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• 1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• 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.
• 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
• 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• 1821 – Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
• 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
• 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
• 1857 – The 19 June 1857 law (Loi relative à l'assainissement et de mise en culture des Landes de Gascogne): A turning point in the history of the Landes forest.
• 1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
• 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.
• 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1911 – the Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded.
• 1913 – Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
• 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• 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.
• 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
• 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
• 1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
• 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
• 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
• 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
• 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
• 1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
• 1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
• 2007 – The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
• 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.
• 2010 – The Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling was held at Storkyrkan in Stockholm.
• 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuatorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
• 2014 – Felipe VI, Prince of Asturias, rises to the Spanish throne following the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I.

Births[edit]

• 1301 – Prince Morikuni of Japan (d. 1333)
• 1566 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (d. 1625)
• 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (d. 1649)
• 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1662)
• 1633 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch theologian (d. 1712)
• 1701 – François Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1775)
• 1708 – Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, German composer (d. 1763)
• 1731 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
• 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general (d. 1850)
• 1771 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1859)
• 1783 – Friedrich Sertürner, German pharmacist (d. 1841)
• 1792 – Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
• 1795 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
• 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
• 1816 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (d. 1899)
• 1834 – Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (d. 1892)
• 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1928)
• 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1932)
• 1851 – Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
• 1851 – Silvanus P. Thompson, British physicist and engineer (d. 1916)
• 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (d. 1893)
• 1858 – Sam Walter Foss, American poet and librarian (d. 1911)
• 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (d. 1928)
• 1861 – Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1927)
• 1861 – José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (d. 1896)
• 1865 – May Whitty, English-American actress (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician (d. 1932)
• 1872 – Theodore Payne, English-American gardener and botanist (d. 1963)
• 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)
• 1876 – Nigel Gresley, Scottish engineer (d. 1941)
• 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor and singer (d. 1961)
• 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French painter (d. 1974)
• 1891 – John Heartfield, German artist and political activist (d. 1968)
• 1893 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1940)
• 1896 – Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Moe Howard, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1975)
• 1898 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (d. 1968)
• 1900 – Laura Z. Hobson, American author (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Mary Callery, American sculptor (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
• 1903 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Hans Litten, German lawyer (d. 1938)
• 1905 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Walter Rauff, German SS officer (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
• 1910 – Sydney Allard, English racing driver and founder of the Allard car company (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Abe Fortas, American jurist (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Don Gutteridge, American baseball player and manager (d. 2008)
• 1912 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
• 1912 – George Spitz, American high jumper (d. 1986)
• 1914 – Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Foggy Mountain Boys and Nashville Grass) (d. 1979)
• 1914 – Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (d. 2013)
• 1914 – Anthony of Sourozh, Swiss-English bishop (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Pat Buttram, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Julius Schwartz, American publisher and agent (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Pauline Kael, American author and critic (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Dave Lambert, American singer-songwriter (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross) (d. 1966)
• 1920 – Yves Robert, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Fritz Schollmeyer, German footballer and manager
• 1923 – Bob Hank, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Cornelius, Estonian metropolitan
• 1924 – Erkki Kataja, Finnish pole vaulter (d. 1969)
• 1924 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Ray Noorda, American computing entrepreneur (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Charlie Drake, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Barry Took, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1930 – François Abadie, French politician (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor
• 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
• 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress (d. 1971)
• 1932 – José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian-American actress
• 1933 – Michael M. Ames, Canadian anthropologist and academic (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
• 1933 – Janusz Sidło, Polish javelin thrower (d. 1993)
• 1934 – Terence Clark, English diplomat, British Ambassador to Iraq
• 1934 – Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1936 – Marisa Galvany, American soprano
• 1938 – Jean-Claude Labrecque, Canadian director and cinematographer
• 1938 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1938 – John Sheil, English lawyer and judge
• 1938 – Ian Smith, Australian actor and screenwriter
• 1939 – Bernd Hoss, German footballer and manager
• 1939 – Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
• 1940 – Shirley Muldowney, American race car driver
• 1940 – Paul Shane, English actor and singer (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino jurist
• 1941 – Václav Klaus, Czech politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
• 1942 – Jos Brink, Dutch actor and producer (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (d. 2010)
• 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 – Richard Monette, Canadian actor and director (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Peter Bardens, English keyboard player and songwriter (Camel, Them, and Mirage) (d. 2002)
• 1945 – John Hind, English bishop
• 1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician, 1st President of Republika Srpska
• 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 – Tobias Wolff, American author
• 1946 – Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer and manager
• 1946 – Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, English diplomat, British Ambassador to France
• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian author
• 1947 – John Ralston Saul, Canadian author
• 1948 – Nick Drake, Burmese-English singer-songwriter (d. 1974)
• 1948 – Phylicia Rashād, American actress and singer
• 1950 – Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Heart)
• 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist, 2nd leader of al-Qaeda
• 1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
• 1952 – Bob Ainsworth, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence
• 1953 – Larry Dunn, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
• 1953 – Hilary Jones, English physician
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
• 1956 – Danny Chauncey, American guitarist (38 Special)
• 1956 – Doug Stone, American singer and actor
• 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Sweden (d. 2003)
• 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Russian-American ice hockey player
• 1959 – Christian Wulff, German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany
• 1960 – Johnny Gray, American runner
• 1961 – Frank Mischke, German footballer
• 1961 – Joel Torre, Filipino actor
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1963 – Margarita Ponomaryova, Russian hurdler
• 1963 – Rory Underwood, English rugby player
• 1964 – Bill Barretta, American actor and puppeteer
• 1964 – Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author
• 1964 – Boris Johnson, British journalist and politician, Mayor of London
• 1965 – Sabine Braun, German heptathlete
• 1965 – Luc Donckerwolke, Belgian car designer
• 1966 – Joi Ito, Japanese-American businessman
• 1966 – Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player
• 1966 – Samuel West, English actor and director
• 1966 – Jojo Alejar, Filipino actor and host
• 1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
• 1967 – Araceli González, Argentinian model and actress
• 1967 – Mia Sara, American actress
• 1968 – Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1969 – Thomas Breitling, American journalist and businessman
• 1969 – Trine Pallesen, Danish actress
• 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
• 1970 – Antonis Remos, German-Greek singer
• 1970 – Quincy Watts, American runner
• 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor, director, and producer
• 1972 – Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish singer-songwriter (The (International) Noise Conspiracy)
• 1972 – Ilya Markov, Russian race walker
• 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player
• 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian-American actress
• 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
• 1973 – Mónica Ayos, Argentinian actress
• 1973 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume and Dream Morning Musume)
• 1973 – Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1974 – Bumper Robinson, American actor and singer
• 1975 – Hugh Dancy, English actor and model
• 1975 – Anthony Parker, American basketball player
• 1976 – Bryan Hughes, English footballer
• 1976 – Ryan Hurst, American actor
• 1976 – Abdoul Thiam, German footballer
• 1977 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian runner (d. 2007)
• 1978 – Mía Maestro, Argentinian actress and singer
• 1978 – Assefa Mezgebu, Ethiopian runner
• 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
• 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
• 1979 – U Gambira, Burmese monk and activist
• 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Adel Abdulaziz, Emirati footballer
• 1980 – Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Milka Loff Fernandes, German actress
• 1980 – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1980 – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
• 1980 – Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi Arabian long jumper
• 1981 – Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
• 1982 – Joe Cheng, Taiwanese actor and singer
• 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1983 – Macklemore, American rapper (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)
• 1983 – Gregor Arbet, Estonian basketball player
• 1983 – Tanja Mihhailova, Russian-Estonian singer and actress
• 1983 – Mark Selby, English snooker player
• 1983 – Aidan Turner, Irish actor
• 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor and producer
• 1984 – Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player
• 1985 – Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
• 1985 – José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner
• 1986 – Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter
• 1986 – Sjoerd Huisman, Dutch speed skater (d. 2013)
• 1986 – Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
• 1986 – Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
• 1987 – Sthefany Brito, Brazilian actress
• 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
• 1990 – Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter
• 1996 – Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast

Deaths[edit]

• 626 – Soga no Umako, Japanese son of Soga no Iname (b. 551)
• 1027 – Romuald, Italian mystic and saint (b. 951)
• 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, English daughter of Eleanor of Leicester (b. 1252)
• 1312 – Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English politician (b. 1284)
• 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1482)
• 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian jurist (b. 1509)
• 1584 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
• 1608 – Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
• 1650 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and publisher (b. 1593)
• 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
• 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (b. 1702)
• 1768 – Benjamin Tasker, Sr., American politician, 10th Colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
• 1786 – Nathanael Greene, American general (b. 1742)
• 1787 – Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France (b. 1786)
• 1805 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
• 1820 – Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (b. 1743)
• 1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French zoologist and biologist (b. 1772)
• 1865 – Evangelos Zappas, Greek businessman and philanthropist (b. 1800)
• 1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician (b. 1810)
• 1867 – Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)
• 1902 – Albert of Saxony (b. 1828)
• 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)
• 1921 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
• 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
• 1932 – Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (b. 1876)
• 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author and playwright (b. 1860)
• 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
• 1940 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (b. 1885)
• 1951 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1915)
• 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1918)
• 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1966 – Ed Wynn, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1973 – Gustaf Molander, Swedish actor and film director (b. 1888)
• 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mobster (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (b. 1933)
• 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Coluche, French comedian and actor (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
• 1988 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Gladys Spellman, American politician (b. 1918)
• 1989 – Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Jean Arthur, American actress and singer (b. 1900)
• 1993 – William Golding, English author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1996 – G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Olga Georges-Picot, Chinese-French actress (b. 1944)
• 1997 – Bobby Helms, American singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 2001 – John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Steve Sheppard-Brodie, American voice actor (b. 1950)
• 2002 – Navleen Kumar, Indian activist (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
• 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 2007 – El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist, founded Bartaman (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Bennie Swain, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese engineer (b. 1895)
• 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player (b. 1962)
• 2010 – R. Kanagasuntheram, Sri Lankan physician, zoologist, and academic (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Paul Thiebaud, American art dealer (b. 1960)
• 2011 – Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Richard Lynch, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Emili Teixidor, Catalan journalist (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Norbert Tiemann, American politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Vince Flynn, American author (b. 1966)
• 2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
• 2013 – Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Paul Mees, Australian lawyer and academic (b. 1961)
• 2013 – Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (Psí vojáci) (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Tahira Asif, Pakistani politician (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)