217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated Macedonian King Perseus who surrendered after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
813 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.
1527 – Fatahillah chased away Portugal from Sunda Kelapa harbour, and peoples celebrated it as birthday of Jakarta, Indonesia.
1622 – Portuguese forces repelled a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
1774 – The British passed the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attackes and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
1825 – The British Parliament abolished feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
1865 – The last shot of the Civil War was fired in the Bering Strait by The CSS Shenandoah to indicate their surrender.
1870 – Congress created the United States Department of Justice
1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sank taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
1898 – Spanish–American War: United States Marines landed in Cuba.
1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.
1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
1911 – George V and Mary of Teck were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck killed 86 and injured 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
1922 – Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners were killed in Herrin, Illinois.
1934 – Gangster John Dillinger is informally named the first Public Enemy Number One.
1940 – France was forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
1941 – Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
1941 – The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
1942 – Erwin Rommel was promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
1942 – Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress
1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
1944 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
1945 – The Battle of Okinawa came to an official end after nearly three months of fighting.
1948 – The ship MV Empire Windrush brought the first group of 492 Jamaican immigrants to Tilbury near London, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.
1954 – In Christchurch (New Zealand) Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline's mother because they think she is in the way of their close friendship (movie Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson in 1994). See Parker–Hulme murder case.
1957 – The Soviet Union launched an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
1962 – Air France Flight 117, a Boeing 707–328, crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board.
1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, triggering a crack-down on pollution in the river, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
1978 – Charon, a satellite of Pluto, was discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy.
1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
1986 – The controversial Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century also by Maradona. Argentina would win 2-1 and go on to win the world cup.
1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
1992 – A decision by the Supreme Court rules that "hate crime" laws violated free-speech rights.
2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
2007 – An F5 tornado strikes Elie, Manitoba in Canada; part of the town is destroyed, but there are no fatalities or injuries.
2009 – A Washington D.C Metro train was traveling southbound at the Fort Totten station when it collided into another train sitting in the station. Nine people were killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others were injured.
2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
2012 – A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
2015 – The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All 6 of the gunmen are killed, with 18 people injured.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Alban, Proto-Martyr of Britain. Greater Double.
Commemoration of Paulius, Bishop of Nola, Confessor.
Commemoration of Paulius, Bishop of Nola, Confessor.
Contemporary Western
Aaron of Aleth
Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain
Blessed Pope Innocent V
John Fisher
Nicetas of Remesiana
Paulinus of Nola
Thomas More
Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain
Blessed Pope Innocent V
John Fisher
Nicetas of Remesiana
Paulinus of Nola
Thomas More
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Hieromartyr Eusebius of Samosata, bishop (380)
Saint Alban, first martyr of Britain
Martyrs Galacteon, Juliana, and Saturninus of Constantinople
Martyr Zeno and his servant Zenas of Philadelphia (304)
Saint Anastasia the Serbian
Martyr Pompian
Saint Alban, first martyr of Britain
Martyrs Galacteon, Juliana, and Saturninus of Constantinople
Martyr Zeno and his servant Zenas of Philadelphia (304)
Saint Anastasia the Serbian
Martyr Pompian
Other commemorations
Repose of Righteous Mary the cave-digger of White Mountain Monastery
near Voronezh (1822)
Repose of Schemamonk Theoktist of Valaam (1836)
near Voronezh (1822)
Repose of Schemamonk Theoktist of Valaam (1836)
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