1178 – Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon’s distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1684 – The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on Great Britain, Canada, and Ireland.
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1887 – The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1915 – Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho
1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
1936 – Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
1936 – Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan economist (d. 1982) was born
1937 – Jay Rockefeller, American politician was birthed.
1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
1940 – “Finest Hour” speech by Winston Churchill.
1942 – Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist was born.
1945 – William Joyce (“Lord Haw-Haw”) is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
1952 – Carol Kane, actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Simka-Taxi), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1952 – Isabella Rossellini, Rome Italy, actress (Big Night, Blue Velvet) born
1957 – Tom Bailey, England, rocker (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor) Born
1961 – Oz Fox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Stryper, SinDizzy, and Bloodgood) was born.
1964 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003) was birthed
1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
1972 – Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
1975 – Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
1976 – Blake Shelton, American singer was born.
1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
1982 – Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), ALLEGEDLY hangs himself
1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad together with nine other Bahá’í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her Bahá’í Faith.
1984 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–1985 UK miners’ strike.
1984 – Alan Berg, American radio talk show host, shot dead
1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921) dies
1993 – Craig Rodwell, American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (b. 1940) died.
2002 – Jack Buck, American baseball announcer, dies at 77
2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
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