• 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba.
• 536 - St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date).
• 1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
• 1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
• 1783 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• 1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
• 1856 - The community of Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the Morayshire at Norfolk Island Commencing the Third Settlement of the Island
• 1861 - American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
• 1887 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
• 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
• 1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
• 1928 - Second Northern Expedition: NRA captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing.
• 1941 - World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
• 1942 - World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
• 1948 - Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
• 1949 - Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
• 1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
• 1953 - Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits the U.S. city of Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
• 1953 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants couldn't refuse to serve black patrons.
• 1959 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
• 1966 - One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
• 1966 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. (External Link)
• 1967 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
• 1968 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1974 - An F4 tornado strikes the U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
• 1984 - Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
• 1986 - Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
• 1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as at June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
• 1992 - The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
• 1996 - Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

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