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Events

• 68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Roman senate-imposed death by flogging.
• 721 - Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
• 1310 - Duccio's Maestà (Duccio) Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
• 1650 - The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It was the first legal corporation in the Americas.
• 1667 - The Raid on the Medway by the Netherlands fleet starts lasting for five days and resulting in a decisive victory of the Dutch over the England in the Second Anglo-Dutch War and a favourable peace for the Dutch.
• 1732 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia (U.S. state).
• 1772 - British vessel Gaspée Affair is burned off of Rhode Island.
• 1790 - Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States.
• 1815 - End of the Congress of Vienna: new European political situation is set.
• 1856 - 500 Mormon handcart pioneerss leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
• 1860 - Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
• 1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
• 1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.
• 1922 - First ringing of the Yale Memorial Carillon at Yale University.
• 1923 - Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
• 1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker F.VII, the Southern Cross (aircraft).
• 1930 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed at the Illinois Central train station during rush hour by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
• 1934 - Donald Duck debuts in The Wise Little Hen.
• 1935 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under Kuomintang administration, recognized Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
• 1944 - World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the Finnish Karelia, since 1941 occupied by Finland.
• 1946 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
• 1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
• 1954 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at United States Senate Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army.
• 1957 - First ascent of Broad Peak (12th highest mountain).
• 1959 - The USS George Washington (SSBN-598) is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
• 1967 - Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.
• 1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• 1973 - Secretariat (racehorse) wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
• 1978 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the Priesthood (Mormonism) to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
• 1983 - Margaret Thatcher wins a second term by a landslide in the British General Election with a majority of 144 for her Conservative Party (UK). Tony Blair is elected for the first time to Parliament.
• 1985 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he was not released until 1991).
• 1986 - The Rogers Commission Report releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• 1989 - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier releases in theaters.
• 1991 - The congress of the Italy political party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.
• 1993 - Montréal Canadiens win 24th Stanley Cup and Patrick Roy wins 2nd Conn Smythe Trophy
• 1999 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.

Births

• 1508 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
• 1580 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
• 1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
• 1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
• 1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
• 1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
• 1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
• 1686 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
• 1768 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
• 1810 - Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
• 1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
• 1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
• 1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
• 1849 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
• 1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
• 1865 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
• 1865 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
• 1875 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968)
• 1882 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
• 1890 - Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
• 1891 - Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
• 1893 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
• 1898 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
• 1900 - Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
• 1911 - George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
• 1912 - Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970)
• 1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist
• 1916 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
• 1921 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
• 1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
• 1922 - Fernand Seguin, French Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d. 1988)
• 1922 - George Axelrod, American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director (d. 2003)
• 1925 - Keith Laumer, science fiction writer (d. 1993)
• 1929 - Johnny Ace, American singer (d. 1954)
• 1930 - Monique Serf, French singer (d. 1997)
• 1931 - Jackie Mason, American comedian
• 1931 - Joe Santos, American actor
• 1931 - Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager
• 1934 - Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
• 1936 - Mick O'Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager
• 1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
• 1938 - Charles Wuorinen, American composer
• 1939 - Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
• 1939 - Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
• 1939 - Charles Webb, author
• 1940 - Shirley Muldowney, Racecar Driver
• 1941 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple
• 1943 - Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
• 1945 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
• 1945 - Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
• 1947 - Kiran Bedi, Indian Police Service Officer
• 1947 - John Gurda, American historian
• 1948 - Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
• 1951 - Dave Parker (baseball player), American baseball player
• 1951 - James Newton Howard, American film composer
• 1952 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer
• 1954 - George Pérez, American comic book artist
• 1954 - Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
• 1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
• 1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
• 1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American writer
• 1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
• 1963 - Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
• 1964 - Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
• 1967 - Dean Felber, American Guitarist
• 1968 - Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
• 1969 - Eric Wynalda, American soccer player
• 1971 - John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s (band))
• 1971 - Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
• 1972 - Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
• 1973 - Tedy Bruschi, American football player
• 1973 - Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
• 1973 - Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
• 1974 - Tim Shaw, British radio personality
• 1974 - Randy Winn, American baseball player
• 1975 - Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
• 1975 - Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
• 1975 - Jeff Saturday, American football player
• 1977 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
• 1977 - Amisha Patel, Indian actress
• 1977 - Predrag Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
• 1978 - Shandi Finnessey, game hostess
• 1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse (band))
• 1978 - Miroslav Klose, German footballer
• 1980 - Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
• 1980 - Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
• 1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
• 1982 - Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
• 1983 - Alektra Blue, American porn star
• 1983 - Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 - Sean Taylor, American football player
• 1984 - Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
• 1984 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
• 1984 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
• 1984 - Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
• 1986 - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
• 1986 - Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1993 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress

Deaths

• 62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
• 68 - Nero, List of Roman Emperors (b. 37)
• 373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
• 597 - Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
• 630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
• 1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
• 1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
• 1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
• 1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• 1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
• 1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
• 1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
• 1834 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
• 1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
• 1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
• 1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
• 1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
• 1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writter (b. 1852)
• 1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
• 1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
• 1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1876)
• 1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
• 1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1899)
• 1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
• 1981 - Allen Ludden, TV game show host (b. 1917)
• 1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• 1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
• 1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize in Economics laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
• 2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
• 2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire paganism - third day of the Vestalia in honor of the goddess Vesta (mythology)

Liturgical feasts Catholicism

• Saint Alexander, martyr Russia
• Columba (called Saint Columcille and Saint Colm, pronounced as KUHL-uhm) in Ireland, where he is honoured as one of the islands three patron saints)
• Blessed Columba, abbot, confessor Scotland
• Saint Diomedes
• Edmund Rich, bishop of Canterbury, confessor (Translation day) England
• Saint Efrem=Saint Ephraim, deacon, Doctor of the Church
• Saint Liborius, bishop (of LeMans), confessor LeMans
• Saint Primus and Felicianus, martyrs
• Blessed Richard, bishop of Andria, Apulia
• Saint Vincent, deacon, martyr
• Saint Pelagia, virgin, martyr
• Blessed Diana d'Andalo

Lutheranism

• Aidan of Lindisfarne

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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Events

• 68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Roman senate-imposed death by flogging.
• 721 - Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
• 1310 - Duccio's Maestà (Duccio) Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
• 1650 - The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It was the first legal corporation in the Americas.
• 1667 - The Raid on the Medway by the Netherlands fleet starts lasting for five days and resulting in a decisive victory of the Dutch over the England in the Second Anglo-Dutch War and a favourable peace for the Dutch.
• 1732 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia (U.S. state).
• 1772 - British vessel Gaspée Affair is burned off of Rhode Island.
• 1790 - Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States.
• 1815 - End of the Congress of Vienna: new European political situation is set.
• 1856 - 500 Mormon handcart pioneerss leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
• 1860 - Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
• 1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
• 1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.
• 1922 - First ringing of the Yale Memorial Carillon at Yale University.
• 1923 - Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
• 1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker F.VII, the Southern Cross (aircraft).
• 1930 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed at the Illinois Central train station during rush hour by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
• 1934 - Donald Duck debuts in The Wise Little Hen.
• 1935 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under Kuomintang administration, recognized Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
• 1944 - World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the Finnish Karelia, since 1941 occupied by Finland.
• 1946 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
• 1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
• 1954 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at United States Senate Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army.
• 1957 - First ascent of Broad Peak (12th highest mountain).
• 1959 - The USS George Washington (SSBN-598) is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
• 1967 - Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.
• 1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• 1973 - Secretariat (racehorse) wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
• 1978 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the Priesthood (Mormonism) to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
• 1983 - Margaret Thatcher wins a second term by a landslide in the British General Election with a majority of 144 for her Conservative Party (UK). Tony Blair is elected for the first time to Parliament.
• 1985 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he was not released until 1991).
• 1986 - The Rogers Commission Report releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• 1989 - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier releases in theaters.
• 1991 - The congress of the Italy political party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.
• 1993 - Montréal Canadiens win 24th Stanley Cup and Patrick Roy wins 2nd Conn Smythe Trophy
• 1999 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.

Births

• 1508 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
• 1580 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
• 1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
• 1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
• 1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
• 1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
• 1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
• 1686 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
• 1768 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
• 1810 - Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
• 1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
• 1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
• 1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
• 1849 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
• 1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
• 1865 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
• 1865 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
• 1875 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968)
• 1882 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
• 1890 - Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
• 1891 - Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
• 1893 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
• 1898 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
• 1900 - Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
• 1911 - George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
• 1912 - Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970)
• 1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist
• 1916 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
• 1921 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
• 1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
• 1922 - Fernand Seguin, French Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d. 1988)
• 1922 - George Axelrod, American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director (d. 2003)
• 1925 - Keith Laumer, science fiction writer (d. 1993)
• 1929 - Johnny Ace, American singer (d. 1954)
• 1930 - Monique Serf, French singer (d. 1997)
• 1931 - Jackie Mason, American comedian
• 1931 - Joe Santos, American actor
• 1931 - Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager
• 1934 - Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
• 1936 - Mick O'Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager
• 1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
• 1938 - Charles Wuorinen, American composer
• 1939 - Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
• 1939 - Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
• 1939 - Charles Webb, author
• 1940 - Shirley Muldowney, Racecar Driver
• 1941 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple
• 1943 - Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
• 1945 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
• 1945 - Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
• 1947 - Kiran Bedi, Indian Police Service Officer
• 1947 - John Gurda, American historian
• 1948 - Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
• 1951 - Dave Parker (baseball player), American baseball player
• 1951 - James Newton Howard, American film composer
• 1952 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer
• 1954 - George Pérez, American comic book artist
• 1954 - Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
• 1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
• 1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
• 1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American writer
• 1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
• 1963 - Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
• 1964 - Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
• 1967 - Dean Felber, American Guitarist
• 1968 - Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
• 1969 - Eric Wynalda, American soccer player
• 1971 - John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s (band))
• 1971 - Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
• 1972 - Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
• 1973 - Tedy Bruschi, American football player
• 1973 - Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
• 1973 - Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
• 1974 - Tim Shaw, British radio personality
• 1974 - Randy Winn, American baseball player
• 1975 - Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
• 1975 - Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
• 1975 - Jeff Saturday, American football player
• 1977 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
• 1977 - Amisha Patel, Indian actress
• 1977 - Predrag Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
• 1978 - Shandi Finnessey, game hostess
• 1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse (band))
• 1978 - Miroslav Klose, German footballer
• 1980 - Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
• 1980 - Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
• 1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
• 1982 - Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
• 1983 - Alektra Blue, American porn star
• 1983 - Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 - Sean Taylor, American football player
• 1984 - Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
• 1984 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
• 1984 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
• 1984 - Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
• 1986 - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
• 1986 - Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1993 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress

Deaths

• 62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
• 68 - Nero, List of Roman Emperors (b. 37)
• 373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
• 597 - Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
• 630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
• 1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
• 1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
• 1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
• 1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• 1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
• 1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
• 1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
• 1834 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
• 1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
• 1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
• 1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
• 1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
• 1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writter (b. 1852)
• 1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
• 1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
• 1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1876)
• 1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
• 1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1899)
• 1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
• 1981 - Allen Ludden, TV game show host (b. 1917)
• 1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• 1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
• 1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize in Economics laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
• 2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
• 2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire paganism - third day of the Vestalia in honor of the goddess Vesta (mythology)

Liturgical feasts Catholicism

• Saint Alexander, martyr Russia
• Columba (called Saint Columcille and Saint Colm, pronounced as KUHL-uhm) in Ireland, where he is honoured as one of the islands three patron saints)
• Blessed Columba, abbot, confessor Scotland
• Saint Diomedes
• Edmund Rich, bishop of Canterbury, confessor (Translation day) England
• Saint Efrem=Saint Ephraim, deacon, Doctor of the Church
• Saint Liborius, bishop (of LeMans), confessor LeMans
• Saint Primus and Felicianus, martyrs
• Blessed Richard, bishop of Andria, Apulia
• Saint Vincent, deacon, martyr
• Saint Pelagia, virgin, martyr
• Blessed Diana d'Andalo

Lutheranism

• Aidan of Lindisfarne

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

June 9 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 9 | 1970: King Hussein escapes gunman's bullet
King Hussein of Jordan escapes an assassination attempt after gunmen open fire on his motorcade as it drives near his summer palace.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 9
1970: King Hussein escapes gunman's bullet. King Hussein of Jordan escapes an assassination attempt after gunmen open fire on his motorcade as it drives near his summer palace.

June 9 independent horror film Helltown Story: BECOME WITNESS
During a carefree June in 1999, five Ohio teenagers set out for some mischievous fun in the nearby suburb of Boston Mills. After hearing strange tales of the small town's sinister ...

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June 9 Washington Highlights June 9, 2006 Government Affairs Home > Washington Highlights > June 9, 2006 ... June 7 approved its FY 2007 spending bill by a party line vote of ...

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June 9 Washington Highlights June 9, 2006 Government Affairs Home > Washington Highlights > June 9, 2006 ... June 7 approved its FY 2007 spending bill by a party line vote of ...

9 June
LGA Chief Executive's weekly column. ... This week - 9 June. When Simon Milton took over as LGA Chairman, one of the key points he made in his inaugural speech was the need for the ...

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Euro verdict set for June 9 | World news | guardian.co.uk
The government will announce its decision on the five economic tests for euro membership on June 9, Downing Street confirmed today. The House of Commons statement will follow a ...