1098: Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.
1539: Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.
1621: The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now known as New York).
1784: The United States Congress created the United States Army.
1800: John Adams moved to Washington, DC. He was the first President to live in what later became the capital of the United States.
1805: A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution.
1851: The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms.
1856: Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine.
1864: About 7,000 Union troops were killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia during the U.S. Civil War.
1871: Jesse James, then 24, and his gang robbed the Obocock bank in Corydon, Iowa. They stole $15,000.
1888: "Casey at the Bat" the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published.
1918: The Finnish Parliament ratified its treaty with Germany.
1923: In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.
1928: Manchurian warlord Chian Tso-Lin died as a result of a bomb blast set off by the Japanese.
1932: Lou Gehrig set a major league baseball record when he hit four consecutive home runs.
1937: The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1938: The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called "degenerate art."
1940: German bombed Paris, killing 254 people. Most of the people killed were civilians and school children.
1952: A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea was put down by American troops.
1959: The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.
1965: Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a "space walk" when he left the Gemini 4 capsule.
1968: Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio by Valerie Solanas.
1970: Har Gobind Khorana and colleagues announced the first synthesis of a gene from chemical components.
1974: Charles Colson, an aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, pled guilty to obstruction of justice.
1983: Gordon Kahl was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, AR. Kahl was wanted for the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota.
1985: After five years, the characters of Nancy and Chris Hughes returned to CBS-TV's "As the World Turns."
1989: Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died.
1989: Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
1991: Mount Unzen in southern Japan erupted killing 40 people.
1998: In Germany, a train veered off its tracks and hit a road bridge. 101 people were killed and 80 were injured.
1999: Slobodan Milosevic's government accepted an international peace plan concerning Kosovo. NATO announced that airstrikes would continue until 40,000 Serb forces were withdrawn from Kosovo.
1999: Dennis Muren received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2003: Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat.
2003: Toys "R" Us, Inc. announced that it had signed a multi-year agreement with Albertson to become the exclusive toy provider for all of all of Albertson's food and drug stores.