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An alto saxophone
Archduke Ferdinand and family
Archduke Franz Ferdinand- Stonewall Inn in 1969
James Reavis, the Baron of Arizona
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Vidovdan in Serbia | refimprove |
| Constitution Day in Ukraine | stub |
| 1776 – Thomas Hickey, a private in the Continental Army and bodyguard to George Washington, became the first person to be executed for treason against what was to become the United States. | refimprove section |
| 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending World War I. | unreferenced section |
| 1990 – Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was 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. | refimprove |
| 1992 – Japanese mountain climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to complete the Seven Summits. | unreferenced section |
| 1997 – Mike Tyson bit off a portion of Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. | refimprove section |
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- 1651 – Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Zaporozhian Cossacks began clashing with forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Berestechko in the Volhynia Region of present-day Ukraine.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: South Carolina militia repelled a British attack on Charleston.
- 1846 – Belgian clarinetist Adolphe Sax received a patent for the saxophone.
- 1895 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims ruled that the title claimed by James Reavis to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km2) in present-day Arizona and New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
- 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip during a motorcade in Sarajevo, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
- 1942 – World War II: The German Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic summer offensive intended to knock the Soviet Union out of the war.
- 1950 – Korean War: South Korean military and police summarily executed at least 100,000 suspected North Korean sympathizers.
- 1956 – Workers demanding better conditions held massive protests in Poznań, Poland, but were violently repressed by the following day by 400 tanks and 10,000 soldiers of the Polish People's Army and the Internal Security Corps.
- 1967 – Israel annexed East Jerusalem, having captured it from Jordan in the Six-Day War.
- 1969 – In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began to riot against New York City Police officers, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
- 1978 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, barring quota systems in college admissions but affirming the constitutionality of affirmative action programs giving advantage to minorities.
- 1981 – Seventy-three leading officials of Iran's Islamic Republican Party were killed when a bomb exploded at the party's headquarters in Tehran.
- 2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a local military coup following his attempt to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran constitution.
- 1841 – Giselle, a ballet by French composer Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
- 1880 – Police captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon Ned Kelly (pictured) after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria.
- 1922 – The Irish Civil War began with an assault by the Irish Free State's National Army on the Four Courts building, which had been occupied by the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army.
- 1989 – President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević gave a speech in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development.
- 2005 – War in Afghanistan: eleven U.S. Navy SEALs and eight American Special Operations Forces soldiers were killed during a failed counter-insurgent mission in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.