister
Kennedy's Clarion Call for Freedom
1963 US PresidentJohn F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (intended to mean "I am a Berliner", but may actually mean "I am a doughnut") speech in West Berlin
Paul VI Names Cardinals
1967 PopePaul VI names 27 new cardinals including Karol Józef Wojtyła, the Archbishop of Cracow and future PopeJohn Paul II
- 1968 10-year-old English girl Mary Bell strangles four-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (later convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility)
- 1968 Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions
Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands Returned
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
- 1970Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Baltimore Orioles beat Washington Senators 12-2
- 1970 Two young girls die in a premature explosion in Derry after their father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was making an incendiary device, presumably for use against the British Army
- 1971 Angels suspendAlex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
- 1972 Australian swing bowler Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut in 2nd Test vs England at Lord's
- 1972 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two British Army soldiers in separate attacks during the day and at midnight begins a "bi-lateral truce"
Grease
1973 London production of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease", starringRichard Gere, opens at the New London Theatre
- 1973 On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
- 1974 The Universal Product Code (UPC) is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
State of Emergency Declared
1975 Indian Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
- 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.
- 1975 U.S. Supreme Court's rules unanimously in "O'Connor v. Donaldson" that non-dangerous people can't be confined to psychiatric facilities without adequate treatment if able to live viably in outside society
- 1976 CN Tower opens in Toronto - at 553 metres (1,815 feet), the tallest freestanding structure in the world (surpassed by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa 2009)[1]
Ali vs. Inoki
1976 Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki fights American boxerMuhammad Ali, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan[1]
- 1976 Washington Senators player Toby Harrah plays an entire doubleheader at shortstop without a single chance in the field
- 1977 42 die in a fire caused by an inmate at Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee
Elvis Presley's Last Performance
1977Elvis Presley appears in concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana; unknowingly the last performance of his career
- 1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
- 1977 Tim Severin aboard the Brendan reaches Newfoundland in attempt to prove sixth-century Irish monks could have voyaged across the Atlantic
- 1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine, killing two of the 107 passengers on board
- 1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
- 1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
Moonraker
1979 "Moonraker", 11th James Bond film starringRoger Moore, premieres in London
- 1979 British rock drummer Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, accidentally crashes, and kills another driver
- 1979 The Village People become the first disco act to play Madison Square Garden, NYC
Stripes
1981 "Stripes", American military comedy film, directed and produced byIvan Reitman, starringBill Murray, Harold Ramis, andJohn Candy premieres
PM Soares Resigns
1985 Portugal's Socialist Prime MinisterMário Soares resigns amid predictions that Parliament would be dissolved and elections called
King's Record Shop
1987 Columbia Records releases "King's Record Shop", the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriterRosanne Cash, and the final of her albums produced by husband Rodney Crowell
- 1987 Losing 9-0 to Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees score 11 in 3rd, and win 12-11 in 10 innings
Lewis Powell Retires
1987 Supreme Court JusticeLewis F. Powell Jr. announces his retirement
Canada Updates Coins
1989 Canada updates its coinage with a new portrait ofQueen Elizabeth II, designed by a Canadian for the 1st time - artist Dora dePedery-Hunt
- 1989 Supreme Court rules 16-year-olds can receive the death penalty
- 1990 122°F in Phoenix, Arizona
- 1990 African National Congress (ANC) leaderNelson Mandela addresses a joint session of US Congress in Washington, D.C.[1]
- 1990 Eight Kansas and Oklahoma radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
- 1990 New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall
- 1991 Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
- 1991 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Larry Johnson first pick by Charlotte Hornets
- 1992 India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
- 1992 NYC's MTA votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993
- 1992 Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
- 1993 NHL Draft: Victoriaville Tigres (QMJHL) center Alexandre Daigle first pick by Ottawa Senators
- 1993 NY MetEddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs
- 1993 Rebecca Jones, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Junior Miss
US Attacks Baghdad
1993 US launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad's intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait
- 1994 104°F (40°C) at Denver, Colorado
- 1994 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 1994 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso, Texas
- 1994 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin, Nevada
- 1994 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley, California
- 1994 Air Ivory Fokker-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)
- 1994Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader
Arafat Returns to Gaza
1994 PLO leaderYasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
Assassination Attempt on Hosni Mubarak
1995 Gunmen ambush Egyptian PresidentHosni Mubarak who escapes unharmed
- 1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
- 1995 Karlheinz Stockhausen's musical piece "Helikopter-Streichquartett" premieres in and above Amsterdam - members of a string quartet perform in individual helicopters flying independent flight paths over Holland with sounds and video transmitted and mixed to audience in the concert hall
- 1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
- 1996 NBA Draft: Georgetown guard Allen Iverson first pick by Philadelphia 76ers
- 1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations (Orbit 9)
Harry Potter Published
1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st book inJ. K. Rowling's best-selling series, is published
- 1997 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
- 1997 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Communications Decency Act, inconsistent with the 1st Amendment
- 1999 NHL Draft: Long Beach Ice Dogs (IHL) center Patrik Stefan first pick by Atlanta Thrashers
- 2002 NBA Draft: Shanghai Sharks (China) center Yao Ming first pick by Houston Rockets
NBA Draft
2003 NBA Draft: St. Vincent–St. Mary HS (Akron, Ohio) small forwardLeBron James first pick by Cleveland Cavaliers
- 2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
- 2008 NBA Draft: Memphis point guard Derrick Rose first pick by Chicago Bulls
- 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.
Good Time
2012 "Good Time" by Owl City (Adam Young) andCarly Rae Jepsen releases, topping charts worldwide and selling 2.24 million copies in the US by the end of 2012
Ice Age: Continental Drift
2012 Animated film "Ice Age: Continental Drift", directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier with voices byRay Romano andJohn Leguizamo premieres in Buenos Aires
- 2012 Police procedural drama "Line of Duty" debuts on BBC 2 in the UK
- 2013 20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand
- 2013 Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in a leadership battle to become Australian Prime Minister
The Moment of Truth
2013Peter Ustinov's "The Moment of Truth" opens at Southwark Playhouse in London starringBonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley)
- 2014 Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
- 2014Joel Embiid is selected with the third overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2014 NBA draft
Suárez Expelled from World Cup
2014Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident
- 2014 NBA Draft: Kansas small forward Andrew Wiggins first pick by Cleveland Cavaliers
Greek Credit Crisis
2015 Greek Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras calls for a referendum on new bailout terms during the Greek Credit Crisis
- 2015 Gunman opens fire at beach resort in Sousse, Tunisia, killing 38. Isis claims responsibility.
- 2015 NHL Draft: Erie Otters (OHL) center Connor McDavid #1 pick by the Edmonton Oilers
- 2015 Saudi suicide bomber kills 27 at Shia Imam al-Sadiq mosque in Kuwait, 227 injured
Obama Sings Amazing Grace
2015 US PresidentBarack Obama sings "Amazing Grace" as part of his eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney and 8 church members killed during a bible study in Charleston, South Carolina
- 2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states
- 2016 City of Falluja freed from Islamic State control after a month-long campaign by Iraqi forces
- 2016 Iceland’s presidential election is won by history professor Guðni Jóhannesson
- 2016 Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
America's Cup
2017 America's Cup: EmiratesTeam New Zealand defeats Oracle Team USA 7-1 in Bermuda, makingPeter Burling (26) the youngest helmsman to win the cup
Temer Charged with Corruption
2017 Brazilian state prosecutors file corruption charges against PresidentMichel Temer
- 2017 Helicopter with rogue police pilot attacks Venezuelan Supreme Court in Caracas
May Forms Government
2017Theresa May's UK Conservative minority party strikes a deal to govern with Northern Ireland's DUP, guaranteeing £1 billion in funding for Northern Ireland
Barry Gibb Knighted
2018 "TheBee Gees" singer-songwriterBarry Gibb is knighted byPrince Charles at Buckingham Palace
- 2018 First high level talks between Ethiopian and Eritrean officials in 20 years begins in Addis Ababa
