1124 – Tyre falls to the Crusaders.
1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
1534 – European colonization of the Americas: Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in what is now New Brunswick, Canada.
1543 – French troops invade Luxembourg.
1575 – Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
1770 – The Battle of Larga takes place between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
1797: The House of Representatives exercises its constitutional power of impeachment for the first time and votes to charge Senator William Blount of Tennessee with “a high misdemeanor, entirely inconsistent with his public duty and trust as a Senator.”
1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
1807 – Napoleonic Wars: The Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
1846 – Mexican–American War: U.S. Navy Commodore J.D. Sloat proclaimed the annexation of California by the United States. American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
1863 – United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $100.
1863: Union Lt. Colonel Christopher “Kit” Carson leaves Santa Fe with his troops, beginning his campaign against the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. A famed mountain man before the Civil War, Carson was responsible for waging a destructive war against the Navajo that resulted in their removal from the Four Corners area to southeastern New Mexico.
1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt, were hanged as a result of their involvement in the plot. he four had each played different roles in the assassination and the plot surrounding it. The plan was to murder not just President Abraham Lincoln but also the Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. John Wilkes Booth was the leader of the conspiracy, and he assigned Lewis Powell and David Herold to kill Seward, while George Atzerodt was to kill Johnson, and Booth himself was to kill Lincoln. Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government
1892 – The Katipunan, a Philippine revolutionary society, is established. It was a secret organization until its discovery in 1896, which led to the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution and contributed to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution authorizing the annexation of Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1900: Warren Earp, the youngest of the famous clan of gun fighting brothers, is murdered in an Arizona saloon.
1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
1911 – The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
1912: Jim Thorpe wins the pentathlon at the fifth modern Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. At the time, Thorpe, a Native American who attended Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian School, was only beginning to establish his reputation as the greatest all-around athlete in the world.
1915 – World War I: The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
1915 – An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
1915 – Militia officer Henry Pedris is executed by firing squad at Colombo in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims. The execution was widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
1916 – The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
1917: British Army Council Instruction Number 1069 formally establishes the British Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), authorizing female volunteers to serve alongside their male counterparts in France during World War I.
1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). Over the next five years, a total of 21,000 men would work ceaselessly to produce what would be the largest dam of its time, as well as one of the largest manmade structures in the world.
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Marco Polo Bridge Incident, also known as the Battle of Lugou Bridge, provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1941 – World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
1941 – World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
1942: Heinrich Himmler, in league with three others, including a physician, decides to begin experimenting on women in the Auschwitz concentration camps and to investigate extending this experimentation on males.
1944 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
1946 – Mother Francesca Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) becomes the first American to be canonized a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1947 – The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 53 is adopted.
1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 84 is adopted.
1952 – The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
1953 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954 – Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis plays his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
1955: Officials in China and Hanoi announce that Beijing will extend 800 million yuan (about $200 million) in economic aid to Hanoi.
1956 – Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1963 – Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
1964: Gen. Maxwell Taylor, the new ambassador to South Vietnam, arrives in Saigon. As a military man with considerable experience in Vietnam, he was viewed by the South Vietnamese government, the U.S. military establishment, and the Johnson administration as the ideal individual to coordinate and invigorate the war effort.
1969: A battalion of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division leaves Saigon in the initial withdrawal of U.S. troops. The 814 soldiers were the first of 25,000 troops that were withdrawn in the first stage of the U.S. disengagement from the war. There would be 14 more increments in the withdrawal, but the last U.S. troops did not leave until after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973.
1976: For the first time in history, women are enrolled into the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. On May 28, 1980, 62 of these female cadets graduated and were commissioned as second lieutenants.
1978 – The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Institution of sharia in Iran.
1980 – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was unanimously approved by the Senate.
1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
1987: A gasoline tanker truck crashes into an ice cream parlor in Herborn, Germany. The resulting explosion and fire killed 50 people.
1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
1999 – A Miami-Dade County jury held the leading tobacco companies liable for various illnesses of Florida smokers. The class-action lawsuit, filed in 1994, was the first of its kind to reach trial.
2000: Eight weeks to the day after the fourth-generation NASCAR driver Adam Petty was killed (May 12) during practice at the New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire, driver Kenny Irwin Jr. dies at the same speedway, near the same spot, after his car slams into the wall at 150 mph during a practice run.
2003 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
2005 – Terrorists struck the London transit system, setting off explosions in three subway cars and a double-decker bus in coordinated rush-hour attacks. Fifty-six people including four suicide bombers were killed and more than 700 injured.
2007 – The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
2009 – Thousands of figures from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sports and activism jammed into Los Angeles' Staples Center and about 250,000 others gathered outside the building for a public memorial service for pop icon Michael Jackson.
2010 – A Paris court sentenced former Panama ruler Manuel Noriega to seven years in prison for money laundering. He was convicted of funneling about $3 million of Colombian drug money into French bank accounts.
2011 – A federal appeals court barred further enforcement of the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members, with the "don't ask, don't tell" policy scheduled to end on repeal in September.
2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
2012 – U.S. Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts married his longtime partner, Jim Ready, in a ceremony officiated by Gov. Deval Patrick.
2013 – Andy Murray became the first British player in 77 years to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Serb Novak Djokovic in straight sets in the championship match.
2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
2014 – Pope Francis met at the Vatican with six people – two each from Britain, Germany and Ireland – who were sexually abused by Catholic priests. The pope expressed his sorrow and apologized to the victims. He said priests who abuse children are like members "of a sacrilegious cult" who commit "sins and grave crimes."
2016 – Former U.S. Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shot 12 policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He was subsequently killed by a police robot.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Translation of Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr. Greater Double.
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Venerable Thomas of Mt. Maleon (283)
Venerable Acacius of Sinai, who is mentioned in The Ladder of Divine
Ascent (6th c.)
Hieromartyr Evangelus, Bishop of Tomi (Constanţa) in Romania (290)
Martyr Epictetus, presbyter, and Astion, monk, in Scythia (209)
Martyr Kyriaki of Nicomedia (289)
Venerable Acacius of Sinai, who is mentioned in The Ladder of Divine
Ascent (6th c.)
Hieromartyr Evangelus, Bishop of Tomi (Constanţa) in Romania (290)
Martyr Epictetus, presbyter, and Astion, monk, in Scythia (209)
Martyr Kyriaki of Nicomedia (289)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
St. Hædde, Bishop of Wessex
St. Maolruain, founder of monastery of Tallaght in Co. Dublin, Ireland.
He was also an initial compiler of the Martyrology of Tallaght,
and one of the authors of the Rule of the Céli Dé.
Sts. Medran and Odran were brothers and disciples of St. Kieran of Ossory.[1]
St. Palladius, first Bishop of the Scots.
St. Maolruain, founder of monastery of Tallaght in Co. Dublin, Ireland.
He was also an initial compiler of the Martyrology of Tallaght,
and one of the authors of the Rule of the Céli Dé.
Sts. Medran and Odran were brothers and disciples of St. Kieran of Ossory.[1]
St. Palladius, first Bishop of the Scots.
Other commemorations
Translation of the icon of the Theotokos Blachernitissa from Mount Athos to Moscow (1654)
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