Events

• 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
• 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
• 1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
• 1575 – The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
• 1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
• 1667 – An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1770 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
• 1777 – American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
• 1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the “Quasi-War”.
• 1807 – The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.
• 1846 – US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.
• 1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
• 1892 – The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
• 1898 – US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• 1915 – The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
• 1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor’s 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• 1937 – The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War).
• 1937 – The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
• 1941 – World War II: The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK’s occupation.
• 1944 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
• 1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighbourhood.
• 1953 – Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
• 1978 – The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1980 – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
• 1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
• 2016 – Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them.
  • He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.

People (Births)

• 1766 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (died 1815).
• 1880 – Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (died 1960).
• 1891 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general and poet (died 1945).
• 1900 – Earle E. Partridge, American general (died 1990).
• 1917 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran general and politician, President of El Salvador (died 2003).
• 1921 – Adolf von Thadden, German lieutenant and politician (died 1996).
• 1922 – James D. Hughes, US Air Force lieutenant general.
• 1924 – Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter and long jumper (died 2019).
• 1960 – Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut.
• 1970 – Erik Zabel, German cyclist and coach.
• 1979 – Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter.
• 1984 – Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler.

People (Deaths)

• 1345 – Momchil, Bulgarian brigand and ruler.
• 1764 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (born 1683).
• 1913 – Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Spain (born 1841).
• 1922 – Cathal Brugha, Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence; first Ceann Comhairle and first President of Dáil Éireann (born 1874).
• 1965 – Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (born 1894).
• 1994 – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general (born 1907).
• 1999 – Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, Indian Army soldier (born 1974).
• 2014 – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (born 1928).