350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed in Rome by troops of the usurper Magnentius.
763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.
1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising – the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William III, Prince of Orange (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
1758 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
1775: The Continental Congress drafts its rationale for taking up arms against Great Britain in the Articles of War.
1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
1812: President James Madison delivers a special message calling for emergency commissions for new military officers 12 days after declaring war on Britain.
1859 – Frenchman Jean Francois Gravelet, known professionally as the Great Blondin, became the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation". This was the first time that land had been set aside specifically for preservation and public use by action of the U.S. federal government.
1870 – Ada Kepley became the first woman to graduate from an accredited law school in the United States -- Union College of Law in Chicago.
1876: Soldiers are evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat.
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
1892 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1900: Four German boats burn at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, killing more than 300 people. The fire was so large that it could be seen by nearly every person in the New York City area.
1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
1908 – Tunguska event: A spectacular explosion occurs over remote central Siberia, probably caused by a meteorite. The fireball could be seen hundreds of miles away.
1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
1917 – World War I: Greece declares war on the Central Powers.
1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
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| The Four Courts ablaze during the Battle of Dublin, 30 June 1922 |
1934 – Night of the Long Knives: German leader Adolf Hitler ordered a bloody purge of his own political party. Hundreds of Nazis he feared might become political enemies were assassinated.
1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
1936: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie, is published. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.
1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London
1943: General Douglas MacArthur launches Operation Cartwheel, a multi-pronged assault on Rabaul and several islands in the Solomon Sea in the South Pacific. The joint effort takes nine months to complete but succeeds in recapturing more Japanese-controlled territory, further eroding their supremacy in the East.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
1950: Just three days after the United Nations Security Council voted to provide military assistance to South Korea, President Harry S. Truman orders U.S. armed forces to assist in defending that nation from invading North Korean armies. Truman’s dramatic step marked the official entry of the United States into the Korean War.
1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1955 – The "Johnny Carson Show" debuts on CBS television.
1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
1960 – Congo gains independence from Belgium.
1963 – Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
1967: The South Vietnamese Armed Forces Council resolves rival claims to the presidency in favor of Nguyen Van Thieu, Chief of State. Former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who had announced on May 11 that he would run for president, was forced to accept second place on the presidential ticket.
1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
1970: The Senate votes 58 to 37 in favor of adopting the Cooper-Church amendment to limit presidential power in Cambodia. The amendment barred funds to retain U.S. troops in Cambodia after July 1 or to supply military advisers, mercenaries, or to conduct “any combat activity in the air above Cambodia in direct support of Cambodian forces” without congressional approval. The amendment represented the first limitation ever passed in the Senate concerning the president’s powers as commander-in-chief during a war situation. The House of Representatives rejected the amendment on July 9, and it was eventually dropped from the Foreign Military Sales Act.
1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed during re-entry when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
1974 – The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.
1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
1982 – The extended deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment expired, three states short of the 38 needed for passage.
1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1992 – Fidel Ramos was inaugurated as the eighth Philippine president in the first peaceful transfer of power in a generation.
1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
2006 – A U.S.-Canadian investigation grounded a group accused of using helicopters and planes to ferry drugs from British Columbia across the border. Agents reported arresting 46 people and seizing 4 tons of marijuana, 800 pounds of cocaine, aircraft and $1.5 million in cash.
2009 – Yemenia Airways Flight IY626, which had taken off from Sanaa, Yemen, crashed into the Indian Ocean while trying to land at Moroni, the capital of Comoros, killing 152 of 153 people aboard. The lone survivor was 14-year-old Bahia Bakari, who became known as "the miracle girl."
2010 – Benigno Aquino III was sworn into office as the 15th President of the Philippines.
2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1994 is adopted.
2011 – The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Gen. David Petraeus as director of the CIA. Petraeus resigned in November 2012, saying he showed "extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair."
2013 – Mass protests are held in Egypt.
2013 – While battling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, 19 members of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew, an elite group of wildland firefighters that was part of the Prescott (Arizona) Fire Department, perish after a sudden change in wind direction sent huge flames straight toward them. On July 9 in Prescott, thousands of people, including firefighters from across the country, attended a memorial service for the victims.
2014 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that family owned corporations can't be required to pay for insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act.
2015 – A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in the Indonesian city of Medan, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
2016 – Rodrigo Duterte was sworn into office as the 16th President of the Philippines.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Commemoration of St. Paul. Greater Double.
Commemoration of St. Peter, and of the Octave of St. John the Baptist.
Commemoration of St. Peter, and of the Octave of St. John the Baptist.
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Synaxis of the holy, glorious, and all-praised Twelve Apostles
Saint Sophronius of Irkutsk, bishop (1918)
Martyr Michael of Athens (1770)
Saint Andrei I Bogolyubsky, prince (1174)
Martyr Meleton
Martyr Peter of Synope
Saint Sophronius of Irkutsk, bishop (1918)
Martyr Michael of Athens (1770)
Saint Andrei I Bogolyubsky, prince (1174)
Martyr Meleton
Martyr Peter of Synope
Other commemorations
Repose of Bishop Nestor of San Francisco and Alaska (1882)
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