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- 0068 Nero, the Emperor of Rome, commits suicide
- 0068 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
- 0721 Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
- 1310 Duccio's Maest Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
- 1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- 1534 Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
- 1549 UK hist First Book of Common Prayer sanctioned by English Parliament
- 1628 First deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass
- 1650 The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It was the first legal corporation in the Americas.
- 1667 The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet starts lasting for five days and resulting in a decisive victory of the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War and a favourable peace for the Dutch.
- 1732 James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
- 1732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
- 1772 British vessel Gaspee is burned off of Rhode Island.
- 1772 First Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
- 1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions
- 1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I
- 1790 Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States.
- 1790 The first book copyrighted under the constitution, Philadelphia Spelling Book
- 1815 End of the Congress of Vienna: new European political situation is set.
- 1822 Charles Graham receives a patent for false teeth
- 1851 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms
- 1856 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
- 1860 Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.
- 1862 Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp
- 1863 Battle of Brandy Station, Va
- 1868 First meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California
- 1869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his first of many root beers (Phila)
- 1870 Author Charles Dickens dies in England.
- 1883 First commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El)
- 1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years
- 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
- 1922 First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
- 1923 Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
- 1928 Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
- 1928 First aerial cross of the Pacific lands in Brisbane Australia
- 1930 Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed at the Illinois Central train station during rush hour by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
- 1931 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design
- 1934 The Donald Duck cartoon, The Wise Little Hen, released
- 1935 Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognized Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
- 1940 Norway surrenders to the Nazis during World War II
- 1941 7th Division crosses Litani River
- 1943 Congress passes "pay-as-you-go" income tax
- 1944 23 puppies (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler, Penn
- 1945 June 9, 1945 Aurelia Cuntu De Lacruz Garcia Aguelar Keith born Los Indios Tx
- 1946 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire. (Dubuque Iowa)
- 1946 King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
- 1949 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes first woman treasurer of US
- 1953 100 people die when a tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts.
- 1953 About 100 die in Worcester MA tornado
- 1954 Joseph Welch asks Sen Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings
- 1954 McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army.
- 1955 100ø F-Hottest day in Seattle Washington
- 1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM
- 1957 First ascent of Broad Peak (12th highest mountain).
- 1958 London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, UK officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1959 The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
- 1959 The first ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)
- 1963 Movie "Cleopatra" opens in NY
- 1967 Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.
- 1967 The Monkees appear at the Hollywood Bowl
- 1969 Brian Jones quits the Rolling Stones
- 1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
- 1971 Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold
- 1972 14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 200
- 1972 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia
- 1973 Secretariat becomes the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes.
- 1974 Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) first concert
- 1975 E Roemer discovers asteroid #1983 Bok
- 1975 Visitor posting - Eric James W. Born in Nevada MO. - USA
- 1975 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla)
- 1977 George & Patti Harrison divorce
- 1977 Visitor posting - my second son Mohamed Bayo is born in Conakry - Guinea - at Ratoma hospital
- 1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
- 1978 Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London
- 1978 Larry Holmes wins a decision over Ken Norton for the WBC crown
- 1979 Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes
- 1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffers severe burns in a drug mishap and is hospitalized for two months.
- 1980 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
- 1982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
- 1983 Margaret Thatcher wins a second term by a landslide in the British General Election with a majority of 144 for her Conservative Party. Tony Blair is elected for the first time to Parliament.
- 1984 Cyndi Lauper's first #1 "Time After Times"
- 1984 Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD
- 1984 Swale wins the Belmont Stakes (8 days later Swale dies)
- 1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
- 1985 Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he was not released until 1991).
- 1985 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
- 1986 The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
- 1988 Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK
- 1989 "Star Trek V" premiers
- 1989 Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals
- 1989 Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1
- 1990 Czechoslovakia beats US 5-1 in World Cup soccer
- 1990 Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed
- 1990 Monoica Salas beats Steffi Graff for French Open title
- 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - England New Order - World In Motion
- 1991 The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Zack Young was born
- 1993 Visitor posting - Michael Gibbs born. I had a dog named Jackson - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - alyssa was born - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Sophie Muhindura was born - USA
- 1997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
- 1999 Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.
- 1999 Yugoslav and NATO generals sign a Kosovo peace pact, ending 78 days of NATO airstrikes.
- 2000 Visitor posting - June 9th 2000 Joshua Jones of Swansea was born
- 2002 Visitor posting - Ronald James was born ... a Bouncing baby boy!!!
- 2008 Lehman estimates it lost about $3 billion in the second quarter
- 2010 Statistics show being short isn't easy. Short people are 50 percent more likely to have a heart attack. Short people make less money, have a harder time finding a mate, and are less likely to be elected to public office.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Carlene Howell celebrates 74th year on planet earth. - USA
- 2010 Scott Rothstein, the politically connected lawyer and admitted mastermind of a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in federal prison. Rothstein is known as "the Bernie Madoff of South Florida," - USA
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