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313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.[1]
1381 – In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace.[2]
1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.[3]
1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.[4]
1625 – King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.[5]
1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.[6]
1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.[7]
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
1917 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
1944 – World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
1944 – World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
1982 – Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
1990 – First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995Oklahoma City bombing.
2000 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
2015 – A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.
Births[]
AD 40 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93)
823 – Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 877)
839 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 888)
1367 – Taejong of Joseon (d. 1422)
1500 – Ernest of Bavaria, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (d. 1560)
1508 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1579)
1539 – Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (d. 1591)
1555 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (d. 1617)
1580 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1626)
1595 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech physician and scientist (d. 1667)
1617 – Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1656)
1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
1711 – Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1773)
1752 – Frances Burney, English novelist and playwright (d. 1840)
1761 – Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (d. 1838)
1773 – Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (d. 1829)
1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian composer and politician (d. 1833)
1786 – Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)
1790 – José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1873)
1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German psychiatrist and author (d. 1894)
1822 – Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (d. 1894)
1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (d. 1879)
1840 – Augusta Lundin, the first international Swedish fashion designer (d. 1919)
1854 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company (d. 1931)
1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic (d. 1922)
1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (d. 1939)
1865 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer (d. 1932)
1865 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
1868 – Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic (d. 1919)
1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1872 – Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1951)
1873 – Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (d. 1942)
1875 – Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)
1876 – William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
1879 – Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (d. 1941)
1879 – Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (d. 1929)
1884 – Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1944)
1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)
1885 – Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (d. 1969)
1887 – André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)
1887 – Bruno Frank, German-American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)
1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)
1892 – Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (d. 1967)
1893 – Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (d. 1963)
1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (d. 1957)
1894 – Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1981)
1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (d. 1986)
1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner and coach (d. 1973)
1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978)
1901 – Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
1902 – Carolyn Eisele, American mathematician and historian (d. 2000)
1903 – Willard Harrison Bennett, American physicist and chemist (d. 1987)
1905 – James T. Rutnam, Sri Lankan historian and author (d. 1988)
1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)
1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1999)
1910 – Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
1910 – Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (d. 2001)
1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
1911 – Maurice Copeland, American actor (d. 1985)
1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (d. 1977)
1912 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (d. 1943)
1913 – Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host (d. 2005)
1913 – Yitzhak Pundak, Israeli general, diplomat and politician (d. 2017)
1914 – Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (d. 2013)
1915 – Don Budge, American tennis player and coach (d. 2000)
1916 – Wu Zhengyi, Chinese botanist and academic (d. 2013)
↑Aurelio Pretel Marín; Miguel Rodríguez Llopis (1998). El señorío de Villena en el siglo XIV [The Seigneury of Villena in the 14th Century]. Albacete: Instituto de Estudios Albacetenses "Don Juan Manuel" - Excma. Diputación de Albacete. ISBN8487136869.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)