193 – The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1252 – Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
1298 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1495 – A Tironensian monk, John Cor, the distiller at Lindores Abbey in the Kingdom of Fife, is referred to in the first known written reference to a batch of Scotch whisky.
1533 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, is crowned Queen Consort of England.
1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
1815 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the Magnetic North Pole.
1855 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Fairfax Court House: The first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate combat casualty.
1862 – American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina.
1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
1815 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the Magnetic North Pole.
1855 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Fairfax Court House: The first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate combat casualty.
1862 – American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina.
1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1905 – The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon.
1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.
1913 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
1915 – The T.S. Eliot poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was first published in “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.”
1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1918 – World War I: Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
1933 – In a scene captured by news photographers, Lya Graf, a female circus dwarf, sat in the lap of financier J.P. Morgan Jr. during a recess of a Senate Banking Committee hearing on J.P. Morgan’s banking activities in 1933, in what became known as the Pecora hearings.
1939 – First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
1941 – World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1962 – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
1974 – Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
2014 – A bombing at a football field in Mubi, Nigeria, kills at least 40 people.
2015 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.
1974 – Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
2014 – A bombing at a football field in Mubi, Nigeria, kills at least 40 people.
2015 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of St. Augustine of Canterbury.
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyr Justin the Philosopher (Justin Martyr) at Rome (166)
Martyrs Chariton, Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peonus, Valerian (Liberianus),
and Justus with Justin Martyr (166)
Martyr Neon, by beheading
Saint Pyrrus, Bishop, reposed in peace
Hieromartyr Phyrrhus the Virgin
Martyr Thespesius of Cappadocia (222)
Martyrs Ischyrion, a military officer, and five other soldiers, in Egypt (250)
The holy Ten thousand Martyrs, in Antiochia (249-251)
Martyr Firmus, under the eparch Magus (299)
Martyr Gerasimos
St. Metrius the Farmer of Myra in Lycia (912)
Martyrs Chariton, Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peonus, Valerian (Liberianus),
and Justus with Justin Martyr (166)
Martyr Neon, by beheading
Saint Pyrrus, Bishop, reposed in peace
Hieromartyr Phyrrhus the Virgin
Martyr Thespesius of Cappadocia (222)
Martyrs Ischyrion, a military officer, and five other soldiers, in Egypt (250)
The holy Ten thousand Martyrs, in Antiochia (249-251)
Martyr Firmus, under the eparch Magus (299)
Martyr Gerasimos
St. Metrius the Farmer of Myra in Lycia (912)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Felinus and Gratinianus (250)
Hieromartyrs Reverianus (Bishop) and Paul (priest), with ten others,
at Autun (272)
Martyr Crescentian, in Saldo near Città di Castello in Italy (287)
Martyr Juventius, in Rome
Martyr Proclus, at Bologna (304)
Martyr Secundus, At Amelia in Umbria, when thrown into the Tiber (304)
Martyr Clarus of Acquitaine, a Bishop believed to have been sent to evangelize
Aquitaine, France
Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto the Wonderworker (400)
Saint Caprasius of Lérins, Abbot (430)
Saint Ronan of Locronan (Ronan of Cornwall), an early bishop of Cornish origin
who preached in Cornwall and in Brittany (6th c.)
Saint Wite, a female Dorset saint martyred by the Danes, buried at Whitchurch
Canonicorum (c. 831)
Saint Wigstan (Wystan, Wistan, Winston), of the royal house of Mercia
in England (849)
Saint Gaudentius of Ossero, Bishop of Ossero in Istria (1044)
Saint Atto, a monk at Oña in Spain with St. Enneco, who later became Bishop
of Oca-Valpuesta (c. 1044)
Hieromartyrs Reverianus (Bishop) and Paul (priest), with ten others,
at Autun (272)
Martyr Crescentian, in Saldo near Città di Castello in Italy (287)
Martyr Juventius, in Rome
Martyr Proclus, at Bologna (304)
Martyr Secundus, At Amelia in Umbria, when thrown into the Tiber (304)
Martyr Clarus of Acquitaine, a Bishop believed to have been sent to evangelize
Aquitaine, France
Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto the Wonderworker (400)
Saint Caprasius of Lérins, Abbot (430)
Saint Ronan of Locronan (Ronan of Cornwall), an early bishop of Cornish origin
who preached in Cornwall and in Brittany (6th c.)
Saint Wite, a female Dorset saint martyred by the Danes, buried at Whitchurch
Canonicorum (c. 831)
Saint Wigstan (Wystan, Wistan, Winston), of the royal house of Mercia
in England (849)
Saint Gaudentius of Ossero, Bishop of Ossero in Istria (1044)
Saint Atto, a monk at Oña in Spain with St. Enneco, who later became Bishop
of Oca-Valpuesta (c. 1044)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Agapetus of the Kiev Caves, Unmercenary physician of the Kiev
Near Caves (1095)
Dionysius of Glushetsk in Vologda, Abbot, Wonderworker (1437)
Martyr Shio the New (Shio of Akhakalakhi) in Georgia (1696)
Synaxis of the Holy Martyrs of Georgia: David, Gabriel, and Paul of the
St. David Gareji Monastery (1696-1700)
Saint Justin (Popovic), Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia (1979)
Near Caves (1095)
Dionysius of Glushetsk in Vologda, Abbot, Wonderworker (1437)
Martyr Shio the New (Shio of Akhakalakhi) in Georgia (1696)
Synaxis of the Holy Martyrs of Georgia: David, Gabriel, and Paul of the
St. David Gareji Monastery (1696-1700)
Saint Justin (Popovic), Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia (1979)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagalyuk), Bishop of Kharkov (1938)
New Hieromartyr Basil, priest, Virgin-martyr Vera Samsonov (1940)
New Hieromartyr Basil, priest, Virgin-martyr Vera Samsonov (1940)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the plague through
the intercession of Saint Bessarion (†1540), Archbishop of Larissa (c. 1743)
Repose of Elder Philaret of Kapsala, Mt. Athos (1975)
Glorification (1990) of Righteous John of Kronstadt (1908)
the intercession of Saint Bessarion (†1540), Archbishop of Larissa (c. 1743)
Repose of Elder Philaret of Kapsala, Mt. Athos (1975)
Glorification (1990) of Righteous John of Kronstadt (1908)
Coptic Orthodox
Feast of the Entry of Christ in Egypt
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