656 – Osman ibn Affan, 3rd kalief of Islam (644-56) murdered
1239 – Edward I, King of England (1272-1307) subdued Wales, expelled Jews from England (born)
1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
1704 – John Kay, English inventor, invented the Flying shuttle (d. 1780) was born.
1742 – William Hooper, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence) Born
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1788 – After a lengthy stay in Europe, future US President, (double agent) John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams return to Boston
1795 – The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic.
1797 – Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed
1811 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter and Icelandic historian (d. 1879) Born
1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
1843 – The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
1858 – Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828) Dies
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
1876 – Harriet Scott, American ex-slave, who with husband Dred Scott unsuccessfully sued for their freedom, Dies
1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundred Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook’s forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Oranienbaum, Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [OS 05/06] Born
1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1898 – US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii (see above, 1839)
1900 – Martin Bormann, propaganda minister (Hitler) Birthed
1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1910 – Red Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington) Born
1915 – Stringbean, [David Akeman], Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw) Born
1915 – The League to Enforce Peace is organised at Independence Hall in Philadelphia with William Howard Taft as president; its program anticipates the League of Nations
1916 – Terry Gilkyson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Easy Riders) (d. 1999) was born.
1918 – Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master (d. 1992) Born
1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
1932 – Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits. (Aided by Smedely Butler and nearly used for a (Wall st) Morgan Coup on FDR)
1932 – John Murtha, American colonel and politician (d. 2010) was born.
1933 – Harry Browne, American free-market libertarian writer, politician, and investment analyst (d. 2006) BORN
1933 – Union Station Massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1939 – Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
1940 – France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
1940 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain’s worst maritime disaster.
1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1943 – Newt Gingrich, American politician, 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was birthed
1943 – Barry Manilow, American singer-songwriter and producer was born.
1945 – Tommy Franks, American General, Birthed
1947 – Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, dies at 62
1947 – Gregg Rolie, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Santana, Journey, and The Storm) was born.
1947 – George S. Clinton, American composer and musician, Born
1947 – Paul Young, English singer and percussionist (d. 2000) Born
1951 – Joe Piscopo, Passaic NJ, comedian (SNL, Miller Lite commercials) Born
1952 – Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914) Dies
1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
1954 – CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co)
1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
1958 – Jello Biafra, American singer-songwriter and producer (Dead Kennedys, Gitmo School of Medicine, The No WTO Combo, and Lard) was born.
1958 – Bobby Farrelly, American film director (Something about Mary), Born
1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
1960 – Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
1962 – Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks) Born
1962 – Pat Moriarity Seattle Based Illustrator, cartoonist and teacher / Rolling Stone Magazine “Hot Cartoonist” 1996. Album Art for SOUL ASYLUM, REPLACEMENTS, MAGNOLIAS, MEKONS, Endino’s Earthwork. Logo art for Radio Free Blood! BORN
1963 – Greg Kinnear, actor/talk show host (Talk Soup, Sabrina, Later) Born
1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord’s Prayer in public schools.
1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
1964 – Diane Murphy, actress (Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched) Born
1964 – Erin Murphy, actress (Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched) Etc
1967 – Eric Stefani, American musician and composer (No Doubt), writer and animator was born.
1967 – The People’s Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.( – China becomes world’s 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power)
1970 – Will Forte, American actor and screenwriter was born.
1970 – Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
1971 – President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. “War on Drugs” (Freedom).
1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1972 – Chile president Allende forms new government
1974 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (allegedly) bombs the Houses of Parliament in London, injuring 11 people and causing extensive damage
1980 – Venus Williams, Lynwood California, tennis star, born
1981 – Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (b. 1889) Dies
1982 – US President Reagan’s 1st UN General Assembly address “We must serve mankind through genuine disarmament.”
1982 – President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat in the Falkland Islands
1983 – Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren exorcise a “werewolf demon” from Bill Ramsey, although the lack of photo or video evidence has called this claim into question
1986 – Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78
1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1988 – Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
1989 – John Matusek, NFLer (Oak Raider)/actor, dies of a heart attack at 38
1989 – Stanley David Griggs, astronaut (STS 51-D), dies plane crash at 59
1991 – Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1991 – The body of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the USA, is exhumed to test how he died; rumours had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning – no evidence of this was found.
1992 – Conn Gov Lowell Weicker & WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day
1992 – A “joint understanding” agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
1992 – Dewey Balfa, bayou fiddler, dies at 65
1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
1995 – “Who’s Tommy” closes at St James Theater NYC after 899 performances
2005 – Sam Loeb, comic book writer, Smallville (b. 1988) Dies
2005 – Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962) dies
2008 – Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1922) Dies
2012 – France’s Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
2012 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (b. 1965) died. King’s fiancée Cynthia Kelly found him lying at the bottom of his swimming pool.