- 0470 BC - Socrates was born (d. 399 BC). Greek philosopher.
- 0781 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
- 1039 - Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. c. 990).
- 1098 - Kerbogh of the Seljuk Turks lays siege to the newly captured Crusader city of Antioch.
- 1135 - Emperor Huizong of China dies (b. 1082).
- 1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland dies.
- 1394 - Philippa of England was born (d. 1430). Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
- 1394 - Mary de Bohun dies. Wife of Henry IV of England.
- 1463 - Flavio Biondo dies (b. 1392). Italian humanist.
- 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
- 1585 - Muretus dies (b. 1526). French humanist.
- 1624 - Portugal: Carta régia que permite a expulsão de Lisboa de pessoas «inquietas e escandalosas».
- 1663 - William Juxon dies (b. 1582). Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1665 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue was born (d. 1733). Canadian soldier.
- 1694 - François Quesnay was born (d. 1774). French economist.
- 1704 - Benjamin Huntsman was born (d. 1776). English inventor and manufacturer.
- 1738 - King George III of Great Britain was born (d. 1820).
- 1744 - Patrick Ferguson was born (d. 1780). Scots army officer and rifle designer.
- 1754 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach was born (d. 1832).Austrian scientific editor, astronomer.
- 1760 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians.
- 1769 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in the historical past.
- 1787 - Constant Prévost was born (d. 1856). French geologist.
- 1798 - Giacomo Casanova dies (b. 1725). Italian lover and writer.
- 1801 - Sir James Pennethorne was born (d. 1871). English architect.
- 1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg dies (b. 1750). First speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
- 1802 - Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
- 1809 - John Henry Pratt was born. English mathematician.
- 1812 - Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the territory by that name was renamed to Missouri Territory.
- 1821 - Apollon Maykov was born (d. 1897). Russian poet.
- 1830 - Antonio José de Sucre dies (b. 1795). Great Marshall of Ayacucho.
- 1859 - Italian Independence wars: in the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeats an Austrian army.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1866 - Miina Sillanpää was born (d. 1952). Finnish politician.
- 1867 - C.G.E. Mannerheim was born (d. 1951). Commander-in-Chief of Finland during the Civil War in Finland (1918) and World War II, later President of Finland.
- 1867 - Alfred Vierkandt was born (d. 1953). Sociologist.
- 1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke dies (b. 1798). Dutch politician.
- 1875 - Eduard Mörike dies (b. 1804). German poet.
- 1876 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
- 1877 - Heinrich Otto Wieland was born (d. 1957). German biochemist. 1927 Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate.
- 1878 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
- 1879 - Mabel Lucie Attwell was born (d. 1964). English children's author and illustrator.
- 1880 - Clara Blandick was born (d. 1962). American actress.
- 1881 - Natalia Goncharova was born (d. 1962). Russian painter.
- 1882 - Karl Valentin was born (d. 1948). Comedian and author.
- 1894 - Madame Bolduc was born (d. 1941). French-Canadian singer.
- 1896 - Henry Ford test-drives the first automobile he designed - the Quadricycle (it was also the first automobile he ever drove).
- 1899 - Hassan Fathy was born (d. 1989). Arabic architect.
- 1901 - Na Suécia, foi instituído o Serviço Militar Obrigatório.
- 1907 - Jacques Roumain was born (d. 1944). Haitian writer.
- 1907 - Patience Strong was born (d. 1990). English poet and journalist.
- 1907 - Rosalind Russell was born (d. 1976). American actress.
- 1910 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell was born (d. 1999). British engineer and inventor.
- 1912 - Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
- 1913 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Deby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
- 1915 - El Racing Club de Avellaneda, Argentina obtiene Personalidad Jurídica.
- 1916 - Inauguración oficial do Estadio de Flamengo, com um jogo amigável frente a Sao Bento de Sao Paulo. Ganhamos "cariocas" por 3-1 no jogo em que usam primeira vez o equipamento preto e vermelho. A mudança de equipamento foi devida ao facto do anterior ter semelhanças com as cores da Alemanha principal protagonista de la I Guerra Mundial.
- 1916 - Robert F. Furchgott was born. American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 1916 - Fernand Leduc was born. Canadian painter (The Automatistes).
- 1917 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
- 1917 - Order of the British Empire introduced
- 1917 - Robert Merrill was born (d. 2004). American baritone.
- 1919 - Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
- 1919 - Robert Merrill was born (d. 2004). American baritone.
- 1920 - Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
- 1921 - Bobby Wanzer, American professional basketball player and coach.
- 1922 - William Halse Rivers Rivers was born. English doctor.
- 1923 - Elizabeth Jolley was born (d. 2007). Australian writer.
- 1923 - Daniel Pinkham was born. American composer, organist, and harpsichordist.
- 1924 - Dennis Weaver was born (d. 2006). American actor.
- 1924 - Tofilau Eti Alesana was born (d. 1999). Former Prime Minister of Samoa.
- 1926 - Alfredo Di Stéfano was born. Argentine-Spanish footballer.
- 1926 - Robert Earl Hughes was born (d. 1958). American man who became the heaviest known human.
- 1926 - Ecuador es aceptado oficialmente como miembro de FIFA, mientras Sudáfrica renuncia a seguir siendo miembro de esta entidad.
- 1926 - Fred Spofforth dies (b. 1853). Australian cricketer.
- 1927 - Geoffrey Palmer was born. English actor.
- 1928 - President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin assassinated by Japanese agents.
- 1928 - Dr. Ruth Westheimer was born. German-born American sex therapist and author.
- 1928 - Chang Tso-lin dies (b. 1873). Chinese warlord
- 1929 - Günter Strack was born (d. 1999). Actor.
- 1929 - Karolos Papoulias was born. President of Greece.
- 1929 - Harry Frazee dies (b. 1881). Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923.
- 1930 - Morgana King was born. American actress.
- 1930 - Viktor Tikhonov was born. Russian hockey player and coach.
- 1930 - António Patrício dies. Portuguese writer, poet and playwright.
- 1932 - John Drew Barrymore was born (d. 2004). American actor.
- 1932 - Maurice Shadbolt was born. New Zealand writer.
- 1932 - Oliver Nelson was born (d. 1975). American jazz composer and arranger.
- 1934 - Seamus Elliott was born (d. 1971). Irish cyclist.
- 1935 - Fundação do Club Atlético Sao Paulo, que seis meses mais tarde se chamaria Sao Paulo FC.
- 1935 - Colette Boky was born. Quebec operatic soprano.
- 1936 - Bruce Dern was born. American actor.
- 1937 - Freddy Fender was born (d. 2006). American musician.
- 1937 - Robert Fulghum was born. American author.
- 1937 - Gorilla Monsoon was born (d. 1999). American professional wrestler.
- 1937 - Mortimer Zuckerman was born. American publisher.
- 1938 - Art Mahaffey was born. American baseball player.
- 1939 - Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, most of its passengers later died in Nazi concentration camps.
- 1939 - Tommy Ladnier dies. (b. 1900). American jazz musician.
- 1940 - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is published.
- 1940 - World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends - British forces complete evacuating 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
- 1940 - World War II: German forces enter Paris. They finish taking control of the city 10 days later (June 14, 1940).
- 1940 - Cliff Bennett was born. British singer with the Rebel Rousers.
- 1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II dies (b. 1859). Last German emperor - Reinhard Heydrich dies (b. 1904). Nazi official.
- 1942 - World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination of Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid).
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
- 1943 - Joyce Meyer was born. Christian evangelical author and speaker.
- 1944 - World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy capture the German submarine U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
- 1944 - Michelle Phillips was born. American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress.
- 1945 - Anthony Braxton was born. American composer and instrumentalist.
- 1945 - Gordon Waller was born. Scottish musician ("Peter and Goron").
- 1946 - Na Argentina, o General Perón assumiu a presidência da República pela primeira vez.
- 1947 - Viktor Klima was born. Chancellor of Austria.
- 1948 - Bob Champion was born. English Jump Jockey.
- 1949 - Gabriel Arcand was born. French Canadian actor.
- 1950 - George Noory was born. American radio personality.
- 1950 - Jorge Palma was born. Portuguese singer and composer.
- 1950 - Kevin Woodford was born. English celebrity chef.
- 1951 - Charles Dickinson was born. American author.
- 1951 - Serge Koussevitsky dies (b. 1874). Russian conductor.
- 1952 - Parker Stevenson was born. American actor and director.
- 1953 - Jimmy McCulloch was born (d. 1979). Scottish musician.
- 1953 - Paul Samson was born (d. 2002). British guitarist (Samson).
- 1953 - Susumu Ojima was born. Japanese entrepreneur (Huser).
- 1955 - Mary Testa was born. American stage actress.
- 1955 - Paul Stewart was born. English writer.
- 1956 - Martin Adams was born. English darts player.
- 1956 - Keith David was born. American actor.
- 1956 - John Hockenberry was born. American journalist.
- 1956 - Terry Kennedy was born. Baseball player.
- 1956 - Gerry Ryan was born. Irish radio talkshow host.
- 1956 - Katherine MacDonald dies (b. 1881). American actress.
- 1957 - John Treacy was born. Irish athlete.
- 1959 - Aldo Castelbuono was born. Cabinent beast.
- 1960 - Lake Bodom murders.
- 1960 - Bradley Walsh was born. British actor.
- 1961 - El DeBarge was born. American singer (DeBarge).
- 1961 - Andrea Jaeger was born. American tennis player.
- 1962 - Ferenc Gyurcsány was born. Hungarian prime minister.
- 1962 - John P. Kee was born. American Gospel singer.
- 1962 - Zenon Jaskuła was born. Polish cyclist.
- 1962 - Lindsay Frost was born. American actress.
- 1964 - Eva Fampas was born. Greek guitarist.
- 1964 - Sean Pertwee was born. English actor.
- 1964 - Samuil Marshak dies (b. 1887). Russian poet.
- 1965 - Andrea Jaeger was born. American tennis player.
- 1965 - Mick Doohan was born. Australian motorcycle racer.
- 1966 - Cecilia Bartoli was born. Italian opera singer.
- 1966 - Vladimir Voevodsky was born. Russian mathematician.
- 1966 - Tiffany Million was born. Pornographic actress.
- 1967 - Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
- 1968 - Dorothy Gish dies (b. 1898). American actress.
- 1969 - Horatio Sanz was born. Chilean-born comedian.
- 1970 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1970 - Richie Hawtin was born. Canadian musician.
- 1970 - David Pybus was born. British musician.
- 1970 - Sonny Tufts dies (b. 1911). American actor.
- 1971 - Noah Wyle was born. American actor.
- 1971 - Joseph Kabila was born. President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1971 - Shoji Meguro was born. Japanese composer.
- 1971 - Georg Lukács dies (b. 1885). Hungarian philosopher.
- 1972 - Nikka Costa was born. American singer.
- 1972 - Derian Hatcher was born. American hockey player.
- 1972 - Rob Huebel was born. American comedian.
- 1973 - Maurice René Fréchet dies (b. 1878). French mathematician.
- 1974 - The Cleveland Indians host "Ten Cent Beer Night", but have to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers due to drunken and unruly fans.
- 1974 - Andrew Gwynne was born. British politician.
- 1974 - Darin Erstad was born. American baseball player.
- 1974 - Stefan Lessard was born. American musician.
- 1975 - Angelina Jolie was born. American actress and humanitarian.
- 1975 - Henry Burris was born. American Football Quarterback.
- 1975 - Russell Brand was born. British comedian and television personality.
- 1975 - Cynthia Loebe was born. American actress and photographer.
- 1977 - Quinten Hann was born. Australian snooker player.
- 1977 - Dionisis Chiotis was born. Greek footballer.
- 1977 - Berglind Icey was born. Icelandic actor.
- 1978 - Jorge de Sena dies in Santa Barbara, Califórnia (b. 2 Nov 1919 in Lisbon). Portuguese poet.
- 1979 - Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after military coup in which General Akuffo is overthrown.
- 1979 - Jerry John Rawlings takes power in Ghana after military coup in which General Acheampong is overthrown.
- 1979 - Naohiro Takahara was born. Japanese footballer.
- 1979 - Daniel Vickerman was born. Australian rugby union player.
- 1979 - Gilda de Abreu dies (b. 1904). Brazilian actress and director.
- 1980 - Alicja Janosz was born. Polish singer.
- 1980 - Jojo Garza was born. American bassist and singer (Los Lonely Boys).
- 1980 - François Beauchemin was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1981 - T. J. Miller, American actor and comedian.
- 1981 - Giourkas Seitaridis [ Γιούρκας Σειταρίδης ] was born. Greek footballer.
- 1982 - Ronnie Prude was born. National Football League player.
- 1982 - Jamie Dornan was born. Irish model and actor.
- 1982 - Jin Au-Yeung was born. Chinese-American rapper.
- 1983 - Emmanuel Eboué was born. Ivorian footballer.
- 1983 - Ivan_Tors dies (b. 1916). Hungarian film and TV producer and playwright.
- 1984 - Ian White was born. Canadian hockey player.
- 1984 - Rainie Yang was born. Taiwanese singer and actress.
- 1985 - Lukas Podolski was born. Polish-born footballer.
- 1985 - Bar Refaeli was born. Israeli model.
- 1985 - Evan Lysacek was born. American figure skater.
- 1985 - Ana Carolina Reston was born (d. 2006). Brazilian fashion model.
- 1986 - Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
- 1986 - Shane Kippel was born. Canadian actor.
- 1988 - Leigh Adams was born. Australian footballer.
- 1989 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war. Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe. and leads to creation of the so-called Contract Sejm.
- 1989 - Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
- 1989 - Ali Khamenei was elected as the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
- 1989 - Tiananmen Square protests were violently ended in Chinese capital city - Beijing with People's Liberation Army soldiers and tanks. Many innocent people were killed.
- 1989 – The victims of murderer Oba Chandler is find floating in Tampa Bay, Florida, Chandler would not be arrested until 1992.
- 1989 - Dik Browne dies (b. 1917 or 1918). American cartoonist.
- 1990 - Stiv Bators dies (b. 1949). American musician ("The Dead Boys").
- 1991 - The United Kingdom's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others—the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
- 1991 - Jordan Hinson was born. American actress.
- 1992 - Dino Jelusić was born. Croatian singer.
- 1993 - Christian Mowatt was born. British noble.
- 1994 - Roberto Burle Marx dies. Brazilian architect and paisagist.
- 1994 - Derek Leckenby dies (b. 1943). British guitarist (Herman's Hermits).
- 1994 - Massimo Troisi dies (b. 1953). Italian actor.
- 1996 - The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
- 1997 - Ronnie Lane dies (b. 1946). British bass player.
- 1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 1999 - Noemi Dominguez is clubbed to death in her apartment in Houston. Schoolteacher.
- 2001 - Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
- 2001 - King Dipendra of Nepal dies (b. 1971).
- 2001 - John Hartford dies (b. 1937). American musician, composer.
- 2001 - Ali Hassan Kuban dies (b. 1933). Egyptian musician.
- 2001 - Dipendra of Nepal dies (b. 1971).
- 2002 - Fernando Belaunde Terry dies (b. 1912). Peruvian politician, President of Peru.
- 2003 - Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation. Stewart also resigned as chairperson and chief executive officer of Martha Stewart Living.
- 2004 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is released in cinemas.
- 2004 - Steve Lacy dies (b. 1934). American saxophonist
- 2004 - Nino Manfredi dies (b. 1921). Italian actor.
- 2006 - Raul Indipwo dies (b. 1933). Angolan singer (Duo Ouro Negro).
- 2007 - Clete Boyer dies. American baseball player.
- 2007 - Jim Clark dies (b. 1922). American sheriff and segregationist.
- 2007 - Bill France Jr. dies (b. 1933). NASCAR pioneer.
- 2007 - Sotiris Moustakas dies (b. 1940). Greek actor.
- 2007 - Freddie Scott dies (b. 1933). American singer and songwriter.
- 2007 - Craig L. Thomas dies (b. 1933). United States Senator.
- 2008 - Nikos Sergianopoulos dies (b. 1952). Greek actor.
- International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
- Tonga - National Day.
- Hong Kong - Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 memorial day.
- Sikhism: Bhagat Puran Singh's Birthday.
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