1356 – English forces under The Black Prince defeat French at Battle of Poitiers and capture the French King during the Hundred Years War
1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
1796 – George Washington’s Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public. (Federalist Alexander Hamilton helped Washington edit his first draft.)
1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
1893 – Women’s suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote. (first country to grant all women the right to vote)
1928 – Adam West, Walla Walla Wash, actor (Batman, Last Precinct)Born
1934 – Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby
1940 – Bill Medley, Santa Ana Cal, rocker (Righteous Bros-Up Where We Belong) Born
1940 – Paul Williams, Omaha NE, singer/composer/actor (Phantom of the Paradise / Planet of the Apes)born
1941 – “Mama” Cass Elliot, Balt Maryland, rock vocalist (Mamas & The Papas)Born
1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1944 – Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
1945 – Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1948 – Jeremy Irons, Isle of Wight, England, actor (Reversal of Fortune, The Lion King, Lolita..) Born
1949 – Twiggy Lawson, [Leslie Hornby], England, model/actress (Boyfriend, W) Born
1951 – Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer Born
1952 – Nile Rodgers, Bronx NY, rock guitarist (Honeydrippers)Born
1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
1958 – Lita Ford, London England, vocalist (Kiss Me Deadly, Runaways)Born
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
1962 – Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian Born
1966 – Eric Rudolph, American terrorist was born.
1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 – Gram Parsons, rocker (Byrds), dies of OD at 26
1974 – Jimmy Fallon, American actor, singer, and talk show host was born.
1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
1979 – No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Springsteen & Crosby, Stills & Nash
1981 – Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York’s Central Park.
1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons and on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1985 – 12,000 die & 40,000 injured in Mexico’s earthquake (8.1)
1986 – Fed health officials announce “AZT” will be available to AIDS patients
1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber’s manifesto.
1995 – Orville Redenbacher, American businessman, Popcorn Baron (b. 1907) Drowned in Bathtub (ahem)
2006 – The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is “sealed”.