1330: Prince Edward of England, son of Edward III and known as the "Black Prince"

1605: Thomas Randolph, English poet, dramatist

1843: Edvard Grieg was born, in the Norwegian city of Bergen. By the time Grieg died in 1907 (at the age of 64) his piano concerto and the Peer Gynt music were firmly in the repertory, and it was not unusual to rank him with, or close to, Liszt and Chopin.

1884: Silent film comedian Harry Langdon

19??: Kelvin Harvey (Disciples of Christ)

19??: Peter King (Dakota Motor Co.)

1914: Artist Saul Steinberg

1922: Morris K. Udall, Democratic Congressman from Arizona

1932: Mario Cuomo, governor of New York, silver-tongued orator

1937: Singer, actor Waylon Jennings

1941: Singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson

1943: Actor Aron Kincaid

1945: Nicola Pagett

1946: Judy Pace

1946: Janet Lennon (in Culver City, CA), singer (Lennon Sisters)

1949: Actor-director Simon Callow ("Shakespeare in Love")

1949: Actor Jim Varney (Ernest P. Worrell)

1949: Singer Russell Hitchcock (Air Supply)

1951: Rock singer Steve Walsh (Kansas)

1954: Actor Jim Belushi

1954: Country singer Terri Gibbs

1955: Actress Julie Hagerty

1957: Polly Draper

1958: Wade Boggs

1963: Actress Helen Hunt

1963: Rock musician Scott Rockenfield (Queensryche)

1964: Actress Courteney Cox

1964: Country musician Tony Ardoin

1966: Country musician Michael Britt (Lonestar)

1968: Rock musician Jimmy McD (formerly of Jimmie's Chicken Shack)

1969: Actor-rapper Ice Cube

1970: Actress Leah Remini ("Fired Up")

1972: Rock musician T-Bone Willy (Save Ferris)

1973: Neil Patrick Harris       
         

0844: Coronation of Louis II as King of Italy

0923: Robert I, Usurper of the French Crown, killed in battle with the real King, Charles "The Simple"

0960: Death of St. Edburga of Winchester

1184: King Magnus V of Norway defeated by Sverre, his rival

1215: Under pressure from rebellious barons, England's King John signed the Magna Carta, at Runnymede, England. A crucial first step toward creating Britain's constitutional monarchy.

1246: Death of Leopold VI, last Babenburg ruler of Austro-Hungary

1301: Coronation of Charles I, King of Hungary

1381: Death of Wat Tyler; end of Wat Tyler's Rebellion

1397: Death of the Compte d'Ecu

1467: Charles "the Bold" becomes Duke of Burgundy

1520: Pope Leo X condemns Luther's 95 Theses and threatens to toss Luther out of the Catholic Church.

1567: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, surrenders to the Lords Confederate

1601: Death of St. Germaine of Pibrac

1607: James Fort, in Jamestown, finished

1626: Charles I prorogues his second Parliament

1648: Margaret Jones, of Charlestown, 1st woman executed as a witch in Massachusetts Bay Colony, is put to death.

1664: New Jersey established.

1752: Benjamin Franklin, in a dangerous experiment, demonstrated the relationship between lightning and electricity by flying a kite during a storm in Philadelphia. An iron key suspended from the string attracted a lightning bolt.

1775: Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.

1804: 12th Amendment ratified (manner of choosing President and VP).

1836: Arkansas becomes the 25th state.

1844: Charles Goodyear received a patent for his process to strengthen rubber called vulcanization.

1846: Britain and the U.S. decide border along Pacific Northwest.

1849: James Polk, the eleventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tennessee.

1851: Jacob Fussell, a Baltimore dairyman, sets up the first ice-cream factory.

1857: San Francisco Water Works organized.

1864: A site near Arlington, Virginia (Robert E. Lee's home and the grounds around it) turned into a Yankee military cemetery!

1878: First attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one picture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground during a gallop.

1904: "General Slocum" boat catches fire; over a thousand die.

1919: First flight across the Atlantic (Alcock and Brown).

1940: France surrendered to Hitler.

1944: American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan during World War Two. Meanwhile, B-29 Superfortresses made their first raids on Japan.

1967: Governor Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill.

1967: The pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim married the cellist Jacqueline Du Pre. He was 24, she 22. The wedding took place in Jerusalem.

1975: Soyuz 19 is launched.

1977: Spain's first free elections since 1936.

1978: King Hussein of Jordan married 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.

1982: Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.

1986: Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity.

1989: Three Chinese workers in Shanghai were sentenced to death for helping to set fire to a train during recent pro-democracy protests.

1990: Real estate mogul Donald Trump missed a payment due on junk bonds used to finance one of his Atlantic City, New Jersey, resorts.

1991: India concluded its violence-racked elections, with the Congress Party of recently assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi gaining a plurality of votes.

1992: Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin arrived in the United States for his summit with President Bush.

1992: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the government may kidnap criminal suspects from a foreign country for prosecution.

1992: Vice President Dan Quayle, relying on a faulty flash card, erroneously instructed a Trenton, New Jersey, elementary school student to spell "potato" as "potatoe" during a spelling bee.

1993: Former Texas Gov. John Connally, who had been wounded in the gunfire that killed President Kennedy, died at age 76.

1993: President Clinton told a news conference he was confident his Supreme Court nominee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, would win Senate confirmation.

1994: Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.

1994: Former President Jimmy Carter arrived in North Korea on a private mission to try to reduce tensions with the Communist nation.

1994: Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.

1995: President Clinton met with Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on the opening day of a Group of Seven summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1995: At the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Simpson struggled to don a pair of gloves prosecutors said were worn the night Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, were murdered.

1996: A truck bomb blew up in a retail district of Manchester, England, injuring more than 200 people in an attack claimed by the Irish Republican Army.

1996: Ella Fitzgerald, the "first lady of song," died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 78.

1997: Israel's High Court dismissed petitions calling for the indictment of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on charges of breach of trust.

1998: NATO fighter jets staged a show of force meant to pressure Yugoslav forces to end their attacks on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo province.

1998: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that state prison inmates are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.

1999: Thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees flooded back into Kosovo while thousands of Serbs fled.

1999: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake in central Mexico killed at least 17 people.

1999: Vessels from North Korea and South Korea clashed on the Yellow Sea; about 30 North Korean sailors are believed to have died. 

2000: Al Gore named Commerce Secretary William Daley to take over his presidential campaign, replacing Tony Coelho, who had abruptly resigned, citing health problems. 

2000: Federal agents made more than 170 arrests as they broke up a multimillion-dollar Mexican heroin ring alleged to have smuggled unusually pure and cheap black tar heroin into new markets from one U.S. coast to the other. 

2000: Denis Savard, Joe Mullen and Walter L. Bush Junior were selected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.