515 BC - Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem .
1664 - New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain .
1894 - For the first time Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts ) are founded.
1913 - Canberra becomes the capital of Australia
1928 - In California , the St. Francis Dam[?] fails killing 400.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march protest march to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt
1933 - Great Depression : Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States . This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats[?] ."
1938 - Anschluss : Germany annexes Austria
1940 - Winter War : Finland signs a harsh peace treaty with the Soviet Union , ceeding almost all of Karelia . Finnish troops and remaining population were immediately evacuated.
1947 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism .
1951 - The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the country for the first time.
1968 - Mauritius achieves independence
1987 - Les Miserables[?] Broadway .
1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the British Commonwealth .
1993 - Several bombs explode in Bombay , India killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
1993 - North Korea nuclear weapons program : North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
1994 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell[?] , previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster , is confirmed to be a hoax.
1994 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests
1997 - Mikail Markhasev[?] is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby 's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby[?] .
1999 - former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic , Hungary and Poland joined NATO 2002 - In Texas , Andrea Yates[?] is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20 , 2001 . She is later sentenced to life in prison.
2003 - Zoran Djindjic , Prime Minister of Serbia assassinated in Belgrade .
1607 - Paul Gerhardt , hymnist (+ 1676 )
1806 - Jane Pierce[?] , First Lady
1831 - Clement Studebaker[?] , automobile pioneer
1896 - Sir John Abbott , third Prime Minister of Canada
1824 - Gustav Kirchhoff , physicist, lends his name to Kirchhoff's Laws (+ 1887 )
1863 - Gabriele D'Annunzio , poet (+ 1938 )
1881 - Kemal Atatürk , founder and first president of the Turkish Republic (+ 1938 )
1888 - Vaslav Nijinsky , ballet dancer (+ 1950 )
1912 - Irving Layton[?] , poet
1921 - Giovanni Agnelli , manager of Fiat
1921 - Gordon MacRae[?] , singer, actor (+ 1986 )
1922 - Jack Kerouac , writer (+ 1969 )
1923 - Wally Schirra[?] , astronaut
1928 - Edward Albee , dramatist
1932 - Andrew Young , civil rights activist, politician, ambassador to the United Nations
1940 - Al Jarreau[?] , singer
1946 - Liza Minnelli , singer and actress
1948 - James Taylor , musician
1953 - Ron Jeremy , pornographic film actor
1953 - Carl Hiaasen , author
1957 - Steve Harris[?] , musician ("Iron Maiden ")
1507 - Cardinal Cesare Borgia , son of Pope Alexander VI
1889 - Emperor Johannes IV of Ethiopia[?]
1925 - Sun Yat Sen , Chinese revolutionary, politician
1935 - Michel Pupin[?] , telephone pioneer
1937 - Charles-Marie Widor , organist and composer
1944 - Werner Drechsler[?] , of U-118[?]
1945 - Anne Frank , diarist
1955 - Charlie Parker , jazz saxophonist
1998 - Beatrice Wood , artist/ceramist
1999 - Sir Yehudi Menuhin , violinist
2001 - Morton Downey, Jr. , television personality
2001 - Robert Ludlum , author of spy novels
2003 - Ronnie Burk , surrealist and AIDS 2003 - Zoran Djindjic , Prime Minister of Serbia
See Also: January , February , March , April , May , June , July , August , September , October , November , December
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