On this day in History - Jun 3

• 0350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
• 1098 - Crusaders take Antioch, Turkey.
• 1140 - French scholar, Peter Abelard found guilty of heresy.
• 1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• 1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria dies
• 1397 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury dies (b. 1328). English military leader.
• 1411 - Leopold IV dies. Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
• 1539 - Capitão Martín Galeano funda a cidade de Vélez - Colômbia
• 1540 - Archduke Charles II of Austria was born (d. 1590). Regent of Inner Austria.
• 1548 - Juan de Zumárraga dies (b. 1468). Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico
• 1553 - University of Mexico is founded.
• 1594 - John Aylmer dies (b. 1521). English political theorist.
• 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
• 1620 - Building of oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec Canada.
• 1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
• 1635 - Philippe Quinault was born (d. 1688). French writer.
• 1640 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk dies (b. 1584). English politician.
• 1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa dies (b. 1590). Portuguese historian and poet.
• 1657 - William Harvey dies (b. 1578). Rnglish physician
• 1658 - The Pope appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
• 1659 - David Gregory was born (d. 10 Oct 1708). Scottish mathematician.
• 1659 - Morgan Llwyd dies (b. 1619). Welsh Puritan preacher and writer.
• 1665 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
• 1723 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli was born(d. 1788). Italian-born naturalist.
• 1726 - James Hutton was born (d. 26 Mar 1797). Scottish geologist.
• 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
• 1770 - Manuel Belgrano was born (d. 1820). Argentine lawyer and politician.
• 1780 - Thomas Hutchinson dies (b. 1711). American colonial governor of Massachusetts
• 1793 - Antoni Malczewski was born (d. 2 May 1826). Polish writer.
• 1800 - U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, DC (in a tavern - the White House was not yet completed).
• 1808 - Jefferson Davis was born (d. 1889). President of the Confederate States of America.
• 1811 - Henry James was born (d. 18 Dec 1882). American philosophical theologian.
• 1818 - Louis Faidherbe was born (d. 1889). French general
• 1818 - Egwale Seyon dies. Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1819 - Anton Anderledy was born (d. 1892). Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus
• 1826 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin dies (b. 1766). Russian writer.
• 1832 - Alexandre Charles Lecocq was born (d. 1918). French composer.
• 1843 - Frederick VIII of Denmark was born (d. 1912).
• 1844 - Pail Mansion was born (d. 16 Apr 1919). Belgian mathematician.
• 1844 - Detlev von Liliencron was born (d. 1909). German poet.
• 1844 - Garret Hobart was born (d. 1899). 24th Vice President of the United States.
• 1849 - Leopold Gegenbauer dies (b. 2 Feb 1849). Aistrian mathematician.
• 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".
• 1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie was born (d. 1942). English Egyptologist.
• 1856 - Cullen Whipple of Providence, RI patented the screw machine.
• 1858 - Julius Reubke dies. (b. 1834). German composer
• 1861 - Stephen A. Douglas dies (b. 18913). American politician.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Confederate forces attack Union troops at Cold Harbor, Virginia.
• 1864 - Otto Erich Hartleben was born (d. 1905). German writer.
• 1864 - Ransom E. Olds was born (d. 1950). American automobile pioneer.
• 1865 - King George V of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1936) .
• 1866 - Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario into the United States to a heroes' welcome.
• 1866 - George Howells Broadhurst was born (d. 1952). English director.
• 1868 - Aristides Agramonte y Simoni was born (d. 19 Aug 1931). Physician, pathologist, and bacteriologist, a member of the Reed Yellow Fever Board of the U.S. Army that discovered (1901) the role of the mosquito in the transmission of yellow fever.
• 1873 - Otto Loewi was born (d. 1961). Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with Sir Henry Dale "for their discoveries relating to the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
• 1875 - Georges Bizet dies (b. 1834). French composer.
• 1877 - Raoul Dufy was born (d. 1953). French painter.
• 1877 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel dies (b. 1800). Austrian musicologist.
• 1878 - Barney Oldfield was born (d. 1946). American race car driver.
• 1879 - Raymond Pearl was born (d. 1940). American biologist, one of the founders of biometry, the application of statistics to biology and medicine. Pearl was chief statistician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1919-35). In 1926, he first reported health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption (as opposed to both abstinence and heavy drinking) in a modern medical light.
• 1881 - Mikhail Larionov was born (d. 1964). Russian painter.
• 1882 - Christian Wilberg dies (b. 1839). German painter.
• 1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
• 1886 - Andrés Avelino Cáceres assume a presidência do Peru e Pedro Alejandrino del Solar Gabans assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro
• 1887 - Fundação do Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata - Argentina
• 1888 - The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
• 1888 - Tom Brown was born (d. 1958). American jazz musician.
• 1888 - Jim Tully was born (d. 1947). Novelist.
• 1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast
• 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.
• 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae dies (b. 1812). Expert on Byzantine Law.
• 1896 - Inventor Guglielmo Marconi was granted his first patent in Britain for the radio.
• 1898 - Rosa Chacel was born. Spanish novelist.
• 1899 - Johann Strauss II dies (b. 1825). Austrian composer.
• 1899 - Georg von Békésy was born in Budapes (d. 13 Jun 1972). Hungarian-born American physicist and physiologist who received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea by which sound is analyzed and communicated in the cochlea, a portion of the inner ear.
• 1901 - Maurice Evans was born (d. 1989). English actor.
• 1901 - José Lins do Rego was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1903 - Eddie Acuff was born (d. 1956). American actor.
• 1904 - Jan Peerce was born (d. 1894). American tenor.
• 1904 - Charles Richard Drew was born (d. 1 April 1950). Black American physician and surgeon who was an authority on the preservation of human blood for transfusion.
• 1905 - Martin Weiss was born (d. 1946). Commandant of Dachau concentartion camp
• 1906 - Josephine Baker was born (d. 1975). American dancer, singer and actress.
• 1907 - Centro Escolar University was established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines.
• 1907 - Paul Rotha was born (d. 1984). English director.
• 1911 - Ellen Corby was born (d. 1999). American actress.
• 1911 - Paulette Goddard was born (d. 1990). American actress.
• 1913 - Pedro Mir was born (d. 2000). Dominican Poet Laureate.
• 1916 - The ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.
• 1916 - National Defense Act was signed into law, increasing the size of the National Guard by 450,000 men.
• 1917 - Leo Gorcey was born (d. 1969). American actor.
• 1918 - Lili St. Cyr was born (d. 1999). American ecdysiast.
• 1921 - Forbes Carlile was born. Australian athlete.
• 1922 - Alain Resnais was born. French director.
• 1923 - Igor Shafarevich was born. Russian mathematician
• 1924 - Colleen Dewhurst was born (d. 1991). Canadian actress
• 1924 - Torsten Wiesel was born. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1924 - Jimmy Rogers was born (d. 1997). American blues guitarist.
• 1924 - Günther Rühle was born. Journalist, theater director
• 1924 - Torsten Nils Wiesel was born. Swedish neurobiologist, corecipient (with Americans David Hunter Hubel and Roger Wolcott Sperry) of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. All three scientists were honoured for their investigations of brain function
• 1924 - Franz Kafka dies (b. 1883). Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis).
• 1925 - Tony Curtis was born. American actor (Some Like It Hot, The Great Impostor, The Defiant Ones, Houdini, Trapeze, The Boston Strangler, Christmas in Connecticut, The Count of Monte Cristo)
• 1925 - Gerhard Zwerenz was born. Writer
• 1926 - Is established in Portugal a militar regimen.
• 1926 - Allen Ginsberg was born in Paterson, N.J. (d. 5 April 1997). American poet. An outspoken member of the beat generation, Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem attacking the American values of the 1950s.
• 1927 - Boots Randolph was born. American musician.
• 1928 - Li Yüan-hung dies (b. 1864). Chinese general and political figure.
• 1929 - Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area
• 1929 - Chuck Barris was born. American game show host, producer, purported spy
• 1929 - Werner Arber was born. Swiss microbiologist, corecipient (with Americans Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Othanel Smith) of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
• 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley was born (d. 1999). American science fiction author.
• 1930 - Dakota Staton was born (d. 2007). American jazz singer.
• 1931 - The Band Wagon, a Broadway musical, opened in New York City. The show ran for 260 performances.
• 1931 - John Norman was born. American author
• 1931 - Lindy Remigino was born. American athlete
• 1931 - Raul Castro was born. Cuban militar and politician
• 1932 - Édouard Herriot assume (pela 3º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da França
• 1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah was born (d. 1999). Emir of Bahrain
• 1933 - William Muldoon dies (b. 1852). Wrestler.
• 1933 - Hipólito Irigoyen dies. Argentine politician.
• 1934 - Rolland D. McCune was born. American theologian, Fundamentalist
• 1935 - 1,000 unemployed men board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
• 1936 - Jim Gentile was born. Baseball player.
• 1936 - Larry McMurtry was born. American author
• 1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz was born. American politician
• 1937 - The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
• 1939 - Steve Dalkowski was born. Baseball player
• 1939 - Ian Hunter (singer) was born. English musician
• 1940 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
• 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German tactical victory and with Allied forces in full evacuation.
• 1941 - Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn
• 1942 - World War II - US and Japanese naval forces began the Battle of Midway, in the Pacific.
• 1942 - Curtis Mayfield was born (d. 1999). American songwriter, musician
• 1943 - Billy Cunningham was born. Basketball star, executive
• 1943 - A mob of 60 members of the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting a week-long race riot (see Zoot Suit Riots).
• 1944 - Charles de Gaulle became Prime Minister of France.
• 1944 - Edith McGuire was born. American runner
• 1944 - Eddy Ottoz was born. Italian athlete
• 1946 - Estados Unidos e Inglaterra restituem a Portugal as bases açorianas.
• 1946 - Eddie Holman was born. American singer.
• 1946 - Michael Clarke was born (d. 1993). American musician
• 1947 - Mickey Finn was born (d. 2003). British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex)
• 1947 - Michael Burton was born. American Olympic Gold medalist: 1,500-meter freestyle [1968, 1972], 400-meter freestyle [1968].
• 1948 - Juan Manuel Frutos Escurra assume a presidência do Paraguai.
• 1950 - Melissa Mathison was born. American screenwriter.
• 1950 - Deniece Williams was born. American singer (Let’s Hear It for the Boy, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late [w/Johnny Mathis], Free, It’s Gonna Take a Miracle)
• 1950 - Suzi Quatro was born. American musician, actress
• 1950 - First ascent of Annapurna I, 10th highest mountain in the world.
• 1950 - Paulo Branco was born in Lisbon. Portuguese film producer. Founder of production companies Madragoa Filmes (Portugal), Gemini Films (France) and Spider Pictures (England). Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1999.
• 1951 - Christopher Cross was born in Texas. American singer (Sailing)
• 1952 - Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president
• 1952 - Frank Sinatra recorded the classic Birth of the Blues for Columbia Records.
• 1952 - Billy Powell was born. American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• 1953 - Billy Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchee Bridge, according to the 1967 hit song Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry, and the movie which followed.
• 1954 - Dan Hill was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1955 - Barbara Graham dies (b. 1923). American murderer.
• 1956 - British Rail renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class).
• 1956 - Camilo Ponce Enríquez wins Presidential elections in Ecuador.
• 1956 - Brad Nessler was born. American sports broadcaster
• 1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel was born. German field hockey player
• 1959 - Real Madrid wins 4th Champions Europeans Cup.
• 1959 - Singapore became self-governing.
• 1960 - In Gideon v. Wainwright, the United States Supreme Court rules that all accused persons must be given the right to an attorney.
• 1961 - Lawrence Lessig was born. American lawyer, author, Free Culture advocate
• 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris killing 130.
• 1962 - Fundação da Igreja Pentecostal 'Deus é Amor' (Brasil).
• 1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia killing 101.
• 1963 - Rudy Demotte was born. Belgian politician.
• 1963 - Doro Pesch was born. German singer
• 1963 - Pope John XXIII dies (b. 1881)
• 1963 - Nazim Hikmet dies (b. 1902). Turkish poet
• 1964 - Kerry King was born. American musician.
• 1964 - James Purefoy was born. British actor
• 1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää dies (b. 1888). Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate in 1939.
• 1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi day mission by an American crew. Edward H. White floated free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time for 21 minutes.
• 1965 - Mike Gordon was born. American musician
• 1966 - Wasim Akram was born. Pakistani cricketer
• 1967 - Anderson Cooper was born. American reporter
• 1968 - Saffron was born. Nigerian lead singer of Republica.
• 1968 - Jamie O'Neal was born. American singer
• 1968 - Samantha Sprackling was born. Nigerian singer
• 1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him in his New York film studio, The Factory.
• 1969 - The science fiction television series Star Trek airs its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. The show premiered on September 8, 1966.
• 1969 - Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
• 1969 - Takako Minekawa was born. Japanese musician
• 1970 - Esther Hart was born. Dutch singer
• 1970 - Julie Masse was born. French Canadian singer
• 1970 - Peter Tägtgren was born. Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer.
• 1970 - Hjalmar Schacht dies (b. 1877). Nazi official.
• 1971 - Carl Everett was born. American baseball player
• 1971 - Luigi Di Biagio was born. Italian footballer.
• 1971 - Ariel Hernandez and Gabriel Hernandez were born in Havana, Cuba. Singers (No Mercy)
• 1971 - Heinz Hopf dies (b. 19 Nov 1894). German mathematician.
• 1973 - A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
• 1973 - Reggae stars Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album Exodus, which will be named Time magazine's "Album of the Century" in 1999.
• 1973 - Dory Funk dies (b. 1919). Professional wrestler.
• 1974 - Portugal stabilish diplomatic relationships with Romania
• 1974 - Isaac Rabin is elected Prime-minister of Israel.
• 1974 - Kelly Jones was born. Welsh singer.
• 1975 - Jose Molina was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1975 - Ozzie Nelson dies (b. 1906). American band leader, producer, director, and actor
• 1975 - Eisaku Sato dies (b. 1901). Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1976 - Yuri Ruley was born. American drummer (MxPx)
• 1976 - Jamie McMurray was born. American NASCAR driver
• 1977 - Reggae stars Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album Exodus, which would be named Time magazine's "Album of the Century" in 1999.
• 1977 - Cristiano Marques Gomez ( Cris) was born. Brazilian footballer
• 1977 - Az-Zahir Hakim was born. American football player
• 1977 - Travis Hafner was born. American baseball player
• 1977 - Roberto Rossellini dies (b. 1906). Italian film director (Roma citt… aperta).
• 1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill dies (b. 1886). English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1977 - Roberto Rossellini dies (b. 1906). Italian film director.
• 1979 - 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man & Sweeny Todd win
• 1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill ever.
• 1980 - Lazaros Papadopoulos was born. Greek basketball player
• 1980 - Naum Il'ich Akihieaer dies in Karkhov (b. 6 Mar 1901). Belarussian mathematician.
• 1982 - The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
• 1982 - Yelena Isinbayeva was born. Russian pole vaulter
• 1983 - Joseph Arand was born. American national racewalking champion
• 1983 - Nanna dies. Lollywood actor
• 1984 - The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar.
• 1984 - 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win
• 1985 - Tavion La'Corey Mathis was born. American singer, member of Pretty Ricky
• 1985 - José Pedro Costigliolo dies. Uruguyan painter
• 1986 - Rafael Nadal was born. Spanish tennis player
• 1986 - Alexandros Karageorgiou was born. Greek archer,
• 1986 - Tomas Verner was born. Czech Republic Ice skater
• 1986 - Augusto Ruschi dies. Brazilian naturalist (o "cientista dos beija-flores")
• 1987 - Lalaine was born. American actress.
• 1987 - Masami Nagasawa was born. Japanese actress
• 1988 - A Espanha e a Argentina firmaram um Acordo de Cooperação e Amizade
• 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
• 1989 - Queen scored their sixth UK No.1 album with 'The Miracle'.
• 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dies (b. 1900). Iranian Shi'ite leader
• 1989 - John McCauley dies. NHL official
• 1990 - The Big Day, free festival took place in Glasgow, Scotland with Wet Wet Wet, Deacon Blue, Hothouse Flowers, Sheena Easton, Texas, Hue and Cry, John Martyn, Eddi Reader, The Average White Band and others
• 1990 - 44th Tony Awards: Grapes of Wrath & City of Angels win
• 1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
  1990 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
• 1991 - In an incident at Hankuk University in Seoul, South Korea, students throw eggs at South Korean prime minister Chung Won Shik.
• 1991 - Em Lisboa, no Instituto de Oncologia, Manuel Abecassis, cirurgião português, realiza pela primeira vez um autotransplante de medula congelada a uma criança de 10 anos de idade.
• 1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Japan in Kyūshū killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
• 1991 - Katia Krafft dies (b. 1942). French volcanologist.
• 1991 - Maurice Krafft dies (b. 1946). French volcanologist.
• 1992 - The Mabo Decision is handed down, recognising the land rights of Australian Aborigines.
• 1992 - World's largest environmental summit opens (Rio De Janeiro Brazil)
• 1992 - Os dinamarqueses votaram NÃO aos acordos de Maastrich
• 1992 - Robert Morley dies (b. 1908). English actor.
• 1994 - Puig Aubert dies (b. 1925). French rugby league footballer.
• 1995 - John Eckert dies (b. 9 Apr 1919). American engineer and mathematician.
• 1996 - 29 people were arrested in Bahrain, foiling what was thought to be an Iranian-backed coup attempt against the minority Sunni Muslim al-Khalifa family that has ruled Bahrain since the late 18th century.
• 1996 - Pol Pot dies. Leader of the Khmer Rouge.
• 1996 - Dr. Fernando Jose de Franca Dias Van Dunem assume (2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Angola.
• 1996 - Tito Okello dies. President of Uganda (1985-1986)
• 1996 - Peter Glenville dies. Actor/director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket)
• 1997 - Lionel Jospin, the Socialist Party leader, becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1997 - Dennis James dies (b. 1917). American television personality
• 1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails, causing 101 deaths.
• 1998 - Teen idol Brad Renfro is arrested in Knoxville, Tennessee, charged with possession of marijuana and cocaine.
• 1998 - Poul Bundgaard dies (b. 1922). Danish actor and singer
• 1999 - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
• 2000 - Alberto Fujimori is officialy proclaimed President of Peru.
• 2000 - Estelle Gullit /Ruud Gullit wedding.
• 2000 - Merton Miller dies. American economist who won The Nobel Prize in 1990.
• 2001 - Mel Brooks' musical comedy ''The Producers'' won a record 12 Tony Awards.
• 2001 - Alejandro Toledo is elected to President of Peru.
• 2001 - Anthony Quinn dies (b. 1915). Mexican-American actor
• 2002 - Prince Tirso of Bulgaria was born. Titular Bulgarian royal family
• 2003 - Felix de Weldon dies (b. 1907). Austrian sculptor.
• 2003 - Amélia Vega, Miss Dominican Republic, is elected Miss Universe.
• 2004 - Frances Shand Kydd dies (b. 1936). Mother of Diana, Princess of Wales .
• 2005 - Harold Cardinal dies (b. 1945). Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer.
• 2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
• 2006 - Canada conducts largest domestic anti-terrorism operation, arresting 17 suspected of planning attacks in Ontario.
• 2006 - Countess Leonore was born. Member of the Dutch Royal Family
• 2006 - Johnny Grande dies (b. 1932). Original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)
• Feast day of St Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs of Uganda
• Roman Empire - Festival to Bellona
• Confederate Memorial Day observed in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee.