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- Christian Feast Day
- Economist day (Argentina)
- Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee)
- Festival to Bellona (Roman Empire)
- Mabo Day (Australia)
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- 2007 - USS Carter Hall engages pirates after they board the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia.
- 2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
- 1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
- 1992 - Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (1988), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
- 1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Ky?sh?, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
- 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
- 1989 - SkyDome is officially opened in Toronto, Ontario
- 1984 - The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar.
- 1982 - The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
- 1980 - The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska takes five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and $300 million in damages all told, according to National Weather Service and American Red Cross statistics on the deadly storm.
- 1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill ever recorded
- 1973 - A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
- 1969 - Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
- 1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
- 1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk.
- 1963 - The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Hu?, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
- 1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
- 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.
- 1956 - British Railways renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in , leaving just First Class and Third Class).
- 1950 - First successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; Annapurna was summited by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal
- 1941 - World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
- 1940 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
- 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
- 1937 - The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
- 1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
- 1932 - Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.
- 1916 - The Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1916 - The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
- 1889 - The coast to coast Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
- 1889 - The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
- 1888 - The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 1885 - In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
- 1866 - The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
- 1850 - The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. This was the date on which it was first incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri, as the "City of Kansas".
- 1839 - In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
- 1800 - U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, D.C. (in a tavern because the White House was not yet completed).
- 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
- 1665 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
- 1658 - Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
- 1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
- 1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
- 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
- 1539 - DeSoto claims Florida for Spain.
- 1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
- 1140 - French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
- 1098 - First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
- 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
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- 2006 - Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch Royal Family
- 1989 - Katie Hoff, American swimmer
- 1989 - Anthony Taugourdeau, French footballer
- 1987 - Lalaine, American actress
- 1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
- 1987 - Michelle Keegan, British actress
- 1986 - Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
- 1986 - Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
- 1986 - Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
- 1986 - Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
- 1986 - Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater
- 1985 - Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
- 1984 - Emily Scott, Australian model
- 1983 - Janine Habeck, German model and Playboy Playmate
- 1982 - Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
- 1982 - Dihan Slabbert, South African singer and composer
- 1981 - Sosene Anesi, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1981 - Salvatore Giardina, Italian footballer
- 1981 - Timur Tekkal, German rugby player
- 1980 - Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 - Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
- 1978 - Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and songwriter
- 1977 - Cristiano Marques Gomez, Brazilian footballer
- 1977 - Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
- 1977 - Travis Hafner, American baseball player
- 1976 - Jamie McMurray, American racecar driver
- 1976 - Yuri Ruley, American drummer
- 1976 - Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
- 1975 - Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1974 - Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
- 1974 - Arianne Zucker, American actress
- 1971 - Carl Everett, American baseball player
- 1971 - John Hodgman, American author and humorist
- 1970 - Esther Hart, Dutch singer
- 1970 - Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
- 1970 - Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
- 1970 - Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
- 1969 - Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician
- 1969 - Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
- 1968 - Jamie O'Neal, American singer
- 1968 - Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
- 1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter, journalist and anchorman
- 1967 - Jason Jones, Canadian actor
- 1966 - Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
- 1965 - Mike Gordon, American musician (Phish)
- 1965 - Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
- 1964 - Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
- 1964 - James Purefoy, British actor
- 1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
- 1963 - Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
- 1962 - Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
- 1961 - Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
- 1959 - John Carlson, American talk radio host
- 1958 - Margot Käßmann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop
- 1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
- 1956 - Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
- 1956 - George Burley, Scottish football player and manager
- 1956 - Danny Wilde, American musician (The Rembrandts)
- 1954 - Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1954 - Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player
- 1952 - David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
- 1952 - Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
- 1950 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
- 1950 - Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress
- 1950 - Christos Verelis, Greek politician
- 1950 - Deniece Williams, American singer
- 1949 - Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer
- 1947 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T.Rex) (d. 2003)
- 1947 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
- 1947 - John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
- 1946 - Michael Clarke, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1946 - Eddie Holman, American singer
- 1946 - Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor
- 1946 - Penelope Wilton, British actress
- 1945 - John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator
- 1945 - Hale Irwin, American professional golfer
- 1945 - Bill Paterson, British actor
- 1944 - Edith McGuire, American runner
- 1944 - Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
- 1943 - Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
- 1942 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
- 1940 - Connie Saylor, American racecar driver (d. 1993)
- 1939 - Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
- 1939 - Ian Hunter, English musician
- 1939 - Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist
- 1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
- 1937 - Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1936 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
- 1936 - Larry McMurtry, American author
- 1935 - Irma P. Hall, American actress
- 1934 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
- 1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
- 1931 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
- 1931 - Françoise Arnoul, French actress
- 1931 - Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
- 1931 - John Norman, American author
- 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
- 1930 - Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
- 1929 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
- 1929 - Chuck Barris, American game show host
- 1927 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (d. 2007)
- 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
- 1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1925 - Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2001)
- 1924 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
- 1924 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
- 1924 - Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
- 1924 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)
- 1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
- 1923 - M. Karunanidhi, Indian Politician
- 1922 - Alain Resnais, French director
- 1921 - Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
- 1918 - Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996)
- 1918 - Lili St. Cyr, American stripper (d. 1999)
- 1917 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
- 1913 - Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
- 1911 - Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1910 - Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1907 - Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
- 1906 - Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
- 1905 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946)
- 1904 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
- 1903 - Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
- 1901 - Zhang Xueliang {d. 2001}
- 1901 - Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
- 1900 - Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
- 1899 - Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
- 1888 - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
- 1881 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
- 1879 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
- 1879 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
- 1878 - Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
- 1877 - Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
- 1873 - Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1961)
- 1866 - George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
- 1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
- 1864 - Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer (d. 1905)
- 1864 - Ransom E. Olds, American automobile pioneer (d. 1950)
- 1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
- 1844 - Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
- 1844 - Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
- 1843 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
- 1840 - Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867)
- 1832 - Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1819 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
- 1818 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
- 1808 - Jefferson Davis, American politician and President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
- 1770 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)
- 1726 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
- 1723 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
- 1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
- 1636 - John Hale, pastor during the Salem witch hunt (d.1700)
- 1635 - Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
- 1540 - Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
- 1537 - John Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554)