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1190: Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading
an army of the Third Crusade.
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1639: First American log cabin at Fort Christina
(Wilmington, Delaware).
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1720: Mrs. Clements of England markets first paste-style
mustard.
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1772: Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter by
Rhode Islanders.
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1776: The Continental Congress appoints a committee to
write a Declaration of Independence.
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1801: The north African state of Tripoli declared war on
the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through
the Mediterranean.
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1854: The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds
its first graduation.
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1861: Dorthea Dix, known for her work with the mentally
ill, is appointed superintendent of women nurses for the Union Army.
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1863: At the Battle of Brice's Crossroads in Mississippi,
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the numerically superior
Union troops.
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1865: The opera "Tristan und Isolde" by Richard
Wagner premiered in Munich, Germany. This sent the impressionable young King
Ludwig into throes of Wagner worship.
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1869: The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the first
ever shipment of frozen beef.
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1898: During the Spanish-American War, U.S. Marines land in
Cuba.
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1905: Japan and Russia agree to peace talks brokered by
President Theodore Roosevelt.
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1916: Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs
during the Great Arab Revolt.
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1920: The Republican convention in Chicago endorses woman
suffrage. Women’s History.
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1924: The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is
kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome.
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1925: Tennessee adopts a new biology text book denying the
theory of evolution.
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1932: First demonstration of artificial lightning
Pittsfield, Mass.
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1934: Frederick Delius died, at his home in rural northern
France. Delius lived to 72 despite extremely frail health for years. Five
years before his death, Delius saw his music secure its position in the
repertory when Thomas Beecham organized a festival wholly of his music.
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1935: Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by
William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
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1940: The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans.
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1940: Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada
declared war on Italy.
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1942: Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and
kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard
Heydrich.
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1943: The Allies begin bombing Germany around the clock.
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1943: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes first US president to
visit a foreign country during wartime.
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1944: Joe Nuxhall at 15 years became youngest ML baseball
player.
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1944: The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy’s
Utah and Omaha beaches, respectively, link-up and begin moving inland.
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1946: Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a
republic.
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1948: Chuck Yeager exceeds the speed of sound in the Bell
XS-1.
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1955: First virus separated into component parts is
reported.
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1959: Rocky Colovito hits 4 homers in 1 game.
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1963: Buddhist monk Ngo Quang Duc dies by self immolation
in Saigon to protest persecution by the Diem government.
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1964: The Senate voted to limit further debate on a
proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states.
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1967: The Middle East War ended as Israel and Syria agreed
to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
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1977: James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil
rights leader Martin Luther King Junior, escaped from Brushy Mountain State
Prison in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured June 13th.
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1977: Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
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1978: "Affirmed" won the Belmont Stakes and with
it, horse racing's Triple Crown.
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1978: Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis.
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1984: An Italian prosecutor's report linked the Bulgarian
secret service to the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.
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1985: The Israeli army pulls out of Lebanon after 1,099
days of occupation.
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1987: South Koreans demanding free elections launched a
wave of violent demonstrations.
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1989: "Easy Goer" won the Belmont Stakes in New
York, denying the Triple Crown to Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner
"Sunday Silence."
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1990: Alberto Fujimori was elected president of Peru by a
narrow margin over novelist Mario Vargos Llosa.
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1990: Two members of the rap group 2 Live Crew were
arrested in Hollywood, Fla. (They and a third band member were later
acquitted of obscenity charges.)
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1991: Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted, spewing
debris as far as 20 miles away.
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1994: President Clinton intensified sanctions against
Haiti's military leaders, suspending US commercial air travel and most
financial transactions between the two countries.
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1995: U.S. Air Force Capt. Scott O'Grady, rescued after
being shot down over Bosnia, described his six-day ordeal at a news
conference at Aviano Air Base in Italy, saying he was no Rambo and no hero.
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1995:A bomb blamed on drug traffickers exploded in Medellin,
Colombia, killing 26 people. Thoroughbred Thunder Gulch won the Belmont
Stakes.
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1998: A jury in Jacksonville, Florida ordered Brown and
Williamson Tobacco Corporation to pay nearly one million dollars to the
family of Roland Maddox, who had died after smoking Lucky Strikes for almost
50 years. (However, a Florida appeals court later overturned the verdict.)
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1999: Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to
suspend its punishing 78-day air war.
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1999: The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the city of Chicago
went too far in its fight against street gangs by ordering police to break
up groups of loiterers.
2000:The New Jersey Devils won their second Stanley Cup in six seasons with a 2-to-1 victory in double overtime over the Dallas Stars in Game Six of the finals.
2000: Syrian President Hafez Assad died at age 69; he was succeeded by his son,
Bashar.
2000: Frenchwoman Mary Pierce beat Conchita Martinez 6-2, 7-5 to win the French Open women's singles title.
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