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Events
- 1389 - Ottoman and Serbian armies fight the Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe.
- 1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
- 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
- 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
- 1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
- 1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
- 1950 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
- 1964 - Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
- 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- 1994 - Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
- 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
Births
- 1491 - King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
- 1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640)
- 1703 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
- 1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
- 1883 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
- 1934 - Carl Levin, United States Senator
- 1938 - Leon Panetta, CIA director designate
- 1942 - Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party (d. 1993)
- 1957 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
Deaths
- 1836 - James Madison, President of the United States (b. 1751)
- 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
- 1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
- 2000 - Jane Birdwood, British and Canadian nationalist activist (b. 1913)
