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June 05

[1296] English noble, Edmund, 1st earl of Lancaster died.

[1316] King of France, Louis X died.

[1341] English noble, Edmund of Langley, 1st duke of York was born.

[1455] King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, John was born.

[1632] Prince Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange conquered Roermond.

[1661] Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge.

[1664] Ottoman Sultan, Mustafa II was born.

[1771] King of Hanover, Ernest Augustus was born.

[1849] The absolute monarchy in Denmark was abolished and replaced by a new constitution that established a constitutional monarchy with a parliament, as well as freedom of the press, religious freedoms, and the right to hold meetings and form associations.

[1883] The first Orient Express left Paris.

[1944] In World War II, Allied forces entered Rome.

[1967] Start of the Six-Day War.

[1968] Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot.

[1971] American actor and producer, Mark Wahlberg was born.

[1973] American actor, Neil Patrick Harris was born.

[1981] Aids were reported for the first time in Los Angeles.

[1988] Russian Orthodox Church celebrated it's 1,000th anniversary.

[2004] President of the United States, Ronald Reagan died.

June 4

[1039] Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad II died.

[1615] The fortress at Osaka Japan, fell to Shogun Leyasu after a 6-month siege.

[1647] Parliamentary forces captured King Charles I and held him prisoner.

[1717] The Freemasons were founded in London.

[1738] King of Great Britain, George III was born.

[1783] The Montgolfier brothers demonstrated the first hot-air balloon.

[1792] British General, John Burgoyne died.

[1794] British troops captured Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

[1796] Napoleon Bonaparte commanded the Siege of Mantua, which resulted in the exclusions of Austrians from Northern Italy.

[1798] Italian adventurer, Giacomo Casanova died.

[1798] Irish rebel, Lord Edward Fitzgerald died.

[1867] President of Finland, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim was born.

[1887] Vice President of the U.S., William A. Wheeler died.

[1895] Italian official, Dino Grandi, conte di Mordano was born

[1895] Sultan of Johore, Abu Bakar died.

[1911] Gold was discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.

[1917] The first Pulitzer Prize was awarded.

[1918] Vice President of the U.S., Charles Warren Fairbanks died.

[1919] The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote, was passed by the Senate, two weeks after being approved by the House of Representatives.

[1920] The Treaty of Trianon was signed by representatives of Hungary on one side and the Allied powers on the other, concluding World War I.

[1937] The world's first shopping carts were introduced at Humpty Dumpty grocery stores in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

[1940] Dunkirk evacuation ended.

[1941] Emperor of Germany, William II died.

[1942] Japan was repulsed by the United States at the Battle of Midway in World War II.

[1944] Allied troops liberated Rome.

[1945] United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France agreed to divide up occupied Germany.

[1952] President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski was born.

[1970] The Kingdom of Tonga achieved independence within the British Commonwealth.

[1989] Thousands died in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

June 03

[1492] Martin Behaim presented the world's first globe.

[1808] President of Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis was born.

[1844] Vice President of the United States, Garret A. Hobart was born.

[1853] British archaeologist, Sir Flinders Petrie was born.

[1864] Considered one of the worst Northern defeats of the American Civil War, the second Battle of Cold Harbor (Virginia), which would result in the loss of about 7,000 Union soldiers under General Ulysses S. Grant, began.

[1865] King of the United Kingdom, George V was born.

[1899] Austrian composer, Johann Strauss II died.

[1901] Chinese warlord, Zhang Xueliang was born.

[1929] Chile and Peru signed the Treaty of Lima, finally resolving their boarder dispute from the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Chile kept Arica and Peru regained Tacna.

[1937] Some six months after abdicating the British throne, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) married American socialite Wallis Simpson (who became Duchess of Windsor).

[1943] A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Army beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.

[1982] The Israeli ambassador to the U.K. was shot.

[1989] Pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square crushed by Chinese military.

[1998] 101 people died in the Eschede train disaster.

July 03

[324] Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeated his co-emperor Licinius who fled to Byzantium.

[987] Hugh Capet (Hugh the Great) crowned king of the Franks.

[1423] King of France, Louis XI died.

[1608] Samuel de Champlain founded the city Quebec, the first permanent European base in Canada.

[1630] Emperor Ferdinand II opened German Parliament.

[1642] Queen of France, Marie de Médicis died.

[1661] Portugal gave Tangier and Bombay to English King Charles II.

[1738] American painter, John Singleton Copley was born.

[1754] George Washington surrendered to French, Fort Necessity (7 Years' War).

[1775] George Washington officially assumed command of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, several weeks after being appointed to the post.

[1778] British forces massacred 360 men, women and children in Wyoming, Pennsylvania.

[1844] The Great Auks went extinct.

[1856] The U.S. House of Representatives voted to admit Kansas to statehood.

[1863] Battle of Gettysburg ended.

[1903] Acting American First Lady, Harriet Lane died.

[1928] John Logie Baird demonstrated the first colour television transmission in London.

[1962] Algeria gained its independence from France.

[1962] American actor, Tom Cruise was born.

July 02

[311] St. Miltiades began his reign as Catholic Pope.

[419] Roman Emperor, Valentinian III was born.

[936] King of Germany, Henry I died.

[1504] Prince of Moldavia, Stephen died.

[1644] At the Battle of Marston Moor, Parliamentary forces handed the Royalists their first major defeat in the English Civil Wars.

[1743] English noble, Spencer Compton, earl of Wilmington died.

[1776] After a dramatic all-night ride, Delaware delegate Caesar Rodney arrived just in time to cast the decisive vote approving the Declaration of Independence.

[1787] Marquis de Sade shouted from Bastille that prisoners were being slaughtered.

[1822] Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, for planning the most extensive slave revolt in U.S. history.

[1881] Shot on this day, United States President James A. Garfield died several weeks later on September 19.

[1903] King of Norway, Olav V was born.

[1932] King of Portugal, Manuel II died.

[1964] Civil Rights Act signed.

[1979] The United States first issued the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, making Anthony the first woman to be depicted on U.S. currency.

[1990] 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death after a panic in a tunnel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

[2002] American adventurer Steve Fossett became the first balloonist to circumnavigate the world alone.

July 01

[69] Batavian nobleman Gaius Julius Civilis proclaimed emperor of Syria.

[70] Roman General Titus and his forces set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem.

[1200] In China, sunglasses were invented.

[1481] Scandinavian King, Christian II was born.

[1535] Sir Thomas More went on trial for treason for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.

[1681] Irish martyr, Saint Oliver Plunket died.

[1690] In the Battle of the Boyne, King William III of England defeated former king James II, who was attempting to take back the throne.

[1725] French General, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was born.

[1736] Ottoman Sultan, Ahmed III died.

[1839] Ottoman Sultan, Mahmud II died.

[1863] The Battle of Gettysburg, one of the most important battles of the American Civil War, began.

[1867] Dominion of Canada established.

[1903] The first Tour de France began.

[1908] SOS is adopted as the International Distress Signal.

[1916] First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffered its worst day, losing 19,240 men.

[1961] Diana, Princess of Wales was born.

[1963] The U.S. Postal Service instituted the Zone Improvement Plan Code (ZIP Code).

[1997] The crown colony of Hong Kong officially reverted to Chinese sovereignty, ending 156 years if British rule.

[2002] The International Criminal Court (ICC) began sittings.