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- Abolition Day (French Guiana)
- Christian Feast Day
- Portugal Day (Portugal and the Portuguese communities)
- Reconciliation Day (Republic of the Congo)
- The fourth day of the Vestalia. (Roman Empire)
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- 2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
- 2002 - The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
- 2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
- 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloevi? agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
- 1997 - Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
- 1996 - Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
- 1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
- 1977 - James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
- 1977 - Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
- 1973 - John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
- 1967 - The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
- 1967 - Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
- 1957 - John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
- 1947 - Saab produces its first automobile.
- 1945 - Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
- 1944 - World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
- 1944 - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
- 1944 - In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
- 1942 - World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
- 1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
- 1940 - World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
- 1935 - Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
- 1925 - Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
- 1924 - Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- 1918 - The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
- 1898 - Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
- 1886 - Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
- 1871 - Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads. Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
- 1854 - The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
- 1838 - Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
- 1829 - The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
- 1805 - First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
- 1793 - The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
- 1793 - French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
- 1786 - A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
- 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
- 1719 - Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
- 1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
- 1624 - Signing of the Treaty of Compičgne between France and the Netherlands.
- 1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
- 1539 - Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
- 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
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- 1990 - Valeen Montenegro, Filipino actress
- 1989 - Ryuya Wakaba, Japanese actor
- 1989 - Mustapha Carayol, Gambian-born English football player
- 1988 - Kelly Vitz, American actress
- 1987 - Lyssa Chapman, American bounty hunter
- 1987 - Martin Harnik, Austrian football player
- 1987 - Amobi Okoye, Nigerian-born American football player
- 1985 - Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
- 1985 - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1985 - Vasilis Torosidis, Greek football player
- 1985 - Andy Schleck, Luxembourg cyclist
- 1984 - Dean Leacock, English football player
- 1984 - Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian judoka
- 1984 - Nicky Bailey, English football player
- 1983 - Josh Ramsay, Canadian singer (Marianas Trench)
- 1982 - Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
- 1982 - Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, Swedish royalty
- 1982 - Leelee Sobieski, American actress
- 1982 - Ana Lucia Souza, Brazilian ballet dancer
- 1981 - Jonathan Bennett, American actor
- 1981 - Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, Jordanian royalty
- 1981 - Hoku, American singer and actress
- 1981 - Albie Morkel, South African cricketer
- 1981 - Burton O'Brien, Scottish football player
- 1981 - Nicky Whelan, Australian actress and model
- 1980 - Jessica DiCicco, American actress
- 1980 - Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian football player
- 1980 - Ovie Mughelli, American football player
- 1980 - Wang Yuegu, Singaporean table tennis player
- 1979 - Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek football player
- 1979 - Jake Tsakalidis, Georgian-born Greek basketball player
- 1978 - Shane West, American actor
- 1978 - Brian West, U.S. football player
- 1978 - Brian Mason, U.S. and Lebanese Comedian and Humanitarian
- 1977 - Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
- 1977 - Adam Darski (Nergal), Polish vocalist and guitarist (Behemoth)
- 1977 - Mike Rosenthal, American football player
- 1977 - Enzo Emanuele, Italian medical researcher
- 1977 - Dan-e-o, Canadian rapper
- 1976 - Freddy García, American baseball player
- 1976 - Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
- 1976 - Stefan Postma, Dutch football player
- 1976 - Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician
- 1975 - Henrik Pedersen, Danish football player
- 1975 - Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
- 1975 - Rebecca Cardon, American reality TV personality (The Amazing Race)
- 1973 - Faith Evans, American singer
- 1973 - Pokey Reese, American baseball player
- 1973 - Flesh-N-Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
- 1972 - Steven Fischer, American film producer and director
- 1972 - Radmila ekerinska, Macedonian politician
- 1971 - Joel Hailey, American R&B singer (K-Ci & JoJo)
- 1971 - Erik Rutan, American singer and guitarist (Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal) and record producer
- 1971 - Bobby Jindal, American politician, Governor of Louisiana
- 1971 - Bruno N'Gotty, French football player
- 1971 - Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host and TV personality
- 1970 - Mike Doughty, American singer-songwriter (Soul Coughing)
- 1969 - Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian football player
- 1969 - Kate Snow, American TV journalist
- 1968 - Bill Burr, American comedian
- 1968 - Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
- 1968 - The D.O.C., American rapper
- 1967 - John Yoo, American attorney
- 1967 - Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing)
- 1966 - David Platt, English footballer
- 1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino-American guitarist (Pixies)
- 1965 - Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress
- 1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American drummer (The Smashing Pumpkins)
- 1964 - Ben Daniels, British actor
- 1964 - Kate Flannery, American actress
- 1964 - Tony Martin, Australian comedian
- 1963 - Brad Henry, American politician
- 1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
- 1962 - Gina Gershon, American actress
- 1962 - Wong Ka-Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and guitarist (Beyond) (d. 1993)
- 1962 - Vincent Pérez, Swiss-born French actor and director
- 1962 - Akie Abe, former First Lady of Japan
- 1962 - Brent Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 - Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet (d. 1982)
- 1961 - Kim Deal, American bassist (Pixies, The Breeders)
- 1961 - Kelley Deal, American guitarist (The Breeders)
- 1960 - Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor
- 1960 - Maxi Priest, English reggae vocalist
- 1959 - Eliot Spitzer, American politician
- 1959 - Carlo Ancelotti, Italian football player and manager
- 1957 - Lindsay Hoyle, British politician
- 1957 - Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
- 1956 - Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1955 - Andrew Stevens, American actor
- 1953 - John Edwards, American politician and lawyer
- 1951 - Dan Fouts, American football player
- 1950 - Elías Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball pitcher
- 1949 - John Sentamu, Ugandan-born Archbishop of York
- 1947 - Ken Singleton, American baseball player
- 1946 - Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (d. 1998)
- 1942 - Preston Manning, Canadian politician
- 1941 - Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
- 1941 - David Walker, Australian racing driver
- 1941 - Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
- 1941 - Mickey Jones, American drummer (The First Edition) and actor
- 1940 - Augie Auer, U.S.-born New Zealand meteorologist and television presenter (d. 2007)
- 1940 - John Stevens, British drummer (d. 1994)
- 1935 - Vic Elford, British racing driver
- 1933 - Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian Prime Minister
- 1933 - F. Lee Bailey, American attorney
- 1932 - Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer
- 1931 - Joăo Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
- 1929 - Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
- 1929 - Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician
- 1929 - E. O. Wilson, American biologist
- 1929 - James McDivitt, American astronaut
- 1928 - Maurice Sendak, American writer and illustrator of children's literature
- 1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
- 1927 - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
- 1926 - Lionel Jeffries, British actor (d. 2010)
- 1925 - Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz critic, and columnist
- 1923 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born British media proprietor and Member of Parilament (d. 1991)
- 1922 - Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)
- 1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II
- 1921 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
- 1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
- 1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007)
- 1918 - Barry Morse, British-born Canadian actor (d. 2008)
- 1918 - Patachou, French singer
- 1915 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- 1913 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (d. 2007)
- 1913 - Benjamin Shapira, German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1993)
- 1912 - Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
- 1911 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichordist and musicologist (d. 1984)
- 1911 - Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)
- 1910 - Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player (d. 1976)
- 1910 - Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
- 1910 - Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
- 1907 - Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
- 1901 - Frederick Loewe, German-born Austrian-American composer (d. 1988)
- 1895 - Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
- 1894 - Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia Russian prince (d. 1918)
- 1891 - Al Dubin, American lyricist (d. 1945)
- 1889 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (d. 1973)
- 1884 - Leone Sextus Tollemache, British Army captain (d. 1917)
- 1880 - André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)
- 1863 - Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist (d. 1923)
- 1862 - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
- 1861 - Pierre Duhem, French physicist (d. 1916)
- 1843 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
- 1840 - Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
- 1839 - Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
- 1835 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate (d. 1930)
- 1825 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
- 1825 - Princess Hildegard of Bavaria d. 1864
- 1819 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
- 1804 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
- 1803 - Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
- 1753 - William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
- 1710 - James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
- 1706 - John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
- 1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart ("The Old Pretender"), English-born pretender to the British throne (d. 1766)
- 1657 - James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
- 1637 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
- 1632 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
- 1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher (d. 1289)