Events
* 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mocked them.
* 1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
* 1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
* 1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America killed a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
* 1709 - Battle of Poltava: Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
* 1758 - French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.
* 1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of the Ristigouche - British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
* 1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
* 1859 - King Charles XV / Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway
* 1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
* 1889 - During the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds.
* 1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech, Chicago.
* 1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
* 1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
* 1997 - Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" can cause severe heart and lung damage.
* 1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
* 1999 - Allen Lee Davis executed by electrocution by the state of Florida. Last use of the Electric Chair for capital punishment in Florida.
* 2003 - Wikipedia introduces its Hebrew (
http://he.wikipedia.org/) and Hungarian (
http://hu.wikipedia.org/) versions
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Births
* 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, painter (d. 1651)
* 1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, fablist
* 1760 - Christian Kramp, mathematician.
* 1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, naval officer and explorer
* 1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
* 1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor of rigid dirigibles (d. 1917)
* 1839 - John D. Rockefeller, capitalist, founder of Standard Oil (d. 1937)
* 1851 - Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
* 1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, painter and graphic artist (d. 1945)
* 1882 - Percy Grainger, composer (d. 1961)
* 1885 - Ernst Bloch, philosopher (d. 1977)
* 1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
* 1908 - Louis Jordan, singer, saxophonist (d. 1975)
* 1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, United States vice president during Gerald Ford's presidency (d. 1979)
* 1918 - Craig Stevens, actor (d. 2000)
* 1919 - Walter Scheel, politician
* 1923 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
* 1932 - Barbara Loden, actress
* 1933 - Marty Feldman, comedian, actor
* 1935 - Steve Lawrence, entertainer, singer
* 1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
* 1941 - Dario Gradi, football manager
* 1942 - Phil Gramm, politician
* 1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, member of the Swiss Federal Council
* 1951 - Anjelica Huston, actress
* 1958 - Kevin Bacon, actor
* 1961 - Andy Fletcher, musician (Depeche Mode)
* 1961 - Toby Keith, country music singer
* 1968 - Billy Crudup, actor
* 1970 - Beck, rock and roll singer
* 1972 - Saurav Ganguly, Indian cricket player
* 1975 - Kathleen Robertson, actress
* 1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
* 1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish international footballer
* 1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
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Deaths
* 975 - King Edgar of England
* 1153 - Pope Eugene III
* 1623 - Pope Gregory XV
* 1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist
* 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (b. 1792)
* 1826 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, only a few days after both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died. (The two died on July 4, 1826.)
* 1850 - Prince Adolphus of the United Kingdom, 1st Duke of Cambridge
* 1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden-Norway
* 1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer during the Civil War. (b. 1934)
* 1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter
* 1933 - Anthony Hope, author ("The Prisoner of Zenda")
* 1939 - Havelock Ellis, physician, psychologist (b. 1859)
* 1943 - Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II
* 1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist
* 1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (1923-1929), wife to Calvin Coolidge.
* 1959 - Major Dale R. Buis, US Army, first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam.
* 1986 - Skeeter Webb, Professional baseball Player (b. 1909)
* 1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete
* 1990 - Howard Duff, actor
* 1994 - Kim Il Sung, North Korean leader
* 2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand Director (b. 1920)
* 2002 - Ward Kimball, Disney animator
* 2003 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian twins died after an unsuccessful separation operation
* 2004 - Paula Danziger, author
Make of it what you will. And what the fuck is the Feast Day of St. Grimbald?