1027 - St. Romuald dies
1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1770 - Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
1867 - Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1875 - The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1944 - World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 - Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its début.
1990 - The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
1991 - The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
2009 - Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
2009 - War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Famous Birthdays
1301 - Prince Morikuni of Japan
1566 - King James VI of Scotland and James I of England and Ireland
1701 - François Rebel, composer
1896 - Wallis Simpson (later Duchess of Windsor) wife of Edward VIII (abdicated and became the Duke of Windsor)
1907 - Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army
1938 - Ian Smith, Australian actor
1941 - Václav Klaus, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
1959 - Christian Wulff,President of Germany
1962 - Jeremy Bates, tennis player
1972 - Robin Tunney, actress
1976 - Dennis Crowley, businessman, co-founded Foursquare
1982 - Michael Yarmush, actor
1983 - Ben Haggerty, "Macklemore", Rapper
1991 - Michael McShae, actor
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