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Events

1502 – A hurricane sinks 20 ships aff the Caribbean island o Hispaniola.
1770 – Lexell's Comet passed closer tae the Yird than ony ither comet in recordit history, approachin tae a distance o 0.0146 a.u.
1863 – American Ceevil War: The Battle o Gettysburg stairts.
1863 – The Netherlands abolish slavery.
1867 – The Canadian Confederation is creatit.
1904 – The 1904 Simmer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, stairt.
1908 – SOS is adoptit as an internaitional distress signal.
1916 – Warld War I: Stairt o the Battle o the Somme.
1921 – The Communist Pairty o Cheenae is foondit.
1923 – Canadae introduces the "Cheenese Exclusion Act"; it is repealed in 1947.
1937 – The Unitit Kinrick's 999 emergency caw seestem comes intae force.
1943 – Tokyo Ceety merges wi the Prefectur o Tokyo.
1960 – Unthirldom o Somalie.
1960 – Ghana becomes a Republic an Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first Preses as Queen Elizabeth II ceases tae be its Heid o state.
1962 – Unthirldom o Rwanda.
1962 – Unthirldom o Burundi.
1969 – The investiture o Charles, Prince o Wales taks place at Caernarfon Castle.
1969 – Gustav Heinemann becomes Preses o Wast Germany.
1974 – Walter Scheel becomes Preses o Wast Germany.
1976 – Portugal gies autonomy tae Madeira.
1977 – Virginia Wade becomes the maist recent Breetish wumman tae win a singles teetle at the Wimbledon Championships.
1979 – Karl Carstens becomes Preses o Wast Germany.
1984 – Richard von Weizsaecker becomes Preses o Germany.
1984 – Weemen in Liechtenstein get the richt tae vote.
1990 – A monetar union o Wast Germany an East Germany enters intae force.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is offeecially dissolved at a meetin in Prague.
1994 – Roman Herzog becomes Preses o Germany.
1997 – Cheenae resumes sovereignty ower the ceety-state o Hong Kong, endin 156 year o Breetish colonial rule.
1999 – The new Scots Pairlament is offeecially opened.
1999 – Johannes Rau becomes Preses o Germany.
2000 – The Oresund Brig, linkin Swaden an Denmark, is offeecially opened.
2002 – A Roushie passenger plane an a German DHL cargo plane collide ower Ueberlingen, Loch Constance, Soothren Germany, killin 71 fowk.
2004 – Horst Köhler becomes Preses o Germany.
2004 – The Cassini-Huygens probe goes intae the orbit o Saturn.
2012 – Spain wins UEFA Euro 2012, defeatin Italy 4-0 in the final in Kiev.
2013 – Croatie jyns the European Union, as its 28t member.
2016 – A re-run is declared for the Austrick preses election 2016 atween Alexander Van der Bellen an Norbert Hofer.
2016 – UEFA Euro 2016: Wales advance tae the semi-feenals efter a 3-1 win ower Belgium.
2018 – Andrés Manuel López Obrador is electit Preses o Mexico.
2019 – Then-15-year-auld debutant Coco Gauff defeats Venus Williams in the openin roond o the weemen's singles at the Wimbledon Championships.
2020 – The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae's new security law, which gies it increasit pouers in Hong Kong, enters intae force.
2020 – Voters in Roushie approve several constitutional chynges in a referendum; amang thaim is a chynge that could permit Vladimir Putin tae remain Preses tae 2036.

Births

1481 – Christian II o Denmark (d. 1559)
1534 – Frederick II o Denmark (d. 1583)
1646 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1804 – George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1818 – Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian medicinar (d. 1865)
1899 – Charles Laughton, Inglis actor an director (d. 1962)
1902 – William Wyler, American film director, producer an screenwriter (d. 1981)
1903 – Amy Johnson, Breetish pilot (d. 1941)
1906 – Peter Ritchie Calder, Scots author, jurnalist an academic (d. 1982)
1916 – Olivia de Havilland, Breetish-American actress (d. 2020)
1921 – Seretse Khama, 1st Preses o Botswana (d. 1980)
1929 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist (d. 2014)
1934 – Sydney Pollack, American actor an director (d. 2008)
1940 – Craig Brown, Scots fitbawer an manager
1945 – Debbie Harry, American sangster
1952 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian-American actor an enterteener
1955 – Li Keqiang, Cheenese politeecian, 7t Premier o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
1957 – Graeme Sinclair, Scots fitbawer
1961 – Diana, Princess o Wales (d. 1997)
1961 – Carl Lewis, American athlete
1967 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American actress an telly personality
1976 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch fitbawer
1977 – Liv Tyler, American actress
1989 – Daniel Ricciardo, Australie racin driver
1996 – Adelina Sotnikova, Roushie feegur skeitcher

Daiths

1591 – William Douglas, 9t Yerl o Angus, Scots nobleman (b. 1533)
1736 – Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1673)
1787 – Charles de Rohan, Prince o Soubise, French nobleman an general (b. 1715)
1790 – William Roy, Scots militar ingineer, surveyor an antiquarian (b. 1726)
1824 – Lachlan Macquarie, Scots Govrenor o New Sooth Wales (b. 1762)
1831 – Archibald Cochrane, 9t Yerl o Dundonal, Scots nobleman an inventor (b. 1748)
1839 – Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1785)
1846 – Pape Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
1876 – Mikhail Bakunin, Roushie anarchist an social revolutionary (b. 1804)
1896 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer (b. 1811)
1925 – Erik Satie, French componer (b. 1866)
1971 – William Lawrence Bragg, Breetish pheesicist (b. 1890)
1974 – Juan Perón, Argentine militar afficer an politeecian, Preses o Argentinae (b. 1895)
1983 – Buckminster Fuller, American airchitect an philosopher, designed the Montreal Biosphère (b. 1903)
1997 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
2001 – Nikolay Basov, Roushie pheesicist (b. 1922)
2006 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, Prime meenister o Japan (b. 1937)
2009 – Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
2011 – Willie Fernie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1928)
2015 – Nicholas Winton, Inglis humanitarian (b. 1909)

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