1890 - The first ever official County Championship match begins. Eoferwicscīr beat Gleawceasterscīre by eight wickets at Bricgstōw. George Ulyett scores the first hundred in the competition.
1926 - UK General Strike 1926: In þǣm Geānlǣhtan Cynerīce, a nigon-daga general strike by trade unions endeð.
1932 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home.
1937 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain æt Westmynster.
1942 - World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov - In the ēastern Ucrǣgn, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the Þēodisc Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
1949 - Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
1958 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
1962 - Douglas MacArthur delivers his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at West Point.
1965 - The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on þǣm Mōne.
1966 - Busch Memorial Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals major league baseball team, opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
1967 - At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert.
1972 - The Rolling Stones release Exile On Main Street, often considered their best album.
1975 - Mayagüez incident: The Cambodisca sciphere seizes the Americisca cēapmanna scip SS Mayaguez in international waters.
1978 - In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba. The government of Zaire asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.
1989 A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on Duffy Street on the very steep Cajon Pass in San Bernadino, California
1999 - David Steel weorþ sē forma Foresittinggerēfa (spǣcere) þæs Scyttisce Witenagemōt.
2000 - The Tate Modern art gallery opens in Lundene.
2001 - In Cēapmannahǣfn, Denemearc, Tanel Padar & Dave Benton win the forty-sixth Eurovision Song Contest for Estlande singing "Everybody".
2002 - Jimmy Carter Ealdforsittend arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first Forsittend þāra Geānlǣhtan Rīca, in or out of office, to visit þæt īegland siþðan Castroes 1959 revolution.
Byrda
1496 - Gustav I Swēolandes (d. 1560)
1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1670 - King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
1803 - Justus von Liebig, chemist (d. 1873)
1820 - Florence Nightingale, nurse (d. 1910)
1828 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter (d. 1882)
1845 - Gabriel Faurē, composer (d. 1924)
1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
1880 - Lincoln Ellsworth - American scientist and polar explorer (d. 1951)
1889 - Otto Frank, wrītere, fæder þǣre Anne Frank (d. 1980)
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