^B{^#!16!23 June^N! National Day of Luxembourg. Feast day of St Cyneburg, St Etheldreda, St Agrippina, St Lietbertus, St Joseph Cafasso, and St Thomas Garnet.
^B{1611^B} English navigator Henry Hudson and eight others were cast adrift by mutineers; the mutineers returned to England, but Hudson and his companions were never seen again. ^B{1757 ^B}British troops under Robert Clive captured Plassey, in Bengal, and recovered Calcutta. ^B{1934 ^B}Saudi Arabia and the Yemen signed a peace agreement after a war of six weeks. ^B{1935 ^B}British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden offered Benito Mussolini concessions over Abyssinia, which he rejected. ^B{1951 ^B}Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, 'missing diplomats', fled to the USSR. ^B{1952 ^B}The US Air Force bombed hydroelectric plants in North Korea.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}John BanΘr, Swedish general, ^B{1596^B}; Giovanni Battista Vico, Italian philosopher, ^B{1668^B}; Josephine de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon, ^B{1763^B}; Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet, ^B{1889^B}; Jean Anouilh, French playwright, ^B{1910^B}; John Habgood, archbishop of York, ^B{1927^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Vespasian, Roman emperor, ^B{AD 79^B}; Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish explorer, ^B{1537^B}; John Aubrey, English antiquary, ^B{1697^B}; Hester Lucy Stanhope, English traveler, ^B{1839^B}; Cecil Sharp, English collector of folk songs, ^B{1924^B}.
