- 1181 - Pope Alexander III dies
- 1509 - Étienne Golet was born (d. 1546). Scholar and printer.
- 1546 - Étienne Dolet dies hanged and burned at the stake (b. 1509). Scholar and printer.
- 1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza dies (b. circa 1540). Spanish military commander
- 1604 - John Eliot was born (d. 1690). English puritan missionary.
- 1635 - The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).
- 1645 - The Second Battle of Nördlingen, fought between the forces of France and the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1645 - August Kuhnel was born. Composer.
- 1667- Francesco Borromini dies (b. 1599). Swiss architect.
- 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Griffon, the first known ship built in America.
- 1692 - John Henley was born (d. 1759). English clergyman.
- 1712 - Joshua Barnes dies (b. 1654). English scholar.
- 1721 - Grinling Gibbons dies (b. 1648). Dutch-born woodcarver.
- 1748 - Carl Ludwig Junker was born. Composer.
- 1753 - Charles Stanhope was born. 3rd Earl Stanhope. British statesman and scientist. Inventor of the calculator.
- 1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner dies (b. 1691). German classical scholar.
- 1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia was born (d. 1840).
- 1778 - Opening of La Scala in Milano
- 1779 - Criação da Academia Real de Marinha em Portugal
- 1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac dies (b. 1715). Philosopher.
- 1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
- 1792 - Richard Arkwright dies (b. 1732). Industrialist, and inventor of the Water Frame
- 1797 - Jeffrey Amherst dies (b. 1717). British military commander.
- 1801 - Joseph Paxton was born (d. 8 Jun 1865). English architect who designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London
- 1808 - Hamilton Fish was born (d. 1893). Politician.
- 1811 - Elisha Graves Otis was born. Inventor (safe elevator)
- 1823 - Thomas F. Meagher was born. Irish rebel, convict and escapee in Australia, US Union general.
- 1833 - Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras dies (b. 1759). Mexican architect and painter (Fuente de Neptuno in Querétaro, El Carmen in Celaya , El Teatro Alarcón de San Luis Potosí...)
- 1833 - Auguste Schmidt was born (d. 1902). Feminist and teacher.
- 1856 - Alfred Deakin was born (d. 1919). Second Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1857 - Eugène Sue dies (b. 1804). French novelist.
- 1860 - W.K. Dickson, was born (b. 1935) . Scottish inventor.
- 1860 - Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
- 1867 - Stanley Baldwin was born (d. 1947). British Prime Minister.
- 1867 - Philipp August Böckh dies (b. 1785). Scholar and antiquarian.
- 1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway was born (d. 1957).
- 1877 - William Butler Ogden dies (b. 1805). First mayor of Chicago.
- 1877 - Elysio de Moura was born in Braga (d. 18 Jul 1977). Portuguese psychiatrist.
- 1879 - Joseph Severn dies (b. 1793). English painter.
- 1887 - Rupert Brooke was born in Rubgy, Warwickshire (d. 1915). English poet ("The Soldier,"-1914).
- 1894 - Harry Heilmann was born (d. 1951). Baseball player.
- 1898 - Charles Garnier dies (b. 1825). French architect.
- 1900 - Ernie Pyle was born in Indiana (d. 18 Apr 1945). War correspondent, journalist: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter [1944]
- 1900 - John T. Scopes was born (d. 1970). Defendant in the Monkey Trial.
- 1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
- 1901 - Stefan Wyszynski was born (d. 1981). Primate of Poland.
- 1904 - Clifford D. Simak was born (d. 1988). Author.
- 1905 - Cardinal Franz König was born (d. 2004). Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna.
- 1905 - Dolores Del Rio was born in Mexico. Actress (What Price Glory?).
- 1908 - Ernesto Geisel was born in Bento Gonçalves - RS (d. 1996). 41st President of Brazil (15 Mar 1974 - 15 Mar 1979).
- 1914 - First World War: Germany declares war against France / Primeira Guerra Mundial: a Alemanha declara guerra à França.
- 1916 - First World War: Battle of Romani is fought between forces of the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
- 1916 - Sir Roger Casement dies. Irish rebel (hanged)
- 1918 - Sidney Gottlieb was born (d. 1999). American Central Intelligence Agency official.
- 1918 - Les Elgart was born. Musician, bandleader.
- 1920 - P.D. James was born in Oxford. British mystery novelist (Innocent Blood).
- 1921 - Nasce em Lisboa, Humberto Madeira (m. 17 Jun 1971). Actor português.
- 1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria was born. Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- 1923 - Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States.
- 1924 - Leon Uris was born in Baltimore (d. 21 Jun 2003). American novelist (Exodus; Trinity)
- 1924 - Joseph Conrad dies (b. 1857). Polish-born writer.
- 1926 - Tony Bennett, was born. Grammy Award-winning singer: I Left My Heart in San Francisco [1962], MTV Unplugged [1994]; I Wanna Be Around, Who Can I Turn To, The Shadow of Your Smile, Because of You, Rags to Riches, Stranger in Paradise, In the Middle of an Island, The Good Life; appeared in film: The Oscar
- 1926 - Anthony Sampson, was born (d. 2004). British journalist and biographer
- 1929 - Emil Berliner dies (b. 1851). Telephone and recording pioneer.
- 1929 - Thorstein Veblen dies (b. 1857). Economist
- 1935 - Georgi Shonin was born (d. 1997). Cosmonaut.
- 1936 - Edward Petherbridge was born. Actor
- 1937 - Diane Wakoski was born. Poet
- 1937 - Steven Berkoff was born. British actor
- 1938 - Terry Wogan was born. Presenter
- 1940 - Martin Sheen was born in Dayton, Ohio. American actor (The West Wing, Apocalypse Now, J.F.K., Wall Street, Badlands, Ghandi, Gettysburg, The Final Countdown)
- 1940 - Lance Alworth was born. American football player
- 1941 - Beverly Lee was born. Singer (Shirelles)
- 1941 - Martha Stewart was born. Home economist, homemaker.
- 1942 - Richard Willstätter dies (b. 1872). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1915.
- 1946 - Jack Straw was born. British politician
- 1946 - National Basketball Association was founded in the United States.
- 1948 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, was born. Prime Minister of France
- 1950 - John Landis was born. Film director
- 1951 - Marcel Dionne was born. Hockey player
- 1951 - Jay North was born. Actor
- 1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles was born. Footballer.
- 1952 - The 15th Olympic Games concluded in Helsinki
- 1954 - Colette dies in Paris (b. 1873). French writer.
- 1959 - Martin Atkins was born. Drummer
- 1959 - Koichi Tanaka was born. Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1963 - James Hetfield was born. Musician (Metallica)
- 1964 - Flannery O'Connor dies (b. 1925). American writer.
- 1966 - Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose (b. 1925). Comedian.
- 1970 - Gina G was born. Australian singer
- 1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1973 - Richard Marshall dies (b. 1895). General.
- 1977 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
- 1977 - Tom Brady was born. American football player
- 1977 - Alfred Lunt dies (b. 1892). Actor.
- 1977 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus dies (b. 1913)
- 1979 - Bertil Ohlin dies (b. 1899). Swedish economist.
- 1981 - In the United States, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan.
- baseball game and was charged by police for his "act of cruelty to animals". His manager Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man."
- 1983 - Carolyn Jones dies (b. 1929). Actress.
- 1986 - Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume was born. Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau.
- 1989 - Hashemi Rafsanjani was sworn in as president of Iran.
- 1995 - Ida Lupino dies (b. 1914). Actress, director.
- 1995 - Edward Whittemore dies (b. 1933). Writer.
- 1996 - “Give your body happiness, Macarena...” Macarena (bayside boys mix), by Los Del Rio, hit #1 on Billboard
- 1996 - Nos Jogos Olímpicos de Atlanta, a atleta portuguesa Fernanda Ribeiro ganha a medalha de ouro nos 10 000 metros.
- 1997 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
- 1998 - Alfred Schnittke dies (b. 1934). Russian composer.
- 2000 - George W. Bush accepts the Republican presidential nomination at the party's Convention in Philadelphia.
- 2001 - Christopher Hewett dies. British actor.
- 2003 - Roger Voudouris dies. American singer and songwriter
- 2003 - Peter Safar dies (b. 12 Apr 1924). Austrian physician.
- 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson dies. French photographer.
- 2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne dies (b. 1920). French feminist.
- 2005 - Steven Vincent dies (b. 1955). American journalist.
- Equatorial Guinea - Armed Forces Day
- Niger - Independence Day
Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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