- 0545: Death of St.
Clotilda
- 0618: Death of St.
Kevin
- 0713: Byzantine
emperor Philippicus overthrown, blinded
- 1098: Fall of Antioch
(1st Crusade) Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seize Antioch, Turkey.
- 1098: Stephen of
Blois' army of the 1st Crusade arrives at Nicea
- 1140: Abelard
condemned for heresy
- 1291: Edward I, King
of England, speaks of his hereditary right to the Crown of Scotland
- 1291: Edward I, King
of England, summons the Northern levies to Norham
- 1539: Hernando De
Soto claims Florida for Spain.
- 1596: An English
expedition to attack Cadiz, Spain, sets sail
- 1621: Chartering of
the Dutch West India Company
- 1647: The
Parliamentarian Army kidnaps Charles I
- 1875: Georges Bizet
died, on his sixth wedding anniversary. He was only 36 years old. The quality of
"Carmen" and the "L'Arlesienne" Suite make Bizet's young death
especially tragic.
- 1888: The poem
"Casey at the Bat," by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was first published, in the
"San Francisco Daily Examiner."
- 1913: Pierre Lalo
declared in Les Temps of Paris that "the most essential trait of Rite of Spring is
that it's the most dissonant and discordant composition yet written."
- 1937: The Duke of
Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, married divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson of Baltimore,
after abdicating the British throne.
- 1942: The battle of
Midway began. It raged for four days and was the turning point for the United States in
the Pacific war against Japan.
- 1947: Francois
Poulenc's racy opera "Les Mamelles de Tiresias" premiered in Paris.1948: The
200-inch reflecting telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was
dedicated.
- 1963 Pope John the
23rd died at the age of 81, ending a papacy marked by innovative reforms in the Roman
Catholic Church. He was succeeded by Pope Paul the Sixth.
- 1965: Astronaut
Edward White became the first American to "walk" in space, during the flight of
"Gemini Four."
- 1974: Charles Colson,
an aide to President Richard Nixon, pleads guilty to obstruction of justice.
- 1981: Pope John Paul
the Second left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after the attempt
on his life.
- 1983: Gordon Kahl, a
militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two US marshals in North Dakota, was
killed in a gun battle with law-enforcement officials near Smithville, Arkansas.
- 1985: An accord
between Italy and the Vatican ended Roman Catholicism's position as "sole religion of
the Italian state."
- 1987: President
Reagan arrived in Italy to prepare for a summit of major industrialized democracies, the
13th such gathering of world leaders.
- 1988: President
Reagan returned home from the superpower summit in Moscow after a stopover in London.
- 1990:
President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded their Washington summit with a joint news conference at the White House. Gorbachev and his delegation then flew to Minnesota to tour Minneapolis-St. Paul.
- 1990: "City of Angels" won best musical and "The Grapes of Wrath" won best play at the 44th Tony Awards.
- 1989: Iran's
spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.
- 1991:
Pope John Paul the Second, visiting the Polish city of Kielce, indirectly criticized abortion, appealing to his listeners to "prevent further destruction of the Polish family."
- 1991:
The Mount Unzen volcano in southern Japan erupted, killing about 40 people.
- 1992: Undeclared
presidential candidate Ross Perot announced he'd hired Hamilton Jordan and Edward Rollins
to help steer his campaign. Democrat Bill Clinton appeared on "The Arsenio Hall
Show."
- 1993: President
Clinton abandoned his nomination of Lani Guinier to head the Justice Department's civil
rights division, agreeing with critics who accused her of far-out views on minority
rights.
- 1995:
Bosnian Serb officials made contradictory statements about the whereabouts of an American pilot, a day after his Air Force jet was shot down. (Bosnian Serb military sources claimed that the pilot, later identified as Capt. Scott F. O'Grady, was in Bosnian Serb hands -- a claim that proved false.)
- 1996: The FBI pulled
the plug on electricity at the Freemen ranch in Montana in an attempt to persuade the
occupants to negotiate an end to the 71-day-old standoff.
- 1996: During joint
war games in the Pacific, a Japanese destroyer mistakenly shot down an American attack
plane; two US Navy aviators ejected safely.
- 1997: After a bloody
coup, 1200 foreigners fled Sierra Leone aboard an American warship.
- 1997: The government
banned most slaughtered-animal parts from US livestock feed because of concerns over
"mad cow disease."
- 1998: President
Clinton urged Congress to renew normal trade benefits for China, saying good relations
with Beijing were crucial amid fears of a nuclear arms race in South Asia.
- 1998: A high-speed
train derailed in Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
- 1999:
Caving in to Russian and Western demands, Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of
ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
- 2000: Former Treasury Secretary and onetime "energy czar" William Simon died in Santa Barbara, California, at age 72.
- 2000:
President Clinton held talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin on topics including missile defense.
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