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[edit] Events

• 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
• 1243 - Innocent IV becomes pope.
• 1389 - Ottoman forces crush the armies of Christian Europe in Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
• 1519 - Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
• 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.
• 1859 - First dog show is held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
• 1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
• 1887 - Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
• 1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• 1895 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
• 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed by a Serbian nationalist, the casus belli of World War I.
• 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I with Germany.
• 1936 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
• 1938 - A 450 metric ton meteorite struck the earth in a empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania
• 1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
• 1950 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
• 1960 - US-owned oil refineries in Cuba confiscated and nationalised.
• 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
• 1969 - Stonewall riots in New York city mark the beginning of the modern gay rights era.
• 1978 - The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 438 US 265 1978, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities.
• 1988 - Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history. A fifth victim dies two days later.
• 1990 - Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
• 1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.
• 2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the ERM II
• 2004 - Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.

[edit] Births

• 1476 - Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
• 1490 - Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
• 1491 - Henry VIII, king of England (d. 1547)
• 1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, German painter (d. 1640)
• 1703 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
• 1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
• 1806 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
• 1807 - Anton Philipp Reclam, German publisher (d. 1895)
• 1831 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
• 1867 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist and narrator, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1936)
• 1891 - Carl Panzram, serial killer
• 1902 - Richard Rodgers, composer (d. 1979)
• 1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1972)
• 1906 - Paul-Emile Victor
• 1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
• 1914 - Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (d. 1979)
• 1921 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India 1991 - 1996
• 1926 - Mel Brooks, filmmaker
• 1932 - Pat Morita, actor
• 1936 - Chuck Howley, American football player
• 1938 - Moy Yat, martial artist
• 1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics
• 1946 - Gilda Radner, actress (d. 1989)
• 1947 - Mark Helprin, American writer
• 1948 - Kathy Bates, actress
• 1948 - Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court justice
• 1952 - Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
• 1954 - Alice Krige, actress
• 1960 - John Elway, American football player
• 1964 - Mark Grace, Major League Baseball player
• 1966 - John Cusack, actor
• 1968 - Adam Woodyatt, actor
• 1972 - Jon Heidenreich, professional wrestler
• 1973 - Adrian Annus, hammer thrower
• 1978 - Simon Larose, tennis player
• 1979 - Randy McMichael, American football player

[edit] Deaths

• 767 - Pope Paul I
• 1598 - Abraham Ortelius, cartographer (b. 1527)
• 1836 - James Madison, president of the US (b. 1751)
• 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassination) (b. 1863)
• 1914 - Archduchess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
• 1960 - Jake Swirbul, co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
• 1962 - Mickey Cochrane, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1903)
• 1965 - Red Nichols, jazz musician (b. 1905)
• 1974 - Frank Sutton, actor
• 1975 - Rod Serling, scriptwriter, host of The Twilight Zone (b. 1924)
• 1980 - José Iturbi, musician, conductor (b. 1895)
• 1981 - Terry Fox, cancer activist (b. 1958)
• 1989 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker (b. 1898)
• 1992 - Mikhail Tal, chess player (b. 1936)
• 1997 - Mrs. Miller, singer (b. 1907)
• 2001 - Mortimer Adler, philosopher (b. 1902)
• 2001 - Jim Ellis, co-creator of Usenet
• 2001 - Joan Sims, actress (b. 1930)
• 2003 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete
• 2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, author (b. 1912)