● 1154 - Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
● 1187 - Pope Clement III is elected.
● 1490 - Princess Anne of Brittany is married to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I by a trustee.
● 1562 - The Battle of Droy takes place during the French War of Religions.
● 1606 - Susan Constant, Godspid, and Discovery sail from England, taking with them immigrants from England who founded the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States in Jamestown, Virginia.
● 1675 - Battle of the Great Swamp, a decisive battle in the war of King Philip, a bitter victory for the English settlers.
● 1776 - Thomas Payne publishes a pamphlet in the Pennsylvania Journal entitled The American Crisis.
● 1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army enters winter buildings in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
● 1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates, led by Comodore Horatio Nelson, and two Spanish frigates, led by Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart, fight off the coast of Murcia.
● 1828 - Cancellation Crisis: John K. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States of America, captures the South Carolina Exhibition and Protest in protest of the 1828 tariff.
● 1900 - Hopetun Blunder: Australia's first governor-general, County 7 of Hopetun, appoints Sir William Lane as prime minister of the new state of New South Wales, but he fails to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to do so. . resignation
● 1907 - Two hundred and thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr mine accident at Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
● 1912 - William Van Shayk, captain of the General Slocum steamer, which caught fire and killed more than a thousand people, was pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3 1⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
● 1924 - German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
● 1956 - Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. In the end, he was convicted only on minor charges.
● 1961 - India annexes Daman and Diuni, which are part of Portuguese India.
● 1967 - Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
● 1972 - Apollo program: The last manned flight to the moon, Apollo 17, manned by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
● 1974 - Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
● 1981 - Sixteen people are killed when a Penlee rescuer goes to the aid of the Union Star coast in heavy seas.
● 1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy
● 1984 - The Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Continuation of Sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom was signed on June 1997, 1 in Beijing, China by Dan Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
● 1986 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev frees Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
● 1995 - The United States government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron group of the Potawatomi Native American tribe.
● 1997 - Flight 185 of SilkAir crashes into the Musi River near Palembang, Indonesia, killing 104 people.
● 1998 - President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second U.S. president to be impeached.
● 2000 - The wing of the Lenin guerrilla units of the Turkish Communist Labor Party / Lenin attacked the office of the Nationalist Movement Party in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three others.
● 2001 - High barometric pressure of 1085,6 gPa (32,06 inches) was recorded in Tosontsengel, Khovsgol, Mongolia.
● 2013 - The European Space Agency launches the Gaia spacecraft.
● 2016 - Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, is assassinated at an art exhibition in Ankara. The killer, Mevlut Mert Altintosh, was shot dead by a Turkish guard.
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● 1587 - Dorotea Sophia, Abbess of Kuedlinburg (died 1645).
● 1699 - William Bouyer, English printer (died 1777).
● 1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer and teacher (died 1779).
● 1796 - Manuel Breton de los Erreros, Spanish poet, playwright and critic (died 1873).
● 1797 - Antoine Louis Duje, French obstetrician and naturalist (died 1838).
● 1817 - James J. Archer, American lawyer and general (died 1864).
● 1820 - Mary Livermore, American journalist and activist (died 1905).
● 1825 - George Frederick Bristov, American violinist and composer (died 1898).
● 1831 - Bishop Bernice Pauaxi, American philanthropist (died 1884).
● 1849 - Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and financier (died 1919)
● 1852 - Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, chemist and academician, winner of the Nobel Prize (died 1931).
● 1853 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 1942).
● 1861 - Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright (died 1928).
● 1863 - Wallace Bryant, American archer (died 1953)
● 1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (died 1932)
● 1873 - Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French swordsman (died 1913)
● 1875 - Mileva Mariic, Serbian physicist (died 1948)
● 1875 - Carter G. Woodson, American historian and author, founded Black History Month (died 1950).
1875 - Grace Marie Bareis, American mathematician (died 1962)
1876 - Bernard Friedberg, Austrian-Israeli scientist and author (died 1961)
● 1884 - Antonin Zapotokki, Czech politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (died 1957).
● 1888 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (died 1963)
● 1894 - Ford Frick, American journalist and businessman (died 1978)