International Sushi Day
Birth anniversaries of Oscar-winning songwriter Sammy Cahn (1913-93), financial journalist Sylvia Porter (1913-91), explorer and mountaineer George Mallory (1886-1924)
Happy Birthday! Lou Brock, Paul McCartney, Isabella Rossellini
1429 - French forces defeated the English at the battle of Patay. The English had been retreating after the siege of Orleans.
1812 - The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions.
1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22.
1873 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.
1925 - The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University.
1942 - The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
1953 - Egypt was proclaimed to be a republic with General Neguib as its first president.
1979 - In Vienna, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2.
1983 - Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
2009 - Greenland assumed control over its law enforcement, judicial affairs, and natural resources from the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenlandic became the official language.
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