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524 - Battle of Vézeronce, Franks defeat Burgundians

841 - Battle of Fontenay

1530 - The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.

1678 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.

1788 - Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.

1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of General George Armstrong Custer.

1905 - Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond known, is discovered by Frederick Wells.

1938 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated the first President of Ireland.

1949- Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny and Giovanni Jones

1950 - The beginning of the Korean War.

1967 - First global satellite television programme – "Our World"

1975 - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares Emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.

1975 - Mozambique achieved independence.

1976 - Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.

1981 - Microsoft Inc. is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.

1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.

1983 - India, led by Kapil Dev, win the Cricket World Cup. They beat West Indies by 43 runs in the final at Lord's, London.

1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.

1993 - Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.

1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.

1997 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian Space station, Mir.

1998 - In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

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1328 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)

1560 - Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)

1612 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)

1715 - Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)

1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)

1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)

1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)

1860 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)

1864 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)

1865 - Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)

1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)

1886 - Henry H. Arnold, American Army Air Force commander (d. 1950)

1887 - George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995)

1894 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)

1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)

1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)

1903 - Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)

1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)

1908 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)

1911 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)

1912 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)

1913 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)

1921 - Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer

1923 - Nicholas Mosley, British writer

1924 - Sidney Lumet, American actor

1925 - June Lockhart, American actress

1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)

1928 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate

1928 - Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)

1929 - Eric Carle, American author

1930 - Mary Beth Peil, American singer

1932 - Peter Blake, British artist

1933 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist

1933 - Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect

1935 - Eddie Floyd, American singer

1936 - Jusuf Habibie, President of Indonesia

1939 - Harold Melvin, American musician(Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)

1940 - A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)

1941 - Denys Arcand, Canadian film director

1942 - Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright

1944 - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer

1945 - Carly Simon, American singer

1946 - Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator

1946 - Ian McDonald, musician (King Crimson and Foreigner)

1947 - Jimmie Walker, American TV actor (best known for his role on Good Times)

1952 - Tim Finn, New Zealand singer/singwriter

1954 - David Paich, composer (Toto)

1956 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)

1960 - Dario de Judicibus, Italian writer

1960 - Craig Johnston, Australian footballer

1961 - Ricky Gervais, English comedian

1963 - George Michael, British singer

1963 - Yann Martel, Canadian author

1963 - Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player

1964 - Johnny Herbert, British race car driver

1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, Congan basketball player

1968 - Craig Short, British footballer

1969 - Matt Gallant, American television host

1969 - Zim Zum, American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist)

1970 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress

1970 - Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete

1971 - Angela Kinsey, American actress

1971 - Santiago de Tezanos, Uruguayan architect

1971 - Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer

1971 - Michael Tucker, American baseball player

1972 - Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player

1973 - Jamie Redknapp, English footballer

1974 - Jim LaMarca, American bassplayer (Chimaira)

1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress

1975 - Linda Cardellini, American actress

1975 - Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player

1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player

1975 - Tatiana Lysenko, Russian gymnast

1976 - José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer

1978 - Layla El, 2006 WWE Diva Search Winner

1979 - Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler

1980 - Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress

1981 - Sheridan Smith, British actress

1981 - Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper

1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player

1982 - Rain, Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)

1983 - Nargis Farahmand, Afghan poet

1984 - Amrita Hunjan, British singer

1986 - Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer

1988 - Amanda Dowler, British murder victim (d. 2002)

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635 - Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)

1134 - King Niels of Denmark

1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)

1483 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer

1522 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)

1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)

1579 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)

1593 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)

1634 - John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)

1638 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)

1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)

1669 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)

1673 - Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France (b. 1611)

1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)

1686 - Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)

1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)

1798 - Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)

1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)

1838 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)

1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)

1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)

1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor of gooches (b. 1796)

1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839)

1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)

1884 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)

1916 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)

1918 - Jake Beckley, Baseball player (b. 1867)

1937 - Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)

1948 - William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)

1949 - Buck Freeman, baseball player (b. 1871)

1959 - Charles Starkweather, spree killer (b. 1938)

1960 - Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)

1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)

1974 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)

1976 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)

1979 - Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)

1982 - Igor Gouzenko, Soviet spy

1983 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)

1985 - Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)

1987 - Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)

1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers (b. 1962)

1990 - Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer

1992 - Jerome Brown, American football player ran away from home(b. 1965)

1995 - Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1907)

1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)

1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)

2002 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)

2003 - Lester Maddox, American politican (b. 1915)

2006 - Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (b. 1918)

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Statehood Day in Slovenia and Croatia

National Catfish Day

Mozambique – Independence Day

American Radio Relay League - Field Day 2006

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Liturgical feasts

Saint Adelbert of Egmond
Saint Prosper
Saint William (died 1142)
Saint Eleonora
Saint Febronia
Spain – Fiesta of Santa Orosia