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American Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, led b�
Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Acre, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet sailing to relieve Acre.
Warren E. Burger, Fifteenth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1907)
The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea.
Anglo-Spanish War: The largest battle ever fought on Jamaica, the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo, began.
Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany e�
Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.
War of the Roses: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (died 1985)
Christian feast day: José María Robles Hurtado (one of Saints of the Cristero War)
War of Jenkins' Ear: Spanish troops stormed the British-held strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.
The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta campaign.
Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.