iJunoon Archives |2014 | June

Second Mongol invasion of Vietnam: Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of the Trần Dynasty destroy most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.

Lonneke Engel, Dutch model

A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.

Lorenzo Booker, American football player

Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (d. 1922)

Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.

Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, English politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (b. 1926)

Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (d. 1971)

Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.