1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured then hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand. 1774 -
Daniel D. Tompkins was born. Entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States.
1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States. 1791 - Theodore Gericault was born. Painter.
1805 -
Charles Jackson was born. American physician, chemist, pioneer geologist and mineralogist
1812 -
Moses Hess was born (d. 1875). Jewish socialist and nationalist.
1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea. 1824 -
Étienne Aignan dies (b. 1773). Translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, and member of the Académie française.
1825 -
William Stubbs was born (d. 1901). English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford.
1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas 1834 - Frans Jozef de Cort was born in Antwerp (d. 18 Jan. 1878). Flemish writer.
1839 -
Machado de Assis was born (d. 29 Sep 1908). Brazilian writer / Nascimento, no Rio de Janeiro, de
Machado de Assis (Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis), jornalista, contista, cronista, romancista, poeta e teatrólogo, membro fundador e primeiro presidente da Academia Brasileira de Letras.
1844 - Luciano Baptista Cordeiro was born. Portuguese politician.
1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands. 1863 -
Albert Sauveur was born. Metallurgist (one of the founders of physical metallurgy)
1863 -
Max Wolf was born (d. 1932). German astronomer.
1864 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends. 1866 - Dimitrios Voulgaris assume (pela 5º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Grécia 1876 -
Willem H. Keesom was born (d. 1956). Dutch physicist (pioneer in cryogenics).
1876 - Antonio López de Santa Ana dies. Mexican general (took Alamo) and President.
1880 -
Arnold Gesell was born (d. 1961). American psychologist and pediatrician
1887 - Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. 1887 - Norman L. Bowen was born (d. 1956). Canadian petrologist.18589 - John J. O'Neal was born. American journalist and writer.
1889 - Ralph Craig was born (d. 1972). American athlete. 1891 -
Pier Luigi Nervi was born (d. 9 Jan 1979). Italian
engineer and
architect who gained international recognition for his dramatic designs for large-span
structures made possible with the use of reinforced concrete.
1893 -
Alois Hába was born (d. 1973). Czech composer.
1898 -
Guam becomes a U.S. territory.
1901 - Maurice Degrelle was born (d. 30 Apr 1987). French athlete, 100 m runner.
1908 -
Nikolai A. Rimsky-Korsakov dies (b. 1844). Russian composer, orchestrator
(Scheherazade, The Tsar's Bride, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh). 1911 - Porfirio Diaz, the ex-president of Mexico, exiled himself to Paris.
1915 - Domingos Carvalho da Silva was born at Pedroso, V. N. de Gaia (d. 26 Apr 2003). Portuguese-born Brazilian poet.
1918 - Tsilla Chelton was born. French actress, probably best know for the success of Tatie Danielle (1990).1919 - Gower Champion was born (d. 1980). Dancer and choreographer. 1919 -
Gérard Pelletier was born (d. 1997). French journalist, politician and diplomat.
1919 - Guy Lux (Maurice Guy) was born (d. June 13, 2003). French former actor, producer and TV host.1919 - Phil Ford was born. American TV actor and entertainer.
1919 -
Vladimir Simagin was born. Chess International Grandmaster & Master, International Correspondence Chess Master, trainer.
1921 -
Judy Holliday was born in New York, New York (d. 7 Jun 1965). American actress.
1924 - Guilda [Jean Guida de Mortellaro or Jean Guilda] was born in Paris. French transvestite actor.1925 - Nascimento em Gouviães, concelho de Tarouca, de
Adácio Pestana (m. 21 Abr 2004). Músico (trompista) português.
1927 - South Africa: The Flag DisputeFollowing the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag for the Union of South Africa (in 1925 by DF Malan), Afrikaner nationalists have rebelled against plans to have a Union Jack in the centre.
1927 -
Carl Stokes was born (d. 1996). Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.
1931 - Enzo Maiorca was born in Siracusa. Italian extrem sport of free-diving.
1932 - Heavyweight Max Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey; Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, exclaimed: "We was robbed!"
1934 - Wulf Kristen was born. Writer and recipient of the Heinrich Mann Prize.
1938 - Ron Ely was born. American actor and novelist.1939 -
Ruben Berrios was born. Puerto Rican politician and current president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP). Lawyer.
1941 - Carol Hemingway was born. American author, TV host and astrologer.
1942 - World War II:
Tobruk falls to
German forces. Considered by Winston Churchill as "one of the heaviest blows I can recall during the war", Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika captures Tobruk. Allied forces are overrun and 25,000 are captured.
1942 - Henry Taylor was born in Loudoun County, Virginia. American Pulitzer-Prize winning poet in 1986 (
The Flying Change). 1942 -
Teixeira_Lopes dies (b. 27 Oct 1866). Portuguese sculptor / Morreu o escultor português Teixeira Lopes
1944 - Didier Bay was born in Beauchamp. French artist.
1944 -
Ray Davies was born. English rock musician (The Kinks).
1944 - Nascimento em Budapeste, Hungria de
André José Adler, actor e director do cinema brasileiro.
1945 - World War II:
Battle of Okinawa ends. Japanese forces on Okinawa surrendered to the Americans. The embattled destroyer USS Laffey survived horrific damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa. American soldiers on Okinawa found the body of the Japanese commander, Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima, who had committed suicide.
1945 - Philippe Sarde was born. French composer.1945 - Soltan Zsabo was born in Gyoer, Hungary. German psychologist and mathematician and author.
1946 - Xavier Gelin was born (d. 2Jul. 1999). French actor, producer, screenwrtiter and director.
1947 -
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شیرین عبادی - Širin Ebâdi) was born. Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support Association in Iran.
1947 - A Seaman named Harold Dahl claims to have seen six
UFOs near
Maury Island. The next morning Dahl reported the first modern
MIB encounter.
1948 - Don Airey was born. English keyboardist (Deep Purple).
1949 - Selpa Schepel was born. Dutch author.
1950 - Enn Reitel was born. Scottish actor and impressionist who specialises in voice work.
1950 - Gerard Lanvin was born. French actor.1950 - Joey Kramer was born. American drummer (Aerosmith).1951 - Lilian Gonçalves was born in Unaí. Brazilian businesswoman.
1953 -
Benazir Bhutto was born (d. 2007). Prime Minister of Pakistan (twice), first female Muslim head of government.
1955 - Jean-Pierre Mader was born. French singer and producer.
1955 -
Tim Bray was born. Computer programmer.
1957 -
Johannes Stark dies (b. 15 Abr 1874). German physician,
1919 Nobel Prize for Physics laureate for his discovery in 1913 that an electric field would cause splitting of the lines in the spectrum of light emitted by a luminous substance; the phenomenon is called the Stark effect.
1958 - Eric Douglas was born (d. 6 Jul 2004). American Stand up comedy.
1961 -
Manu Chao was born in Paris. French-born and raised singer from Spanish origins (mainly Galician and Basque).
1964 - François Duvalier é proclamado presidente vitalício do Haiti.
1965 - François Baroin was born. French politician.1965 - Larry Wachovsky was born. American film director and writer most famous for creating (with his brotherAndy Wachovsky) The Matrix series.1967 - Patrick Lyndon Nugent was born. 1969 - Gabriella Paruzzi was boprn in Udine. Italian cross-country skier.
1969 - Martial Tricoche was born in Saint-Denis. French singer and songwriter (Manau).
1970 - In Mexico City Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup for the 3rd. time1974 - Craig Lowndes was born. Australian motor race driver.
1976 - Helena Louro was born in Curitiba, Paraná. Brazilian actress.
1976 -
Margaret Herrick dies (b. 1902). Librarian and director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
1978 - Erica Durance was born in Calgary, Alberta. Canadian actress.1978 - Ignacio Corleto was born in Buenos Aires. Argentine rugby player.
1978 - Jean Paul Lacoste was born in Toulouse. French singer, actor and TV host.
1979 - Konstantinos Katsouranis was born. Greek footballer. 1980 - Bert Kaempfert dies. German orchestra leader and songwriter. 1981 - Cecile Azila in Nice. French snowboard champion.1985 - Amel Bente was born in Paris. French singer.
1987 - Sophie Vouzelaud was born in Sint-Junien. Elected first runner-up in the Miss France pageant of 2007.1989 - Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson remarry.
1990 - Iran Earthquake in Zanjan, Gilan, Iran: 50000 deaths.1990 - Ross Munro dies. Journalist, editor, and publisher.
1992 - Yoshiko Uchida dies (b. 1921). Japanese-American writer.
1992 - Li Xiannian dies. Chinese President (1983-88).
1997 - The G-7 Summit became the G-8 with the addition of Russia at its meeting in Denver. Moscow was admitted to the Paris Club of creditors. Summit leaders meeting in Denver wrestled with a list of global challenges.
1997 - The
WNBA made its debut.
1998 - Alan Shepard dies. American Astronaut
1998 - In Colombia Andres Pastrana, the conservative former mayor of Bogota, won the elections.
1998 - In the Czech Republic the Social Democrats placed first in parliamentary elections.
1999 - NATO finalized an agreement with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to demilitarize.
2001 - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2002 - In Burundi a court has sentenced 11 people to death and 16 others to life imprisonment for taking part in massacres that followed the 1993 assassination of Burundi's first democratically elected leader.
2002 -
Roberto Drummond dies in Belo Horizonte (b 21 Dec 1933 in Ferros, Minas Gerais, Brazil). Brazilian writer.
2003 - Lennox Lewis retained his heavyweight title after a cut stopped Vitali Klitschko after six brawling rounds in Los Angeles.
2003 - Sergio Endrigo dies (b. 15 June 1933). Italian singer. 2003 -
Leon Uris dies (b. 1924). American writer.
2003 -
Jason Moran dies (b. 1967). Australian criminal.
2004 -
Leonel Brizola dies (b. 22 Jan 1922). Former governor of Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro states, one of Brazil's most notable leftist politicians, created and armed the so-called "Groups of 11," cells designed to resist the military dictatorship.
2007 -
Bob Evans dies (b. 1918). American restaurateur.
2008 - Scott Kalitta dies (b. 1962). American drag racer.Summer solstice (Northern hemisphere) The summer solstice, the longest day of the year, is the moment when the perceived pattern of the sun is farthest from the Equator. Winter solstice (Southern hemisphere).Astrology: First day of sun sign Cancer.National Aboriginal Day in Canada (starting in 1996).Midsummer - Neopagan festival - Litha.Fête de la Musique World Music Day, since 1982.National Day of Greenland.Humanism: World Humanist Day.Go Skateboarding Day.Egypt, Lebanon, Syria: Father's Day
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