- 0763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
- 0923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
- 0923 - Robert I of France dies (b. c. 865).
- 0991 - Empress Theophanu dies.
- 1053 - Forces led by Pope Leo IX were defeated in a battle against the Normans.
- 1073 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan dies (b. 1034).
- 1184 - King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of Fimreite.
- 1219 - Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck.
- 1330 - Edward the Black Prince was born (d. 1376). Prince of Wales.
- 1341 - Andronicus III Palaeologus dies (b. 1297). Eastern Roman Emperor.
- 1381 - John Cavendish dies. Lord Chief Justice of England.
- 1381 - Wat Tyler dies. Leader of Peasants Revolt.
- 1383 - John VI Cantacuzenus dies. Byzantine Emperor.
- 1389 - Battle of Kosovo: Turks defeat Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1389 - Prince Lazar dies (b. 1329). Serbian Orthodox saint.
- 1409 - The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is elected Pope Alexander V by the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
- 1467 - Philip the Good of Burgundy dies (b. 1396).
- 1520 - Pope Leo X issued the encyclical 'Exsurge Domine,' condemning German Reformer Martin Luther as a heretic on 41 counts and branding him an enemy of the Catholic Church.
- 1521 - Tamás Bakócz dies (b. 1442). Hungarian archbishop, cardinal and statesman.
- 1567 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy.
- 1580 - Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
- 1594 - Nicolas Poussin was born (d. 1665). French painter.
- 1614 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton dies (b. 1540). English politician.
- 1623 - Cornelis de Witt was born (d. 1672). Dutch politician.
- 1624 - Hiob Ludolf was born (d. 1704). German orientalist.
- 1640 - Bernard Lamy was born (d. 1715). French mathematician.
- 1648 - António Correia da Fonseca Andrade was born in Montemor-o-Velho (d. 27 Aug 1717). Portuguese genealogist.
- 1649 - Margaret Jones was tried and executed for witchcraft - the first time this happened in the colony of Massachusetts.
- 1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He transfuses 12 fluid ounces (350 mL) of sheep blood to a 15-year-old boy. The boy later dies and Baptiste is accused of murder.
- 1679 - Guillaume Courtois dies (b. 1628). French painter.
- 1724 - Henry Sacheverell dies (b. 1674). English churchman and politician.
- 1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal dies (b. 1684). French writer.
- 1755 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy was born (d. 1809). French chemist.
- 1756 - Derrota dos Portugueses em Goa pelos Maratas. D. Luís de Mascarenhas, 46.º vice-rei da Índia, morre em combate contra o rei de Sunda, em Pondá.
- 1760 - O Marquês de Pombal expulsa de Lisboa o núncio apostólico
- 1765 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger was born (d. 1831). German mathematician.
- 1768 - James Short dies (b. 1710). Scottish mathematician and optician.
- 1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin dies (b. 1694). French composer.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 1776 - Delaware Separation Day - Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
- 1780 - Em Portugal, Pina Manique determinou a obrigatoriedade de registo da correspondência nos serviços públicos
- 1785 - Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
- 1789 - Josiah Henson was born (d. 1883). American slave and settlement founder.
- 1801 - Benjamin Raymond was born (d. 1883). Mayor of Chicago.
- 1804 - New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
- 1805 - William Butler Ogden was born (d. 1877). First mayor of Chicago.
- 1808 - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
- 1809 - François-Xavier Garneau was born (d. 1866). French Canadian poet and historian.
- 1836 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
- 1843 - Edvard Grieg was born (d. 1907). Norwegian composer.
- 1846 - The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
- 1858 - Ary Scheffer dies (b. 1795). Dutch-French painter.
- 1859 - Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers.
- 1861 - Ernestine Rössler Schumann-Hein was born at Lieben, near Prague (d. 17 Nov 36). Singer
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Petersburg begins - Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant and troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee battle for the last time.
- 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.8 km²) around Arlington Mansion are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
- 1867 - Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
- 1869 - Marquis Ferdinando Bartolommei dies. Italian revolutionist and statesman.
- 1875 - Herman Smith-Johannsen was born (d. 1987). Norwegian-Canadian Cross-country skier.
- 1877 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
- 1882 - Ion Antonescu was born (d. 1946). Prime Minister of Romania
- 1884 - Harry Langdon was born (d. 1944). American actor.
- 1885 - Roland Dorgelès was born in Amiens (d. 18 Mar 1973). French novelist and journalist.
- 1887 - Malvina Cornell Hoffman was born in New York City (d. 1966). merican sculptor.
- 1888 - Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II and is the last emperor of the German Empire
- 1888 - Ramón López Velarde was born (d. 1921). Mexican poet.
- 1888 - Friedrich III of Germany (Hohenzollern) dies (b. 1831).
- 1889 - Mihai Eminescu dies (b. 1850). Romanian poet.
- 1894 - Nikolai Chebotaryov was born (d. 1947). Ukrainian mathematician.
- 1894 - Robert Russell Bennett was born (d. 1981). American composer and arranger.
- 1900 - Gotthard Günther was born (d. 1984). German philosopher.
- 1900 - Otto Luening was born (d. 1996). German-American composer.
- 1902 - Erik Erikson was born (d. 1994). German-born American psychoanalyst.
- 1904 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1000.
- 1905 - Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
- 1908 - Sam Giancana was born (d. 1975). American mafioso.
- 1909 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lords and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
- 1910 - David Rose was born (d 1990). American songwriter, composer and orchestra leader.
- 1911 - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
- 1911 - Início dos trabalhos da Assembleia Nacional Constituinte - Portugal.
- 1911 - W.V. Awdry was bo (d. 1997). British children's writer.
- 1912 - Francisco Lázaro dies tragically during the marathon of Stocholm Olympic Games (b. 21 Jan 1891). Portuguese olimpic athlet who was the first olympic athlet in representation of Benfica.
- 1913 - The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippine concludes. US troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing massacre at least 2,000 Philippine men, women and children at Bud Bagsak.
- 1914 - Yuri Andropov was born (d. 1984). General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
- 1914 - Saul Steinberg was born (d. 1999). American cartoonist.
- 1915 - Thomas Huckle Weller was born. American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1916 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
- 1916 - Herbert Simon was born (d. 2001). American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1917 - John Fenn was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1917 - Lash La Rue was born (d. 1996). American actor.
- 1917 - Michalis Genitsaris was born (d. 2005). Greek singer and composer.
- 1917 - Kristian Birkeland dies (b. 1867). Norwegian physicist.
- 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
- 1920 - Duluth lynchings in Minnesota was born.
- 1920 - Alberto Sordi was born (d. 2003). Italian actor and director.
- 1921 - Errol Garner was born (d. 1977). American jazz musician.
- 1922 - John Veale was born (d. 2006). English composer.
- 1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed United States citizens.
- 1924 - Ezer Weizman was born (d. 2005). 7th President of Israel.
- 1926 - Mac McGarry was born. American game show host.
- 1927 - Ibn-e-Insha was born (d. 1978). Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet.
- 1928 - Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt was born. Behaviorist.
- 1930 - Marcel Pronovost was born. Professional ice hockey player.
- 1931 - Belarmino Fragoso was born. Portuguese boxeur.
- 1932 - Mario Cuomo was born. Governor of New York.
- 1933 - Mark Jones was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
- 1933 - Sergio Endrigo was born (d. 2005). Italian singer.
- 1934 - The U.S.'s Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- 1934 - Alfred Bruneau dies (b. 1857). French composer.
- 1936 - Claude Brasseur was born. French actor.
- 1936 - William Joseph Levada was born. Roman Catholic Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and former archbishop of San Francisco in Calfornia.
- 1937 - Waylon Jennings was born (d. 2002). American singer.
- 1938 - Billy Williams was born. American baseball player.
- 1939 - Brian Jacques was born. British author.
- 1939 - Ward Connerly was born. American political figure.
- 1941 - World War II: Operation Battleaxe. British forces suffer setbacks in the second day of Operation Battleaxe. Rommel's forces reach Sidi Rezegh.
- 1941 - Harry Nilsson was born (d. 1994). American singer and composer.
- 1941 - Evelyn Underhill dies (b. 1875). British writer.
- 1941 - Otfrid Foerster dies (b. 1873). German neurologist.
- 1942 - Ferreira do Amaral was born. Portuguese politician.
- 1942 - John E. McLaughlin was born. Former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- 1943 - Xaviera Hollander was born. Dutch author.
- 1943 - Johnny Hallyday was born. French singer and actor.
- 1943 - Muff Winwood was born. British songwriter, producer and bassist (Spencer Davis Group).
- 1943 - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen was born. Prime Minister of Denmark.
- 1944 - In the Saskatchewan general election, 1944, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government of North America.
- 1945 - Miriam Defensor-Santiago was born. Philippine senator.
- 1945 - Nicola Pagett was born. British actress.
- 1946 - Noddy Holder was born. British singer (Slade).
- 1946 - Demis Roussos was born. Greek singer.
- 1947 - The All-India committee of India's Congress Party announces that it accepts Britain's plan to divide India into two states, one Hindu and one Muslim.
- 1947 - John Hoagland was born. American photographer.
- 1948 - Mike Holmgren was born. American football coach.
- 1949 - Dusty Baker was born. Baseball player and manager.
- 1949 - Simon Callow was born. British actor.
- 1949 - Jim Varney was born (d. 2000). American actor.
- 1950 - Lakshmi Mittal was born. Indian industrialist.
- 1951 - Steve Walsh was born. American singer (Kansas).
- 1953 - Ana Castillo was born is born in Chicago. Poet, novelist.
- 1954 - James Belushi was born. American actor.
- 1955 - The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the preparations for a nuclear attack.
- 1955 - Julie Hagerty was born. American actress.
- 1956 - Tunisia's autonomy in foreign affairs is confirmed when an agreement is signed with the French government.
- 1957 - Eindhoven University of Technology is founded.
- 1957 - Seppo Pääkkönen was born. Finnish actor.
- 1958 - Riccardo Paletti was born (d. 1982). Italian racing driver.
- 1958 - Wade Boggs was born. Baseball player.
- 1959 - Eileen Davidson was born. American actress.
- 1960 - Michèle Laroque was born. French actress.
- 1960 - Marieke van Doorn was born. Dutch field hockey player.
- 1961 - Kai Eckhardt was born. German musician (Garaj Mahal).
- 1961 - Dave McAuley was born. Northern Irish boxer.
- 1961 - Yoshimi Iwasaki was born. Japanese singer/actress.
- 1962 - Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement.
- 1962 - Andrea Rost was born. Hungarian soprano.
- 1962 - Alfred Cortot dies (b. 1877). Swiss pianist.
- 1963 - Helen Hunt was born. American actress.
- 1963 - Nigel Walker was born. Welsh athlete and rugby union player.
- 1964 - Courteney Cox was born. American actress.
- 1964 - Michael Laudrup was born. Danish footballer
- 1965 - Bernard Hopkins was born. Boxer.
- 1965 - Adam Smith was born. American politician.
- 1965 - E. A. Speiser dies (b. 1902). American Bible scholar.
- 1965 - Steve Cochran dies (b. 1917). American actor.
- 1966 - Hovercraft deal opens show: The world's first hovershow opens in Britain with news of a Ministry of Defence order worth £1m.
- 1966 - Idalis DeLeon was born. American actress/singer.
- 1967 - Yuji Ueda was born. Japanese voice actor.
- 1968 - Oh Dal-su was born. South Korean actor.
- 1968 - Sam Crawford dies (b. 1880). Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1968 - Wes Montgomery dies (b. 1925). American jazz guitarist.
- 1969 - Ice Cube was born. Singer, actor.
- 1969 - Oliver Kahn was born. German football goalkeeper (Bayern München).
- 1969 - Cédric Pioline was born. French tennis player.
- 1970 - Morreu em Lisboa o escritor e artista plástico português, nascido em S. Tomé e Príncipe em 7 de Abril de 1893, José de Almada Negreiros.
- 1970 - Elliot Welsh v. United States The Supreme Court ruled that a man could be a "conscientious objector" even though he did not claim the status for religious reasons.
- 1970 - Leah Remini was born. American actress.
- 1970 - Gaëlle Méchaly was born. French soprano.
- 1971 - Edwin Brienen was born. Dutch director.
- 1971 - Bif Naked was born. Canadian musician.
- 1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley dies (b. 1904). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1972 - Justin Leonard was born. American golfer.
- 1972 - Andy Pettitte was born. American baseball player.
- 1972 - Marcus Hahnemann was born. American footballer.
- 1972 - Hank Von Helvete was born. Turbonegro Frontman.
- 1973 - Neil Patrick Harris was born. American actor.
- 1973 - Tore André Flo was born. Norwegian footballer.
- 1973 - Pia Miranda was born. Australian actress.
- 1973 - Greg Vaughan was born. American actor.
- 1974 - Man dies in race rally clashes: A march through central London leaves one person dead and many more injured as rival demonstrators clash with police and each other.
- 1975 - Elizabeth Reaser was born. American actress.
- 1975 - Rachel Wacholder was born. American beach volleyballer.
- 1976 - Jimmy Dykes dies (b. 1896). Major League Baseball player and manager.
- 1977 - General elections in Spain.
- 1977 - Nina Liu was born. Australian actress.
- 1978 - King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby.
- 1978 - Wilfred Bouma was born. Dutch footballer.
- 1978 - Charlie Balfe was born. English footballer.
- 1978 - Zach Day was born. American baseball player.
- 1979 - Rocky II opens in theaters, starring and directed by Sylvester Stallone.
- 1979 – Charles Zwolsman Jr. was born. Dutch racing driver.
- 1979 – Julia Schultz was born. American model.
- 1979 - Yulia Nesterenko was born. Belarusian athlete.
- 1980 - Almudena Cid was born. Spanish gymnast.
- 1980 - Cara Zavaleta was born. American model.
- 1980 – Christopher Castile was born. American actor.
- 1980 - Mary Carey was born. American pornographic actress.
- 1981 - Jeremy Reed was born. American baseball player.
- 1981 - William Dean Martin was born. American musician.
- 1983 - Derek Anderson was born. American football player.
- 1983 – Julia Fischer was born. German violinist.
- 1983 – Laura Imbruglia was born. Australian musician.
- 1983 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, dies (b. 1910). Telugu poet.
- 1984 - Tim Lincecum was born. American baseball player.
- 1984 - Meredith Willson dies (b. 1902). American composer.
- 1985 - Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man later judged insane; he threw sulfuric acid on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife.
- 1985 - Nadine Coyle was born. Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud).
- 1985 - Andy Stanfield dies (b. 1927). American athlete.
- 1988 - Miku Ishida was born. Japanese teen idol.
- 1989 - Victor French dies. American actor.
- 1989 - Maurice Bellemare dies (b. 1912). French Canadian politician.
- 1991 - Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, the Bloc Québécois.
- 1991 - Arthur Lewis dies (b. 1915). British economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1991 - Happy Chandler dies (b. 1898). American politician and Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
- 1992 - The United States Supreme Court rules in US vs. Alvarez-Machain that it is permissible for the USA to abduct suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
- 1992 - During a spelling bee at a Trenton, New Jersey elementary school, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle corrects a student's spelling of the word potato by indicating it should have an e at the end.
- 1993 - James Hunt dies (b. 1947). English motor-racing driver.
- 1993 - John Connally dies (b. 1917). Former Governor of Texas, United States Secretary of the Treasury, United States Secretary of the Navy.
- 1994 - Manos Hadjidakis dies (b. 1925). Greek composer.
- 1995 - While on trial for murder, O.J. Simpson puts on a pair of gloves that were found soaked with blood at the murder scene. The gloves appear to not fit.
- 1995 - John Vincent Atanasoff dies (b. 1903). American computer pioneer.
- 1996 - In Manchester, UK, a terrorist bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.
- 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald dies (b. 1917). American singer.
- 1996 - Dick Murdoch dies (b. 1946). Professional wrestler.
- 1997 - Futebol Clube do Porto wins for the third time in a row, the Portuguese Championship in football.
- 1997 - Kim Casali dies (b. 1942). English cartoonist.
- 1998 - César de Oliveira dies (b. 1941). Portuguese historian and politician.
- 1999 - George Morber Senior and Carolyn Frederick are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in Gorham, Illinois. They are his eighth and ninth victims, in his seventh and final incident.
- 2000 - British marines leave Sierra Leone . The major contingent of the British military task-force sent to help restore order in Sierra Leone leaves the country.
- 2002 - O Congresso dos Estados Unidos emite uma resolução reconhecendo que o telefone não foi inventado por Alexander Graham Bell, mas sim por Antonio Meucci.
- 2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon.
- 2002 - Sérgio Bernardes dies (b. 9 Apr 1919). Brazilian architect.
- 2002 - Choi Hong Hi dies (b. 1918). Founder of Taekwon-Do.
- 2003 - Hume Cronyn dies (b. 1911). Canadian actor.
- 2003 - Volker Kriegel dies. Jazz musician.
- 2003 - Football: Porto win Portuguese Cup beating União de Leiria 1-0 / Porto vence por 1-0 a União de Leiria e conquista a Taça de Portugal em futebol.
- 2004 - Charlie Sheen second marriage with Denise Richards.
- 2005 - António Guterres, 56, ex -Prime Minister of Portugal, chosen last 24 May as the 10thUnited Nations High Commissioner for refugees, begins with a cerimony in Geneve, his five-year term.
- 2006 - Raymond Devos dies (b. 1922). French humorist.
- 2006 - Herb Pearson dies (b. 1910). New Zealand cricket player.
- 2007 - Claudia Cohen dies (b. 1950). American gossip columnist and socialite.
- 2007 - Sherri Martel dies (b. 1958). American professional wrestler and valet.
- 2008 - Stan Winston dies (b. 1946). American special effects and makeup artist, and film director.
- Sikhism: First day of the month of Harh.
- Arkansas: Admission Day.
- Azerbaijan: National Salvation Day
- Commemoration of Evelyn Underhill (Anglican mystic and poet).
- Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint Germaine Cousin, patron of shepherdesses and of victims of child abuse.
- Flag Day in Denmark.
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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