306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops.
1261 - The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
1547 - Henry II of France is crowned.
1554 - Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral.
1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned as King of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
1758 - Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife.
1868 - Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
1920 - France captures Damascus.
1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1944 - World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed.
1957 - The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
1994 - Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
2007 - Pratibha Patil was sworn in as India's first female president.
2012 - Pranab Mukherjee is sworn in as the 13th President of India.
Famous Birthdays:
1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland
1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, politician
1839 - Francis Garnier, explorer
1867 - Alexander Rummler, painter
1894 - Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
1915 - Joseph Kennedy Jr., Elder brother of President John F. Kennedy
1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1935 - Barbara Harris, actress
1951 - Verdine White, musician
1971 - Chloë Annett, actress
1985 - Kitty Brucknell, singer
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