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June 1: Jerusalem Day (Israel, 2011); International Children's Day
- 1670 – Charles II and Louis XIV signed a secret treaty, wherein England would aid France in its war against the Dutch Republic in return for French assistance in England's attempt to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1916 – Louis Brandeis (pictured) became the first Jew to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 1942 – Second World War: The crews of three Japanese Ko-hyoteki class submarines scuttled and committed suicide after entering Sydney Harbour and launching a failed attack.
- 1980 – CNN, the first network to provide 24-hour television news coverage, was launched.
- 2001 – Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal killed King Birendra and several members of the Shah royal family in a shooting spree at the Narayanhity Royal Palace in Kathmandu.
- 2009 – En route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 aboard.
More anniversaries: May 31 – June 1 – June 2
June 2: Republic Day in Italy; Ascension Thursday (Christianity, 2011)
- 1774 – Intolerable Acts: To restore imperial control over the Thirteen Colonies, the Parliament of Great Britain passed a second Quartering Act, reenacting a law requiring colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.
- 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured Diamond Rock (pictured), an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
- 1910 – Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, became the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
- 1919 – First Red Scare: Anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani set off eight bombs in eight cities across the United States.
- 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 were killed when a flashover occurred as the plane's doors opened.
- 1999 – Bhutan ended its status as the only country in the world to prohibit television when the state-run Bhutan Broadcasting Service came on the air.
More anniversaries: June 1 – June 2 – June 3
June 3: Feast day of Saint Charles Lwanga and the Uganda Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church, Church of England, Lutheranism)
- 1839 – In Humen, China, Qing government official Lin Zexu (pictured) ordered the destruction of nearly 1.2 million kg (2.6 million lbs) of opium, the primary catalyst for the First Opium War.
- 1888 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 1937 – Nearly six months after he abdicated the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony near Tours, France.
- 1963 – Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attacked protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.
- 1984 – The Indian Army began Operation Blue Star to remove Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple based on accusations they were stockpiling weapons there.
More anniversaries: June 2 – June 3 – June 4
June 4: Independence Day in Tonga (1970)
- 1913 – Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured when she was trampled by King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby.
- 1939 – The German ocean liner St. Louis, carrying 937 Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution, was denied permission to land in the United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba.
- 1942 – The Battle of Midway, a major battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, began with a massive Imperial Japanese strike on Midway Atoll.
- 1989 – Following the death of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Assembly of Experts elected Ali Khamenei to be the Supreme Leader of Iran.
- 1996 – The maiden flight of the Ariane 5 expendable launch system failed, with the rocket self-destructing 37 seconds after launch because of a malfunction in the control software, one of the most expensive computer bugs in history.
More anniversaries: June 3 – June 4 – June 5
June 5: World Environment Day; Father's Day and Constitution Day in Denmark
- 1257 – Kraków in Poland received city rights based on the Magdeburg law.
- 1305 – Raymond Bertrand de Got became Pope Clement V, succeeding Pope Benedict XI who died one year earlier.
- 1956 – American singer Elvis Presley (pictured) performed "Hound Dog" to a nationwide television audience on The Milton Berle Show, an appearance that generated many letters of protest.
- 1967 – The Six-Day War began with an Israeli Air Force preemptive strike that destroyed about 450 total aircraft of the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian Air Forces on the ground.
- 1989 – An anonymous demonstrator, later dubbed "Tank Man", single-handedly stopped a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests before being dragged aside.
More anniversaries: June 4 – June 5 – June 6
June 6: National Day of Sweden; Queen's Official Birthday (New Zealand); Foundation Day (Western Australia); Queensland Day in the Australian state of Queensland; Duanwu/Dragon Boat Festival (2011)
- 1813 – War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
- 1882 – The Shewa kingdom made big strides towards gaining supremacy over the Ethiopian Empire by defeating the Gojjam and gaining control of territories south of the Gibe River.
- 1944 – Second World War: The Invasion of Normandy, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France (pictured).
- 1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, was released.
- 2004 – During a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament, President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam announced that Tamil was to be made the first legally recognised classical language of India.
More anniversaries: June 5 – June 6 – June 7
June 7: Shavuot begins at sunset (Judaism, 2011); Sette Giugno in Malta; Journalist Day in Argentina
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- 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document that set out specific liberties of the subject, was granted the Royal Assent by Charles I (pictured).
- 1892 – Homer Plessy, an "octoroon" from New Orleans, Louisiana, was arrested for refusing to leave the "whites-only" car on a train.
- 1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and proceeded to destroy all the alcoholic beverages with rocks.
- 1917 – First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under the German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history.
- 1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor, assuming it was producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program.
More anniversaries: June 6 – June 7 – June 8
June 8: Shavuot (Judaism, 2011); World Ocean Day
- 793 – Scandinavian Vikings destroyed the abbey at Lindisfarne, Northumbria, England, to begin the Viking Age.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last major battle fought on Quebec soil that was part of the American colonists' invasion of Quebec.
- 1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by English writer George Orwell (pictured) about life under the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania, was first published.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
- 2008 – A Japanese man drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in the Akihabara district of Tokyo, then proceeded to stab at least 12 people with a dagger before being apprehended.
More anniversaries: June 7 – June 8 – June 9
June 9: St. Colmcille's Day in Ireland
- 68 – Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate.
- 1815 – The Congress of Vienna ended, redrawing the political map of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon in the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson concluded his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic.
- 1928 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith (pictured) and his crew landed their Southern Cross aircraft in Brisbane, completing the first ever trans-Pacific flight from the United States mainland to Australia.
- 1946 – Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest reigning current monarch, ascended to the throne of Thailand.
- 1965 – The Viet Cong commenced combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the Vietnam War.
More anniversaries: June 8 – June 9 – June 10
June 10: Portugal Day (Portugal's National Day and the date of Luís de Camões' death)
- 1190 – The Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
- 1925 – The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant church, held its inaugural service in Toronto's Mutual Street Arena.
- 1918 – World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast.
- 1935 – American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
- 1957 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservative Party led by John Diefenbaker (pictured) won a plurality of the seats in the Canadian House of Commons, bringing an end to 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
More anniversaries: June 9 – June 10 – June 11
June 11: Trooping the Colour and the Queen's Official Birthday in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries (2011)
- 1345 – Inspecting a new prison without being escorted by his bodyguard, Alexios Apokaukos, megas doux of the Byzantine Navy, was lynched and killed by the prisoners.
- 1594 – In the Philippines, Philip II of Spain recognized the right to govern of the Principalía, the local nobles and chieftains who had converted to Roman Catholicism.
- 1937 – Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky (pictured) and several senior officers of the Soviet Red Army were convicted for belonging to a Trotskyist organization in a secret trial during the Great Purge.
- 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor of Alabama George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium.
- 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
More anniversaries: June 10 – June 11 – June 12
June 12: Pentecost (Christianity, 2011); Independence Day in the Philippines; Russia Day in the Russian Federation; Dia dos Namorados in Brazil
- 1381 – The first mass protest in the Peasants' Revolt began in Blackheath, England, with Lollard priest John Ball asking a crowd, "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"
- 1899 – The New Richmond tornado killed 117 people and injured 125 others in the northern Great Plains of the United States.
- 1942 – On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank began keeping her diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
- 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonised Dominic Savio (pictured), who was 14 years old when he died, to make him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1991 – Members of the Sri Lankan military massacred over 150 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
More anniversaries: June 11 – June 12 – June 13
June 13: Whit Monday (Christianity, 2011)
- 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy discipline decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests.
- 1777 – Gilbert du Motier, better known as the Marquis de Lafayette, landed near Georgetown, South Carolina, to assist the Thirteen Colonies in their revolution against Great Britain.
- 1983 – Pioneer 10 became the first man-made object to travel beyond the known planets of the Solar System, when it passed the orbit of Neptune.
- 1997 – In one of the worst fire tragedies in recent Indian history, 59 people died and 103 others were seriously injured during a premiere screening of the film Border at the Uphaar Cinema in Green Park, Delhi.
- 2007 – Former Iraqi government official Haitham al-Badri orchestrated a second bombing of the al-Askari Mosque (pictured), one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.
More anniversaries: June 12 – June 13 – June 14
June 14: Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1982); Flag Day in the United States
- 1285 – Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of Vietnam's Tran Dynasty destroyed most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.
- 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: In the Battle of Marengo, Napoleonic forces secured victory over the Habsburgs when defeat had appeared inevitable until the arrival of French troops led by Louis Desaix.
- 1940 – The Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Lithuania, demanding that the Red Army be allowed to enter the country and form a new pro-Soviet government.
- 1966 – The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books (title page pictured).
- 1982 – Argentine forces surrendered to the British, essentially ending the Falklands War.
More anniversaries: June 13 – June 14 – June 15
- 763 BC – The Eclipse of Bur-Sagale was observed in Assyria, the earliest solar eclipse mentioned in historical sources that has been successfully identified.
- 1667 – French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully documented human blood transfusion, giving the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.
- 1896 – A 7.2 Ms earthquake and a subsequent tsunami struck Japan, destroying about 9,000 homes and causing at least 22,000 deaths.
- 1919 – After nearly 16 hours, the Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed in County Galway, Ireland, to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight.
- 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by Tommy Douglas won enough seats in the Legislative Assembly to form the first socialist government in North America.
- 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring over 200 people and causing widespread damage to buildings.
More anniversaries: June 14 – June 15 – June 16
June 16: Youth Day in South Africa
- 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: French forces under Napoléon defeated Blücher's larger Prussian army in the Battle of Ligny, while French Marshal Michel Ney earned a strategic victory against the Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Quatre Bras.
- 1846 – Crowning of Pius IX (pictured): the longest-reigning elected Pope in the history of the Catholic Church.
- 1883 – Over 180 out of 1,100 children died in the Victoria Hall disaster in Sunderland, England, when they stampeded down the stairs to collect gifts from the entertainers after the end of a variety show.
- 1911 – Computing company IBM is founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation.
- 1967 – The first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival, the Monterey Pop Festival, began in Monterey, California.
- 2001 – Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month long letter bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.
More anniversaries: June 15 – June 16 – June 17
June 17: Father's Day in several countries (2012); Icelandic National Day
- 1579 – Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
- 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal, wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal (pictured).
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
- 1963 – Around 2,000 people rioted in South Vietnam, despite the signing of the Joint Communique to resolve the ongoing Buddhist crisis one day earlier.
- 1991 – The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act, which required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered by race as part of the system of apartheid.
More anniversaries: June 16 – June 17 – June 18
- 618 – Li Yuan became Emperor Gaozu of Tang (pictured), initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty in China.
- 1815 – War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoléon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo in present-day Belgium.
- 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which prompted Darwin to publish his theory of evolution.
- 1908 – The University of the Philippines, the national university of the Philippines, was established.
- 1983 – Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
- 1994 – The Troubles: Members of the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, with assault rifles, killing six.
More anniversaries: June 17 – June 18 – June 19
June 19: Day of the Independent Hungary; Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
- 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules developed by Alexander Cartwright (pictured) was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, US.
- 1961 – Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1978 – Garfield, created by American cartoonist Jim Davis, made its debut, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips.
- 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 and injuring 45.
- 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers broke out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
More anniversaries: June 18 – June 19 – June 20
June 20: World Refugee Day; Flag Day in Argentina
- 451 – A coalition led by Roman General Flavius Aetius and Visigothic king Theodoric I clashed violently with the Hunnic alliance commanded by Attila at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains.
- 1819 – Arriving in Liverpool, the SS Savannah (pictured) became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the first Prime Minister of Romania, was assassinated after denying people the right of assembly to commemorate the Revolutions of 1848.
- 1893 – After a widely publicized trial, American Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murder of her father and stepmother.
- 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army began a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing.
- 1973 – Snipers fired into a crowd of Peronists near the Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires, killing at least 13 people and injuring 365 others.
More anniversaries: June 19 – June 20 – June 21
June 21: June Solstice (17:16 UTC, 2011); International Surfing Day; National Aboriginal Day in Canada
- 217 BC – Second Punic War: The Carthaginians under Hannibal executed one of the largest military ambushes in history when they overwhelmingly defeated the Romans.
- 1826 – Greek War of Independence: A combined Egyptian and Ottoman army began their invasion of the Mani Peninsula, but they were initially held off by the Maniots at the fortifications of Vergas.
- 1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow to prevent the ships from being seized and divided amongst the Allied Powers.
- 1948 – The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first computer program.
- 2004 – SpaceShipOne (pictured) completed the first privately funded human spaceflight.
More anniversaries: June 20 – June 21 – June 22
June 22: Teachers' Day in El Salvador
- 1593 – Ottoman forces were crushingly defeated by the Habsburgs at Sisak (now in Croatia), triggering the Long War.
- 1633 – Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System by the Roman Inquisition.
- 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a forthcoming surprise attack, Canadian Laura Secord set out on a 30 km (19 mi) journey from Queenston, Ontario, on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon (pictured).
- 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Union began its operation to expel German forces from the Belorussian SSR and eastern Poland.
- 2009 – Two Metro trains in Washington, D.C., collided, killing nine people and injuring 80 others.
More anniversaries: June 21 – June 22 – June 23
June 23: Corpus Christi (various Western Christian churches, 2011); Victory Day in Estonia; Jāņi in Latvia; Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg
- 1757 – Seven Years' War: British forces under Robert Clive defeated troops under Siraj ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey, allowing the British East India Company to annex Bengal.
- 1887 – The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park as Canada's first national park.
- 1919 – Estonian War of Independence: Estonian troops engaged the forces of the Pro-German Government of Latvia near Cēsis, Latvia, recapturing the area four days later.
- 1956 – Gamal Abdel Nasser (pictured) became President of Egypt, a post he would hold until his death in 1970.
- 1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended to prohibit sexual discrimination in any educational program receiving federal funds, which allowed for huge growth in women's sports for student athletes.
More anniversaries: June 22 – June 23 – June 24
June 24: Nativity of St. John the Baptist in Christianity; Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821); National Holiday/Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec, Canada
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- 1374 – An outbreak of dancing mania, wherein crowds of people danced themselves to exhaustion, took place in Aachen (present-day Germany), before spreading to other cities and countries.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée under Napoleon crossed the Neman River, marking the start of their invasion of Russia.
- 1880 – "O Canada", today the national anthem of Canada, was first performed in Quebec City, Quebec, during a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day banquet.
- 1932 – A group of military and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri Dynasty.
- 1937 – The United States' first two "fast battleships", the North Carolina class (pictured), were ordered from the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards.
More anniversaries: June 23 – June 24 – June 25
June 25: Armed Forces Day in the United Kingdom (2011); Independence Day in Mozambique (1975)
- 1876 – Black Hills War: United States Army Colonel George Armstrong Custer (pictured) was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in present-day Big Horn County, Montana.
- 1910 – The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".
- 1950 – The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea.
- 1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
- 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride first flew in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
More anniversaries: June 24 – June 25 – June 26
June 26: International Day in Support of Victims of Torture; Independence Day in Madagascar (1960); Flag Day in Romania
- 363 – Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (pictured) was killed during the retreat from his campaign against the Sassanid Empire.
- 1907 – Bolshevik revolutionaries in Tiflis, Georgia, robbed a bank stagecoach, getting away with 341,000 rubles.
- 1918 – World War I: The 26-day Battle of Belleau Wood near the Marne River in France ended with American forces finally clearing that forest of German troops.
- 1945 – At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
- 1948 – Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", one of the most famous short stories in American literature, was published.
- 1996 – Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin was murdered while she was stopped at a traffic light, an event which helped establish Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau.
More anniversaries: June 25 – June 26 – June 27
June 27: Mixed Race Day in Brazil
- 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia, was founded.
- 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch personally led his troops into battle, George II (pictured) and his forces defeated the French in Dettingen, Bavaria.
- 1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi led a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China, out of which came the Tanaka Memorial, a strategic document detailing these plans (now believed to be a forgery).
- 1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closed the Fillmore East, the "Church of Rock and Roll", in New York City.
- 2008 – President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe was overwhelmingly re-elected after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
More anniversaries: June 26 – June 27 – June 28
- 1846 – Belgian clarinetist Adolphe Sax received a patent for the saxophone.
- 1776 – Thomas Hickey, a private in the Continental Army and bodyguard to George Washington, became the first person to be executed for treason against what was to become the United States.
- 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (pictured) and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip during a motorcade in Sarajevo, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
- 1969 – In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began to riot against New York City Police officers, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
- 1981 – Seventy-three leading officials of Iran's Islamic Republic Party were killed when a bomb exploded at the party's headquarters in Tehran.
More anniversaries: June 27 – June 28 – June 29
June 29: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul in Christianity (Gregorian calendar); Independence Day in Seychelles (1976)
- 1149 – Second Crusade: An army led by Nur ad-Din Zangi destroyed the forces of Antioch led by Prince Raymond in the Battle of Inab.
- 1444 – Albanians led by Skanderbeg scored a resounding victory in their rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Torvioll.
- 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.
- 1974 – Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union while on tour with the Bolshoi Ballet in Toronto.
- 1985 – The European Economic Community adopted the Flag of Europe (pictured), a flag previously adopted by the Council of Europe in 1955.
More anniversaries: June 28 – June 29 – June 30
June 30: Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960)
- 1559 – During a jousting match, Gabriel Montgomery of the Garde Écossaise mortally wounded King Henry II of France (pictured), piercing him in the eye with his lance.
- 1860 – Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England.
- 1971 – The Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft suffered an uncontrolled decompression during preparations for reentry, killing cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Georgiy Dobrovolskiy and Viktor Patsayev—the only human deaths to occur in space.
- 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduced the Canadian one-dollar coin, commonly known as the Loonie.
- 2007 – In an attempted terrorist attack, a car loaded with propane canisters was driven into the terminal of Scotland's Glasgow International Airport and set ablaze.
More anniversaries: June 29 – June 30 – July 1
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