Important events on your birthday
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The Dewbliners
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That's what I thought, too. But alas, the States declared war on Austria-Hungary on Dec. 7 as well.
KANE-A-KNIGHT
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The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
U.S Pop Icon Michael Jackson releases his 6th studio album ,"Thriller", which will later go on to be the biggest selling album of all time.
Billy Idol, Lorraine Kelly, Gary Lineker, Bo Jackson, Jushin Liger, Ben Stiller, Christian were all born on the 30th of november, My birthday.
Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
U.S Pop Icon Michael Jackson releases his 6th studio album ,"Thriller", which will later go on to be the biggest selling album of all time.
Billy Idol, Lorraine Kelly, Gary Lineker, Bo Jackson, Jushin Liger, Ben Stiller, Christian were all born on the 30th of november, My birthday.
Shadowmancer
I am The Last Baron
I has the Last Successful Cavalry charge.
Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of of the Castle Church in Wittenberg is probably pretty important.
Well actually mine trumps all yours because it is Halloween
Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of of the Castle Church in Wittenberg is probably pretty important.
Well actually mine trumps all yours because it is Halloween
Lee
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's Supermod!
1642- Tasmania was discovered
1859- Origins of species was discovered
1932- FBI crime lab officially opens
1963- Lee Harvey Oswald was assassinated
1969- The second manned mission to the moon safely returns
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money – neither he nor the money have ever been found.
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
1859- Origins of species was discovered
1932- FBI crime lab officially opens
1963- Lee Harvey Oswald was assassinated
1969- The second manned mission to the moon safely returns
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money – neither he nor the money have ever been found.
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
You win. Creating a religion is pretty huge...
lol.
On my birthday, Jimi Hendrix died (guess who shares my birthday?)
Also, Guiding Light ends it's 72-year run, with it's final episode airing 9-18-09. It is the longest running soap opera.
Shadowmancer
I am The Last Baron
my birthday is Halloween, trumps all here
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doesn't know REAL wrestling...
1457 BC Battle of Megiddo between the Egyptian forces of Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
The Romans celebrated the Feast of the Lemures
It is the Feast day of Saint Pachomius and Saint Gerontius of Cervia
It is known as Europe Day while many Eastern Europeans celebrate it as Victory in Europe day as Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender was ratified.
The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon in 1974
I share my birthday with John Brown, American abolitionist (1800); J. M. Barrie, Scottish author of Peter Pan (1860); Howard Carter, British archaeologist and discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb (1874); Candice Bergen (1946); Rosario Dawson (1979)
The Romans celebrated the Feast of the Lemures
It is the Feast day of Saint Pachomius and Saint Gerontius of Cervia
It is known as Europe Day while many Eastern Europeans celebrate it as Victory in Europe day as Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender was ratified.
The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon in 1974
I share my birthday with John Brown, American abolitionist (1800); J. M. Barrie, Scottish author of Peter Pan (1860); Howard Carter, British archaeologist and discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb (1874); Candice Bergen (1946); Rosario Dawson (1979)
Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom
Michael Jackson enters a drug rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to painkillers.
Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.
Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom
Michael Jackson enters a drug rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to painkillers.
Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.
You're seriously arguing that your birthday is the worst birthday of them all? Really? "Oh, look guys! The most deaths came on my birthyday!!! Oh, look over here!" /facepalm
I'm gonna make an attempt. For those not looking at the wiki for May 16th, 1990:
I have the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, a Middle Eastern Women's Suffrage movement, the first operating optical laser, the first regular trans-atlantic flight, the first president of Israel, the ending of the Warsaw Ghetto Riots, the beginning of the Academy Awards, the canonization of Joan de Arc as a saint, the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts (which arguably led the way to even more encroaching legislation, such as the PATRIOT Act), Andrew Johnson was acquitted of the first ever impeachment trial, Marie Antoinette and King Louie marry (thereby setting the framework for the French Revolution), Root Beer, and motherfucking Spaghetti-Os.
...I beat you?
Oh, and Jim Henson died on my exact birthday. If you believe in reincarnation, you're most likely speaking to Jim Henson's reincarnated spirit. Feel honored, bitches.
Though, I might add, Luther inspired the entire seperation that started the Catholic/Protestant divide. So he could be argued as the Godfather of the entire Protestant movement. Which will get him ire in the eyes of Catholics and honor in the eyes of those crazy Southern Baptists.
HEEL Blazy
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Nothing happened on the year I was born but
1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in
Some births
100 BC – Julius Caesar
1590 – Pope Clement X
1946 – Cheech Marin
1962 – Tom Kenny
1972 – Sean Waltman
not much cool I know but meh
1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in
Some births
100 BC – Julius Caesar
1590 – Pope Clement X
1946 – Cheech Marin
1962 – Tom Kenny
1972 – Sean Waltman
not much cool I know but meh
Freddy4190
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American Revolutionary War: The war begins at the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders
The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
Al Unser Jr was born
Suge Knight was born
Troy Polamlu was born
April19<3
Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders
The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
Al Unser Jr was born
Suge Knight was born
Troy Polamlu was born
April19<3
Freddy4190
Championship Contender
American Revolutionary War: The war begins at the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders
The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
Al Unser Jr was born
Suge Knight was born
Troy Polamalu was born
April19<3
Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders
The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
Al Unser Jr was born
Suge Knight was born
Troy Polamalu was born
April19<3
Hip2bsquare
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
The Football League is formed
World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
The Football League is formed
Cena's Little Helper
Mid-Card Championship Winner
I was born, and that should be sufficient enough to celebrate September 10th. Seriously though, I'm pretty sure something went down in political history that I have no interest in looking up.
King Patrick Star
K. O. T. R. 2007 - Team Undisputed
January 12
Events
475 Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople.
1528 Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
1539 Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
1773 The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
1777 Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
1808 The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
1848 The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1866 The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1872 Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
1875 Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
1895 The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
1898 Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
1899 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued off the cost of England by the Lynmouth Lifeboat.
1906 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
1908 A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1911 The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
1915 The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
1915 The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1918 Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
1932 Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1942 World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
1964 Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
1966 Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1967 Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1970 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
1971 The Harrisburg Seven: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
1976 The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
1986 Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61C as a Mission Specialist.
1991 Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1992 A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
1992 The fictional computer HAL 9000, from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, becomes operational in a lab in Urbana, Illinois.
1995 Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan.
1998 Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2004 The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2005 Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
2006 The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
2006 A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2006 Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
2006 The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
2007 Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
Events
475 Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople.
1528 Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
1539 Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
1773 The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
1777 Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
1808 The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
1848 The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1866 The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1872 Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
1875 Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
1895 The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
1898 Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
1899 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued off the cost of England by the Lynmouth Lifeboat.
1906 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
1908 A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1911 The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
1915 The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
1915 The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1918 Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
1932 Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1942 World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
1964 Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
1966 Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1967 Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1970 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
1971 The Harrisburg Seven: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
1976 The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
1986 Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61C as a Mission Specialist.
1991 Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1992 A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
1992 The fictional computer HAL 9000, from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, becomes operational in a lab in Urbana, Illinois.
1995 Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan.
1998 Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2004 The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2005 Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
2006 The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
2006 A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2006 Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
2006 The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
2007 Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
King Patrick Star
K. O. T. R. 2007 - Team Undisputed
July 27, my Father's and my Son's Birthday
Events
1214 Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England.
1549 Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
1663 The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1689 Glorious Revolution: Battle of Killiecrankie ends.
1694 A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
1720 The second important victory of the Russian Navy the Battle of Grengam.
1778 American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
1789 The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (later renamed Department of State).
1794 French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".
1862 Sailing from San Francisco to Panama, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231.
1866 The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time.
1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand In a pyrrhic victory, Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
1914 Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
1917 The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1921 Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
1928 Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.
1940 The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
1941 Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
1949 Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1953 Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
1955 The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.
1964 Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
1972 The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.
1974 Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1976 Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
1981 British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show.
1983 Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
1987 RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvaging of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1990 The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is transferred to June 3.
1990 The Jamaat al Muslimeen stage a coup d'état attempt in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying Parliament and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet, as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.
1995 The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. Alice Hawthorne is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 are injured.
1997 Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
2002 Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2005 STS-114: NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
2006 The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
2007 Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there are no survivors. This is the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
Events
1214 Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England.
1549 Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
1663 The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1689 Glorious Revolution: Battle of Killiecrankie ends.
1694 A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
1720 The second important victory of the Russian Navy the Battle of Grengam.
1778 American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
1789 The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (later renamed Department of State).
1794 French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".
1862 Sailing from San Francisco to Panama, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231.
1866 The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time.
1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand In a pyrrhic victory, Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
1914 Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
1917 The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1921 Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
1928 Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.
1940 The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
1941 Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
1949 Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1953 Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
1955 The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.
1964 Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
1972 The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.
1974 Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1976 Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
1981 British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show.
1983 Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
1987 RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvaging of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1990 The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is transferred to June 3.
1990 The Jamaat al Muslimeen stage a coup d'état attempt in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying Parliament and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet, as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.
1995 The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. Alice Hawthorne is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 are injured.
1997 Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
2002 Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2005 STS-114: NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
2006 The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
2007 Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there are no survivors. This is the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
