EVENTS:
- 1557 – Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars.
- 1809 – Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
- 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
- 1899 – the Norwegian football club Viking FK was founded.
- 1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
- 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).
- 2013 – The World Championships in Athletics takes place in Moscow, Russia.
- 2014 – 39 people are killed in a plane crash at Tehran‘s Mehrabad Airport.
- 2018 – In Albania’s deadliest mass shooting, a 24 year old man guns down 8 of his relatives, including two children, over a minor dispute.
- 2018 – A shooting occurs in Fredericton, New Brunswick, killing four people, including two police officers.
- 2018 – A Horizon Airlines Bombardier Q400 crashes on Ketron Island, Washington after being stolen by a mechanic. Oregon National Guard F-15 fighter jets intercepted the plane, but the pilot deliberately crashed before they could shoot it down.
- 2020 – Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.
- 2024 – Israel strikes Al-Tabaeen school in eastern Gaza City, killing at least 80 Palestinians.
BIRTHS:
- 1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer (d. 1936)
- 1894 – V. V. Giri, Indian politician, 4th President of India (d. 1980)
- 1895 – Hammy Love, Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
- 1902 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
- 1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- 1923 – Bill Doolittle, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Fred Ridgway, English cricketer and footballer
- 1943 – Shafqat Rana, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
- 1947 – Alan Ward, English cricketer
- 1958 – Jack Richards, English cricketer, coach, and manager
- 1963 – Phoolan Devi, Indian politician (d. 2001)
- 1970 – Brendon Julian, New Zealand-Australian cricketer and journalist
- 1978 – Chris Read, English cricketer
- 1998 – Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess player
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