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or National Catfish Day, if you wish.

Eᴠᴇɴᴛs

• 253 – Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
• 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
• 1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
• 1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
• 1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
• 1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
• 1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
• 1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
• 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
• 1935 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
• 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
• 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
• 1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
• 1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
• 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
• 1967 – Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World
• 1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
• 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
• 1982 – Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
• 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
• 1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
• 2006 – Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.
• 2012 – The final steel beam of 4 World Trade Center is lifted into place in a ceremony.

Hᴏʟɪᴅᴀʏs/sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ ᴅᴀʏs

• Arbor Day (Philippines)
• Christian Feast Day: Eurosia, Prosper of Aquitaine, Prosper of Reggio, William of Montevergine, Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975.
• Statehood Day (Croatia)
• Statehood Day (Slovenia)
• Statehood Day (Virginia)

I sʜᴀʀᴇ ᴍʏ ʙɪʀᴛʜᴅᴀʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ

• George Orwell (1903)
• June Lockhart (1925)
• Clint Warwick (1940)
• Carly Simon (1945)
• Sonia Sotomayor (1954)
• Ricky Gervais (1961)
• George Michael (1963)
• Matt Gallant (1969)
• Jason Lewis (1971)
• Lauren Bush (1984)