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June 29 in history

223 sourced entries recorded on June 29, from 226 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 900The Venetians repel the Magyar raiders at Rialto.source
  • 925Stephen II becomes the new Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, succeeding Nicholas I.source
  • 1072Romanos IV Diogenes, deposed ruler of the Byzantine Empire, is blinded and sent into exile to the island of Proti (in the Sea of Marmara) at the Monastery of Transfiguration. A few days before his death, he receives a letter from Michael Psellos (his political advisor), congratulating him on the loss of his eyes.source
  • 1118Vikram Chola becomes regent of the Chola kingdom.source
  • 1128Conrad III, anti-king of Germany, is crowned "King of Italy" by Archbishop Anselmo della Pusterla at Monza in Lombardy.source
  • 1149Battle of Inab: The Zangid army under Nur al-Din defeats the combined army of Raymond of Poitiers and the Assassins of Ali ibn Wafa at Inab. After the battle, Nur al-Din invades Antiochene territory and captures the fortresses of Artah and Harim. He then turns west to appear before the walls of Antioch itself and raids as far as St. Symeon.source
  • 11701170 Syria earthquake: One of the largest earthquakes to hit Syria. It forms part of a sequence of large earthquakes that propagate southwards along the Dead Sea Transform, starting with the 1138 Aleppo earthquake and continuing with the 1157 Hama, 1170 and 1202 Syria events.source
  • 1236Siege of Córdoba: Castilian forces under King Ferdinand III ("the Saint") capture Muslim Córdoba from Emir Ibn Hud as part of the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula.source
  • 1283Sultan Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq sets out for a punitive expedition and marches from Córdoba to Jaén and Úbeda, and then northwards through difficult terrain. On the third day after crossing al-burt, the Marinid forces attack Montiel (a fortress belonging to the Order of Santiago) and Almedina.source
  • 1308Battle of the River Deesource
  • 1312Henry VII is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in the Lateran Palace, since St Peter's Basilica is occupied by Romans hostile to him.source
  • 133429 June Thomas de Burgh acting as deputy justiciarsource
  • 1417An English fleet, led by the Earl of Huntingdon, defeats a fleet of Genoese carracks and captures their admiral, the "Bastard of Bourbon".source
  • 1432At Nicosia John II becomes King of Cyprus upon the death of his father, King Janus.source
  • 1438The coronation of Albert II of Habsburg as King of Bohemia takes place in Prague.source
  • 1440The League of Italian States (Florence, Venice and the Papal States) defeats the army of the Duchy of Milan at the Battle of Anghiari in Tuscany.source
  • 1440Casimir IV Jagiellon is proclaimed as the new Grand Duke of Lithuania by the Lithuanian Council of Lords.source
  • 1440The Diet of Hungary approves a resolution declaring the coronation of Ladislaus as King of Hungary to be invalid, declaring that "the crowning of kings is always dependent on the will of the kingdom's inhabitants, in whose consent both the effectiveness and the force of the crown reside".source
  • 1444Battle of Torvioll: Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman army.source
  • 1448Karl VIII is crowned as King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral the day after being publicly hailed as king at Mora Stones.source
  • 1457The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire.source
  • 1473Gerontius, Bishop of Kolomna is appointed as the new Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.source
  • 1489King James IV grants Andrew, Lord Gray, the lands and Barony of Lundie in Scotland.source
  • 1500A combined force of troops from the Kingdom of France and from the Republic of Florence lay siege to the city of Pisa.source
  • 1502Columbus and his crew attempt to land at Santo Domingo in order to avoid being caught in a hurricane, despite being ordered not to return to Hispaniola. Nicolás de Ovando, the Spanish Viceroy, refuses to let Columbus sail into harbor and does not believe the warnings of the hurricane, which strikes two days later.source
  • 1512Giano II di Campofregoso was elected as the Doge of the Republic of Genoa in Italy after the withdrawal of French occupation troops, filling a vacancy that had existed since 1507.source
  • 1521June 29 or 30 – The oldest surviving dateable document written primarily in the Romanian language: Neacșu's letter, written by a trader from Câmpulung, to Johannes Benkner, the mayor of Brașov, warning that the Ottoman Empire is preparing its troops to cross into Wallachia and Transylvania; the script used is Romanian Cyrillic.source
  • 1534Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Island.source
  • 1547A fleet of 21 French galleys, commanded by Leone Strozzi, arrives at Fife in Scotland and begins the siege of St Andrews Castle.source
  • 1547A fleet of 21 French galleys, commanded by Leone Strozzi, arrives at Fife and joins the Siege of St Andrews Castle. The siege continues for a month before John Knox and Protestant nobles surrender on 31 July.source
  • 1554Edward Staples, Bishop of Meath, is deprived of his office as being a married priest. The Cistercian William Walsh is appointed to succeed him on 22 November by letters patent.source
  • 1556Prince John establish himself as the ruler of his Duchy of Finland.source
  • 1561Erik XIV is crowned King of Sweden.source
  • 1561Coronation of Eric XIV. The hereditary titles friherre (Baron) and count are introduced in Sweden.source
  • 1577Mehmed II Giray becomes the new Khan of Crimea for the Ottoman Empire, after the death of his father, Devlet I Giray, from a plague.source
  • 1600Archduchess Isabella addresses the Army of Flanderssource
  • 1609Richard Wingfield is granted the Powerscourt Estate in County Wicklow for his part in suppressing Cahir O'Doherty's rebellion (1608).source
  • 1609Action of 29 June 1609source
  • 1609A fleet of ships from the Kingdom of Spain, assisted by a French warship, fights a battle in the Mediterranean Sea against a larger fleet of 23 ships from the North African Eyalet of Tunisia and sinks 21 of them. The other two Tunisian ships are captured.source
  • 1613Fire destroys London's famed Globe Theatre, during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.source
  • 1623Malcolm Hamilton is consecrated Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel.source
  • 1623Première of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's first play, Amor, honor y poder (Love, Honor and Power), at the Court of Habsburg Spain.source
  • 1641The Battle of Wolfenbüttel takes place between a combined Swedish and French force against the Holy Roman Empire, with the Swedish-French Army driving back an Imperial assault.source
  • 1641The Battle of Wolfenbüttel takes place between a combined Swedish and French force against the Holy Roman Empire, with the Swedish-French army driving back an Imperial assault.source
  • 1642The Battle of Barcelona begins at sea as a French Navy fleet of 75 ships, commanded by Admiral Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé clashes off the coast of Spain with a Spanish fleet of 52 ships under the Duke of Ciudad Real.source
  • 1656The Treaty of Marienburg is signed by representatives of Sweden and of Brandenburg and Prussia to create a military alliance during the Second Northern War. King Karl X Gustav signs for Sweden and the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm signs for Brandenburg and Prussia.source
  • 1659In the Battle of Konotop, fought near the Ukrainian city of Konotop during the Russo-Polish War, Polish Cossack hetman Ivan Vyhovsky and his allies defeat the armies of the Tsardom of Russia, led by Aleksey Trubetskoy.source
  • 1660John Thurloe is released from custody.source
  • 1660John Thurloe is released.source
  • 1676A Danish fleet transports 14,500 soldiers across the Sound, landing them just south of Helsingborg, and Scania becomes the main battle ground for the remainder of the war.source
  • 1681King Christian V travels from Copenhagen to Kolding in just one day, leaving at 03:00 and arriving Kolding at 22:00.source
  • 1690Williamites reach the River Boyne.source
  • 1694The Battle of Texel is fought near the Dutch island of Texel, one of the West Frisian Islands. The French Navy force of 8 ships, commanded by Jean Bart, locates and rescues three French ships that had been captured by the Dutch Republic in late May. Bart fights a larger force commanded by Hidde Sjoerds de Vries, who dies of his wounds after being captured.source
  • 1706Flemish Jesuit missionary François Noël is welcomed in China by the Kangxi Emperor at the Forbidden City in Beijing, and discusses the Emperor's disdain over the disapproval of Jesuit accommodation of Confucian rites by the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1715Britain's Treason Act 1714 takes effect, providing for forfeiture to the British Crown of property owned by any person convicted of treason in the Kingdom. The Act remains in effect until June 24, 1718.source
  • 1734Battle of San Pietrosource
  • 1746Catherine of Ricci (born 1522) is canonized.source
  • 1750An attempt in Lima to begin a native uprising against Spanish colonial authorities in the Viceroyalty of Peru is discovered and thwarted. One of the conspirators, Francisco Garcia Jimenez, escapes to Huarochirí and kills dozens of Spaniards on July 25.source
  • 1756Seven Years' War: Siege of Fort St Philip at Port Mahón: The British garrison in Menorca surrenders to the French after two months' siege by the Duke of Richelieu.source
  • 1764One of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded hits Woldegk, Germany.source
  • 1776American Revolutionary War: Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet – The American Continental Navy successfully challenges the British Royal Navy blockade off New Jersey.source
  • 1794physician and poet William Drennan, a leading figure in the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, is tried for seditious libel for circulating a pamphlet Address to the Volunteers in 1792; he is acquitted but withdraws from further direct political commitment.source
  • 1794Petition of Free Negroes.source
  • 1797Napoleon Bonaparte decrees the birth of the Cisalpine Republic; he appoints ministers and establishes the first constitution.source
  • 1820The cause of action that will lead to the U.S. Supreme Court case known as The Antelope arises, when a U.S. Treasury cutter captures a ship of the same name, which is transporting 281 Africans who had been captured as slaves, in violation of the U.S. law prohibiting the slave trade.source
  • 1833An earthquake at Fort Nisqually is experienced by William Fraser Tolmie; his journal entry records the first written eyewitness account of an earthquake in the Puget Sound region.source
  • 1843Robert Napier launches his first iron ship, the paddle steamer Vanguard, from his new yard at Govan on the River Clyde.source
  • 1847Convention of Gramidosource
  • 1855The Daily Telegraph newspaper begins publication in London.source
  • 1855Telegraphic convention between Belgium, France and Prussia signed in Berlin.source
  • 1861Confirmation of the richness of Gabriel Read's gold discovery at Gabriel's Gully on the Tuapeka River is published in Dunedin and the Otago gold rush is on.source
  • 1864St-Hilaire train disaster : A train of newly arrived immigrants fails to stop at the open swing span near Beloeil, Canada East. The Grand Trunk Railway train runs into the Richelieu River, killing 99.source
  • 1864St-Hilaire train disaster, a passenger train operated by Grand Trunk Railway and travelling from Quebec City to Montreal is derailed at a swung open bridge after a signal passed at danger. The train also collapses onto a ship, sinking both ship and train. 99 people are killed and 100 injured making this the deadliest train accident in Canada's history.source
  • 1866June 27–29 – Battle of Langensalza: The Prussians defeat the Hanoverian army.source
  • 1867Kidder massacre: A Sioux and Cheyenne war party kills U.S. Second Lieutenant Lyman Kidder, along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men in Kansas.source
  • 1871Trade unions are legalized in the United Kingdom by the Trade Union Act 1871.source
  • 1871trade unions are legalised by the Trade Union Act but the Criminal Law Amendment Act criminalises coercion in a trade dispute.source
  • 1875The Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875 is passed in the United Kingdom, to permit slum clearance.source
  • 1880France annexes Tahiti.source
  • 1880France annexes Tahiti.source
  • 1884Legislative electionsource
  • 1885Reshuffle of the Depretis government.source
  • 1887The United Retail Federation is established in Brisbane, Australia.source
  • 1888Handel's Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at The Crystal Palace in London, the earliest known recording of classical music.source
  • 1889June 29–30 – First Inter-Parliamentary Conference held.source
  • 1889Gustav Christian Gjøs, politician (born 1810)source
  • 1893Unveiling of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus in London with its statue of Anteros.source
  • 1894June 28 – July 9 – Colonial Conference of 1894 held in Ottawa.source
  • 1903A meteorite fall, classification H5, is observed in Uberaba, Minas Gerais.source
  • 1904The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs.source
  • 1905The Automobile Association is founded in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1908the Apostolic constitution Sapienti consilio, issued by Pope Pius X, brings the Roman Catholic Church in Britain under regular canon law rather than being missionary territory.source
  • 1908Kohlerer-Bahn by Bleichert opens in Bolzano, South Tyrol, the first modern aerial enclosed cable car solely for passenger service.source
  • 1913The Second Balkan War begins with Bulgaria attacking Serbia and Greece.source
  • 1914Khioniya Guseva attempts and fails to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his hometown in Siberia.source
  • 1914The International Exhibition opens at the "White City", Ashton Gate, Bristol. It closes on August 15, and the site is used as a military depot.source
  • 1914world's first high-speed long-range flight of a heavy aircraft Ilya Muromets started, on the route Saint Petersburg - Orsha - Kopys - Kiev - Saint Petersburgsource
  • 1915June 23 – July 7 – The First Battle of the Isonzo between the Armies of Italy and Austria-Hungary on the Italian Front in World War I. The aim of the Italian Army, under the command of Luigi Cadorna, was to drive the Austrians away from its defensive positions along the Soča (Isonzo) and on the nearby mountains.source
  • 1918Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries opens in New York; Brazil is the only international exhibitor and the exposition closes at the end of the season.source
  • 1919Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, cardinal (died 2008)source
  • 1921June 15 – 29-year-old African American Bessie Coleman obtains her pilot's licence in France and becomes the first black woman to have a pilot's licence.source
  • 1925The 6.8 Mw Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead.source
  • 1926Arthur Meighen briefly returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada during the King-Byng Affair.source
  • 1927June 29–July 1 – Commander Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, George Noville and Bert Acosta take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, in the Fokker Trimotor airplane America, and cross the Atlantic to the coast of France, having to ditch there because of bad weather; all four men survive the emergency landing.source
  • 1927Charles Kingsford Smith and his copilot Charles Ulm complete a round-Australia flight in ten days, five-and-a-half hours.source
  • 1927Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927: A total eclipse of the sun takes place over Wales, northern England, southern Scotland, Norway, northern Sweden, northmost Finland, and the northmost extremes of Russia.source
  • 1928At the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston, Governor of New York Al Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.source
  • 1930Eight Jesuit martyrs become the first Canadian saintssource
  • 1931June 23–July 1 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from Roosevelt Field, New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.source
  • 1935first portion of Swanscombe skull, belonging to a woman from 400,000 years past, is discovered in north Kent.source
  • 1939The Ford 9N tractor, with the Ferguson hydraulic three-point hitch, is first demonstrated at Dearborn, Michigan.source
  • 1940June 28–July 4 – Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovinasource
  • 1940Turco German trade agreementsource
  • 1941WWII: Hitler's second-in-command, Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring, is appointed as Hitler's successor in a written decree. The decree will come into effect, should Hitler die in the middle of the war. (The decree becomes void in April 1945, after Göring tries to assume power while Hitler is still alive, leading to Göring's expulsion from the Nazi Party.)source
  • 1941June 28–30 – The Holocaust: Iași pogrom – "At least 13,266" Romanian Jews are massacred by local governmental forces.source
  • 1945Czechoslovakia cedes Carpathian Ruthenia to the Soviet Union.source
  • 194729 June The Round Zealand sailing race takes place for the first time.source
  • 1949Apartheid: The South African Citizenship Act suspends the granting of citizenship to Commonwealth of Nations immigrants after 5 years, and imposes a ban on mixed marriages.source
  • 1949South Africa introduces its apartheid policy.source
  • 1956President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, creating the Interstate Highway System in the United States.source
  • 1956Actress Marilyn Monroe marries playwright Arthur Miller, in White Plains, New York.source
  • 1958Brazil beats Sweden 5–2 in the final game to win the football World Cup in Sweden.source
  • 1958Brazil defeats Sweden 5–2 to win the 1958 FIFA World Cup. It is the first time Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup.source
  • 1966The strike by the National Union of Seamen in the United Kingdom is called off.source
  • 1968June 23–30 – 1968 French legislative election: The Gaullist Union pour la défense de la République becomes the first party in French political history to obtain an absolute majority in the National Assembly. George Pompidou leads the party through the campaign but resigns as prime minister afterwards. The public unrest of May 68 subsides.source
  • 19681967–68 Balkans Cup: Albania is defeated by Romania 2-1 at Stadionul Farul, Constanțasource
  • 1969June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City.source
  • 1970According to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, a Ryōmō General hospital fire, resulting to 17 person fatalities with 10 person injures, in Sano, Tochigi Prefecture.source
  • 1972June 22–30 — Typhoon Ora strucks the Philippines and Southern China.source
  • 1976The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.source
  • 1979Finance Minister Sergio de Castro announces that the exchange rate of the peso against the dollar will be fixed, establishing it at 39 pesos.source
  • 1980Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland, making her the first woman democratically elected as head of state.source
  • 1986St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast (Catholic) is elevated from serving as a Pro-Cathedral.source
  • 1986Argentina defeats West Germany 3–2 in the final to win the 1986 World Cup at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.source
  • 1987South Korean politician, presidential candidate of the ruling party Roh Tae-woo makes a speech promising a wide program of nationwide reforms, the result of the June Democracy Movement.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting three Canadian and eight U.S. cities.source
  • 1993The first mobile phone call was made in Greece, marking the launch of mobile telephony services in the country by Telestet (now NOVA).source
  • 1995Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the U.N. Security Council begins to fray as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country.source
  • 1995English yachtswoman Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.source
  • 1995STS-71: Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.source
  • 1995Sampoong Department Store collapse in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, kills 502 and injures 937.source
  • 1996An explosion in a firecrackers factory in Sichuan Province, China kills at least 52 people and injures 83 others.source
  • 1996The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.source
  • 2002Second Battle of Yeonpyeong: During the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan, two North Korean patrol boats cross a contested border in between the two Koreas and attack two South Korean Chamsuri-class patrol boats.source
  • 2004The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture enters into force.source
  • 2005St. Peter and Paul¹ in Ticinosource
  • 2007The iPhone, the first modern smartphone, is released in the United States. It is later released in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, and Austria, in November 2007.source
  • 2007The Thai foreign ministry says it will support a bid by Cambodia for UNESCO to make the Angkorian temple Preah Vihear a World Heritage Site. The temple lies along a disputed part of the border between the two countries.source
  • 2009Viareggio train derailment occurred when a freight train carrying liquified petroleum gas derailed at Viareggio railway station in Lucca, Italy. The accident killed 32 people and injured 26 people.source
  • 2010Liberia receives $4.6 billion of debt relief from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.source
  • 2012Mater Dei Hospital celebrated its 5 Year anniversary as the general hospital in Malta.source
  • 2014The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declares itself a caliphate.source
  • 2017Croatia–Slovenia border disputes: the Permanent Court of Arbitration issues a decision in the arbitration case between the two neighbouring countries, ruling, among other things, that Slovenia should have access to international waters through a corridor crossing Croatian territorial waters. Croatia doesn't acknowledge the decision.source
  • 2018Chief executive Carrie Lam announces 6 new policies to tackle the housing crisis, including changing how the prices of subsidised flats are determined, and a fee on newly built flats left vacant for a year or more.source
  • 2018June 22–July 1 – The 2018 Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain.source
  • 2021Prime Minister Bob Loughman wins a confidence vote by the parliament after a no-confidence motion had been introduced to remove his government by opposition leader Ralph Regenvanu. However, Loughman's hold on power remains tenuous as the Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the seats of 19 government MPs were to be declared vacant. Loughman's government has already appealed the ruling.source
  • 2021COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 3 billion.source
  • 2024The yearly Danish royal visit begins. King Frederik and Queen Mary land at Pituffik Space Base and are greeted by Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede.source
  • 2024The ICC Men's T20 World Cup Final is held at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, where India defeats South Africa by seven runs to win the tournament.source

Births

  • 1227Hōjō Tokiyori, Japanese regent (shikken) (died 1263)source
  • 1264Darmabala ("Protector of the Law"), Mongol prince (died 1292)source
  • 1318Yusuf I al-Muyyad billah, Nasrid ruler of Granada (died 1354)source
  • 1326Murad I, Turkish ruler of the Ottoman Empire (died 1389)source
  • 1443Anthony Browne, English knight (died 1506)source
  • 1475Beatrice d'Este, duchess of Bari and Milan (died 1497)source
  • 1482Maria of Aragon, Queen of Manuel I of Portugal, daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (died 1517)source
  • 1488Pedro Pacheco de Villena, Spanish Catholic cardinal (died 1560)source
  • 1508Balthasar of Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman (died 1534)source
  • 1517Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (died 1585)source
  • 1520Nicolás Factor, Spanish artist (died 1583)source
  • 1525Peter Agricola, German Renaissance humanist, educator, classical scholar, theologian, diplomat and statesman (died 1585)source
  • 1528Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1589)source
  • 1543Christine of Hesse, duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp (1465-1486) (died 1604)source
  • 1546Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1561-1592) (died 1617)source
  • 1596Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (died 1680)source
  • 1624Olov Svebilius, archbishop from 1681 to his death in 1700.source
  • 1636Thomas Hyde, English orientalist (died 1703)source
  • 1640Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield, second wife of Philip Stanhope (died 1665)source
  • 1686Pietro Paolo Troisi, Maltese artist (died 1743)source
  • 1798Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet, philosopher and writer (died 1837)source
  • 1860Júlio de Castilhos (died 1903)source
  • 1900Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French aviator and writer (died 1944)source
  • 1925Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician and 11th President of Italy (died 2023)source
  • 1945Lali Armengol — Spanish-born playwright, director of the Maracay University Theater.source

Deaths

  • 226Cao Pi, Chinese emperor (born 187)source
  • 381Saint Syrus, Bishop of Genoasource
  • 884Yang Shili, general of the Tang Dynastysource
  • 976Gero, archbishop of Colognesource
  • 979Fujiwara no Koshi, Japanese empress (born 947)source
  • 1059Bernard II, German noblemansource
  • 1091Frederick of Montbéliard, margrave of Turinsource
  • 1139Empress Xing of China (born 1106)source
  • 1149Raymond of Poitiers, prince of Antiochsource
  • 1153Óláfr Guðrøðarson, king of the Islessource
  • 1252Abel, King of Denmark (born 1218)source
  • 1293Henry of Ghent, philosopher (born c.1217)source
  • 1344Joan of Savoy, duchess consort of Brittany, throne claimant of Savoy (born 1310)source
  • 1374Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, Czech priest and reformersource
  • 1432Janus, King of Cyprus (born 1375)source
  • 1509Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of Henry VII of England (born 1443)source
  • 1520Moctezuma II, 9th Tlatoani (emperor) of the Aztecs, assassinated or possibly killed in a riot, 1502-1520 (born 1466)source
  • 1520Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, is assassinated by other Aztec leaders as he attempts to address his people. His brother Cuitláhuac rises to the throne.source
  • 1537Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English noble (born 1502)source
  • 1596Emperor Go-Mizunoo, 108th Emperor of Japan (died 1680)source
  • 1698Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni, Italian Catholic Cardinal and Cardinal-Nephew to Pope Clement X (born 1623)source
  • 1725Arai Hakuseki, Japanese poet, politician, and writer (born 1657)source
  • 1744André Campra, French composer (born 1660)source
  • 1763Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish writer (born 1718)source
  • 1764Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (born 1693)source
  • 1779Anton Raphael Mengs, German-Bohemian painter (born 1728)source
  • 1837Nathaniel Macon, American politician (born 1757)source
  • 1852Henry Clay, American statesman (born 1777)source
  • 1861Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (born 1806)source
  • 1875Ferdinand I of Austria, Emperor of Austria (born 1793)source
  • 1895Thomas Henry Huxley, English evolutionary biologist (born 1825)source
  • 1925Şeyh Said (born in 1865), rebel leader (executed)source
  • 1933Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, comedian, film director and screenwriter (born 1887)source
  • 1934Zaro Aga (born in 1777), allegedly the World's oldest mansource
  • 1992Mohamed Boudiaf, politician (born 1919)source
  • 1998Nepalese politician Mirza Dilshad Beg is assassinated.source
  • 2003Katharine Hepburn, 96, American actress (The African Queen, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond), four-time Oscar winner, heart attack.source
  • 2021Donald Rumsfeld, 88, American politician, secretary of defense (1975–1977, 2001–2006) and member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1969), multiple myeloma.source