In 1509, England's King Henry VIII varried Catherine of Aragon.
In 1770, Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.
In 1776, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
In 1859, a prospector laid claim to a silver deposit in Six Mile Canyon in Nevada, a claim that later turned out to be the Comstock Lode.
In 1919, Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner.
In 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend-lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
In 1947, sugar rationing ended in the United States.
In 1963, after defying a federal court order to allow two blacks to enroll at the University of Alabama, Gov. George Wallace relented following a confrontation with federal troops.
In 1963, Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, immolated himself on a street in Saigon as a protest against the govermant of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
In 1970, the United States presence in Libya came to an end as the last detachment left Wheelus Air Base.
In 1977, Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
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Broadcast journalist Lawrence Spivak (1900)
Marine biologist Jacques Cousteau (1910)
Opera singer Rise Stevens (1913)
Actor Gene Wilder (1934)
Actor Chad Everett (1937)
Former auto racer Jackie Stewart (1939)
Actress Adrienne Barbeau (1945)
Football quarterback Joe Montana (1956)
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"One can acquire everything in solitude - except character."
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Stendhal (Henri Beyle), French author and critic (1783-1842)