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Events
- 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
- 1760 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians.
- 1859 - Italian Independence wars: in the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeats an Austrian army.
- 1940 - World War II: German forces enter Paris.
- 1942 - World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination by Czechoslovak paratroopers.
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Midway begins.
- 1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies.
- 1970 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1972 - Angela Davis, black militant acquitted of murder.
- 1986 - Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
- 1989 - Ali Khamenei was elected as the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
- 1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Births
- 1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820)
- 1882 - John Bauer, Swedish painter and illustrator (d. 1918)
- 1895 - Dino Grandi, Italian Fascist politician (d. 1988)
- 1937 - Mortimer Zuckerman, American publisher
Deaths
- 1941 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (b. 1859)
- 1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, German SS senior officer (b. 1904)
