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- Christian Feast Day:
- Commonwealth Constitution Day, formerly Occupation Day. (Puerto Rico)
- Ebernoe Horn Fair (Sussex, southern England)
- Furrinalia (Roman Empire)
- Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
- Inca festival in honor of the thunder god Ilyap'a
- National Day of Galicia (Galicia)
- Republic Day (Tunisia)
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- 1965 - Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
- 1961 - In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1952 - The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a "constitution" of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current international law.
- 1866 - The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
- 2007 - Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president.
- 2000 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
- 1996 - In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
- 1995 - A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
- 1994 - Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- 1993 - Israel launches a massive attack against terrorist forces in Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
- 1993 - The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1984 - Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 1983 - Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1979 - Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
- 1978 - The Cerro Maravilla incident occurs.
- 1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
- 1973 - Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
- 1969 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
- 1959 - SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
- 1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
- 1957 - The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
- 1956 - 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
- 1948 - The Australian cricket team sets a world record for the highest successful run-chase in Test cricket history in the Fourth Test against England.
- 1946 - Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll.
- 1946 - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
- 1944 - World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed.
- 1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1942 - Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- 1940 - General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- 1934 - The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 1925 - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 1920 - Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1920 - France captures Damascus.
- 1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- 1915 - RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
- 1909 - Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
- 1908 - Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- 1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
- 1898 - The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico (The land invasion, proper, began that day: Sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been occurring since May 1898).
- 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- 1869 - The Japanese daimy? begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- 1868 - Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- 1861 - American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
- 1853 - Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
- 1837 - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
- 1824 - Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
- 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
- 1799 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
- 1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
- 1795 - The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
- 1792 - The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
- 1788 - Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1759 - French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
- 1758 - Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
- 1755 - British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
- 1722 - Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
- 1693 - Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
- 1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
- 1593 - Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1547 - Henry II of France is crowned.
- 1538 - The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
- 1536 - Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1261 - The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
- 1139 - Battle of Ourique: The independence of Portugal from the Kingdom of León declared after the Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques.
- 864 - The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
- 306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
- 285 - Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
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- 1990 - Andi Eigenmann, Filipina actress
- 1989 - Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
- 1989 - Francisco Ferreira, Portuguese journalist
- 1988 - Sarah Geronimo, Filipina actress and singer
- 1988 - Heather Marks, Canadian model
- 1988 - Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
- 1987 - Michael Welch, American actor
- 1986 - Ahtyba Rubin, American football player
- 1986 - Givanildo Vieira de Souza, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 - James Lafferty, American actor
- 1985 - Jasmine Lennard, English model
- 1985 - Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian race car driver
- 1984 - Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
- 1983 - Nenad Krstic, Serbian basketball player
- 1982 - Norbert Lemcke, German footballer
- 1982 - Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1982 - Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
- 1981 - Conor Casey, American soccer player
- 1981 - Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1980 - Diam's, French rapper
- 1980 - Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
- 1980 - Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
- 1980 - Scott Waldrom, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1979 - Amy Adams, American singer
- 1979 - Allister Carter, English professional snooker player
- 1978 - Louise Brown, World's first test tube baby
- 1978 - Gerard Warren, American football player
- 1977 - Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
- 1976 - Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress
- 1976 - Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
- 1976 - Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1975 - Jody Craddock, English footballer
- 1975 - Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
- 1974 - Jay R. Ferguson, American actor
- 1974 - Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestle
- 1973 - David Denman, American actor
- 1973 - Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
- 1973 - Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
- 1973 - Kevin Phillips, English footballer
- 1973 - Michael C. Williams, American actor
- 1971 - Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
- 1971 - Tracy Murray, American basketball player
- 1971 - Billy Wagner, American baseball player
- 1969 - Jon Barry, American basketball player
- 1968 - Rudi Bryson, Former South African cricketer
- 1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
- 1967 - Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
- 1967 - Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
- 1966 - Maureen Herman, American bassist
- 1966 - Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
- 1966 - Christine C. Quinn, American politician
- 1965 - Illeana Douglas, American actress
- 1964 - Breuk Iversen, American designer and writer
- 1963 - Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician
- 1963 - Julian Hodgson, English chess player
- 1961 - Bobbie Eakes, American actress
- 1961 - Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
- 1961 - Hugo Teufel III, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security
- 1960 - Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
- 1959 - Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial Killer
- 1958 - Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth)
- 1957 - Steve Podborski, Canadian downhill ski racer
- 1955 - Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model
- 1955 - Randall Bewley, American guitarist
- 1955 - Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
- 1954 - Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
- 1953 - Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank
- 1951 - Jack Thompson, American activist and former lawyer
- 1951 - Verdine White, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
- 1946 - John Gibson, American media host
- 1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer (I Threes)
- 1943 - Jim McCarty, English musician (The Yardbirds)
- 1943 - Erika Steinbach, German politician
- 1942 - Bruce Woodley, Australian musician (The Seekers)
- 1941 - Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
- 1941 - Nate Thurmond, American basketball player
- 1941 - Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
- 1937 - Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
- 1936 - Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
- 1936 - Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
- 1935 - John Robinson, American football coach
- 1935 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1935 - Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
- 1935 - Barbara Harris, American actress
- 1935 - Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms merchant
- 1934 - Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1978)
- 1934 - Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
- 1930 - Murray Chapple, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
- 1930 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
- 1930 - Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
- 1930 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer
- 1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
- 1929 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
- 1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
- 1928 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
- 1927 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Midge Decter, American journalist and author
- 1927 - Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
- 1926 - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
- 1925 - Jerry Paris, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1924 - Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)
- 1924 - Scotch Taylor, Former South African cricketer (d. 2004)
- 1923 - Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1923 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
- 1921 - Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965)
- 1920 - Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)
- 1920 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
- 1918 - Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
- 1917 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
- 1916 - Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
- 1914 - Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (d. 1994)
- 1908 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
- 1908 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
- 1908 - Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1907 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
- 1905 - Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994)
- 1905 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
- 1902 - Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
- 1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
- 1896 - Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1895 - Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977)
- 1894 - Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1894 - Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (d. 1918)
- 1886 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
- 1883 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
- 1882 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
- 1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
- 1867 - Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
- 1867 - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
- 1860 - Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
- 1848 - Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
- 1844 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
- 1839 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
- 1799 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
- 1797 - Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
- 1753 - Santiago de Liniers, viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (d. 1810)
- 1750 - Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
- 1683 - Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (d. 1756)
- 1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
- 1653 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat (d. 1728)
- 1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
- 1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
- 1404 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
- 1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
- 1109 - Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
- 1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)