1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosull.
1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
1461 – Edward IV is crowned King of England.
1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1651 – The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: After a forty-seven-day siege, New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg, New France, on Cape Breton Island, now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
1778 – The American Continental Army under command of Gen. George Washington engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
1807 – Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
1830 – The first Metropolitan police officer was killed on duty, kicked in the head by a drunk. A jury cleared his assailant, ruling that PC Grantham had been overzealous in the discharge of his duty and therefore it was justifiable homicide. The attack happened less than a year after the Metropolitan Police Force was introduced and reflected the public's lack of respect and dislike for the police at that time.
1838 – Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
1846 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone
1855 – Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded in North America.
1859 – The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
1870 – Congress creates the federal holidays of New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
1880 – The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
1881 – The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
1895 – Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1904 – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
and Duchess Sophie at Sarajevo, 28 June 1914 |
1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
1945 – Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
1948 – The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform. The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1950 – Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
1950 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers, argued to be between 100,000 and 200,000 are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
1950 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive.
1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducts Seoul National University Hospital Massacre.
1956 – In Poznań, workers from HCP factory went to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
1964 – Civil rights activist Malcolm X declares, “We want equality by any means necessary” during the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson approves the first U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam.
1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1969 – Stonewall Riots: The clientele of a New York City gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, rioted after it was raided by police. The event is considered the start of the gay liberation movement.
1971 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of public funds for parochial schools was unconstitutional.
1972 – President Richard Nixon announced that no more draftees would be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteered for service in the Asian nation.
1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield's ear during a title fight in Las Vegas.
2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had a constitutional right to exclude gay members.
2001 – Slobodan Milošević is deported to ICTY [International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia] to stand trial.
2003 – People eager to block telemarketing calls overwhelmed a government website that began accepting phone numbers at the National Do Not Call Registry. The Federal Trade Commission said 735,000 numbers were registered the first day.
2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2007 – The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list. Officials of the Interior Department said the eagle, which had been declared endangered in 1967, was flourishing and no longer imperiled.
2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran political crisis. He was in exile in Costa Rica for more than a year.
2012 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the new healthcare law known as the Affordable Care Act.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Leo II, Pope of Rome, and Confessor. Semi-double.
Commemoration of the Octave of St. John, and of the Eve of the Apostles.
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Venerable Sergius and Herman, Wonderworkers of Valaam (1353)
Saint Sennuphius the Standard-bearer
Saint Paul the Physician of Corinth
Saint Xenophon of Robeika in Novgorod, abbot (1262)
Martyr Pappias
Martyr Macedonius
Saint Vulkian, monk
Saint Moses the Anchorite
Hieromartyr Donatus of Libya
Saint Magnus, monk, who reposed while praying to the Lord
Blessed Sergius the Magistrate, founder of the monastery
of the Mother of God in Nicomedia
Saint Sennuphius the Standard-bearer
Saint Paul the Physician of Corinth
Saint Xenophon of Robeika in Novgorod, abbot (1262)
Martyr Pappias
Martyr Macedonius
Saint Vulkian, monk
Saint Moses the Anchorite
Hieromartyr Donatus of Libya
Saint Magnus, monk, who reposed while praying to the Lord
Blessed Sergius the Magistrate, founder of the monastery
of the Mother of God in Nicomedia
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics of the holy and wonderworking unmercenaries
Cyrus and John (412)
Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos
"Of the Three Hands", Trojeručica
Cyrus and John (412)
Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos
"Of the Three Hands", Trojeručica
