713The imperial official Artemius is chosen as Byzantine emperor the day after the blinding of previous emperor Philippicus. Artemisius chooses the name of Anastasius II and announces his adherence to Chalcedonian Christianity.
1411King Charles VI of France grants a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, as they had been doing for centuries.
1525Bayham Abbey riot: Villagers from Kent and Sussex, England riot and occupy Bayham Old Abbey for a week in protest against Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's order to suppress the monastery in order to fund two colleges founded by him.
1561The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning, and is never rebuilt.
1615Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
1784Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers in 45 minutes, and reaches an estimated in altitude.
1796The siege of Mantua begins when Napoleon Bonaparte lays siege to the fortress of Mantua, the last Austrian stronghold in Northern Italy. It will become the main focus of Napoleon's army for eight months during the Italian campaign of 1796-1797.
1802King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
1812Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
1876An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
1878Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
1896Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and also gives it a successful test run.
1912Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1913Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.
1917The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1919Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1919Leon Trotsky bans the planned Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents.
1920Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
1932Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
1939The Holocaust: The , a ship carrying 973 German Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
1940World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: The British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
1942World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1942World War II: Gustaf Mannerheim, the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, is granted the title of Marshal of Finland by the government on his 75th birthday. On the same day, Adolf Hitler arrives in Finland for a surprise visit to meet Mannerheim.
1943A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
1944World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505, the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1944World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.
1961Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
1967Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
1975Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
1977JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium.
1979Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
1983Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
1986Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
1988Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
1989In the 1989 Iranian supreme leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).
1989Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election occurs, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers' Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe.
1989Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
1996The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
2005The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș is founded.
2010Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
2020Death of Giovanni López: Protests over the death of Giovanni López Ramírez, who had died on 4 May while in custody, begin in Jalisco following the release of a video of his arrest going viral on social media, and inspired by the George Floyd protests. Later, these spread across Mexico.
2023Protests begin in Poland against the PiS government.
2023Four people are killed when a Cessna Citation V crashes into Mine Bank Mountain in Augusta County, Virginia.
2025Eleven people are killed and 56 people are injured during a crowd crush incident outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, India for the celebration of Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Indian Premier League victory.
Nacimientos (202)
590Harsha, Maharajadhiraja of Kannauj (died 647)
1394Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (died 1430)
1489Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (died 1544)
1563George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith (died 1624)
1604Claudia de' Medici, Italian daughter of Christina of Lorraine (died 1648)
1665Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian captain (died 1733)
1694François Quesnay, French economist and physician (died 1774)
1704Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and businessman (died 1776)
1951Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (born 1874)
1956Katherine MacDonald, American actress and producer (born 1881)
1962Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (born 1882)
1967Linda Eenpalu, Estonian lawyer and politician (born 1890)
1968Dorothy Gish, American actress (born 1898)
1970Sonny Tufts, American actor (born 1911)
1971György Lukács, Hungarian historian and philosopher (born 1885)
1973Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician and academic (born 1878)
1973Murry Wilson, American songwriter, producer, and manager (born 1917)
1981Leslie Averill, New Zealand doctor and soldier (born 1897)
1989Dik Browne, American cartoonist (born 1917)
1990Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1949)
1990Zdenka Ziková, Czech opera singer (born 1902)
1992Carl Stotz, American businessman, founded Little League Baseball (born 1910)
1993Bernard Evslin, American writer (born 1922)
1994Derek Leckenby, English musician (born 1943)
1997Ronnie Lane, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1946)
1998Josephine Hutchinson, American actress (born 1903)
2002Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, 42nd President of Peru (born 1912)
2004Steve Lacy, American saxophonist and composer (born 1934)
2004Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (born 1921)
2007Clete Boyer, American baseball player and coach (born 1937)
2007Bill France Jr., American businessman (born 1933)
2007Craig L. Thomas, American captain and politician (born 1933)
2010John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (born 1910)
2011Juan Francisco Luis, Virgin Islander sergeant and politician, 23rd Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (born 1940)
2011Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer (born 1953)
2012Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect, designed the Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building (born 1925)
2012Pedro Borbón, Dominican-American baseball player (born 1946)
2012Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Guatemalan cardinal (born 1932)
2012Herb Reed, American violinist (born 1929)
2013Walt Arfons, American race car driver (born 1916)
2013Joey Covington, American drummer (born 1945)
2013Hermann Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer, handball player, and sportscaster (born 1946)
2013Will Wynn, American football player (born 1949)
2014George Ho, American-Hong Kong businessman (born 1919)
2014Nathan Shamuyarira, Zimbabwean journalist and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)
2014Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman, English lawyer and judge (born 1920)
2014Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1931)
2015Marguerite Patten, English economist and author (born 1915)
2015Leonid Plyushch, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1938)
2015Jabe Thomas, American race car driver (born 1930)
2015Anne Warburton, British academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Denmark (born 1927)
2016Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (born 1937)
2017Juan Goytisolo, Spanish essayist, poet and novelist (born 1931)
2021Clarence Williams III, American actor (born 1939)
2022George Lamming, Barbadian novelist (born 1927)
2023Sulochana Latkar, Indian actress (born 1928)
2024John Blackman, Australian radio and television presenter (born 1947)
2024Parnelli Jones, American racing driver (born 1933)
2025Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut and Member of Parliament (born 1949)
Celebraciones (5)
The Flag Day of the Finnish Defence Forces, also known as the birthday of C. G. E. Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland (Finland)
Emancipation Day or Independence Day, commemorates the abolition of serfdom in Tonga by King George Tupou in 1862, and the independence of Tonga from the British protectorate in 1970. (Tonga)
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression (International)