Born 1994: Alec Benjamin, American singer and songwriter
Born 1994: John Stones, English footballer
Born 1993: Daniel Alvaro, Australian rugby league player
Born 1993: Bárbara Luz, Portuguese tennis player
Born 1991: Danielle Lao, American tennis player
Born 2000: Phil Foden, English footballer
Born 2000: Risi Pouri-Lane, New Zealand rugby sevens player
Born 1999: Cameron Boyce, American actor (died 2019)
Born 1999: Jodie Burrage, British tennis player
Born 1998: Kim Dahyun, South Korean rapper and singer
Died 2018: Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress (born 1941)
Died 2016: Harambe, Cincinnati Zoo western lowland gorilla (born 1999)
Died 2015: Steven Gerber, American pianist and composer (born 1948)
Died 2015: Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (born 1927)
Died 2015: Reynaldo Rey, American actor and screenwriter (born 1940)
Died 2023: David Brewer, English politician, Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London (born 1940)
Died 2022: Patricia Brake, English actress (born 1942)
Died 2021: Mark Eaton, American basketball player (born 1957)
Died 2018: Neale Cooper, Scottish footballer (born 1963)
Died 2018: Jens Christian Skou, Danish medical doctor and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
1999: In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
2016: Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes.
2013: Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey.
2012: The Arkankergen massacre in Kazakhstan's Alakol District kills 15 people.
2011: Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.
2010: In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.
2008: The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2004: The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2003: Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
2002: The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
2017: Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from an engine issue in his first entry of the event.
1998: Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
1996: U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1995: The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.
1991: The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
2017: Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from the race with an engine issue in his first entry of the event.
Holiday: Christian feast day: Bernard of Menthon
Holiday: Christian feast day: Germain of Paris
Holiday: Christian feast day: John Calvin (Episcopal Church)
Holiday: Christian feast day: Blessed Lanfranc
Holiday: Christian feast day: Blessed Margaret Pole
Holiday: Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Bagnesi
Holiday: Christian feast day: Blessed Thomas Ford
Holiday: Christian feast day: Ubaldesca Taccini
Holiday: Christian feast day: William of Gellone
Holiday: Armed Forces Day (Croatia)