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70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.

1305 - Pope Clement V is elected.

1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.

1817 - First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.

1829 - HMS ''Pickle'' captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.

1832 - Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.

1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.

1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.

1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.

1907 - BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.

1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

1916 - Stein's Dixie Jazz Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."

1924 - Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden).

1933 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.

1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.

1944 - World War II: Rome liberated by the Allies

1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.

1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, kills 61 people.

1947 - Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.

1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.

1963 - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.

1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.

1969 - The University of Texas at San Antonio is established.

1970 - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.

1975 - The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC.

1976 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.

1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.

1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.

1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

1984 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.

1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.

1987 - Ted Koppel hosts a "National Town Meeting on AIDS" on a special four-hour long live broadcast of Nightline.

1989 - The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel.

1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

1991 - Colo-Colo becomes the first Chilean soccer team to win the Copa Libertadores de América.

1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.

1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).

2001 - U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.

2001 - Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.

2002 - Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released.

2002 - Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her house

2003 - Severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C in the region. (Details)

2004 - Former U.S. President, Ronald Reagan dies at the age of 93.

2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro

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1341 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)

1493 - Justus Jonas, German protestant reformer (d. 1555)

1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)

1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)

1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)

1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)

1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)

1760 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852)

1771 - Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)

1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)

1819 - John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)

1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)

1862 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)

1876 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)

1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)

1879 - Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)

1879 - René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)

1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)

1884 - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)

1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)

1895 - William Boyd (actor), American actor (d. 1972)

1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)

1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

1905 - John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)

1919 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)

1920 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)

1925 - Art Donovan, American football star

1928 - Tony Richardson, British actor (d. 1991)

1930 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)

1931 - Jacques Demy, French playwright

1932 - Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)

1934 - Bill Moyers, American journalist

1938 - Karin Balzer, German hurdler

1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada

1939 - Margaret Drabble, English novelist

1941 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist

1941 - Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004)

1941 - Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots

1944 - Tommie Smith, American athlete

1946 - Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)

1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist

1947 - Tom Evans, musician (Badfinger) (d. 1983)

1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author

1952 - Daniel Katzen, Symphony musician

1952 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)

1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)

1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player

1956 - Richard Butler, English singer (Psychedelic Furs)

1956 - Kenny G, American saxophonist

1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium

1962 - Jeff Garlin, American comedian

1965 - Sandrine Piau, French soprano

1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete

1967 - Ray Lankford, baseball player

1968 - Ron Livingston, American actor

1969 - Brian McKnight, American musician

1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player

1971 - Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress

1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor

1972 - Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler

1973 - Lamon Brewster, American boxer

1974 - Chad Allen, American actor

1975 - Anna Nova, German erotic actress

1975 - Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, NBA basketball player (Cleveland Cavaliers)

1976 - Ross Noble, English comedian

1977 - Liza Weil, American actress

1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer

1979 - Peter Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)

1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality

1983 - Bill Bray, baseball player

1985 - Rubén De la Red, football player

1986 - Amanda Crew, Canadian actress

2005 - Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain

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535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople

1017 - Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976)

1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester

1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)

1316 - King Louis X of France (b. 1289)

1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)

1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)

1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)

1667 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)

1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)

1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)

1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French protestant pastor (b. 1659)

1791 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)

1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)

1826 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)

1900 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)

1902 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trail of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)

1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)

1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)

1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)

1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)

1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)

1930 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)

1942 - Samuel Adams, American naval officer (b. 1912)

1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)

1991 - Christopher Keogh, Zimbabwean white supremacist and governor (b. 1891)

1993 - Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)

1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)

1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b.1909)

1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)

2000 - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)

2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)

2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)

2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)

2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)

2004 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)

2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields) (b. 1941)

2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)

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World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972.

National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day).

Seychelles - Liberation Day.

Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Núr (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í Calendar.

Anniversary of the Signing of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (Inuvaluit Day).

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Liturgical Feasts

Saint Adelard
Saint Boniface (died 754)
Saint Dorotheus
Saint Igor (died 1147)
Saint Valeria