350 Flavius Iulius Popilius Nepotianus Constantinus - Nepotian, nephew of Constantine the Great, proclaims himself Emperor at Rome (deposed, and executed, June 30)

1098 Crusaders seize Antioch

1769 Transit of Venus observed by Capt. James Cook at Tahiti.

1785 Frigate 'Alliance' is sold; last Continental Navy ship

1849 Battle of the Villa Corsini: The French defeat the Garibaldini defending Rome

1849 Spanish troops reach Itri, marching from Gaeta to support the French against the "Roman Republic"

1861 Battle of Philippi: Union captures W Va (0 k, 21 w, both sides)

1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, Day 3

1866 Fenians are defeated in Ontario and retreat to the US (see May 31)

1893 The "USS 'Illinois'", a brick replica of an 'Indiana' (BB-1) Class battleship, opens at the Chicago World's Fair

1898 Richmond Pearson Hobson's gallant attempt to block Santiago harbor by scuttling the steamer 'Merrimac'

1929 Chile, Peru, & Bolivia sign an accord on Tacna-Arica

1938 German Reich orders the confiscation of "degenerate art."

1940 Major German air raid on Paris

1941 German occupiers stamp "J" on passports of Dutch Jews

1942 Midway Campaign: B-17s raid Japanese transports, scoring no hits, despite Army Air Forces press releases

1942 Negros Is. falls to the Japanese: formal Fil-American resistance in the Philippines ends

1944 Last Italian air raid on Gibraltar, by Mussolini's "Republican Air Force"

1949 1st African-American graduate of Annapolis, Wesley A. Brown - retires 1969 as LtCdr

1959 First US Air Force Academy graduation

1965 First American "spacewalk", Maj. Edward White, Gemini 4