138 - Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
1460 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the King's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1584 - William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th US state.
1913 - Death Valley, California, hits 134°F (56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
1921 - Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1940 - World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
1966 - The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
1971 - Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'état, which lasts until June 11th.
1973 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1980 - Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time. (burnt in 1873).
1997 - In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000
years ago.
2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
2008 - Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
Famous Birthdays
1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan
1452 - James III of Scotland
1509 - John Calvin, theologian and pastor, founded Calvinism.
1711 - Princess Amelia of Great Britain
1736 - Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh
1856 - Nikola Tesla, physicist and engineer
1904 - Lili Damita, actress
1923 - John Bradley, navy corpsman, one of the people raising the flag on Iwo Jima
1931 - Nick Adams, actor
1943 - Arthur Ashe, tennis player
1951 - Phyllis Smith, actress
1965 - HRH Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
1969 - Gale Harold, actor
1970 - Jason Orange, singer-songwriter and dancer
1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas, actor
1980 - Jessica Simpson, singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
1988 - Heather Hemmens, actress
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