| 1099 |
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Members of the First Crusade witness an eclipse of the moon and interpret it as a sign they will recapture Jerusalem. |
| 1568 |
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Ferdinand, the Duke of Alba, crushes the Calvinist insurrection in Ghent. |
| 1595 |
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Henry IV’s army defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise. |
| 1637 |
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American settlers in New England massacre a Pequot Indian village. |
| 1783 |
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Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make the first public balloon flight. |
| 1794 |
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The U.S. Congress prohibits citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces. |
| 1827 |
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Athens falls to Ottoman forces. |
| 1851 |
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Harriet Beecher Stow publishes the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The National Era. |
| 1856 |
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U.S. Army troops in the Four creeks region of California, head back to quarters, officially ending the Tule River War. Fighting, however, will continue for a few more years. |
| 1863 |
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The Confederate raider CSS Alabama captures the Talisman in the Mid-Atlantic. |
| 1872 |
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The Republican National Convention, the first major political party convention to includes blacks, commences. |
| 1880 |
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Wild woman of the west Myra Maybelle Shirley marries Sam Starr even though records show she was already married to Bruce Younger. |
| 1900 |
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British troops under Lord Roberts seize Pretoria from the Boers. |
| 1940 |
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The German army begins its offensive in Southern France. |
| 1944 |
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The first B-29 bombing raid strikes the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 1947 |
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Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines "The Marshall Plan," a program intended to assist European nations, including former enemies, to rebuild their economies. |
| 1956 |
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Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounces Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress. |
| 1967 |
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The Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan begins. |
| 1968 |
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Sirhan Sirhan shoots Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy after Kennedy’s victory in the pivotal California primary election. |
| 1973 |
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Doris A. Davis becomes the first African-American woman to govern a city in a major metropolitan area when she is elected mayor of Compton, California. |
| 2004 |
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Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan dies at age 93. Reagan was the 40th president of the United States. |
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Born on June 5 |
| 1723 |
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Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist. |
| 1878 |
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Francisco "Pancho" Villa, Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader. |
| 1883 |
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John Maynard Keynes, economist. |
| 1884 |
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Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, British author. |
| 1898 |
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Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist. |
| 1915 |
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Alfred Kazin, critic and editor (A Walker in the City). |
| 1919 |
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Richard Scarry, Children’s author and illustrator. |
| 1926 |
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David Wagoner, poet and novelist (The Escape Artist). |
| 1932 |
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Christy Brown, Irish novelist and poet (My Left Foot). |
| 1939 |
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Margaret Drabble, English novelist (The Millstone, The Realms of Gold). |
| 1947 |
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David Hare, British playwright and director (A Map of the World, Slag). |
| 1949 |
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Ken Follett, novelist (Eye of the Needle, On The Wings of Eagles). |
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