- 1816 – Argentina declared independence from Spain
- 1843 – Birth of Ralph E. Hudson, sacred composer and music publisher. His most enduring hymns include ‘At the Cross’ and ‘Blessed Be the Name.’
- 1850 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States died in office
- 1896 – Birth of William Cameron Townsend, American missionary and linguist. In 1942 he established what has become the largest evangelical missionary agency in the world –Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT)
- 1932 – Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense was born
- 1968 – Paolo Di Canio, Italian football (soccer) player was born
- 1982 – Margaret Thatcher began her 2nd term as British prime minster
- 1991 – South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion
- 2002 – The African Union was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman was Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
- 2006 – The final of the 2006 FIFA World Cup will take place today in the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany
The match was really interesting, I gotta say that but my team didn’t get the cup. That hurt a little. Well up Italy. France, good job.