0068: Death (by suicide) of Nero Imperator
0597: Death of St. Columba (Colum Cille)
1064: Coimbra is taken by Ferdinand, King of Castile
1156: Marriage of Friedrich "Barbarossa" King of Germany, to
Beatrix of Burgundy
1198: Otto IV chosen King of Germany
1247: Carpini, Papal Legate returning from the Mongols, reaches Kiev,
Russia
1290: Death of Beatrice, Dante's inspiration
1480: Turks attack Malta
1502: Assassination of Astorre Manfredi of Faenza, and his brother
1525: Death of Florian Geyer, Bundschuh leader
1534: Jacques Cartier sails into the mouth of the St. Laurence river
1588: Duke of Medina Sidonia sails from Lisbon with the Spanish Armada
1591: Euphame MacCalyan, daughter of Lord Cliftonhall, tried and found
guilty of witchcraft
1604: A new Law against witchcraft passes its' first reading in the
English House of Lords
1628: 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from
Massachusetts
1851: The San Francisco Committee of Vigilence forms.
1860: First dime novel published.
1869: Charles Elmer Hires sells his first Root Beer, in Philadelphia.
1934: Donald Duck made his first screen appearance in "The Wise
Little Hen."
1943: Congress passed an act authorizing employers to withhold income
tax payments from salary checks.
1946: 66,545 fans allowed Yankees to break the million mark earliest.
1953: About 100 die in Worcester, MA, tornado.
1959: First ballistic missile submarine launched "George
Washington".
1963: The movie "Cleopatra" opens in NY.
1969: Warren E. Burger confirmed as U.S. Chief Justice.
1973: Secretariat wins Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown.
1977: Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks.
1980: Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth.
1981: Allen Ludden, game show host, dies.
1982: Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley.
1986: Rogers Commission report released blame on Morton Thiokol.
1988: The House ethics committee met in closed session to discuss
whether to formally investigate charges that Speaker Jim Wright's financial dealings may
have violated House rules.
1989: China began reporting large-scale arrests in the wake of the
crushed pro-democracy movement. The arrests coincided with the public reappearance of
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who was rumored to have been seriously ill.
1990: Go and Go won the 122nd running of the Belmont Stakes.
1991: Mt. Pinatubo, Philipines, erupts. Over the next several days, ash
covers the surrounding area including Clark Air Force Base (US).
1991: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted his country have a say in the selection of Palestinians who would attend a US-sponsored Middle East peace conference.
1991: Jim Courier gained his first Grand Slam of tennis as he won the French Open.
1991: Pianist Claudio Arrau died in Austria at age 88.
1993: The Chicago Symphony under Daniel Barenboim performed Bruckner's
Fifth in Barcelona. That concluded the Chicagoans' tour of Spain.
1993: As millions of Japanese watched on television, Crown Prince
Naruhito wed commoner Masako Owada in an elaborate Shinto religious ceremony.
1993: The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup in game five against
the Los Angeles Kings.
1993: Actress Alexis Smith died in Los Angeles at age 72.
1994: In a bipartisan slap at President Clinton, the House of
Representatives voted 244-to-178 in favor of having the United States defy the
international arms embargo on Bosnia.
1995: One week after being shot down over Bosnia by a Bosnian Serb
missile, and a day after being rescued, U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady was warmly
welcomed by his comrades at Aviano Air Base in Italy.
1996: White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," said it was wrong for an investigator to have obtained secret FBI files on 341 people, including prominent Republicans, and President Clinton agreed with Panetta that an apology was called for.
1997: Air Force General Joseph Ralston gave up his fight to become
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, his candidacy doomed by the clamor over his
admission that he'd had an adulterous affair years ago.
1998: Three white men were charged in Jasper, Texas, with the brutal
dragging death of James Byrd Junior, a black man.
1998: President Clinton unleashed a torrent of public works money,
signing a $203 billion transportation bill.
1999: After 78 days of intense NATO airstrikes, Yugoslav and Western
generals signed a pact clearing the way for a Kosovo peace plan.
1999: President Clinton instructed federal law agencies to collect race
and gender data on people they stop or arrest, in a move to end racial profiling by
police.
2000: The Justice Department released a report saying an 18-month investigation had found no credible evidence that conspirators aided or framed James Earl Ray in the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior.
2000: Painter Jacob Lawrence died in Seattle at age 82.
2000: Sculptor George Segal died at his New Jersey home at age 75.
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