Events

Pre-1600

• 1167 The Byzantines defeat the Hungarian army decisively at Sirmium, forcing the Hungarians to sue for peace.

• 1283 Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta.

• 1497 Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.

• 1579 Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.

1601–1900

• 1651 The Venetian fleet under Alvise Mocenigo engages with an Ottoman fleet under Hosambegzade Ali Pasha south of Naxos, defeating it after three days.

• 1658 Abaza Hasan Pasha and his allies declare a revolt against grand vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, demanding his execution and marching on Istanbul.

• 1663 Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.

• 1709 Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's status as a major power in Europe.

• 1716 The Battle of Dynekilen forces Sweden to abandon its invasion of Norway.

• 1730 An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than of Chile's coastline.

• 1741 Reverend Jonathan Edwards preaches to his congregation in Enfield, Connecticut his most famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"; an influence for the First Great Awakening.

• 1758 French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.

• 1760 British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.

• 1775 The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.

• 1776 John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.

• 1822 Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.

• 1832 An Egyptian army under Ibrahim Pascha defeats an Ottoman army under Mehmed Pascha in the battle of Hims.

• 1853 The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.

• 1859 King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.

• 1864 Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishiss planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.

• 1874 The Mounties begin their March West.

• 1876 The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.

• 1879 Sailing ship departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.

• 1889 The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.

• 1892 St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.

1901–present

• 1912 Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.

• 1932 The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.

• 1937 Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.

• 1947 Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.

• 1948 The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called the Women's Air Force (WAF).

• 1960 Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

• 1962 Ne Win besieges and blows up the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.

• 1965 Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 is destroyed by a bomb near 100 Mile House, Canada, killing 52.

• 1966 King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.

• 1970 Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.

• 1972 Israeli Mossad assassinate Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.

• 1980 The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20–10 at Lang Park.

• 1980 Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan), killing all 166 people on board.

• 1982 A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.

• 1988 The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, Kerala in India killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.

• 1990 West Germany win the FIFA World Cup final against defending champions Argentina, with Andreas Brehme scoring the game's only goal.

• 1994 Kim Jong Il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il Sung.

• 1994 Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on an international science mission.

• 2003 Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.

• 2011 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.

• 2014 Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.

• 2014 The Brazil national football team suffers its joint-worst defeat, losing 7–1 to Germany in the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup, in a match dubbed the Mineiraço.

• 2022 Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is shot and killed with an improvised firearm due to resentment against the Unification Church.

• 2025 Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane, causing 44 deaths, over 2.7 residents without power, and $28 billion to $32 billion dollars worth of damage.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1478 Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian linguist, poet, and playwright (died 1550)

• 1528 Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (died 1580)

• 1538 Alberto Bolognetti, Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1585)

• 1545 Carlos, Prince of Asturias (died 1568)

• 1593 Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (died 1653)

1601–1900

• 1621 Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (died 1695)

• 1766 Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (died 1842)

• 1779 Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (died 1851)

• 1819 Francis Leopold McClintock, Irish admiral and explorer (died 1907)

• 1830 Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1915)

• 1831 John Pemberton, American chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola (died 1888)

• 1836 Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1914)

• 1838 Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company (died 1898)

• 1838 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company (died 1917)

• 1839 John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company (died 1937)

• 1851 Arthur Evans, English archaeologist and academic (died 1941)

• 1851 John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (died 1916)

• 1857 Alfred Binet, French psychologist and graphologist (died 1911)

• 1867 Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (died 1945)

• 1876 Alexandros Papanastasiou, Greek sociologist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1936)

• 1882 Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (died 1961)

• 1885 Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic (died 1977)

• 1885 Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (died 1948)

• 1892 Richard Aldington, English author and poet (died 1962)

• 1892 Pavel Korin, Russian painter (died 1967)

• 1894 Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)

• 1895 Igor Tamm, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)

• 1900 George Antheil, American pianist, composer, and author (died 1959)

1901–present

• 1904 Henri Cartan, French mathematician and academic (died 2008)

• 1905 Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and director (died 1997)

• 1906 Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place (died 2005)

• 1907 George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (died 1995)

• 1908 Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and actor (died 1975)

• 1908 Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (died 1979)

• 1908 V. K. R. Varadaraja Rao, Indian economist, politician, professor and educator (died 1991)

• 1910 Carlos Betances Ramírez, Puerto Rican general (died 2001)

• 1913 Alejandra Soler, Spanish politician (died 2017)

• 1914 Jyoti Basu, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 2010)

• 1914 Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpet player (died 1993)

• 1915 Neil D. Van Sickle, American Air Force major general (died 2019)

• 1915 Lowell English, United States Marine Corps general (died 2005)

• 1916 Jean Rouverol, American author, actress and screenwriter (died 2017)

• 1917 Pamela Brown, English actress (died 1975)

• 1917 Faye Emerson, American actress (died 1983)

• 1918 Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2009)

• 1918 Oluf Reed-Olsen, Norwegian resistance member and pilot (died 2002)

• 1918 Craig Stevens, American actor (died 2000)

• 1919 Walter Scheel, German soldier and politician, 4th President of West Germany (died 2016)

• 1920 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (died 1995)

• 1921 John Money, New Zealand psychologist and sexologist, known for his research on gender identity, and responsible for controversial involuntary sex reassignment of David Reimer (died 2006)

• 1923 Harrison Dillard, American sprinter and hurdler (died 2019)

• 1923 Val Bettin, American actor (died 2021)

• 1924 Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (died 2005)

• 1925 Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (died 2014)

• 1925 Arthur Imperatore Sr., Italian-American businessman (died 2020)

• 1925 Dominique Nohain, French actor, screenwriter and director (died 2017)

• 1926 David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (died 2014)

• 1926 John Dingell, American lieutenant and politician (died 2019)

• 1926 Martin Riesen, Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender (died 2003)

• 1926 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author (died 2004)

• 1928 Balakh Sher Mazari, former prime minister of Pakistan (died 2022)

• 1929 Shirley Ann Grau, American author, wrote Pulitzer Prize winning novel Keepers of the House (died 2020)

• 1930 Jerry Vale, American singer (died 2014)

• 1931 Roone Arledge, American sports and news broadcasting executive (died 2002)

• 1933 Antonio Lamer, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Chief Justice of Canada (died 2007)

• 1934 Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (died 2012)

• 1934 Edward D. DiPrete, American politician, 70th Governor of Rhode Island (died 2025)

• 1934 Marty Feldman, English actor and screenwriter (died 1982)

• 1935 John David Crow, American football player and coach (died 2015)

• 1935 Steve Lawrence, American actor and singer (died 2024)

• 1935 Vitaly Sevastyanov, Russian engineer and cosmonaut (died 2010)

• 1939 Ed Lumley, Canadian businessman and politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2025)

• 1941 Dario Gradi, Italian-English footballer, coach, and manager

• 1942 Phil Gramm, American economist and politician

• 1944 Margaret W. Rossiter, American historian and author (died 2025)

• 1944 Jeffrey Tambor, American actor and singer

• 1945 Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician, 91st President of the Swiss Confederation

• 1947 Kim Darby, American actress

• 1947 Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian religious leader, founded the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae

• 1948 Raffi, Egyptian-Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1948 Ruby Sales, American civil-rights activist

• 1949 Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-American chef, restaurateur and entrepreneur

• 1949 Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (died 2009)

• 1951 Anjelica Huston, American actress and director

• 1952 Larry Garner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1952 Jack Lambert, American football player and sportscaster

• 1952 Anna Quindlen, American columnist (1992 Pulitzer Prize)

• 1952 Marianne Williamson, American author and activist

• 1957 Carlos Cavazo, Mexican-American guitarist and songwriter

• 1957 Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian journalist and author

• 1958 Kevin Bacon, American actor and musician

• 1958 Andreas Carlgren, Swedish educator and politician, 8th Swedish Minister for the Environment

• 1958 Tzipi Livni, Israeli lawyer and politician, 18th Justice Minister of Israel

• 1959 Pauline Quirke, English actress

• 1960 Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league player and coach

• 1960 Yann LeCun, French-American computer scientist

• 1961 Andrew Fletcher, English keyboard player (died 2022)

• 1961 Toby Keith, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2024)

• 1962 Joan Osborne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1963 Mark Christopher, American director and screenwriter

• 1964 Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player and manager

• 1966 Ralf Altmeyer, German-Chinese virologist and academic

• 1966 Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician

• 1967 Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer

• 1967 Charlie Cardona, Colombian singer

• 1968 Billy Crudup, American actor

• 1968 Shane Howarth, New Zealand rugby player and coach

• 1969 Sugizo, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

• 1970 Beck, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1970 Mark Butler, Australian politician

• 1970 Sylvain Gaudreault, Canadian educator and politician

• 1970 Todd Martin, American tennis player and coach

• 1971 Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player and coach

• 1972 Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1972 Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer

• 1972 Shōsuke Tanihara, Japanese actor

• 1973 Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress and writer

• 1974 Hu Liang, Chinese field hockey player

• 1976 Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer

• 1976 Ellen MacArthur, English sailor

• 1977 Christian Abbiati, Italian footballer

• 1977 Paolo Tiralongo, Italian cyclist

• 1977 Milo Ventimiglia, American actor, director, and producer

• 1977 Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player

• 1978 Urmas Rooba, Estonian footballer

• 1980 Eric Chouinard, American-Canadian ice hockey player

• 1980 Robbie Keane, Irish footballer

• 1981 Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player

• 1982 Shonette Azore-Bruce, Barbadian netball player

• 1982 Sophia Bush, American actress and director

• 1982 Alicia Vela-Bailey, American stunt performer, stunt double, actress, dancer, and choreographer

• 1982 Hakim Warrick, American basketball player

• 1983 Rich Peverley, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1986 Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer

• 1987 Josh Harrison, American baseball player

• 1988 Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (died 2012)

• 1988 Jesse Sergent, New Zealand cyclist

• 1989 Yarden Gerbi, Israeli Judo champion

• 1989 Tor Marius Gromstad, Norwegian footballer (died 2012)

• 1990 Kevin Trapp, German footballer

• 1991 Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer

• 1992 Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (died 2015)

• 1992 Son Heung-min, Korean footballer

• 1993 David Corenswet, American actor

• 1996 Marlon Humphrey, American football player

• 1998 Maya Hawke, American actress

• 1998 Jaden Smith, American actor and rapper

• 1999 İpek Öz, Turkish tennis player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 689 Kilian, Irish bishop

• 810 Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne (born 773)

• 873 Gunther, archbishop of Cologne

• 900 Qatr al-Nada, wife of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid

• 901 Grimbald, French-English monk and saint (born 827)

• 975 Edgar the Peaceful, English king (born 943)

• 1153 Pope Eugene III (born 1087)

• 1253 Theobald I of Navarre (born 1201)

• 1261 Adolf IV of Holstein, Count of Schauenburg

• 1390 Albert of Saxony, Bishop of Halberstadt and German philosopher (born circa 1320)

• 1538 Diego de Almagro, Spanish general and explorer (born 1475)

1601–1900

• 1623 Pope Gregory XV (born 1554)

• 1689 Edward Wooster, English-American settler (born 1622)

• 1695 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (born 1629)

• 1716 Robert South, English preacher and theologian (born 1634)

• 1721 Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (born 1649)

• 1784 Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (born 1735)

• 1794 Richard Mique, French architect (born 1728)

• 1823 Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter (born 1756)

• 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (born 1792)

• 1850 Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (born 1774)

• 1859 Oscar I of Sweden (born 1799)

• 1873 Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter and lithographer (born 1805)

• 1887 Ben Holladay, American businessman (born 1819)

• 1895 Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (born 1821)

1901–present

• 1905 Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (born 1834)

• 1913 Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (born 1880)

• 1917 Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (born 1877)

• 1921 Ellen Oliver (suffragette), British suffragette and purity activist (born 1870)

• 1930 Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1856)

• 1933 Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (born 1863)

• 1934 Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (born 1848)

• 1939 Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (born 1859)

• 1941 Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (born 1874)

• 1942 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Algerian-French general (born 1856)

• 1942 Refik Saydam, Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1881)

• 1943 Jean Moulin, French soldier and leader of the French Resistance (born 1899)

• 1950 Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher (born 1878)

• 1952 August Alle, Estonian lawyer, author, and poet (born 1890)

• 1956 Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author, and critic (born 1881)

• 1965 Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (born 1881)

• 1967 Vivien Leigh, British actress (born 1913)

• 1968 Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (born 1882)

• 1971 Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (born 1893)

• 1972 Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian writer and politician (born 1936)

• 1973 Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (born 1924)

• 1973 Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Education Minister of Israel (born 1884)

• 1973 Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (born 1877)

• 1979 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)

• 1979 Michael Wilding, English actor (born 1912)

• 1979 Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)

• 1981 Joe McDonnell, Irish Republican Army member, died on hunger strike (born 1951)

• 1985 Phil Foster, American actor and screenwriter (born 1913)

• 1985 Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1909)

• 1986 Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (born 1909)

• 1987 Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Justice (born 1903)

• 1987 Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and author (born 1896)

• 1988 Ray Barbuti, American runner and football player (born 1905)

• 1990 Howard Duff, American actor (born 1913)

• 1991 James Franciscus, American actor (born 1934)

• 1993 Abul Hasan Jashori, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and freedom fighter (born 1918)

• 1994 Christian-Jaque, French director and screenwriter (born 1904)

• 1994 Kim Il Sung, North Korean commander and politician, President of North Korea (born 1912)

• 1994 Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (born 1927)

• 1994 Dick Sargent, American actor (born 1930)

• 1996 Irene Prador, Austrian-born actress and writer (born 1911)

• 1998 Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (born 1905)

• 1999 Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and astronaut. Third man to walk on the moon. (born 1930)

• 2001 John O'Shea, New Zealand independent filmmaker (born 1920)

• 2002 Ward Kimball, American animator and trombonist (born 1914)

• 2004 Paula Danziger, American author and educator (born 1944)

• 2005 Maurice Baquet, French actor and cellist (born 1911)

• 2006 June Allyson, American actress and singer (born 1917)

• 2007 Chandra Shekhar, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (born 1927)

• 2008 John Templeton, American-born British businessman and philanthropist (born 1912)

• 2011 Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (born 1924)

• 2011 Betty Ford, 38th First Lady of the United States (born 1918)

• 2012 Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud, Saudi Arabian politician (born 1934)

• 2012 Ernest Borgnine, American actor (born 1917)

• 2012 Gyang Dalyop Datong, Nigerian physician and politician (born 1959)

• 2013 Edmund Morgan, American historian and author (born 1916)

• 2013 Claudiney Ramos, Brazilian footballer (born 1980)

• 2013 Sundri Uttamchandani, Indian author (born 1924)

• 2014 Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1930)

• 2014 John V. Evans, American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (born 1925)

• 2014 Ben Pangelinan, Guamanian businessman and politician (born 1956)

• 2014 Howard Siler, American bobsledder and coach (born 1945)

• 2016 Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (born 1928)

• 2018 Tab Hunter, American actor, pop singer, film producer and author (born 1931)

• 2020 Naya Rivera, American actress, model and singer (born 1987)

• 2020 Alex Pullin, Australian snowboarder (born 1987)

• 2022 Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician (born 1954)

• 2022 Larry Storch, American actor and comedian (born 1923)

• 2022 Luis Echeverría, Mexican lawyer and politician (born 1922)

• 2022 Tony Sirico, American actor (born 1942)

• 2025 Edward D. DiPrete, American politician, 70th Governor of Rhode Island

• 2025 Paulette Jiles, American writer (born 1943)

• 2026 Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer (born 1951)

Holidays and observances

Christian Feast Day:

• Abda and Sabas

• Auspicius of Trier

• Grimbald

• Landrada

• Kilian and Totnan

• Saints Peter and Fevronia Day (Russian Orthodox)

• Priscilla and Aquila

• Procopius of Scythopolis

• Sunniva and companions

• July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Air Force and Air Defense Forces Day (Ukraine)

References

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