Events

• 1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
• 1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
• 1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
• 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
• 1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
• 1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
• 1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
• 1866 – One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
• 1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
• 1906 – Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland. It was sunk by a German submarine during WWI.
• 1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
• 1919 – Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
• 1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
• 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
• 1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
• 1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
• 1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
• 1946 – The United Kingdom’s BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
• 1962 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
• 1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
• 1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
• 1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
• 2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
• Battle of Arica Day (Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile).
• Union Dissolution Day (Independence Day of Norway).

People (Births)

• 1422 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (d. 1482).
• 1894 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (d. 1974).
• 1896 – Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1990).
• 1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1958).
• 1905 – James J. Braddock, American lieutenant and boxer (d. 1974).
• 1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2005).

People (Deaths)

• 1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (b. 1305).
• 1792 – Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (b. 1738).
• 1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792).
• 1961 – Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (b. 1885).
• 1988 – Martin Sommer, German SS officer (b. 1915).