More important events

1098 - First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
1140 - French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1800 - U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, D.C. (in a tavern – the White House was not yet completed).
1850 - The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. This was the date on which it was first incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "City of Kansas".
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
1889 - The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.
1940 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
1956 - British Rail renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class).