• 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem
• 1257 - Kraków, Poland received city rights.
• 1305 - Pope Clement V is elected.
• 1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
• 1817 - First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
• 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
• 1832 - Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.
• 1837 - Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
• 1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
• 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
• 1888 - Rio de la Plata Earthquake 1888: Uruguay 3.20 UTC-3, 5,5 Richter Scale, 34º36'00S, 57º53'59'W.
• 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
• 1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
• 1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
• 1933 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
• 1941 - Four thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
• 1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
• 1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
• 1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, kills 61 people.
• 1947 - Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
• 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
• 1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
• 1963 - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.
• 1963 - Movement of 15 Khordad: protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators were confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
• 1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
• 1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
• 1969 - International communist conference begins in Moscow.
• 1970 - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
• 1975 - The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC.
• 1976 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
• 1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.
• 1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
• 1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
• 1984 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
• 1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.
• 1989 - The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel.
• 1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• 1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
• 1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
• 2001 - U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
• 2001 - Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
• 2003 - Severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
• 2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro

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