226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1613 – Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London is destroyed by fire.
1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco.
1776 – Virginia adopts a state constitution and names Patrick Henry governor.
1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
1853 – The U.S. Senate ratified the $10 million Gadsden Purchase from Mexico, adding more than 29,000 square miles to the territories of Arizona and New Mexico and completing the modern geographical boundaries of the contiguous 48 states.
1864 – St-Hilaire train disaster: Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 – France annexes Tahiti.
1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1915 – The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable-pitch propeller.
1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
1941 – Isabella Peron took office as president of Argentina, succeeding her husband.
1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed in the Senate after an 83-day filibuster.
1966 – Vietnam War: Aircraft from the United States Air Force bombed the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong, crippling oil depots located near the population centers. This was a part of what was known as Operation Rolling Thunder, a constant multi-year bombardment of North Vietnam involving the Air Force, Naval Aviators, Marine Corps Aviators, and the South Vietnamese Air Force.
1972 – Furman v. Georgia: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Perón, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1976 – The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin
1992 – Doctors in Pittsburgh reported the world's first transplant of a baboon liver into a human patient. The recipient, a 35-year-old man, survived three months.
1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time as Russia and America join in forming the largest satellite then orbiting planet Earth.
1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2009 – Bernard Madoff, mastermind of a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to 150 years in prison.
2010 – Rodolfo Torre, the leading candidate for governor in the violence-torn Mexican state of Tamaulipas, and four others were ambushed and killed.
2011 – Greek lawmakers approved some of the toughest economic measures in the nation's modern history in a five-year austerity plan that included tax increases and job cuts. Observers said the severe budget could be critical to the future of the euro.
2012 – Thousands of people at a rally in Cairo demanded that the military transfer full power to new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who told the crowd, "There is no power above people power." Morsi was ousted by the military just over a year later.
2012 – A derecho strikes the United States, leaving at least 22 people dead, widespread damage from the midwest to the mid-Atlantic states, and millions without power.
2013 – Temperatures of 119 in Phoenix and 115 in Las Vegas sent dozens of people to hospitals. Death Valley, Calif., had a high of 127.
2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Peter and Paul, Apostles. Double of the First Class.
Commemoration of all the Holy Apostles.
Contemporary Western
Cassius of Narni
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, and its related observances:
Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja)
l-Imnarja (Malta)
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, and its related observances:
Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja)
l-Imnarja (Malta)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
The holy, glorious, and all-praised leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul
Saint Peter of Rostov, wonderworker and prince of the Tatar Horde (1290)
St Mary, mother of John Mark, nephew of Apostle Barnabas, at Jerusalem (1st century)
Saint Peter of Rostov, wonderworker and prince of the Tatar Horde (1290)
St Mary, mother of John Mark, nephew of Apostle Barnabas, at Jerusalem (1st century)
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics of Saint Nicander of Pskov, monk
Repose of Archbishop Andrew (Father Adrian) of New Diveyevo Monastery, Jordanville, NY (1979)
Repose of Archbishop Chrysostom of Athens (1938)
Repose of Archbishop Andrew (Father Adrian) of New Diveyevo Monastery, Jordanville, NY (1979)
Repose of Archbishop Chrysostom of Athens (1938)
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