Historical Events
1567 – Duke of Alva’s army enters Brussels, Belgium
1844 – Brigham Young chosen as head of Mormon Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) following the death of Joseph Smith
1989 – New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange resigns after 5 years on a no confidence issue
1997 – The UN approves a sale-price formula for Iraqi crude oil sales under the oil-for-food plan
2012 – China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies
2018 – Malaysia charges former prime minister Najib Razak with three counts of money laundering
Famous Birthdays
1866 – Matthew A Henson, 1st African American to reach North Pole (Jun 4 1909)
1880 – Earle Page, Australian politician (d. 1961)
1934 – Julian Dixon, American politician (Rep-D-California, 1979-2000), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2000)
1951 – Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian politician, President of Egypt (2012-13), leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, born in El Adwah, Egypt (d. 2019)
1963 – Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official and executive
1995 – Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
Famous Deaths
1719 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter, dies at 51
1788 – Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92
1827 – George Canning, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1827) and Foreign Secretary, dies in office at 57
1944 – Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace, dies at 30
1988 – Félix Leclerc, French Canadian singer and composer (Moi, mes souliers), dies at 74
1996 – Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on amorphous semiconductors), dies at 90