1158 – Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
1216 – First Barons’ War: Prince Louis of France captures the city of Winchester and soon conquers over half of the Kingdom of England.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
1830 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers
1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1907 – Norway grants women the right to vote.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John’s, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1940 – World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1967 – The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles
Births
1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (d. 1896)
1812 – Fernando Wood, American merchant and politician, 73rd Mayor of New York City (d. 1881)
1840 – William F. Nast, American businessman (d. 1893)
1864 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (d. 1915)
1904 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (d. 1971)
1925 – Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
1946 – Donald Trump presidential candidate
Deaths
1497 – Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, Italian son of Pope Alexander VI
1801 – Benedict Arnold, American general during the American Revolutionlater turned British spy (b. 1741)
1825 – Pierre Charles L’Enfant, French-American architect and engineer,designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754)
1926 – Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (b. 1843) |
