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1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.

1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

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.

1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. See United States Declaration of Independence.

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.

1862 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.

1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops.

1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around St-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.

1880 - Assault and Take of Morro de Arica (Arica Tall Hill),it meant the end of the Campaign of Tacna and Arica during the War of the Pacific.

1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.

1905 - Norway dissolves its union with Sweden.

1917 - World War I: Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.

1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four patriots are killed.

1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France.

1938 - The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.

1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.

1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.

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.

1944 - Nazi Panzer SS troops murder 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.

1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.

1947 - ASA Bucharest(actually Steaua Bucharest) was founded.

1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.

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.

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 22nd governor of the state of California.

1967 - The Israeli forces occupy Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.

1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.

1971 - The US Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precident that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.

1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.

1977 - 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II.

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 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

1989 - A Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.

1990 - Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida opened up.

1991 - Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.

1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol () and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".

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.

2001 - Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.

2002 - England beat Argentina in the 2002 FIFA World Cup group stages

2004 - The Sikh leader Prem Singh Chandumajra launches the political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Longowal).

2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.

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1529 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615)

1761 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)

1770 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)

1778 - Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840)

1811 - James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d. 1870)

1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)

1837 - Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler's father (d. 1903)

1845 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)

1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)

1862 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)

1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)

1877 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)

1879 - Knud Rasmussen, Greenland-born explorer (d. 1933)

1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)

1886 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)

1894 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (d. 1974)

1896 - Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)

1896 - Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)

1897 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)

1899 - Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973)

1902 - Herman B Wells, president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)

1906 - Glen Gray, Jazz musician (d. 1963)

1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974)

1909 - Jessica Tandy, English-born actress (d. 1994)

1911 - Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d. 1995)

1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)

1917 - Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)

1920 - Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)

1921 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitar virtuoso (d. 1998)

1923 - Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)

1928 - James Ivory, American film director

1929 - John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada

1929 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager

1931 - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter

1935 - Harry Crews, American author

1937 - Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor

1938 - Goose Gonsoulin, American football player

1940 - Tom Jones, Welsh singer

1943 - Nikki Giovanni, American poet

1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria

1946 - Jenny Jones, Palestinian-born comedienne and talk show host

1947 - Thurman Munson, Major league baseball catcher (d. 1979)

1950 - Gary Graham American Actor

1952 - Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor

1953 - Johnny Clegg, South African musician

1954 - Louise Erdrich, American author

1955 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)

1956 - L.A. Reid, American music producer

1958 - Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand

1958 - Prince, American musician

1961 - Dave Catching, American musician

1964 - Judie Aronson, American actress

1964 - Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress

1965 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and author

1967 - Dave Navarro, American Musician

1969 - Kim Rhodes, American actress

1970 - Mike Modano, American ice hockey player

1970 - Cafu, Brazilian footballer

1972 - Karl Urban, New Zealand actor

1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player

1975 - Allen Iverson, American basketball player

1977 - Marcin Baszczyński, Polish football (soccer) player

1977 - Joe Horgan, Baseball player

1978 - Tony An, Korean singer in the group H.O.T

1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player

1981 - Larisa Oleynik, Ukrainian-born actress

1981 - Tyler Johnson, baseball player

1985 - Charlie Simpson, British pop singer

1988 - Michael Cera, Canadian actor

1988 - Godwin Antwi, Ghana footballer

1993 - Jordan Fry, American actor

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1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)

1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)

1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)

1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)

1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist

1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)

1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)

1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)

1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)

1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)

1840 - King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)

1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)

1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)

1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader

1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)

1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)

1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)

1937 - Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)

1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)

1951 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (b. 1892)

1954 - Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)

1963 - Zasu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)

1965 - Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)

1966 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)

1967 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)

1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)

1968 - Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)

1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)

1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)

1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)

1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)

1993 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)

1995 - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)

2001 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)

2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)

2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)

2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (b. 1966)

2006 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)

2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born terrorist (b. 1966)

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Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta.

Norway - Union Dissolution Day, observing the 1905 decision to dissolve the Union between Sweden and Norway.

Malta - Sette giugno - Riot in Malta that began the road to self government and then independence.

United States - National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

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Roman Catholic Church and some Anglican churches: Corpus Christi (moveable feast, 2007)

Colman, bishop of Dromore BLS

Saint Godoald, bishop, confessor

Saint Fortunatus, bishop, confessor

Saint Maximinus, bishop of Aix, confessor

Saint Procopius PCP (Paris), as Proces

Saint Robert, abbot of Chichester

Blessed Robert, abbot of Newminster, Northumberland

Saint Servatius, bishop, confessor or martyr (Translation day)

Saint Wulstan, bishop of Worcester, confessor (Translation day)

Blessed Godeschalc, prince of the Vandals, martyr

Blessed Meriadec, bishop (of Vannes)

Blessed Paul, bishop of Constantinople, martyr

Blessed Willibald

Blessed Anna of St. Bartholomaeus (died 1626)

Blessed Maria Theresia of Soubiran (died 1889)

Luciana, virgin, martyr WTS (Bruges)