Events

• 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
• 1582 - Incident at Honnō-ji in Kyoto, Japan.
• 1621 - Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
• 1665 - First soldiers of Le Régiment de Carignan-Salières arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories.
• 1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, was tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
• 1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, founded.
• 1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
• 1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill
• 1813 - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria
• 1813 - Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario during the War of 1812.
• 1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
• 1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas
• 1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
• 1864 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
• 1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania Prisons.
• 1898 - Guam becomes a U.S. territory.
• 1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
• 1919 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
• 1919 - Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War.
• 1940 - World War II: France surrenders to Germany.
• 1940 - First successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 1942 - World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
• 1942 - World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the U.S. mainland.
• 1945 - World War II: Battle of Okinawa ends.
• 1948 - The "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
• 1948 - Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
• 1952 - Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, was converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
• 1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister
• 1964 - Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
• 1973 - In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law.
• 1982 - John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• 2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
• 2001 - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
• 2002 - The World Health Organization declares Europe polio free.
• 2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
• 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially christened Nix & Hydra.

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