363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
1409 - Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1718 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1784 - Caesar Rodney, lawyer and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence dies
1830 - George IV of the United Kingdom dies
1848 - End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1917 - The first US troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
1945 - The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1960 - The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
1960 - Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1963 - US President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
1963 - US President John F. Kennedy begins a state visit to Ireland. He is the first US incumbent to visit Ireland.
1991 - Ten Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1996 - Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
2006 - Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2013 - Kevin Rudd ousts Prime Minister Julia Gillard as leader of Australia's Labor Party.
Famous Birthdays
1575 - Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen consort of Denmark
1582 - Johannes Schultz, composer
1824 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist and engineer
1880 - Natalia Brassova, Countess Brasova
1899 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
1922 - Eleanor Parker, actress
1943 - Warren Farrell, author
1959 - Mark McKinney, actor
1969 - Colin Greenwood, musician and composer
1973 - Parry Shen, actor
1980 - Jason Schwartzman, actor
1991 - Diego Falcinelli, footballer
2005 - HRH Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, 2nd in line to the Dutch throne.
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