1491 ~ Birthday of Jacques Cartier, Explorer.

1594 ~ Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, Painter

1929 ~ Vatican City became a sovereign state.

1942 ~ The Battle of Midway ended in a decisive American victory.

1944 ~ Nazi SS troops executed 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.

1954 ~ Death of Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist.

1981 ~ The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.

1981 ~ Anna Kournikova, tennis player and inspiration for computer virus.


Today is the first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta as observed by the Roman Empire.

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