524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1658 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
1788 – Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1798 – The Alien Act is passed, giving presidents the power to deport dangerous aliens.
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1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1929 – The 31st President, Herbert Hoover, approves the construction of Boulder Dam, renamed the Hoover Dam in 1947.
1935 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
1940 – World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took command of the U.S. forces in Europe.
1943 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
1950 – The Korean War begins as forces from the communist North invaded the South.
1951 – CBS airs Arthur Godfrey from New York City. It is the first color television broadcast. At the time, no color TV sets were owned by the public.
1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
1962 – The U.S. Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled 6-1 that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.
1967 – Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World
1973 – White House attorney John Dean told a U.S. Senate committee that U.S. President Richard Nixon joined in a plot to cover up the Watergate break-in.
1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
1975 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has a state of internal Emergency declared in India.
1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 – Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
1983 – India win the 1983 Cricket World Cup for the first time at Lord's Cricket Ground, London defeating the West Indies.
1984 – American singer Prince releases his most successful studio album Purple Rain.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia, sparking civil war.
1993 – Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first woman Prime Minister of Canada, taking the post after the retirement of Brian Mulroney. Campbell was PM only until November, leaving office after her Progressive Conservative Party was defeated in the federal election.
1993 – Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action is adopted by World Conference on Human Rights.
1994 – Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata resigned two months after taking office rather than face a no-confidence vote by Parliament.
1997 – About half of Mir's power supply is knocked out when an unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station and puts a hole in it.
1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1999 – United Nations Security Council: Resolutions 1248 and 1249 are adopted, admitting the Republic of Kiribati and the Republic of Nauru to membership in the United Nations
2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president of Iran.
2006 – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by militants from the Gaza Strip. He was released Oct. 18, 2011.
2009 – Entertainment superstar Michael Jackson, known as "the king of pop," a vast influence on the music scene of his day, died of cardiac arrest at age 50 while preparing a comeback.
2012 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that mandatory sentencing of teenage killers to life without parole is unconstitutional.
2013 – U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass won a special election to fill out former Sen. John Kerry's term. Markey, who has served in Congress since 1976, defeated Republican Gabriel Gomez, a former Navy SEAL turned investment banker.
2013 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the eighth Emir of Qatar.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Philipp Melanchthon (Lutheran)
Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Virgin-martyr Febronia of Nisibis (304)
Venerable Peter of Murom (tonsured David), Wonderworker (1228)
Venerable Febronia of Murom (tonsured Euphrosyne), Wonderworker (1228)
Venerable Leonis, Libye, and Eutropia of Syria (310), virgin-martyrs
Venerable Symeon of Sinai (5th century)
Venerable Dionysius and Dometrius of the Monastery of the Forerunner
on Mount Athos (1380)
Martyr Procopius of Mt. Athos, who suffered at Smyrna (1810)
Venerable George of Attalia
Venerable Peter of Murom (tonsured David), Wonderworker (1228)
Venerable Febronia of Murom (tonsured Euphrosyne), Wonderworker (1228)
Venerable Leonis, Libye, and Eutropia of Syria (310), virgin-martyrs
Venerable Symeon of Sinai (5th century)
Venerable Dionysius and Dometrius of the Monastery of the Forerunner
on Mount Athos (1380)
Martyr Procopius of Mt. Athos, who suffered at Smyrna (1810)
Venerable George of Attalia
Other commemorations
Repose of Hierodeacon Serapion (1859)
Repose of Schemaarchimandrite Heliodorus of Glinsk Hermitage (1879)
Repose of Schemaarchimandrite Heliodorus of Glinsk Hermitage (1879)
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