1245 - Pope Innocent IV declares Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II deposed and excommunicated at the First Council of Lyon amid their struggle over papal and imperial authority
1393 - Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
1740 - Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
1863 - Māori forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials
1863 - Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
1981 - Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another
2023 - Russia pulls out of a deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain past their naval blockade, threatening to push world food prices higher
2024 - US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro officially exonerates all 258 Black sailors who protested work conditions after the Port Chicago Disaster in 1944; none of them are alive for the ruling

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1915 - Catherine "Cass" Daley, American actress (Star Spangled Rhythm, Red Garters), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1975)
1920 - Helen Walker, American actress (Brewster's Million; Lucky Jordan), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
1928 - Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Blue Rondo à la Turk"), born in Springfield, Massachussets (d. 2011)
1963 - Regina Belle, American pop, and RandB singer-songwriter, and Grammy Award winner (with Peabo Bryson - "A Whole New World"), born in Engelwood, New Jersey
1971 - Calbert Cheaney, American NBA player (Washington Bullets/Wizards), born in Evansville, Indiana
1978 - Émilie Simon, French pop singer-songwriter and electronic music composer, born in Montpellier, France
1983 - Brooke Kinsella, British actress (Kelly Taylor in "EastEnders"), born in London
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1918 - Alexei Trupp, Russian footman and assistant of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 62
1970 - Juano Hernandez, Puerto Rican stage and film actor (St Louis Blues; Stars In My Crown), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73
1994 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer (Poedjangga Baroe), dies at 86
2011 - David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
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2023 - Nicholas Goodison, British businessman (CEO of TSB Group; Chairman of London Stock Exchange, 1976-86), and arts supporter (Chairman of the Courtauld Institute of Art, 1982-2002; Chair and of the National Art Collections Fund, 1986 -2002), dies at 97
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