1258 Naval Battle of Acre: Venetians defeat the Genoese

1287 Battle of the Counts: Ruggiero di Lauria's Aragonese-Sicilian fleet defeats the Angevins of Naples, taking many noble prisoners

1495 The French take Gaeta from the Neapolitans amid the great slaughter

1532 Peace of Nuremberg: HRE Charles V secures peace in Germany by making concessions to the Protestants

1606 Treaty of Vienna: The Habsburgs grant religious freedom to Protestants

1757 Battle of Plassey: Clive's 2,800 troops defeat 50,000 Sirajis

1758 Battle of Krefeld: Anglo-Hanoverians defeat the French

1760 Battle of Landshut: Austrians defeat the Prussians

1784 Edward Warren, 13, takes the first balloon flight in the US

1865 Stand Watie surrenders the last Confederate force still in the field

1898 Spanish blockade runners escape US ships off Havana

1902 Germany, Austria-Hungary, & Italy renew the Triple Alliance for 12 years

1915 First Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Jul 7)

1917 Ammunition factory explosion in Boleweg, Bohemia, c. 1000 die

1917 Japanese DD 'Matsu' is sunk by a German u-boat in the Mediterranean.

1933 USS 'Macon' (ZRS-5) is commissioned, the last Navy rigid airship crashes 1935

1939 France turns the Sanjak of Alexandretta over to Turkey

1940 Hitler orders preparations for an invasion Switzerland

1942 Rommel breaks the Gazala Line and drives on Egypt

1943 Off San Cristobal Island, Japanese sub 'Ro-103' sinks transport 'Aldura' (AK-72) & damages 'Deimos' (AK-78), which has to be scuttled

1943 Trobriand Is: 158th RCT lands on Kirwina

1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt (1956-1970)

1960 US-Japan security treaty signed

1961 Antarctic Treaty goes into effect

1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m

1964 Maxwell Taylor appointed ambassador to South Vietnam

1985 Air India Flight 182 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb off Ireland, 329 die

1990 Moldava declares independence from the Soviet Union