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Catherine of Aragon
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Great Barrier Reef, satellite view
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Alexander of Greece
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky
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Afonso of Brazil
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Alcatraz Island
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The Blackstone Hotel
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| King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii; | needs more footnotes |
| 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc's first offensive battle, the Battle of Jargeau, began. | no footnotes |
| 1534 - Silken Thomas rode through Dublin and renounced his allegiance to King Henry VIII, leading to the outbreak of the Kildare Rebellion. | Undercited |
| 1770 – The Template:HMS, carrying English explorer James Cook, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage. | refimprove section, original research |
| 1776 – The Second Continental Congress established the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence for the Thirteen Colonies. | |
| 1892 – The Salvation Army's Limelight Department, one of the world's earliest film studios, was officially established in Melbourne, Australia. | no footnotes |
| 1937 – Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and several senior officers of the Soviet Red Army were convicted for belonging to a Trotskyist organization in a secret trial during the Great Purge. | refimprove |
| 1938 – The Battle of Wuhan began, lasting four and a half months, the longest and largest battle of the entire Second Sino-Japanese War. | refimprove section |
| 1955 – The deadliest accident in motorsport history occurred when two cars collided during a running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, causing 84 deaths. | Undercited |
| 1956 – The six-day Gal Oya riots, the first ethnic riots targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka, began, eventually resulting in the deaths of at least 150 people and 100 injuries. | sparsely referenced |
| 1972 – An excursion train derailed on a sharp curve at Eltham Well Hall station in Eltham, London, killing 6 people and injuring 126 others. | needs more footnotes |
| 1978 – A group of Urdu-speaking students led by Altaf Hussain founded the All Pakistan Muttahidda Students Organization political student organisation, a forerunner to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, at the University of Karachi. | refimprove |
| 1982 – Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released, and went on to set the record for the highest-grossing film of all time, which it held for 11 years. | 15 {cn} tags |
| Klemens von Metternich |d|1859 | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| Jackie Stewart |b|1939 | expansion |
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- 806 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Abbasid army departed Raqqa in northern Syria to begin an invasion of Byzantine-controlled Asia Minor.
- 1345 – Inspecting a new prison without being escorted by his bodyguard, the megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, was lynched by the prisoners.
- 1509 – Catherine of Aragon (pictured) married King Henry VIII of England, becoming the first of his six wives.
- 1775 – The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.
- 1837 – Tensions between Yankees and Irish Americans in Boston, Massachusetts, erupted in the Broad Street Riot.
- 1847 – Prince Afonso died at the age of two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, without a male heir.
- 1917 – Alexander (pictured) was crowned King of Greece, succeeding his father Constantine I, who had abdicated.
- 1920 – During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel to select their presidential candidate, leading to the phrase "smoke-filled room".
- 1923 – Kitosh, an African labourer, died after having been flogged by his British employer, in a case that eventually led to reform of the legal system of the Kenya Colony.
- 1962 – American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Island, one of the United States' most famous prisons.
- 1963 – Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
- 2001 – Timothy McVeigh, detonator of a truck bomb in front of the Oklahoma federal building, was executed by lethal injection for using a weapon of mass destruction, among other charges.
- 2001 – Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.
- 2007 – Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- 2008 – Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
- 2011 – The semi-professional English football club Gedling Town F.C. withdrew from league football, shortly before its dissolution.
- 2012 – Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people.
- Born/died this day: | Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy |d|1253| John III of Portugal |d|1557| James Francis Edward Keith |b|1696| Benjamin Ingham |b|1712| Julia Margaret Cameron |b|1815| Julia Margaret Cameron |b|1815| Millicent Fawcett |b|1847| R. A. Hardie |b|1865| Roger Bresnahan |b|1879| Ernie Nevers |b|1903| Sheila Heaney |b|1917| Gene Wilder |b|1933| Claudia Lauper Bushman |b|1934| Mehmet Oz |b|1960| Sandra Schmirler |b|1963| Peter Dinklage |b|1969| Julius Evola |d|1974|A. Thurairajah |d|1994| Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos |d|2014 Taha Karaan |d|2021
Notes
- Terry Nichols appears on June 4, so McVeigh should not appear in the same year
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- 1594 – Philip II of Spain recognized the sovereign rights of the principalía, local Philippine nobles and chieftains who had converted to Catholicism.
- 1724 – J. S. Bach led his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20, in Leipzig on the first Sunday after Trinity, beginning his chorale cantata cycle.
- 1914 – Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War.
- 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium (pictured).