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June 3 in history

211 sourced entries recorded on June 3, from 20 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 350Nepotianus, Roman usurper, proclaims himself emperor and enters Rome with a group of gladiators.source
  • 713Emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed, and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace, after a reign of 1 year and 6 months. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, a bureaucrat and imperial secretary, who restores internal order and begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army. He executes the officers who have been directly involved in the conspiracy against Philippicus.source
  • 978Chen Hongjin, Jiedushi of Pinghai Circuit, surrenders his territories and pledges allegiance to the Song Dynasty.source
  • 995Fujiwara no Michikane gains power and becomes Regent.source
  • 1098Siege of Antioch: The Crusaders under Bohemond I capture Antioch after a 8-month siege. He established secret contact with Firouz, an Armenian guard who controlled the "Tower of the Two Sisters". He opened the gates and Bohemond entered the city. Thousands of Christians are massacred along with Muslims. Bohemond is named Prince of Antioch (under protest) and creates the Principality of Antioch.source
  • 1099June 2–6 – The Crusaders occupy Arsuf and turn inland towards Ramlah, where they reorganise for the march against Jerusalem. A Crusader force under Tancred liberates Bethlehem.source
  • 1137A fire severely damages Rochester Cathedral, but it is soon rebuilt.source
  • 1140Pierre Abelard, a French theologian, is condemned for heresy by the Council of Sens. He sets out for Rome to present his defense to Pope Innocent II.source
  • 1162King Henry II has his chancellor Thomas Becket elected to succeed the late Theobald of Bec as archbishop of Canterbury. He accepts the pallium sent by Pope Alexander III.source
  • 1326The Treaty of Novgorod, a 10-year armistice, ends decades of border skirmishes between Norway and Novgorod in the far-northern region of Finnmark.source
  • 1344Justiciar is ordered to resume and regrant all abandoned and waste lands.source
  • 1369At the opening of the English Parliament at Westminster, King Edward III of England proclaims himself to the rightful heir to the throne of France after the Hundred Years' War is resumed by France's King Charles V.source
  • 1388General Yi Song-gye overthrows the Emperor U of Goryeo and installs U's son, Chang of Goryeo, as the new Emperor.source
  • 1395Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire has the former Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Shishman beheaded after Shishman is accused of collaborating with the Principality of Wallachia during the 1394 Battle of Karanovasa.source
  • 1402Jingnan campaign: After crossing the Huai River into what is now Jiangsu province, and taking Yangzhou (May 18) and Luhe (May 19), the Yan Army of Zhu Di crosses the Yangtze River at Guazhou and is within striking distance of the Imperial Chinese capital at Nanjing by June 8, forcing Emperor Zhu Yun Wen to prepare terms of surrender that include granting the Yan Kingdom areas north of the Yangtze. Zhu Di refuses.source
  • 1403The coronation of Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Carlos III of Navarre, as Queen of Navarre takes place in Pamplona, now in Spain.source
  • 1411In Vienna, Friedrich IV, nicknamed "Friedrich of the Empty Pockets", becomes the new Duke of Further Austria upon the death of his older brother, Leopold the Fat.source
  • 1418Because of the rebellion of his son, Grand Prince Yangnyeong (Yi Che), King Taejong of Korea permanently disowns Yangnyeong as heir to the throne.source
  • 1428Dan II leads an army against the Ottomans at Golubac Fortress, obtaining a treaty that will allow him a semi-peaceful rule in Wallachia, until 1432.source
  • 1455Saint Vincent Ferrer is canonized 36 years after his death by Pope Callixtus III in a ceremony at the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.source
  • 1460Pope Pius II re-imposes a 1454 ban against trade with the Prussian Confederation, and extends it to include a ban against trading with the Kingdom of Poland, after the Prussian states and Poland refuse to join in the proposed crusade against the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1469King Henry IV of Castile makes a gift of Gibraltar to Enrique de Guzmán, 2nd Duke of Medina Sidonia, as a reward for Guzman's work in capturing Gibraltar from the Moors.source
  • 1523Santhome Church is established by Portuguese explorers over the tomb of Saint Thomas the Apostle at Madras (now Chennai) in India.source
  • 1553The first of the five Battles of Kawanakajima, the "Battle of the Fuse," commences in Japan between Takeda Shingen of Kai Province and Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo Province. The clash, fought 12 days after Shingen has taken Katsurao Castle, takes place at a shrine of Hachiman (near modern-day Yashiro, Hyōgo prefecture), is part of a major series of conflicts during the Japanese Sengoku period.source
  • 1571Following the Battle of Bangkusay Channel, the conquest of the Kingdom of Maynila is complete; Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi makes Manila a city, and the capital of the Philippines.source
  • 1602Anglo-Spanish War (1585) – Battle of Sesimbra Bay off of the coast of Portugal: Five galleons of the English Royal Navy defeat a larger force of Spanish Navy ships.source
  • 1606The Duke of Sully is named captain lieutenant in the Queen’s company.source
  • 1615The Eastern Army of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Osaka Army of Toyotomi Hideyori clash during the Battle of Dōmyōji and the Battle of Tennōji.source
  • 1620The oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, is begun at Quebec City in modern-day Canada.source
  • 1621The Dutch West India Company is founded.source
  • 1643Royal proclamation renewing the privileges and exemptions of Bandes d'ordonnancesource
  • 1644Li Zicheng proclaims himself emperor of China.source
  • 1654Louis XIV of France is crowned at Reims.source
  • 1658Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic of New France.source
  • 1661Pye Min, younger brother of King Pindale Min of Burma, leads a bloody coup d'etat and ascends the throne. Pindale Min and his family (including his primary wife, a son and a grandson) are drowned in the Chindwin River. Pye Min reigns until 1672.source
  • 1664In the city of Mantua in Italy, the world's oldest continuously published private newspaper, Gazzetta di Mantova, publishes its first-known issue. The newspaper would celebrate its 350th anniversary in 2014.source
  • 16653 June (13 June N.S.) – Second Anglo-Dutch War: English naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft.source
  • 1714The city of Kassel in Germany inaugurates the summer tradition of the "water stairs" or "great cascades" (Grossen Kaskaden) emptying from the base of the Hercules monument down to the Wilhelmshöhe castle.source
  • 1718Pirates Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet accidentally run aground in the ship Queen Anne's Revenge after sailing into Topsail Inlet in the British colony of North Carolina. Learning of the royal pardon available to all pirates who surrender before September 5, Teach negotiates a settlement with Colonial Governor Charles Eden for a pardon for himself, Bonnet and the rest of his crew in return for the Governor receiving some of the pirates' plunder.source
  • 1749radical apothecary Charles Lucas begins publication of The Censor, or Citizens' Journal in Dublin.source
  • 1752A fire destroys 13,000 houses in Moscow in the Russian Empire, only 11 days after a May 23 fire destroyed 5,000 homes; by June 6, two-thirds of the city has been damaged or destroyed.source
  • 1769A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in historical times. The transit is viewed by King George III of Great Britain, at the Kew Observatory.source
  • 1770Gaspar de Portolà and Father Junípero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777–1822, United Mexican States 1824–1846, until the California Republic.source
  • 1770The 7.5 Mw Port-au-Prince earthquake affects the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 250 or more.source
  • 1770The 7.5 Mw Port-au-Prince earthquake affects the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 250 or moresource
  • 1772the London-Derry Journal and General Advertiser is first published.source
  • 1778Papists Act is the first to provide a measure of Catholic relief.source
  • 1779Armada of 1779: Fleet sets sail from France.source
  • 1781American Revolution – Jack Jouett begins a "midnight ride" to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of approaching British cavalry led by Banastre Tarleton who have been sent to capture themsource
  • 1785The United States' Continental Navy is disbanded.source
  • 1790The Lady Juliana arrives in Port Jackson – the first ship to land on Australian soil since the First Fleet. Much to the colonists' despair, she contains no fresh supplies, only more convicts.source
  • 1792Monmouthshire Canal receives its Act of Parliament.source
  • 1794May 30–June 4 – Battle of Port-Républicain: British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti from the French.source
  • 1795The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies are founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.source
  • 1800U.S. President John Adams moves to Washington. Because the President's Mansion is still under construction, President Adams takes up residence at Tunnicliffe's City Hotel near the unfinished U.S. Capitol Building.source
  • 1813The "Growler" and the "Eagle," which left Plattsburg, yesterday, are taken by the British gun-boats they pursuedsource
  • 1818Baji Rao II, Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy, surrenders to Sir John Malcolm of the British East India Company, bringing an end to the Third Anglo-Maratha War and giving the company control of almost all of modern-day India.source
  • 1820the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is largely destroyed by arson.source
  • 1825The U.S. Senate ratifies the treaty with the Kansas tribe.source
  • 1828Gran Colombia–Peru War: Gran Colombia's President Simón Bolívar declares war on Peru.source
  • 1829The Swan River Colony (later to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle) is founded in Western Australia. This secures the western third of the Australian landmass for the British.source
  • 1837Chilean Army officer Jose Antonio Vidaurre attempts to overthrow the Prieto government. The coup fails and Vidaurre is later executed.source
  • 1839Destruction of opium at Humen begins, casus belli for Britain to open the 3-year First Opium War against Qing dynasty China. A rapid rise in the sale of opium in China to over 40,000 chests (~56,000 kg per annum) has caused the Chinese government to dispatch scholar-official Lin Zexu to Guangzhou to deal with the growing problem of opium addiction.source
  • 1848June 2–12 – The Prague Slavic Congress brings together members of the Pan-Slavism movement.source
  • 1850Traditional date of Kansas City, Missouri's founding: it is incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "Town of Kansas".source
  • 1850Kansas City, Missouri, is incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri, as the Town of Kansas (traditional date of its founding).source
  • 18642nd Battle of Acapulcosource
  • 1867The Evening Herald is founded in Wanganui. Around the turn of the 20th century, it changed its name to The Wanganui Herald, and continued to publish until 1986.source
  • 1885Battle of Loon Lake: The Canadian North-West Mounted Police and allies force a party of Plains Cree warriors to surrender in the last skirmish of the North-West Rebellion, and the last battle fought on Canadian soil.source
  • 1886Uganda Martyrs: Charles Lwanga, 12 other Catholic boys and men, and 9 Anglicans, are burned (and another Catholic speared) to death, at the orders of Kabaka Mwanga II of Buganda in Namugongo.source
  • 1888The Kingdom of Sedang is formed, in modern-day Vietnam.source
  • 1888American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published (under the pen name "Phin") as the last of his humorous contributions to The San Francisco Examiner.source
  • 1889The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 mi between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.source
  • 1889The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.source
  • 1892Liverpool Football Club officially comes into existencesource
  • 1896An expedition organised by the Royal Irish Academy leaves from Killybegs onboard the Congested Districts Board steamer Granuaile in order to study the island of Rockall. Irish naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger is onboard, who later describes it in his 1937 memoir The Way That I Went. The group attempt to land twice, but due to bad weather have to cancel.source
  • 1900First round of the Italian general election.source
  • 1903The Club Deportivo Arturo Fernández Vial is founded.source
  • 1904The International Alliance of Women is founded.source
  • 1907Centro Escolar University established as Centro Escolar de Señoritas.source
  • 1910The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, led by Roald Amundsen on the steamer Fram, departs from Christiania (modern-day Oslo). No announcement until later in the year of Amundsen's intention to reach the South Pole.source
  • 1915Mexican Revolution: Troops of Álvaro Obregón and Pancho Villa clash at León; Obregón loses his right arm in a grenade attack, but Villa is decisively defeated.source
  • 1921The death penalty is abolished in Sweden.source
  • 1922The Churchill White Paper is published endorsing the Balfour Declaration but weakening the plans for a Jewish homeland.source
  • 1929The Treaty of Lima settles a border dispute between Peru and Chile.source
  • 1931Cape – Molteno to Jamestown, 41 mi 72 ch.source
  • 1937Wallis Simpson marries the Duke of Windsor, the former Edward VIII, in France.source
  • 1939The Soviet government offers its definition of what constitutes "aggression", upon which the projected Anglo-Soviet-French alliance will come into effect. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet accepts the Soviet definition of aggression at once. The British reject the Soviet definition, especially the concept of "indirect aggression", which they feel is too loose a definition, and phrased in such a manner as to imply the Soviet right of inference in the internal affairs of Eastern European nations.source
  • 1940The Weather Bureau is transferred to the United States Department of Commerce.source
  • 1943The Zoot Suit Riots erupt between military personnel and Mexican-American youths in East Los Angeles.source
  • 1944Maureen Flavin (Sweeney after marriage) recorded weather conditions at Blacksod Lighthouse, County Mayo indicating an approaching storm, which led to the 24-hour postponement of the Allied D-Day landings from 5 June to 6 June. The United States House of Representatives honoured Sweeney in 2021 with a medal and proclamation for her vital role in World War II.source
  • 1944Hans Asperger publishes his paper on Asperger syndrome.source
  • 1944Foundation of the CGIL, bringing together unions of all political orientations.source
  • 1946Interpol is re-founded; the telegraphic address "Interpol" is adopted.source
  • 1948The Palomar Observatory telescope is finished in California.source
  • 1950Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, of the French Annapurna expedition, become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.source
  • 1951Elections are held to the Chamber of Deputies in the Centre and Nord constituencies. The Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) gains 4 seats, taking it to nineteen seats, just behind the Christian Social People's Party (CSV).source
  • 1959Singapore becomes a self-governing crown colony of Britain with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister.source
  • 1959Real Madrid beat Stade Reims 2–0 at Neckarstadion, Stuttgart and win the 1958–59 European Cup (Association football).source
  • 1961June 3–4: The Vienna summit, a meeting between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, is held.source
  • 19621962 Albanian parliamentary electionsource
  • 1963Huế chemical attacks: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam rains liquid chemicals on the heads of Buddhist protestors, injuring 67 people. The United States threatens to cut off aid to the regime of Ngô Đình Diệm.source
  • 1965Launch of Gemini 4, a 4 day mission during which Ed White performs the first space walk by an American astronaut.source
  • 1968Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol at his New York City studio, The Factory; he survives after a 5-hour operation.source
  • 1969While operating at sea on SEATO maneuvers, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne accidentally rams and slices into the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea, killing 74 American seamen.source
  • 1969Melbourne-Evans collision – The Royal Australian Navy aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the United States Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea. Frank E. Evans is cut in half and sinks, killing 74 crew.source
  • 1972Sally Priesand becomes the first American woman (and the second known woman anywhere) to be ordained as a rabbi within Judaism.source
  • 1978Ziaur Rahman wins the presidential election and secures his position for a five-year term.source
  • 19791979 Italian general election: The Italian Communist Party loses a significant number of seats.source
  • 1979Ixtoc I oil spill: A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill until it is surpassed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.source
  • 19801980 Grand Island tornado outbreak: A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing over $300m in damage, killing five people and injuring over 250.source
  • 1987The Vanuatu Labour Party is founded.source
  • 1988May 29–June 3 – The Moscow Summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev takes place, where the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was finalized.source
  • 1989June 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden.source
  • 1989The world's first high-definition television (test) broadcasts commence in Japan, in analogue.source
  • 1990The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the United Kingdom is dissolved after two years of poor results.source
  • 1991The first National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) replacement exercise takes place in MacPherson Community Club in a programme spanning three years. The programme replaces the existing laminated NRICs to credit-card sized ones with features for higher security. It will also indicate blood types for use in emergencies.source
  • 1991Mount Unzen in Japan erupts, killing 46 people as a result of pyroclastic flow.source
  • 1992June 3–14 – The Earth Summit is held in Rio de Janeiro.source
  • 1992Local municipal officials belonging to the Patriotic Union María Mercedes Méndez, William Ocampo Castaño, Rosa Peña Rodríguez, and Ernesto Sarralde and their driver, Armando Sandovaz, are targeted and killed in El Castillo, Meta.source
  • 1994Sections of the A13 motorway between Sanem and Lankelz and Esch-sur-Alzette and Schifflange open.source
  • 1996June 1–3 – The Czech Republic's first general election ends inconclusively. Prime Minister Václav Klaus and his incumbent Civic Democratic Party emerge as the winners, but are unable to form a majority government. President Václav Havel refuses to invite Klaus to form a coalition.source
  • 1996June 3/14 – Habitat II (conference)source
  • 1997June 1–7: Tropical Storm Andres (1997)source
  • 1998Eschede train disaster: an Intercity-Express high-speed train derails between Hanover and Hamburg, Germany, causing 101 deaths.source
  • 2002Archaeologists begin uncovering the Liye Qin Slips in Liye, China.source
  • 2006Montenegro declares its independence from Serbia and Montenegro after a May 21 referendum and becomes a sovereign state. Two days later, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro officially disbands after Serbia declares its independence as well, ending an 88-year union between the two countries and leaving Serbia as the successor country to the union.source
  • 2006Human Rights Watch releases a video showing South Sudanese Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon bribing cult and rebel leader Joseph Kony and his second-in-command Vincent Otti of the Lord's Resistance Army to not attack southern Sudanese citizens.source
  • 2007Togolese football fans riding in helicopter crash near Lungi Airportsource
  • 2010Pope Benedict XVI visits the country for 3 days, the first such visit by any Pope in the modern era.source
  • 2012Dana Air Flight 0992, on a flight from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria, suffered a dual-engine failure during its approach to Lagos where it crashed onto buildings, killing all 153 people on board and six on the ground.source
  • 20172017 Turin stampede: During a screening of the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final, pepper spray is discharged by individuals attempting to rob soccer fans in the square, causing the crowd to panic. There are 3 deaths and 1,672 people wounded.source
  • 2018Snap parliamentary elections are held in Slovenia, following the resignation of prime minister Miro Cerar, to elect all 90 members of the National Assembly of Slovenia, the lower house of the Slovenian Parliament.source
  • 2018May 28–June 7 – The 2018 Stanley Cup Final are played between the Washington Capitals and the Vegas Golden Knights and won by the former.source
  • 2019June 3–5 – U.S. President Donald Trump makes a state visit to the U.K., meeting with Queen Elizabeth II and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May. It is the first official state visit to the U.K. by a sitting U.S. president since 2011. Trump also attends D-Day commemorative ceremonies.source
  • 2020Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK will change immigration laws to offer a pathway to UK citizenship for all Hong Kong citizens who are eligible for BN(O) status if the government of China imposes new security laws on the territory.source
  • 2020SpaceX successfully launches and deploys 60 Starlink satellites into a low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, bringing the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit to 482.source
  • 2020Russian President Vladimir Putin declares a state of emergency after 20,000 tons of oil leaked into the Ambarnaya River near the Siberian city of Norilsk within the Arctic Circle on May 26, 2020. The World Wildlife Fund said the accident is believed to be the second-largest in modern Russian history.source
  • 2023The EU imposes punitive measures on Kosovo for failing to reduce tensions in the north, including exclusion from high-level meetings and suspension of pre-accession funds until 2024.source
  • 2025Qatar records a budget deficit of 500 million riyals ($133.31 million) in the first quarter of 2025.source

Births

  • 20 BCELucius Aelius Sejanus, advisor of Tiberius (died AD 31)source
  • 1139Conon of Naso, Basilian abbot (died 1236)source
  • 1239June 3 or June 4 – John II, Duke of Brittany, French nobleman and knight (died 1305)source
  • 1421Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian noble (died 1463)source
  • 1454Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (died 1523)source
  • 1537João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Portuguese prince (died 1554)source
  • 1540Charles II, Archduke of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (died 1590)source
  • 1554Pietro de' Medici, Italian noble (died 1604)source
  • 1594César, Duke of Vendôme, French nobleman (died 1665)source
  • 1603Pietro Paolini, Italian painter (died 1681)source
  • 1662Willem van Mieris, Dutch painter (died 1747)source
  • 1664Rachel Ruysch, painter from the Northern Netherlands (died 1750)source
  • 1674Matthias Buchinger, German artist (died 1740)source
  • 1726June 3 O.S. – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (died 1797)source
  • 1736Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, Prime Minister of Naples (died 1811)source
  • 1761Henry Shrapnel, British Army officer and inventor (died 1842)source
  • 1770Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician, general in the Independence War (died 1820)source
  • 1808Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States (died 1889)source
  • 1843King Frederick VIII of Denmark (died 1912)source
  • 1865George V of the United Kingdom (died 1936)source
  • 1906Josephine Baker, American-born French entertainer (died 1975)source
  • 1924Karunanidhi, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, referred to as Kalaignar (died 2018)source
  • 1951Jill Biden, First Lady of the United Statessource
  • 1966Wasim Akram, cricketersource
  • 1975Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari.source
  • 1976Jamie McMurray, American race car driversource
  • 1979Pierre Poilievre, Canadian politiciansource
  • 1997Mutiara Baswedan, lawyer, educator, and modelsource
  • 2006Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsbergsource
  • 2006Nguyễn Công Phương, footballersource

Deaths

  • 327Awtel, Eastern Christian monk and saintsource
  • 545Clotilde, Christian wife of Clovis I and ancestress of the succeeding Merovingian dynasty (b.474)source
  • 628Liang Shidu, rebel leadersource
  • 734Simeon of the Olives, Syriac bishop of Harran (born 624/5)source
  • 800Staurakios, Byzantine chief ministersource
  • 1254Andrea Caccioli, Italian friar and priest (born 1194)source
  • 1348Domhnall Mac Murchada and Muircheartach Cáemánach are murdered by members of their clan.source
  • 1395Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria, tsar (born c.1350)source
  • 1397William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (born 1328)source
  • 1411Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (born 1371)source
  • 1511Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, North African Islamic scholar, author of the Oran fatwasource
  • 1548Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (born 1468)source
  • 1559Elisabeth of Nassau-Siegen, German noblewoman (born 1488)source
  • 1568Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish explorer (born 1508)source
  • 1593Katarina Bengtsdotter Gylta, abbess (born 1520)source
  • 1594John Aylmer, English divine (born 1521)source
  • 1605Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (born 1542)source
  • 1613Allahverdi Khan, Georgian-born Iranian general (born 1590)source
  • 1615Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (born 1567)source
  • 1640Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (born 1584)source
  • 1652Marek Sobieski, Polish noble (szlachcic) (born 1628)source
  • 1657William Harvey, English physician (born 1578)source
  • 1717Thomas Watson, former Bishop of St David's, 80source
  • 1780Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (born 1711)source
  • 1780Thomas Hutchinson, last governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1711)source
  • 1822René Just Haüy, French "father of modern crystallography" (born 1743)source
  • 1826Nikolay Karamzin, Russian language reformer (born 1766)source
  • 1844The last definitely recorded pair of great auks are killed on the Icelandic island of Eldey.source
  • 1850the Cayuse Five (five members of the Cayuse people) were executed for murder following the Whitman massacre (an attack on a mission settlement near present-day Walla Walla, Washington)source
  • 1861Stephen A. Douglas, American senator from Illinois, Democratic presidential candidate (born 1813)source
  • 1875Georges Bizet, French composer (born 1838)source
  • 1905James Hudson Taylor, British missionary (born 1832)source
  • 1924Franz Kafka, Austrian author (The Trial) (born 1883)source
  • 1962Air France Flight 007 (a Boeing 707) crashes on take-off at Orly Airport in Paris; 130 of 132 people on board are killed, 2 flight attendants survive. Most victims are cultural and civic leaders of Atlanta.source
  • 1973A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show; 15 are killed.source
  • 1989Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 86 or 89, Iranian religious leader, Supreme Leader of Iran, heart attack.source
  • 1998Douglas Gretzler, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.source
  • 2016Muhammad Ali, 74, American boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1960), three-time WBC world heavyweight champion (1964, 1974, 1978), septic shock.source
  • 2017London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police. ISIS claims responsibility for the attack.source
  • 2017Two Australian women—a 21-year-old from Queensland and a 28-year-old from South Australia—are killed in a terrorist attack in London. Four Australians were also among the 48 injured.source
  • 2019Khartoum massacre: More than 100 people are killed when Sudanese troops and Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a protest camp outside of a military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan.source