0065 - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem
0452 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
0793 - Vikings plunder St Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne
1783 - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1786 - 1st commercially-made ice cream sold in New York.
1789 - James Madison proposed a Bill of Rights to the House of Representatives.
1794 - French Revolutionary leader Maximilian Robespierre, worried about influence of French atheists and philosophers, stages "Festival of the Supreme Being" in Paris
1824 - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1861 - Tennessee secedes from Union
1862 - Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
1865 - Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, premieres
1869 - Ives McGaffey patents his vacuum cleaner (It sucks)
1876 - Author George Sand died in Nohant, France.
1887 - Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch-card calculator (Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company in 1896, which, through a series of mergers and reorganizations, eventually became IBM. )
1889 - Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles.
1896 - 1st car is stolen
1915 - Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the
Lusitania.
1917 - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1918 - Nova Aquila - brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604 - discovered
1927 - Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
1940 - Element 93 Neptunium - discovery announced
1941 - Allies invade Syria and Lebanon
1942 - Bing Crosby recorded "Adeste Fideles" and "Silent Night" in Los Angeles for Decca Records.
1944 - 1st SS-Panzer Korps counter attacks at Normandy
1944 - U.S. General Omar Bradley, following orders from General Eisenhower, links up American troops from Omaha Beach with British troops from Gold Beach at Colleville-sur-Mer
1953 - The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
1953 - Tornadoes kills 110 in Mich & Ohio
1959 - 1st official `missile mail' landed Jacksonville Fla
1965 - US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1966 - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
1967: - Attack on the USS Liberty During the Six-Day War between Israel and Arab States, Israeli jet planes and torpedo boats attacked the unescorted intelligence ship as it sailed through international waters off the Egyptian
coast. (Israel called the attack a tragic mistake.) [H]
1968 - Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1968 - Don Drysdale pitches a record 68th consecutive scoreless inning
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery
1969 - Mickey Mantle saw #7 retired
1969 - Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August (troop withdraw begins)
1975 - The Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 was launched towards Venus.
1978 - A jury in Clark County, Nev., ruled the so-called "Mormon will," purportedly written by late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.
1979 - The Source - 1st computer public information service - goes online
1982 - President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.
1986 - At the end of a controversial campaign marked by allegations that he had participated in Nazi atrocities during World War II, former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim was elected to the ceremonial office of president of Austria
1986 - Boston Celtics win NBA championship #16 over Houston Rockets
1988 - Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1990 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir announced he had succeeded in forming a new right-wing coalition government, ending a three-month-old political crisis.
1991 - A victory parade was held in Washington, D.C., to honor the veterans of the Persian Gulf War.
1991 - Preakness winner Hansel won the Belmont Stakes.
1995 - Baseball's Mickey Mantle received a liver transplant at a Dallas hospital but died two months later.
1995 - U.S. Marines rescued Captain Scott O'Grady, whose F16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
1996 - China set off an underground nuclear test blast.
1996 - Declaring racial hostility was behind recent church fires in the South, President Clinton said in his weekly radio address he would devote whatever resources were needed to "smother the fires of hatred."
1996 - Editor's Note won the Belmont Stakes.
1999 - Hannibal by Thomas Harris hits bookstores
1999 - President Clinton announced new restrictions aimed at making it tougher for teens to sneak into R-rated movies.
1999 - The United States, Russia and six leading democracies authorized a text calling for a peacekeeping force in
Kosovo.
2000 - Two gunmen shot to death Brigadier Stephen Saunders, a British defense attache, in Athens, Greece; the elusive terrorist group November 17 claimed responsibility, saying it killed Saunders because of his role in NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia.
0570 - Mohammed, prophet of Islam
1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, discovered 4 satellites of Saturn
1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor)
1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, Palermo Italy, adventurer
1810 - Robert Schumann (composer: Symphonic Etudes, Fantasia in C Major, Concerto in A Minor)
1829 - Sir John Everett Millais, English painter (Order of Release)
1847 - Ida McKinley (Saxton) (First Lady: wife of 25th U.S. President, William McKinley)
1869 - Frank Lloyd Wright (architect: Pennsylvania's Falling Water, NYC's Guggenheim Museum; "No house should be on any hill or on anything, it should be of the hill, belonging to it ...")
1913 - David Dixon Porter
1916 - Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure (Nobel 1962)
1917 - Byron R. (Whizzer) White, football star U.S. Supreme Court justice
1918 - Robert Preston (Meservey) (actor: Victor Victoria, The Music Man, How the West was Won, Mame, Semi-Tough)
1921 - Alexis (Gladys) Smith (actress: The Age of Innocence, The Young Philadelphians, Rhapsody in Blue)
1924 - George Kirby (comedian, impressionist: The George Kirby Show, ABC Comedy Hour)
1925 - Barbara Bush (Pierce) (First Lady: wife of 41st President of the U.S., George Bush)
1927 - Jerry Stiller, Bkln NY, comedian (Frank Constanza-Seinfeld)
1929 - Jerry Stiller (comedian: Stiller and (Anne) Meara; actor: Seinfeld, Hairspray, Tattingers, The Paul Lynde Show; actor, Ben Stiller's father)
1930 - Dana (Dagmar) Wynter (actress: Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Sink the Bismarck)
1934 - Millicent Martin,
1935 - Joan Rivers (comedienne, talk show host: Can We Talk)
1936 - James Darren (Ercolani) (singer: Goodbye Cruel World, Her Royal Majesty; actor: The Guns of Navarone, Because They're Young, Gidget; host: Time Tunnel)
1939 - Herb Adderley, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Dallas)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra (singer: These Boots Are Made For Walkin', Sugar Town, Somethin' Stupid (w/pop, Frank), Jackson [w/Lee Hazelwood]; actress: The Wild Angels, Speedway)
1942 - Chuck Negron (singer: group: Three Dog Night: Joy to the World, Black and White, One, Easy to Be Hard, Eli's Coming, Mama Told Me Not to Come, An Old Fashioned Love Song, Shambala)
1943 - Willie Davenport (Olympic Gold Medalist: 110 meter hurdles [1968], bronze medalist [1976]; National Track & Field Hall of Famer: 60-yeard hurdles champion [1966, 67, 69, 70, 71])
1944 - Boz (William) Scaggs (musician, singer: Lowdown, Lido Shuffle, Miss Sun, Look What You've Done To Me; songwriter: Silk Degrees, Middle Man)
1944 - Don Grady (actor: My Three Sons, Mickey Mouse Club)
1944 - Mark Belanger (baseball: Baltimore Orioles pitcher)
1949 - Emmanuel Ax, Lvov Poland, pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974)
1950 - Alex Van Halen (drummer: group Van Halen: Jump, Why Can't This be Love, When It's Love, Dance the Night Away; brother of Eddie and Michael)
1950 - Kathy Baker (actress: Picket Fences, Edward Scissorhands, Mad Dog and Glory, The Right Stuff)
1953 - Bonnie Tyler (singer: Total Eclipse of the Heart, It's a Heartache)
1955 - Griffin Dunne,
1963 - Johnny Depp (actor: Don Juan DeMarco, 21 Jump Street, Edward Scissorhands, Platoon, Arizona Dreams, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, A Nightmare on Elm Street)
0632 - Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), died in Medina at the age of sixty-three on his birthday (according to tradition)
1376 - "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46
1809 - Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72
1845 - Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn.
1874 - Apache Chief Cochise dies [H]
1876 - Author George Sand died in Nohant, France.
1889 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, dies at 54
1951 - Paul Bobel, Werner Braune, Erich Naumann, Otto Ohlendorf, Oswald Pohl, W. Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt -- last Nazi war criminals hanged by Americans -- at Landsberg Fortress
1982 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75
2000 - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jeff MacNally died in Baltimore, Md., at age 52.
