2003:
On this day in 2003, American entrepreneur and domestic lifestyle innovator Martha Stewart was indicted on criminal charges in relation to a stock sale, and in 2004 she was convicted and sentenced to five months in prison.
1970:

The Kingdom of Tonga achieved independence within the British Commonwealth.
1942:
Japan was repulsed by the United States at the Battle of Midway in World War II.
1940:
During World War II the evacuation of Dunkirk, France, came to an end, having saved 198,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian troops.
1920:
The Treaty of Trianon was signed by representatives of Hungary on one side and the Allied powers on the other, concluding World War I.
1833:
British Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, whose most brilliant campaign involved seizing the Suez Canal and, after a night march, surprising and defeating ‘Urabi Pasha at Al-Tall al-Kabir (September 13, 1882), was born.
1796:
Napoleon Bonaparte commanded the Siege of Mantua, which resulted in the exclusion of Austrians from northern Italy.
1783:
Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier launched an unmanned hot-air balloon, the first public demonstration of the discovery that hot air in a large lightweight bag rises.
1070:
The method for creating Roquefort cheese was discovered in Roquefort, France.