Events

Pre-1600

• 350 The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.

• 713 The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.

• 1098 After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch.

• 1140 The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.

• 1326 The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.

• 1539 Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.

1601–1900

• 1602 An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish galleys, and captures a large Portuguese carrack at the Battle of Sesimbra Bay.

• 1608 Samuel de Champlain lands at Tadoussac, Quebec, in the course of his third voyage to New France, and begins erecting fortifications.

• 1621 The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.

• 1658 Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.

• 1665 James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.

• 1700 Foundation of the Academy of the Distrustful in the library room of the Palau Dalmases in Barcelona.

• 1781 Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending British raid.

• 1839 In Humen, China, Lin Zexu destroys 1.2million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.

• 1844 The last pair of great auks is killed.

• 1861 American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.

• 1863 American Civil War: Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia begin marching to invade the North for a second time, starting the Gettysburg campaign.

• 1864 American Civil War: Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant sustain heavy casualties attacking Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia.

• 1885 In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.

• 1889 The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.

• 1892 Liverpool F.C. is founded by John Houlding.

1901–present

• 1916 The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.

• 1935 One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.

• 1937 The Duke of Windsor (the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom) marries Wallis Simpson.

• 1940 World War II: During the Battle of France, the Luftwaffe bombs Paris.

• 1940 Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.

• 1941 World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.

• 1942 World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.

• 1943 In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines attack Latino youths in the five-day Zoot Suit Riots.

• 1950 Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.

• 1962 At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.

• 1963 Soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army attack protesting Buddhists in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalized for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.

• 1965 The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.

• 1969 Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer in half, resulting in 74 deaths.

• 1973 A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.

• 1979 A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.

• 1980 The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, United States, causing five deaths and $300million (equivalent to $million in ) worth of damage.

• 1982 The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.

• 1984 Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.

• 1989 The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

• 1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.

• 1992 Australian Aboriginal land rights are recognised in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo which led to the Native Title Act 1993 overturning the long-held colonial assumption of terra nullius.

• 1998 After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.

• 2006 The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.

• 2012 A plane carrying 153 people crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board plus six people on the ground.

• 2012 The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.

• 2013 The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

• 2013 At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.

• 2019 Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.

• 2025 Reconstitution of the Academy of the Distrustful in the Sala Dalmases of the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona in Barcelona.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1139 Conon of Naso, Basilian abbot (died 1236)

• 1421 Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian noble (died 1463)

• 1454 Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (died 1523)

• 1537 João Manuel, Prince of Portugal (died 1554)

• 1540 Charles II, Archduke of Austria (died 1590)

• 1554 Pietro de' Medici, Italian noble (died 1604)

• 1576 Giovanni Diodati, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (died 1649)

1601–1900

• 1635 Philippe Quinault, French playwright and composer (died 1688)

• 1636 John Hale, American minister (died 1700)

• 1659 David Gregory, Scottish-English mathematician and astronomer (died 1708)

• 1723 Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician, geologist, and botanist (died 1788)

• 1726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (died 1797)

• 1736 Ignaz Fränzl, German violinist and composer (died 1811)

• 1770 Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian economist, lawyer, and politician (died 1820)

• 1771 Sydney Smith, English preacher and author (died 1845)

• 1808 Jefferson Davis, American colonel and politician, President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 - 1865 (died 1889)

• 1817 Princess Clémentine of Orléans(died 1907)

• 1818 Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician, Governor of Senegal (died 1889)

• 1819 Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (died 1892)

• 1819 Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (died 1891)

• 1819 Magdalene Thoresen, Danish writer (died 1903)

• 1832 Charles Lecocq, French pianist and composer (died 1918)

• 1843 Frederik VIII of Denmark (died 1912)

• 1844 Garret Hobart, American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (died 1899)

• 1844 Detlev von Liliencron, German poet and author (died 1909)

• 1852 Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (died 1896)

• 1853 Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (died 1942)

• 1864 Otto Erich Hartleben, German poet and playwright (died 1905)

• 1864 Ransom E. Olds, American businessman, founded Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company (died 1950)

• 1865 George V of the United Kingdom (died 1936)

• 1866 George Howells Broadhurst, English-American director and manager (died 1952)

• 1873 Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)

• 1877 Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator (died 1953)

• 1879 Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 1945)

• 1879 Raymond Pearl, American biologist and botanist (died 1940)

• 1879 Vivian Woodward, English footballer and soldier (died 1954)

• 1881 Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter and set designer (died 1964)

• 1890 Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1954)

• 1897 Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (died 1973)

• 1899 Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)

• 1900 Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (died 1932)

• 1900 Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic (died 1997)

1901–present

• 1901 Maurice Evans, English actor (died 1989)

• 1901 Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (died 2001)

• 1903 Eddie Acuff, American actor (died 1956)

• 1904 Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon (died 1950)

• 1904 Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor (died 1984)

• 1905 Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer, commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, executed war criminal (died 1946)

• 1906 R. G. D. Allen, English economist, mathematician, and statistician (died 1983)

• 1906 Josephine Baker, French actress, singer, and dancer; French Resistance operative (died 1975)

• 1907 Paul Rotha, English director and producer (died 1984)

• 1910 Paulette Goddard, American actress and model (died 1990)

• 1910 Wilfred Thesiger, British military officer, explorer, and writer (died 2003)

• 1911 Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (died 1999)

• 1913 Pedro Mir, Dominican poet and author (died 2000)

• 1914 Ignacio Ponseti, Spanish physician and orthopedist (died 2009)

• 1917 Leo Gorcey, American actor (died 1969)

• 1918 Patrick Cargill, English actor and producer (died 1996)

• 1918 Lili St. Cyr, American burlesque dancer (died 1999)

• 1921 Forbes Carlile, Australian pentathlete and coach (died 2016)

• 1922 Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (died 2014)

• 1923 Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 2017)

• 1924 Karunanidhi, Indian screenwriter and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (died 2018)

• 1924 Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (died 1991)

• 1924 Jimmy Rogers, American singer and guitarist (died 1997)

• 1924 Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1925 Tony Curtis, American actor (died 2010)

• 1926 Allen Ginsberg, American poet (died 1997)

• 1926 Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2015)

• 1927 Boots Randolph, American saxophonist and composer (died 2007)

• 1928 Donald Judd, American sculptor and painter (died 1994)

• 1928 John Richard Reid, New Zealand cricketer (died 2020)

• 1929 Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1929 Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer (died 2017)

• 1930 Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author and poet (died 1999)

• 1930 George Fernandes, Indian journalist and politician, Minister of Defence for India (died 2019)

• 1930 Joe Coulombe, founder of Trader Joe's (died 2020)

• 1931 Françoise Arnoul, Algerian-French actress (died 2021)

• 1931 Raúl Castro, Cuban commander and politician, 18th President of Cuba

• 1931 John Norman, American philosopher and author

• 1931 Lindy Remigino, American runner and coach (died 2018)

• 1931 Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahranian king (died 1999)

• 1936 Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2021)

• 1936 Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player and coach (died 2017)

• 1937 Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, French racing driver (died 2021)

• 1940 Ian Hunter, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1942 Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1999)

• 1943 Billy Cunningham, American basketball player and coach

• 1945 Hale Irwin, American golfer and architect

• 1945 Ramon Jacinto, Filipino singer, guitarist, and businessman, founded the Rajah Broadcasting Network

• 1945 Bill Paterson, Scottish actor

• 1946 Michael Clarke, American drummer (died 1993)

• 1946 Penelope Wilton, English actress

• 1948 Jan Reker, Dutch footballer and manager

• 1950 Frédéric François, Belgian singer-songwriter

• 1950 Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter and producer (died 2015)

• 1950 Suzi Quatro, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1951 Jill Biden, American educator, First Lady of the United States

• 1951 Deniece Williams, American singer-songwriter

• 1954 Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1955 Louis H. Schiff, retired American judge, law school professor.

• 1956 George Burley, Scottish footballer and manager

• 1956 Danny Wilde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1959 Sam Mills, American football player (died 2005)

• 1960 Jeff Colyer, American politician, 47th Governor of Kansas

• 1960 Catherine Davani, first female Papua New Guinean judge (died 2016)

• 1960 Tracy Grimshaw, Australian television host

• 1960 Carl Rackemann, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

• 1961 Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer, academic, and author, founded the Creative Commons

• 1961 Peter Vidmar, American gymnast

• 1962 Susannah Constantine, English fashion designer, journalist, and author

• 1964 Kerry King, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1965 Mike Gordon, American bassist and vocalist

• 1965 Hans Kroes, Dutch swimmer

• 1965 Tina Kaidanow, American diplomat and government official (died 2024)

• 1966 Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer, coach, and sportscaster

• 1966 Bill Callahan, American singer-songwriter

• 1967 Anderson Cooper, American journalist and author

• 1967 Tamás Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer

• 1967 Newton, English singer-songwriter

• 1969 Takako Minekawa, Japanese singer-songwriter

• 1969 Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese singer and actor

• 1971 John Hodgman, American humorist

• 1972 Julie Gayet, French actress

• 1974 Kelly Jones, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1974 Serhiy Rebrov, Ukrainian international footballer and manager

• 1975 Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player

• 1976 Jamie McMurray, American race car driver

• 1977 Cris, Brazilian footballer

• 1977 Travis Hafner, American baseball player

• 1979 Christian Malcolm, Welsh sprinter

• 1979 Pierre Poilievre, Canadian politician, Leader of the Opposition

• 1980 Amauri, Italian international footballer

• 1981 Sosene Anesi, New Zealand rugby player

• 1981 Sam Murphy, Australian rugby league player

• 1982 Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter

• 1982 Manfred Mölgg, Italian skier

• 1983 Pasquale Foggia, Italian footballer

• 1985 Papiss Cissé, Senegalese footballer

• 1985 Łukasz Piszczek, Polish footballer

• 1986 Al Horford, Dominican basketball player

• 1986 Micah Kogo, Kenyan runner

• 1986 Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player

• 1986 Tomáš Verner, Czech ice skater

• 1987 Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress

• 1989 Katie Hoff, American swimmer

• 1989 Imogen Poots, English actress and model

• 1991 Yordano Ventura, Dominican baseball player (died 2017)

• 1992 Dilraba Dilmurat, Chinese actress

• 1992 Mario Götze, German footballer

• 1992 - Jade Cargill, American professional wrestler

• 1993 Otto Porter Jr., American basketball player

• 1994 Harrison Bader, American baseball player

• 1997 Louis Hofmann, German actor

• 1998 Sam Curran, English cricketer

• 1999 Cameron Green, Australian cricketer

• 1999 Dzhem Yamenov, Bulgarian politician

• 2000 Beabadoobee, Filipino singer-songwriter

• 2001 Jalen Suggs, American basketball player

• 2002 Tyrell Sloan, Australian rugby league player

• 2005 Désiré Doué, French footballer

• 2011 Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş, Turkish chess prodigy and grandmaster

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 628 Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader

• 734 Simeon of the Olives, Syriac bishop of Harran

• 800 Staurakios, Byzantine general

• 1052 Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno

• 1397 William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (born 1328)

• 1411 Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (born 1371)

• 1453 Loukas Notaras, last megas doux of the Byzantine Empire

• 1511 Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, Islamic scholar, author of the Oran fatwa

• 1548 Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish-Mexican archbishop (born 1468)

• 1553 Wolf Huber, Austrian painter, printmaker and architect (born 1485)

• 1594 John Aylmer, English bishop and scholar (born 1521)

1601–1900

• 1615 Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (born 1567)

• 1640 Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1584)

• 1649 Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (born 1590)

• 1657 William Harvey, English physician and academic (born 1578)

• 1659 Morgan Llwyd, Welsh minister and poet (born 1619)

• 1780 Thomas Hutchinson, American businessman and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (born 1711)

• 1826 Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian and poet (born 1766)

• 1858 Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (born 1834)

• 1861 Stephen A. Douglas, American lawyer and politician, 7th Secretary of State of Illinois (born 1813)

• 1865 Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (born 1838)

• 1875 Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (born 1838)

• 1877 Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (born 1800)

• 1882 Christian Wilberg, German painter and illustrator (born 1839)

• 1894 Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (born 1812)

• 1899 Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (born 1825)

• 1900 Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (born 1862)

1901–present

• 1902 Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (born 1829)

• 1906 John Maxwell, American golfer (born 1871)

• 1921 Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (born 1879)

• 1924 Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian lawyer and author (born 1883)

• 1928 Li Yuanhong, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (born 1864)

• 1933 William Muldoon, American wrestler (born 1852)

• 1938 John Flanagan, Irish-American hammer thrower and tug of war competitor (born 1873)

• 1946 Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician (born 1875)

• 1963 Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (born 1893)

• 1963 Pope John XXIII (born 1881)

• 1963 Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (born 1902)

• 1963 Samuel Rocke, Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia (born 1874)

• 1964 Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (born 1887)

• 1964 Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)

• 1969 George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (born 1883)

• 1970 Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (born 1877)

• 1971 Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (born 1894)

• 1973 Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (born 1895)

• 1974 Michael Gaughan, Irish Republican died on hunger strike (born 1949)

• 1975 Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (born 1906)

• 1975 Eisaku Satō, Japanese and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1901)

• 1977 Archibald Hill, English physiologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)

• 1977 Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1906)

• 1981 Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist and academic (born 1904)

• 1986 Anna Neagle, English actress and singer (born 1904)

• 1987 Will Sampson, American actor and painter (born 1933)

• 1989 Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (born 1900)

• 1990 Robert Noyce, American physicist and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (born 1927)

• 1991 Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league player (born 1924)

• 1991 Katia Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (born 1942)

• 1991 Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (born 1946)

• 1991 Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician and academic (born 1918)

• 1992 Robert Morley, English actor and screenwriter (born 1908)

• 1993 Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (born 1918)

• 1994 Puig Aubert, German-French rugby player and coach (born 1925)

• 1997 Dennis James, American actor and game show host (born 1917)

• 2001 Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor and producer (born 1915)

• 2002 Lew Wasserman, American talent agent and manager (born 1913)

• 2003 Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial (born 1907)

• 2005 Harold Cardinal, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1945)

• 2006 Clinton Jones, American Episcopal priest and gay rights activist (born 1916)

• 2009 David Carradine, American actor (born 1936)

• 2009 Koko Taylor, American singer (born 1928)

• 2010 Rue McClanahan, American actress (born 1934)

• 2011 James Arness, American actor and producer (born 1923)

• 2011 Andrew Gold, American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger (born 1951)

• 2011 Bhajan Lal, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Haryana (born 1930)

• 2011 Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and activist (born 1928)

• 2011 Jan van Roessel, Dutch footballer (born 1925)

• 2012 Carol Ann Abrams, American producer, author, and academic (born 1942)

• 2012 Roy Salvadori, English racing driver and manager (born 1922)

• 2012 Brian Talboys, New Zealand journalist and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1921)

• 2013 Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technologist and journalist (born 1962)

• 2013 Józef Czyrek, Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)

• 2013 Frank Lautenberg, American soldier and politician (born 1924)

• 2014 Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (born 1942)

• 2014 Gopinath Munde, Indian politician, 3rd Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1949)

• 2015 Avi Beker, Israeli political scientist and academic (born 1951)

• 2016 Muhammad Ali, American boxer (born 1942)

• 2021 F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (born 1933)

• 2024 Brigitte Bierlein, former Austrian chancellor (born 1949)

• 2024 William Russell, English actor (born 1924)

• 2025 Jim Marshall, American football player (born 1937)

• 2025 Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1936)

• 2025 Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist and essayist (born 1940)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Charles Lwanga and Companions (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances:

• Martyrs' Day (Uganda)

• Clotilde

• Blessed Francis Ingleby

• Juan Grande Román

• Kevin of Glendalough

• Ovidius

• Vladimirskaya (Russian Orthodox)

• June 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, and Tennessee, United States)

• Economist day (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

• Mabo Day (Australia)

• Opium Suppression Movement Day (Taiwan)

• World Bicycle Day

References

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