- 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
- 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
- 1509 – An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Constantinople.
- 1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.
- 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
- 1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
- 1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
- 1573 – German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in Hamburg [1].
- 1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- 1798 – At the Battle of St. George’s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
- 1813 – The United States defeats a British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff’s posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
- 1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- 1919 – The Republic of German-Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ceding significant territories to Italy, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.
- 1932 – The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- 1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London’s (England) Wembley Stadium
- 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy‘s first loss of a submarine in the war.
- 1939 – World War II: The Canadian declaration of war on Germany receives royal assent.
- 1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
- 1943 – World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
- 1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
- 1961 – In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
- 1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
- 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
- 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
- 2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 2001 – Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
- 2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
- 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
- 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
-Source: wikipedia
