- 1099 The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
- 1329 UK hist Death of Robert the Bruce; succeeded by infant David II of Scots
- 1494 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
- 1614 2nd parliment of King James I, disolves passing no legislation
- 1654 Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
- 1692 Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured.
- 1692 Porte Royale Jamaica slides into harbor after earthquake
- 1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky
- 1775 The United Colonies change their name to the United States.
- 1776 Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress.
- 1800 David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
- 1832 Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
- 1832 UK hist Reform Bill passed – Representation of the People Act – dramatic effects for grossly underrepresented places like Scotland (the number of Scottish people allowed to vote increased from 4,000 to 65,000 out of 2.5 million people) – changed voting from an aristocratic privilege to a middle class right, but by later standards not much was accomplished – approximately doubled the electorate to about 800,000 voters out of a total population in Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales of around 24 million (1831 census), and increasing by 1 million a year
- 1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
- 1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF
- 1863 During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
- 1864 Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
- 1866 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
- 1866 Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Qu‚bec
- 1880 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaa del Desierto (Desert Campaign) .
- 1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC
- 1892 Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
- 1893 Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience (in South Africa)
- 1896 G Harpo & F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)
- 1898 Social Democracy of America party holds first national convention, Chic
- 1903 Professor Pierre Curie reveals the discovery of the element Polonium.
- 1905 Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
- 1906 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow(Clydebank), Scotland.
- 1909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
- 1912 US army tests the first machine gun mounted on a plane
- 1914 The first vessel passes through the locks at the Panama Canal.
- 1917 Battle of Messines, Belgium
- 1917 Crpl Samuel Frickleton, 3rd Battalion, 3rd NZ (Rifle) Brigade, won the Victoria Cross at Messines, Belgium
- 1919 Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
- 1924 George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit
- 1929 Vatican City becomes a soverign state
- 1930 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
- 1932 Some 7,000+ war veterans march on Washington, D.C. demanding bonus pay for their service in World War I.
- 1936 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
- 1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat is first flown
- 1938 The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
- 1939 The first king & queen of England to visit US, George VI & Elizabeth
- 1940 King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Troms and go into exile in London.
- 1941 Palmach units take part in an Allied invasion in Syria.
- 1942 Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter.
- 1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
- 1943 Professor Clauberg in Auschwitz reports a sterilization rate of 1,000 women a day, mostly on Jewish women from Greece.
- 1944 Nazi Panzer SS troops murder 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.
- 1948 Edvard Bene resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
- 1954 First microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
- 1955 "The $64,000 Question" premiers on CBS TV
- 1955 Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
- 1959 Visitor posting - Rhea and Bob get married in Richmond, VA
- 1963 First Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release first single, "Come on"
- 1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
- 1965 The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
- 1966 Former movie star, Ronald Reagan, becomes the 33rd governor of the state of California.
- 1967 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
- 1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem
- 1967 The Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
- 1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
- 1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
- 1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special
- 1969 Tommy James & the Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
- 1970 The Who's Tommy is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
- 1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes first transfer to orbiting Salyut
- 1972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
- 1975 Number one hit on UK music charts - Windsor Davies & Don Estelle - Whispering Grass
- 1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
- 1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
- 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in London. 500 million people watch on television
- 1978 Nadine Hernandez is born in California
- 1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
- 1979 Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
- 1981 Iraq's only nuclear reactor is destroyed by Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers.
- 1981 The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The Israelis charged the facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
- 1982 Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
- 1982 Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
- 1985 Visitor posting - Toya Renee Stiger was born in Silver Spring, Maryland
- 1986 Madonna's "Live to Tell," single goes #1
- 1986 Number one hit on UK music charts - Doctor & The Medics - Spirit In The Sky
- 1986 Washington Metroraill "Vienna-Fairfax GMU" opens.
- 1989 A Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.
- 1990 Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains
- 1990 Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida opens up its new 3 soundstages and begins production at Universal Studios Florida .
- 1991 Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.
- 1991 Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson
- 1995 The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines
- 1997 Visitor posting - Emily Murphy is born - USA
- 1998 James Byrd, Jr is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.
- 1998 Visitor posting - Alexis Las Casas was born
- 2001 Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.
- 2006 British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.
- 2008 Visitor posting - June 7 2008 Adam and Jennifer got married at silver bells chapel
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