1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1793 - Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
1840 - The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
1881 - The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
1903 - The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1914 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will reject those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28.
1929 - The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
1942 - The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
1942 - Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
1952 - The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
1967 - 12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
1984 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
1986 - In London, United Kingdom, HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1992 - A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger(later Pope Benedict XVI) , establishes that it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.
1992 - Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
1995 - Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
1999 - Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
2012 - At least 107 people are killed and more than 250 others wounded in a string of bombings and attacks in Iraq.
Famous Birthdays
1301 - Otto, Duke of Austria
1503 - Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Queen consort of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary
1649 - Pope Clement XI
1885 - Georges V. Matchabelli, businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume
1895 - Aileen Pringle, actress
1925 - Tajuddin Ahmad, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1933 - Richard Rogers, architect, designed the Millennium Dome and Lloyd's building
1944 - Dino Danelli, drummer
1951 - Edie McClurg, actress
1961 - Woody Harrelson, actor
1965 - Slash, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1970 - Charisma Carpenter, actress
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern
1980 - Michelle Williams, singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1982 - Paul Wesley, actor
1985 - Blake Harrison, actor
1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor
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