Events
- 455 – The Vandals enter Rome
, and plunder
the city for two weeks
- 1098 – First
Crusade: The first Siege of
Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege
would later start on June 7.
- 1615 – First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City
, from Rouen
, France
.
- 1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to
trial in the Salem witch trials
in Salem
, Massachusetts
. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
- 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now
Mackinaw City,
Michigan
, Chippewas capture Fort
Michilimackinac
by diverting the garrison's attention with a game
of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the
fort.
- 1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a
governor in colonial America to
house British
soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns,
or other buildings if suitable quarters are not
provided.
- 1780 – The Derby
horse race is held for the first time.
- 1793 – Jean-Paul
Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these
people are guillotined, followed by
17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
- 1835 – P.
T. Barnum and his
circus start their first tour of the United States
.
- 1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague
begins.
- 1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland,
Maine
.
- 1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of
Bulgaria
, is killed in Stara Planina
- 1886 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House
, becoming the only president to wed in the executive
mansion.
- 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
- 1909 – Alfred
Deakin becomes Prime
Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into
law, granting citizenship to all
Native
Americans born within the territorial limits of the United
States.
- 1925 – Because of a lineup revision by
Miller Huggins, Wally Pipp is replaced by Lou Gehrig at first base for the New York Yankees, beginning a streak of
2,130 consecutive games played, topped only by Cal Ripken, Jr. in . Exactly 16 years later
to the day, in 1941, Gehrig passes away from
Amyotropic lateral
sclerosis .
- 1941 – World War II:
German paratoopers murder
Greek
civilians in
the village of Kondomari
.
- 1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic:
In a referendum, Italians
vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum the king of
Italy Umberto II di Savoia is
exiled.
- 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth
II, who was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories &
Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be
televised.
- 1955 – The USSR
and Yugoslavia
sign the Belgrade
declaration and thus normalize relations between both
countries, discontinued since 1948.
- 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus
Procellarum
on the Moon, becoming the first
U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another
world.
- 1967 – Luis Monge
is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the
United States.
- 1967 – Protests in
West Berlin against the arrival of the
Shah of Iran
turn into
riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is
killed by a police officer. His death results in the
founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
- 1979 – Pope John Paul II visits his native
Poland
, becoming
the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
- 1984 – Operation Bluestar, a military offensive,
is launched by the Indian
government
at Harmandir
Sahib
, also known as Golden Temple, the holiest shrine
for the Sikhs, in Amritsar
. The operation continues until June 6 with causalities, most of them civilians, in
excess of 5,000.
- 1990 – The Lower Ohio
Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in
Illinois
, Indiana
, Kentucky
, and Ohio
, killing
12. Petersburg, Indiana
is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6
deaths.
- 1992 – In a national
referendum Denmark
rejects the Maastricht
Treaty by a thin margin.
- 1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia
while patrolling the NATO
no-fly
zone.
- 1997 – In Denver,
Colorado
, Timothy McVeigh is
convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing
of the Alfred P.
Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
.
- 1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service
brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first
time.
- 2003 – Europe
launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency
's Mars Express probe
launches from the Baikonur
space centre in Kazakhstan
.
- 2004 – Ken
Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show
Jeopardy!
Births
- 926 – Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
- 1535 – Pope Leo
XI (d. 1605)
- 1731 – Martha
Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)
- 1740 – Marquis
de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
- 1743 – Count Alessandro di
Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
- 1773 – John Randolph, U.S. Senator from
Virginia (d. 1833)
- 1774 – William Lawson, explorer of New South
Wales
, Australia (d.
1850)
- 1823 – Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian
politician (d. 1905)
- 1835 – Pope Pius
X (d. 1914)
- 1838 – Grand Duchess Alexandra
Petrovna (d. 1900)
- 1840 – Thomas
Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
- 1857 – Edward
Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
- 1857 – Karl Adolph
Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1919)
- 1863 – Felix
Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
- 1865 – George
Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
- 1869 – Jack O'Connor, baseball player (d.
1937)
- 1887 – Howard Johnson, American
songwriter (d. 1941)
- 1891 – Thurman
Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
- 1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese "father
of the kamikaze" (d. 1945)
- 1899 – Lotte
Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
- 1904 – Frank
Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
- 1904 – Johnny Weissmuller,
American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
- 1907 – Dorothy
West, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer
and author (d. 1992)
- 1913 – Barbara
Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
- 1915 – Walter
Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
- 1915 – Alexandru Nicolschi,
Romanian communist (d. 1992)
- 1917 – Heinz
Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Ruth
Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
- 1919 – Nat
Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born
critic
- 1920 – Tex Schramm, American
football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d.
1969)
- 1922 – Charlie
Sifford, American golfer
- 1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem,
Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1924 – June
Callwood, Canadian journalist and activist (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Milo
O'Shea, Irish actor
- 1927 – W.
Watts Biggers, American novelist
and animator
- 1929 – Norton
Juster, American author and architect
- 1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian
tennis player
- 1930 – Pete
Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Bob Lillis, baseball
player
- 1931 – Larry
Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1931 – William Donaldson,
American businessman and politician
- 1932 – Sammy
Turner, American singer
- 1934 – Johnny Carter, American doo wop singer (d. 2009)
- 1935 – Carol
Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
- 1935 – Roger Brierley, English
actor (d. 2005)
- 1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek
turkologist
- 1937 – Sally
Kellerman, American actress
- 1937 – Jimmy Jones ,
American singer and songwriter
- 1938 – Kevin
Brownlow, English film historian and author
- 1940 – King Constantine II of Greece
- 1941 – Stacy
Keach, American actor
- 1941 – Charlie Watts, English
musician (The Rolling
Stones)
- 1941 – William Guest, American
singer (Gladys Knight &
the Pips)
- 1942 – Maree
Cheatham, American actress
- 1943 – Charles
Haid, American actor
- 1943 – Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer
- 1944 – Marvin
Hamlisch, American composer and musician
- 1945 – Jane
Bonnie Newman, American politician
- 1945 – Jon Peters, American film
producer and hairdresser
- 1946 – Peter
Sutcliffe, English serial killer
- 1946 – Lasse Hallström,
Swedish film director
- 1946 – Song Dae Kwan, Korean
singer
- 1947 – Mark
Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
- 1948 – Jerry
Mathers, American actor
- 1949 – Heather
Couper, British astronomer
- 1949 – Frank Rich, American theater
critic and columnist
- 1951 – Larry
Robinson, Canadian hockey player
- 1952 – Gary
Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
- 1953 – Keith
Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
- 1953 – Craig Stadler, American
golfer
- 1954 – Dennis
Haysbert, American actor
- 1955 – Dana
Carvey, American actor and comedian
- 1955 – Michael Steele,
American musician (The Bangles)
- 1955 – Chantal Hochuli,
Swiss-born socialite
- 1956 – Mani
Ratnam, Indian director
- 1956 – Malcolm Garrett, English
graphic designer
- 1957 – King
Lizzard, American entertainer
- 1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English
Football Pundit
- 1957 – Jonathan Stack, American
documentary filmmaker
- 1958 – Lawrence
Pfohl, American professional wrestler
- 1959 – Charlie
Huddy, Canadian hockey player
- 1959 – Lydia Lunch, American
singer
- 1960 – Kyle
Petty, American race car driver
- 1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer
(Spandau Ballet)
- 1961 – Dez
Cadena, American musician (Black
Flag)
- 1963 – Jim Burns,
American entrepreneur
- 1964 – Caroline
Link, German film director and screenwriter
- 1965 – Jim
Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
- 1965 – Mark Waugh Australian
cricketer
- 1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian
cricketer
- 1966 – Pedro
Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
- 1967 – Mike
Stanton, baseball player
- 1968 – Beetlejuice, American radio
personality
- 1968 – Jon Culshaw, British
comedian
- 1969 – Cy
Chadwick, English actor
- 1970 – Andy
McCollum, American football player
- 1970 – B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
- 1971 – Anthony Montgomery, American actor
- 1971 – Kateřina Jacques,
Czech politician
- 1972 – Wayne
Brady, American actor and comedian
- 1972 – Raúl Ibáñez,
American baseball player
- 1972 – Wentworth Miller,
American actor
- 1972 – Simon Staho, Danish film
director
- 1973 – Neifi
Perez, Dominican baseball player
- 1974 – Matt
Serra, American mixed martial artist
- 1974 – Gata Kamsky, American chess
player
- 1976 – Earl
Boykins, American basketball player
- 1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English
musician (Keane)
- 1976 – Martin Čech, Czech ice
hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1976 – Antônio Rodrigo
Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1976
– Queen 'Masenate Mohato
Seeiso, Queen consort of Lesotho

- 1977 – Zachary Quinto, American
actor
- 1978 – Dominic
Cooper, English actor
- 1978 – Nikki Cox, American
actress
- 1978 – Justin Long, American
actor
- 1978 – A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
- 1980 – Fabrizio
Moretti, Brazilian-born rock drummer (The Strokes)
- 1980 – Bobby Simmons, American
basketball player
- 1980 – Abby Wambach, American
soccer player
- 1981 – Nikolay
Davydenko, Russian professional tennis player
- 1981 – Tucker Rountree, American
guitarist and composer.
- 1981 – Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese
baseball player
- 1982 – Jewel
Staite, Canadian actress
- 1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey
player
- 1983 – Brooke White, American
singer
- 1983 – Leela James, American
singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Ana
Cristina, Cuban American singer, composer, and actress
- 1987 – Darin
Zanyar, Swedish Singer
- 1988 – Sergio
Agüero, Argentinian footballer
- 1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish
ice hockey player
- 1989 – Freddy
Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer
- 1990 – Brittany
Curran, American actress,
- 1994 – Jemma McKenzie-Brown, British
actress
Deaths
- 829 – Saint
Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
- 910 – Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western
Francia (b. 845)
- 1418 – Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry
III of Castile (b. 1373)
- 1567 – Shane
O'Neill, Irish chieftain (b. 1530)
- 1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of
Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
- 1693 – John
Wildman, English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
- 1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French
writer (b. 1607)
- 1716 – Ogata
Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
- 1720 – Jeremiah
Shepard, American minister (b. 1648)
- 1754 – Ebenezer
Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
- 1761 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist
(b. 1685)
- 1785 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves,
French mathematician (b. 1713)
- 1806 – William Tate, English painter (b.
1747)
- 1833 – Simon
Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
- 1853 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron
Dacre, British peer and soldier (b. 1777)
- 1865 – Ner Alexander Middleswarth,
American politician (b. 1783)
- 1875 – Józef
Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
- 1876 – Hristo
Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
- 1881 – Émile Littré, French lexicographer
(b. 1801)
- 1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian
revolutionarist (b. 1807)
- 1901 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian
missionary (b. 1844)
- 1933 – Frank
Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
- 1937 – Louis
Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
- 1941 – Lou
Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1948 – Viktor
Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
- 1948 – Karl Brandt,
personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
- 1948 – Karl Gebhardt, German
doctor (b. 1897)
- 1948 – Waldemar Hoven, German
physician (b. 1903)
- 1948 – Wolfram Sievers, German
SS officer (b. 1905)
- 1956 – Jean
Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
- 1961 – George
S. Kaufman, American
playwright (b. 1889)
- 1962 – Vita
Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)
- 1967 – Benno
Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
- 1968 – André
Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
- 1969 – Leo
Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1970 – Albert
Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand
car racer, designer, (b. 1937)
- 1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti,
Italian poet (b. 1888)
- 1974 – Hiroshi
Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
- 1976 – Juan José Torres, former President of
Bolivia (b. 1920)
- 1977 – Stephen
Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
- 1979 – Jim
Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1982 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani
politician (b. 1904)
- 1983 – Stan
Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
- 1984 – Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician
(b. 1908)
- 1986 – Aurèle
Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
- 1987 – Anthony
de Mello, Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (b.
1931)
- 1987 – Sammy Kaye, American
bandleader (b. 1910)
- 1987 – Andrés Segovia,
Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
- 1989 – Ted
a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
- 1990 – Stiv
Bators, American singer (The Dead
Boys, The Lords of the
New Church) (b. 1949)
- 1990 – Jack Gilford, American actor
(b. 1908)
- 1990 – Rex Harrison, English actor
(b. 1908)
- 1992 – Phillip
Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
- 1993 – Johnny
Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
- 1994 – David
Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
- 1996 – John
Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
- 1996 – Ray Combs, American game show
host and comedian (b. 1956)
- 1996 – Leon Garfield, English
children's author (b. 1921)
- 1996 – Amos Tversky, Israeli
psychologist (b. 1937)
- 1997 – Doc
Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905)
- 1998 – Sylvester Ritter, American wrestler (b.
1952)
- 1999 – Junior
Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
- 2000 – Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian
ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
- 2000 – Gerald Whitrow,
British mathematician (b. 1912)
- 2001 – Imogene
Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
- 2001 – Frank
Stagg, Baptist Theologian (b. 1911)
- 2001 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (b.
1922)
- 2003 – Fred
Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Loyd
Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (b. 1909)
- 2005 – Gunder
Gundersen, Norwegian skier and sports official (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Chloe Jones, Model and
pornographic actress (b. 1975)
- 2005 – Samir Kassir, Lebanese
journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
- 2005 – Melita Norwood, British
spy (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Keith
Smith, English rugby player (b. 1952)
- 2006 – Vince Welnick, musician,
keyboardist (The Grateful Dead)
(b. 1951)
- 2007 – Huang Ju,
Chinese Vice-Premier (b. 1938)
- 2007 – Kentarō Haneda,
Japanese composer (b. 1949)
- 2008 – Bo
Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
- 2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor,
film director and film producer (b. 1917)
- 2009 – David
Eddings, American fantasy writer. (b. 1931)
Holidays and observances
The following Catholic saints:
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