Events

• 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
• 1389 - Ottoman and Serbian armies fight the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
• 1519 - Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
• 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.
• 1776 - Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, was hanged for mutiny and sedition.
• 1778 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
• 1807 - Second British invasion; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals.
• 1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
• 1841 - The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
• 1855 - The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University
• 1859 - First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
• 1865 - The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
• 1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
• 1881 - Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
• 1886 - First scheduled Canadian transcontinental passenger train departs from Montreal, Quebec for Port Moody, British Columbia.
• 1887 - Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
• 1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• 1902 - The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
• 1895 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
• 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
• 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
• 1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
• 1936 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
• 1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
• 1948 - Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
• 1950 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
• 1956 - Protests and demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań).
• 1964 - Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
• 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
• 1969 - Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
• 1973 - Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
• 1976 - The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
• 1978 - The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
• 1983 - The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
• 1986 - ¡A Luchar! holds its first congress in Bogotá, Colombia.
• 1988 - The worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history occurs at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, killing five.
• 1989 - Slobodan Milošević delivers the Kosovo Polje speech
• 1990 - Paperback Software International Ltd. found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
• 1992 - The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
• 1994 - Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
• 1996 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
• 1997 - Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II - Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear.
• 2000 - Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
• 2001 - U.S. Appeals Court overturns a lower court's order to break up Microsoft in an antitrust case.
• 2004 - The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
• 2004 - Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
• 2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
• 2005 - Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
• 2005 - A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.
• 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.

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