A child suicide bomber attacked a wedding in Nadahan, Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring at least 70 others.
Yugoslav Wars: The Kumanovo Agreement was signed, bringing an end to the Kosovo War the next day.
Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force carried out Operation Mole Cricket 19, successfully suppressing Syrian air defenses in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon.
The racehorse Secretariat, of Meadow Stables (racing colors pictured), won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, achieving the first American Triple Crown victory in a quarter of a century.
Fighting began between the Viet Cong and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the Vietnam War.
During hearings investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy, Army lawyer Joseph N. Welch asked McCarthy: "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed the Southern Cross in Brisbane, completing the first transpacific flight.
Unhappy with U.S. president Woodrow Wilson's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking, William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State.
American Civil War: Union and Confederate forces fought the Battle of Brandy Station, the largest cavalry engagement to take place on American soil.
American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson concluded his successful Shenandoah Valley campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic.
The first company of Mormon handcart pioneers left Iowa City for Salt Lake City, Utah.
In an act of defiance against the Navigation Acts, American colonists led by Abraham Whipple (pictured) attacked and burned the British schooner Gaspee.
The first Book of Common Prayer was legally mandated by Parliament, introducing a fully vernacular Protestant liturgy to the Church of England.
Parisian printer Simon de Colines was fined for printing biblical commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples without obtaining prior approval from theologians.
Abu Muslim initiated an open revolt against Umayyad rule, eventually leading to the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate under the Black Standard.
At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.
An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.
The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
Aeroflot Flight 105 crashes on approach to Magdan-13 Airport, killing 24.
First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland.
William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
American Civil War: The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, the largest cavalry battle on American soil, ends Confederate cavalry dominance in the eastern theater.
American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic.
Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
Diego Lainez, Mexican footballer
George Jennings, Australian rugby league player
Zach Hyman, Canadian ice hockey player
Yannick Agnel, French swimmer
Boyd Cordner, Australian rugby league player
Aaron M. Johnson, American jazz saxophonist
Matthias Mayer, Austrian skier
Antonella Alonso, Venezuelan pornographic actress
Dídac Vilà, Spanish footballer
Jason Demers, Canadian ice hockey defenseman
Sara Isaković, Slovenian swimmer
Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek footballer
Mae Whitman, American actress
Jaan Mölder, Estonian race car driver
Doug Legursky, American football player
Yadier Pedroso, Cuban baseball player (died 2013)
Ashley Postell, American gymnast
Richard Kahui, New Zealand rugby player
Sonam Kapoor, Indian model and actress
Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
Jake Newton, Guyanese footballer
Asko Paade, Estonian basketball player
Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
Firas Al-Khatib, Syrian footballer
Josh Cribbs, American football player
Dwayne Jones, American basketball player
Danny Richar, Dominican-American baseball player
Yoshito Ōkubo, Japanese footballer
Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer-songwriter
Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
Parinya Charoenphol, Thai boxer, model, and actress
D'banj, Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player
Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
Lehlohonolo Seema, South African footballer
Dario Dainelli, Italian footballer
Amanda Lassiter, American basketball player
Matt Bellamy, English singer, musician and songwriter
Shandi Finnessey, American model and actress, Miss USA 2004
Miroslav Klose, German footballer
Heather Mitts, American soccer player
Hayden Schlossberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Usman Afzaal, Pakistani-English cricketer
Paul Hutchison, English cricketer
Olin Kreutz, American football player
Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
Otto Addo, German-Ghanaian footballer and manager
Ameesha Patel, Indian actress and model
Andrew Symonds, English-Australian cricketer (died 2022)
Samoth, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Aigars Apinis, Latvian discus thrower and shot putter
Tedy Bruschi, American football player and sportscaster
Frédéric Choffat, Swiss director, producer, and cinematographer
Grant Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
Matt Horsley, Australian footballer and coach
Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer and sportscaster
Jean Galfione, French pole vaulter and sportscaster
Jackie McKeown, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
André Racicot, Canadian ice hockey player
Eric Wynalda, American soccer player, coach, and sportscaster
Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper and coach
Rubén Maza, Venezuelan runner
Jian Ghomeshi, Iranian-Canadian radio personality
Gloria Reuben, Canadian-American actress
Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and bass player (died 2009)
Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-English saxophonist, author, and activist
Johnny Depp, American actor
David Koepp, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Yuval Banai, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ken Rose, American football player
David Trewhella, Australian rugby league player
Thomas Benson, American football player
Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer, and playwright
Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist and author
Peter Fowler, Australian golfer
David Ancrum, American basketball player and coach
Randy Read, English crystallographer and academic
Berit Aunli, Norwegian skier
Patricia Cornwell, American journalist and author
Marek Gazdzicki, Polish nuclear physicist
Joaquín, Spanish footballer
John Le Lievre, British squash player (died 2021)
Kayhan Mortezavi, Iranian director
Francine Raymond, French Canadian singer-songwriter
Nikolai Tsonev, Bulgarian politician
Rudolf Wojtowicz, Polish footballer
Pete Byrne, English singer-songwriter
Paul Chapman, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (died 2020)
Gregory Maguire, American author
Elizabeth May, American-Canadian environmentalist, lawyer, and politician
George Pérez, American author and illustrator (died 2022)
Ken Navarro, Italian-American guitarist and composer
Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (died 2004)
Billy Knight, American basketball player
Michael Patrick Cronan, American graphic designer and academic (died 2013)
James Newton Howard, American composer, conductor, and producer
Dave Parker, American baseball player and coach (died 2025)
Brian Taylor, American basketball player
Trevor Bolder, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (died 2013)
Fred Jackson, American football player and coach
Giorgos Kastrinakis, Greek-American basketball player
Kiran Bedi, Indian police officer and activist
Jim Bailey, American football player
Gudrun Schyman, Swedish social worker and politician
Tim Sullivan, American novelist (died 2024)
Robert Indermaur, Swiss painter
Robbie Vincent, UK disc jockey and radio presenter
Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist and publisher, co-founded The Point (died 2004)
James Kelman, Scottish author and playwright
Peter Kilfoyle, English politician
Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Italian politician and diplomat, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon, English accountant and politician
Wally Gabler, American football player and sportscaster
John Fitzpatrick, English race car driver
Charles Saatchi, Iraqi-English businessman, co-founded Saatchi & Saatchi
Anton Burghardt, German footballer and manager (died 2022)
Nicholas Lloyd, English journalist
Richard A. Cash, American global health researcher (died 2024)
Jon Lord, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2012)
André Vallerand, Canadian businessman and politician
Ileana Cotrubaș, Romanian soprano and actress
Eric Fernie, Scottish historian and academic
David Hobbs, English race car driver and sportscaster
Dick Vitale, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
Charles Webb, American author (died 2020)
Jeremy Hardie, English economist and businessman
Giles Havergal, Scottish actor, director, and playwright
Charles Wuorinen, American composer and educator (died 2020)
Harald Rosenthal, German hydrobiologist and academic
Nell Dunn, English playwright, screenwriter and author
Mick O'Dwyer, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager (died 2025)
George Radda, Hungarian chemist and academic
Dutch Savage, American wrestler and promoter (died 2013)
Michael Mates, English colonel and politician
Jackie Wilson, American singer-songwriter (died 1984)
Al Cantello, American javelin thrower and coach (died 2024)
Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2021)
Nandini Satpathy, Indian author and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Odisha (died 2006)
Bill Virdon, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021)
Barbara, French singer (died 1997)
Jordi Pujol, Spanish physician and politician, 126th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Johnny Ace, American singer and pianist (died 1954)
R. Geraint Gruffydd, Welsh critic and academic (died 2015)
George Nigh, American politician, 17th and 22nd Governor of Oklahoma (died 2025)
Jim Nolan, American basketball player (died 1983)
Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, American singer and bass player (died 2010)
Happy Rockefeller, American philanthropist, 31st Second Lady of the United States (died 2015)
Keith Laumer, American soldier and author (died 1993)
Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (died 2014)
Ed Farhat, American wrestler and manager (died 2003)
Gerald Götting, German politician (died 2015)
George Axelrod, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003)
Hein Eersel, Surinamese linguist and Minister of Education (died 2022)
John Gillespie Magee Jr., Anglo-American pilot and poet (died 1941)
Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (died 1988)
Arthur Hertzberg, American rabbi and scholar (died 2006)
Jean Lacouture, French journalist, historian, and author (died 2015)
John Hospers, American philosopher and politician (died 2011)
Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (died 2012)
Jurij Brězan, German soldier and author (died 2006)
Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (died 1943)
Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (died 2009)
Jim McDonald, American football player and coach (died 1997)
Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2009)
Ingolf Dahl, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1970)
Robert Cummings, American actor, singer, and director (died 1990)
Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (died 1984)
Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist (died 1993)
Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (died 1970)
Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (died 1997)
Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver (died 1953)
Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (died 1996)
Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1969)
Fred Waring, American singer, bandleader, and television host (died 1984)
Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (died 1952)
Archie Weston, American football player and journalist (died 1981)
Irish Meusel, American baseball player and coach (died 1963)
Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (died 1964)
Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (died 1952)
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (died 1962)
Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (died 1963)
Harry DeBaecke, American rower (died 1961)
Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter and wrestler (died 1930)
Jane Avril, French model and dancer (died 1943)
Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (died 1914)
Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1931)
Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (died 1928)
Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (died 1916)
Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (died 1938)
Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American lawyer and politician, 46th United States Attorney General (died 1921)
Michael Ancher, Danish painter and academic (died 1927)
Frank Norton, American baseball player (died 1920)
Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914)
Hazard Stevens, American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer (died 1918)
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, English author (died 1919)
Michele Rua, Italian Catholic priest and saint (died 1910)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and politician (died 1917)
Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic (died 1910)
Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor (died 1849)
George Stephenson, English engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (died 1848)
Samuel Slater, English-American engineer and businessman (died 1835)
Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, English general and politician, Governor of Barbados (died 1815)
Giuseppe Demachi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1791)
Shiva Rajaram, infant Chattrapati of the Maratha Empire (died 1726)
Andrey Osterman, German-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1747)
Peter the Great, Russian emperor (died 1725)
Feodor III of Russia (died 1682)
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1705)
Sarah Rapelje, the "first white child" of New Netherland (died 1685)
Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Dutch painter (died 1665)
Władysław IV Vasa, Polish king (died 1648)
Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (died 1666)
Daniel Heinsius, Belgian poet and scholar (died 1655)
Blanche II of Navarre (died 1464)
Deokjong of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (died 1034)
Sly Stone, American musician and record producer (Sly and the Family Stone)
James Lawson, American activist, professor, and minister (born 1928)
Alain Touraine, French sociologist (born 1925)
Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (born 1956)
Billy Kametz, American voice actor (born 1987)
Matt Zimmerman, Canadian actor (born 1934)
Amir Liaquat Hussain, Pakistani politician, columnist and television host. (born 1971)
Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (born 1966)
Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo Albanian football administrator and player (born 1960)
Adam West, American actor and investor (born 1928)
Pumpkinhead, American rapper (born 1975)
Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (born 1960)
Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (born 1926)
Stuart Long, American boxer and Catholic priest (born 1963)
Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1958)
Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic (born 1910)
Alicemarie Huber Stotler, American lawyer and judge (born 1942)
Gustave Tassell, American fashion designer (born 1926)
Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (born 1956)
Iain Banks, Scottish author (born 1954)
Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (born 1926)
John Burke, English rugby player (born 1948)
Walter Jens, German philologist, historian, and academic (born 1923)
Zdeněk Rotrekl, Czech poet and historian (born 1920)
Régis Clère, French cyclist (born 1956)
John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (born 1943)
Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet and translator (born 1924)
Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (born 1939)
Abram Wilson, American-English trumpet player and educator (born 1973)
M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (born 1915)
Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (born 1970)
Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (born 1956)
Ken Brown, British Guitarist who was a member of The Quarrymen (born 1940)
Dick May, American race car driver (born 1930)
Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (born 1931)
Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (born 1919)
Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (born 1981)
Drafi Deutscher, German singer-songwriter (born 1946)
Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (born 1932)
Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (born 1945)
John Abramovic, American basketball player (born 1919)
Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (born 1917)
Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic (born 1905)
Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (born 1908)
Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (born 1921)
Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (born 1903)
George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Helen Hardin, American painter (born 1943)
Allen Ludden, American game show host (born 1917)
Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (born 1884)
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (born 1907)
John Creasey, English author and politician (born 1908)
Erich von Manstein, German general (born 1887)
Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (born 1940)
Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (born 1884)
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1879)
Jacques Villon, French painter (born 1875)
Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (born 1872)
Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (born 1884)
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
Robert Donat, English actor (born 1905)
Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist and lawyer (born 1888)
Hans Bergsland, Norwegian fencer (born 1878)
Thomas Hicks, Australian tennis player (born 1869)
Ferdinand Jodl, German general (born 1896)
Ernest Graves Sr., American football player, coach, and general (born 1880)
Adolf Busch, German-Austrian violinist and composer (born 1891)
František Erben, Czech gymnast (born 1874)
Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (born 1884)
Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (born 1889)
Alice Gossage, American journalist (born 1861)
Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (born 1838)
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (born 1846)
Sarah Roberts, English woman who was the subject of a vampire legend (born 1872).
Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (born 1842)
William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (born 1863)
Mike Burke, American baseball player (born 1854)
Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (born 1795)
Anna Atkins, English botanist and photographer (born 1799)
Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (born 1812)
William Carey, English minister and missionary (born 1761)
Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1745)
Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (born 1648)
Banda Singh Bahadur, Indian commander (born 1670)
William Lilly, English astrologer (born 1602)
Thomas Tomkins, Welsh-English composer (born 1572)
Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (born 1606)
José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534)
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1525)
Jeanne d'Albret, Navarrese queen and Huguenot leader (born 1528)
William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1506)
Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (born 1291)
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (born 1290)
Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester
Otto I of Olomouc (born 1045)
Gebhard of Supplinburg, Saxon count
Yang Wo, Prince of Hongnong
Shahrbaraz, king of the Persian Empire
Columba, Irish missionary and saint (born 521)
Spearthrower Owl, Teotihuacan figure active in Mayan Tikal
Ephrem the Syrian, hymnographer and theologian (born 306)
Nero, Roman emperor (born 37)
Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
Autonomy Day (Åland)
Christian feast day: Aidan of Lindisfarne (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Christian feast day: Baithéne mac Brénaind
Christian feast day: Bede (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Christian feast day: Columba
Christian feast day: Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church and Church of England)
Christian feast day: José de Anchieta
Christian feast day: Primus and Felician
Christian feast day: June 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Coral Triangle Day
Don Young Day (Alaska, United States)
La Rioja Day (La Rioja)
Murcia Day (Murcia)
National Heroes' Day (Uganda)