| 417 | BC | the desecration of the Herms at Athens [Alt] |
| 0 | | The festival of the Ludi Piscatorii, celebrated by the fishermen of Rome in honor of Father Tiber |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Paul the Confessor, thrice Patriarch of Constantinople |
| 1099 | | The First Crusade arrives at Jerusalem |
| 1416 | | Battle of Sant'Egidio: The Bracceschi defeat the Malatesti |
| 1424 | | Jan Ziska defeated the Ultraist Hussites in the Battle of Malesov -- Learn More |
| 1451 | | Unsuccessful coup at Bologna by the Canetoli family against the Bentivogli |
| 1494 | | Treaty of Tordesillas: America is divided between Spain and Portugal, which gets Brazil |
| 1498 | | Columbus begins his third voyage |
| 1546 | | Peace of Ardres: ends Anglo-French War (1544-46), favorably for England |
| 1586 | | Sir Francis Drake sacks and burns St. Augustine, Florida |
| 1629 | | Peace of Lubeck: between HRE Ferdinand II & Christian IV of Denmark and Norway |
| 1672 | | Battle of Solebay: Dutch Admiral Michael de Ruyter trounces the English |
| 1775 | | The "United Colonies" change their name to the "United States" |
| 1776 | | British defeat the Americans at Trois Rivers, Canada |
| 1776 | | Richard Lee moves the adoption of a Declaration of Independence in Congress |
| 1780 | | Anti-Catholic riots in London, hundreds die |
| 1799 | | First Battle of Zurich, Day 4: Austrians defeat the French |
| 1862 | | Skirmish at Union Church, VA |
| 1863 | | Battle of Milliken's Bend: Black recruits beat off Rebel veterans |
| 1863 | | French troops under Gen. Bazaine capture Mexico City |
| 1866 | | Battle of Pigeon Hill, Que: Canadians defeat Fenians, who retreat to the US (see May 31) |
| 1880 | | Chilean troops storm and capture Arica from the Peruvians |
| 1898 | | Battle of Camp McCalla: U.S. Marines and Spanish troops skirmished at Guantanamo Bay -- Learn More (Scroll down) |
| 1905 | | Norway declares independence from Sweden, which acquiesces |
| 1912 | | US Army Air Service tests an airplane-mounted machine gun |
| 1916 | | Germans capture Fort Vaux, Verdun |
| 1917 | | The first American troops to reach Europe in W.W. I landed at Liverpool |
| 1917 | | Battle of Messines: Mines totaling nealry 500 tons of explosives demolish the German trenches, and the Canadian Corps storms the ridge |
| 1929 | | Italo-Papal Lateran Treaty establishes the sovereign "State of the Vatican City" |
| 1939 | | King George VI & Queen Elizabeth arrive at Niagara Falls, NY, by rail from Canada - the first British sovereign to visit the US |
| 1940 | | British and French troops evacuate Narvik, Norway |
| 1942 | | Aleutians Campaign: Japanese troops land on Attu. |
| 1942 | | Battle of Midway: The USS 'Yorktown' (CV-5) goes down, after a desperate fight to save the ship -- Learn More |
| 1942 | | The Germans capture Sebastopol |
| 1942 | | B-17s from Midway reported sinking a Japanese cruiser -- Learn More |
| 1943 | | Guadalcanal: Japanese air raid, lose 23 a/c vs 9 Allied. |
| 1944 | | British 50th division liberates Bayeux |
| 1944 | | Burma: Chinese on the Salween reach Lung-ling. |
| 1958 | | Fighting breaks out between Turks and Greeks on Cyprus |
| 1962 | | NASA civilian test pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m |
| 1971 | | Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut |
| 1981 | | Israeli air strikes destroy Iraqi nuclear weapons facilities |
| 2013 | | Maniac in Santa Monica kills six by arson and gunfire, injures many others, before being slain |
| 1422 | | Federico III da Montefeltro, Condottiero, patron of the arts, Lord and Duke of Urbino (1444-1482) |
| 1502 | | King Jao III "the Pious" of Portugal (1521-57) |
| 1778 | | George Bryan "Beau" Brummell, sometime officer, 10th Royal Hussars, English fashionista, d. 1840. |
| 1812 | | Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1902 |
| 1837 | | Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant, d. 1903 |
| 1840 | | Carlota of Saxe-Coburg, sometime Empress of Mexico (1864-67), d. 1927 -- Learn More |
| 1857 | | Rudolf Carl Slatin, later Freiherr von Slatin, Austrian lieutenant, Egyptian Pasha, British Maj. Gen., d. 1932 |
| 1894 | | Alexander P. de Seversky, aviator, author, aeronautical engineer, d. 1974 |
| 1896 | | Imre Nagy, sometime Austrian-Hungarian soldier, later Communist PM of Hungary, leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, executed 1958 |
| 555 | | Pope Vigilus (r. 537-555) |
| 1329 | | King Robert Bruce of Scotland (1306-29), at 53 |
| 1492 | | King Kasimir IV King of Poland (1447-92), at 64 |
| 1631 | | Mumtaz Mahal, 38, Mrs. Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal for her |
| 1701 | | Prince Ferdinand of Wurttemberg-Neustadt, at 41 |
| 1840 | | King Frederik Wilhelm III of Prussia (1797-1840), at 69 |
| 1855 | | Alessandro Ferrero La Marmora, 56, Italian soldier, founder of the Bersaglieri, of cholera on campaign in the Crimea |
| 1862 | | James J. Andrews, c. 32, civilian US Army scout, who hijacked the locomotive "The General," hanged at Atlanta by the Confederates |
| 1862 | | William Mumford, hanged at New Orleans by Ben Butler for desecrating the American flag |
| 1998 | | James Byrd Jr., 49, black American, murdered by white supremacists in Jasper, Texas |