1461 - Edward IV is crowned King of England.
1519 - Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1745 - War of the Austrian Succession: A New England colonial army captures Louisbourg, New France, after a forty-seven-day siege (New Style).
1776 - The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the first decisive American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1881 - Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1895 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg are assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
1950 - Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
1964 - Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1973 - Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1989 - On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
1992 - The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
1996 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
2009 - Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran political crisis.
Famous Birthdays
1476 - Pope Paul IV
1491 - Henry VIII of England
1703 - John Wesley,founder of Methodism
1883 - Pierre Laval, 101st Prime Minister of France
1922 - Michael Vale, actor
1930 - Itamar Franco, 33rd President of Brazil
1957 - Georgi Parvanov, 4th President of Bulgaria
1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson, actress
1971 - Aileen Quinn, actress
1977 - Mark Stoermer, singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1989 - Nicole Rottmann, tennis player
1990 - Nick Purcell, actor
1994 - HRH Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah of Jordan
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