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June 1: International Children's Day; Madaraka Day in Kenya
- 1779 – Benedict Arnold (pictured), a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, was court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1831 – British naval officer and explorer James Clark Ross successfully led the first expedition to reach the North Magnetic Pole.
- 1868 – Long Walk of the Navajo: The United States signed the Treaty of Bosque Redondo allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1943 – Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Spain and France, killing actor Leslie Howard and several other notable passengers.
- 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.
More events: May 31 – June 1 – June 2
June 2: Jerusalem Day in Israel (2008); Queen's Official Birthday in New Zealand (2008)
- 455 – Following the death of Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, the Vandals led by King Gaiseric sacked Rome, looting treasure from the city and taking Empress Licinia Eudoxia and her daughters hostage.
- 1848 – As part of the Pan-Slavism movement, the Prague Slavic Congress began in Prague, one of the few times that voices from all Slav populations of Europe were heard in one place.
- 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- 1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady (pictured) was shot down while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone over Bosnia in an F-16.
- 2003 – The Mars Express space probe, the first planetary mission of the European Space Agency, was launched.
More events: June 1 – June 2 – June 3
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- 1621 – The Dutch West India Company received a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies by the Dutch Republic.
- 1888 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 1937 – Months after he abdicated the British throne, Edward, The Duke of Windsor married American socialite Wallis Simpson (pictured) in a private ceremony near Tours, France, a wedding opposed by the Church of England because Simpson was a divorcée with a living ex-spouse.
- 1992 – The High Court of Australia delivered its landmark legal decision in Mabo v Queensland, recognising the land rights of the Aborigines.
- 2006 – Montenegro declared its independence, ending the union of Serbia and Montenegro.
More events: June 2 – June 3 – June 4
June 4: Independence Day in Tonga (1970)
- 1037 – Henry III became Holy Roman Emperor following the death of his father, Conrad II.
- 1615 – Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle in Japan.
- 1792 – Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britain.
- 1939 – The German ocean liner SS St. Louis, carrying 963 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 (pictured), a major battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, began with a massive Imperial Japanese strike on Midway Atoll.
More events: June 3 – June 4 – June 5
June 5: Ascension Thursday in Eastern Christianity (2008); World Environment Day; Father's Day and Constitution Day in Denmark
- 1305 – Raymond Bertrand de Got became Pope Clement V, succeeding Pope Benedict XI who died one year earlier.
- 1798 – In the Battle of New Ross, British forces prevented the United Irishmen from spreading the Irish Rebellion into Munster.
- 1849 – A new constitution was introduced in Denmark, establishing a constitutional monarchy and the Rigsdag, a bicameral parliament consisting of the Landsting and the Folketing.
- 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.
- 1968 – Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan mortally shot U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (pictured) inside the kitchen pantry of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, an event that has spawned a variety of conspiracy theories.
More events: June 4 – June 5 – June 6
June 6: National holiday of Sweden observed
- 1523 – Gustav Vasa became King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.
- 1683 – Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened.
- 1933 – The first ever drive-in theater opened in Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States.
- 1944 – World War II: The Invasion of Normandy, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France (pictured).
- 1982 – A war in Lebanon began when Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to root out members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 2005 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in Gonzales v. Raich, allowing the U.S. Congress to ban medical marijuana even in states that approve its use.
More events: June 5 – June 6 – June 7
- 1099 – Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city against the Fatimids.
- 1494 – Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the newly discovered lands of the Americas and Africa between the two countries.
- 1776 – Virginia statesman Richard Henry Lee presented the Lee Resolution to the Second Continental Congress, declaring the Thirteen Colonies to be independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1948 – Rather than sign the Ninth-of-May Constitution making his nation a Communist state, Edvard Beneš (pictured) chose to resign as President of Czechoslovakia.
- 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 events: June 6 – June 7 – June 8
June 8: Dragon Boat Festival (2008); World Ocean Day
- 1783 – Iceland's Laki craters (pictured) began an eight-month eruption, triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning.
- 1887 – German-American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.
- 1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by English writer George Orwell about life in the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania, was first published.
- 1950 – Thomas Blamey became Australia's first and currently only Field Marshal.
- 1995 – Danish-Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf released the first public version of the scripting language PHP for producing dynamic web pages.
- 2004 – Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele broke the world record for outdoor 10,000 m in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
More events: June 7 – June 8 – June 9
June 9: Shavuot (Judaism, 2008); St. Colmcille's Day in Ireland
- 68 – Roman Emperor Nero (pictured) committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate.
- 1310 – Italian artist Duccio's Maestà with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, was unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
- 1772 – In an act of defiance against the Navigation Acts, American patriots led by Abraham Whipple attacked and burned the British schooner HMS Gaspée.
- 1856 – Mormon pioneers began leaving Iowa City, Iowa and headed west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
- 1928 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed their Southern Cross aircraft in Brisbane, completing the first ever trans-Pacific flight from the United States mainland to Australia.
More events: June 8 – June 9 – June 10
June 10: Portugal Day (Portugal's National Day and the Deathday of Luís de Camões (pictured))
- 1190 – The Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
- 1719 – Jacobite risings: British forces defeated an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards at the Battle of Glen Shiel in the Scottish Highlands.
- 1829 – In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the first Boat Race held in the Thames in London.
- 1838 – More than twenty-five Australian Aborigines were massacred near Inverell, New South Wales.
- 1935 – American physician Bob Smith first became sober from alcohol, traditionally marking the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.
More events: June 9 – June 10 – June 11
June 11: Kamehameha Day in Hawaii
- 1770 – English explorer James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef (pictured).
- 1892 – The Salvation Army's Limelight Department, one of the world's earliest film studios, was officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1937 – Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and several senior officers of the Red Army were convicted in the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization, a secret trial during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union.
- 1963 – Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngô Đình Diệm administration
- 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor of Alabama George Wallace stepped aside after a stand in the schoolhouse door.
More events: June 10 – June 11 – June 12
June 12: Independence Day in the Philippines; Russia Day in the Russian Federation; Dia dos Namorados in Brazil
- 1864 – Union General Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor.
- 1889 – The Armagh rail disaster killed 88 people near Armagh, in what is now Northern Ireland.
- 1942 – Anne Frank began keeping her diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
- 1979 – A human-powered aircraft named Gossamer Albatross (pictured) flew across the English Channel.
More events: June 11 – June 12 – June 13
- 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy discipline decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests.
- 1881 – An Arctic Ocean ice pack crushed the USS Jeannette.
- 1935 – In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
- 1966 – The Miranda v. Arizona landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court established the Miranda warning, requiring law enforcement officials to advise a suspect in custody of his rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times began to publish the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1983 – Pioneer 10 (pictured) became the first man-made object to pass the orbit of Pluto.
More events: June 12 – June 13 – June 14
June 14: Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Flag Day in the United States
- 1645 – English Civil War: In the Battle of Naseby, the main army of King Charles I was destroyed by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.
- 1777 – The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
- 1822 – Charles Babbage (pictured) proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
- 1985 – A group with alleged links to Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847.
- 2001 – Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
More events: June 13 – June 14 – June 15
June 15: Pentecost in Eastern Christianity (2008); Father's Day in several countries (2008)
- 1215 – King John of England (pictured) put his seal to Magna Carta.
- 1667 – Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully-documented human blood transfusion, giving the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.
- 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- 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 events: June 14 – June 15 – June 16
June 16: Whit Monday in Eastern Christianity (2008); Bloomsday in Dublin, Ireland; Youth Day in South Africa
- 1745 – King George's War: British colonial forces led by William Pepperrell captured the French stronghold at Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island after a six-week siege.
- 1846 – Pius IX (pictured) was elected pope, beginning the longest reign of all popes (not counting the Apostle St. Peter).
- 1963 – Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
- 1976 – Apartheid in South Africa: Police in Soweto opened fire on schoolchildren protesting against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools, triggering a series of nationwide demonstrations, strikes, riots and violence.
- 1999 – Thabo Mbeki was inaugurated President of South Africa.
More events: June 15 – June 16 – June 17
June 17: Icelandic National Day
- 1462 – Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia (pictured) attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an attempt to assassinate Mehmed II.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
- 1789 – French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the National Assembly.
- 1953 – In Berlin, the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Volkspolizei violently suppressed an uprising against the East German government.
- 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five men were arrested for stealing from the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex.
More events: June 16 – June 17 – June 18
- 1815 – Napoléon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo.
- 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by Alfred Russel Wallace on evolution, which prompted him to publish his theory.
- 1940 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, made an appeal to the French people following the fall of France to Nazi Germany, rallying them to support the Resistance.
- 1979 – The United States and the Soviet Union signed the SALT II treaty, placing specific limits on each side's stock of nuclear weapons.
- 1983 – Space Shuttle Astronaut Sally Ride (pictured) becomes the first American woman in space for STS-7.
More events: June 17 – June 18 – June 19
June 19: Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
- 1306 – Wars of Scottish Independence: The Earl of Pembroke's English army defeated Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
- 1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire (pictured) was executed by firing squad in Querétaro.
- 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies who passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
- 1961 – Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty, an international law treaty, was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.
More events: June 18 – June 19 – June 20
June 20: June Solstice (23:59 UTC, 2008); Midsummer festivities begin (Northern Hemisphere, 2008); Winter solstice festivals (Southern Hemisphere, 2008); World Refugee Day; Flag Day in Argentina; West Virginia Day in the U.S. state of West Virginia
- 451 – The Battle of Chalons against Attila the Hun is the last major battle of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declared himself King of England at Bridgwater.
- 1789 – 577 deputies of the French National Assembly took the Tennis Court Oath, starting the French Revolution.
- 1837 – Queen Victoria (pictured) succeeded to the British throne.
- 1973 – Snipers fired into a crowd of Peronists near the Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing at least 13 people and injuring 365 others.
More events: June 19 – June 20 – June 21
- 1813 – Peninsular War: In the Battle of Vitoria, the Marquess of Wellington's combined British, Portuguese, and Spanish allied army defeated the French near Vitoria, Spain.
- 1864 – New Zealand land wars: The Tauranga Campaign ended.
- 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in Miller v. California, establishing the "Miller test" for determining what is obscene material.
- 1985 – Greenland officially adopted its own flag, adding support to its independence movement from Denmark.
- 2004 – SpaceShipOne (pictured) completed the first privately funded human spaceflight.
More events: June 20 – June 21 – June 22
- 168 BC – Third Macedonian War: Roman forces defeated Macedonian King Perseus at the Battle of Pydna.
- 1854 – The British Parliament abolished feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
- 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally collided with and sank the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria, taking 358 crew members with her.
- 1941 – World War II: As Nazi Germany began to invade the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian underground government started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation.
- 1986 – Argentine footballer Diego Maradona (pictured) scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the quarter-final match of the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
More events: June 21 – June 22 – June 23
June 23: Jaaniõhtu in Estonia; Jāņi in Latvia; Saint Jonas' Festival in Lithuania; 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.
- 1858 – Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy, was seized by Papal authorities and taken to be raised as a Roman Catholic.
- 1887 – The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park (pictured) as Canada's first national park.
- 1894 – Led by French historian Pierre de Coubertin, an international congress at the Sorbonne in Paris founded the International Olympic Committee to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games.
- 1991 – Sega released Sonic the Hedgehog in the United States and Europe, starting a franchise that has sold more than 45 million copies of the video game and its sequels.
More events: June 22 – June 23 – June 24
June 24: Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821); Midsummer Day in Northern Europe; Fête nationale du Québec (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day) in Quebec, Canada
- 1314 – Scotland regained independence as forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II of England in the Battle of Bannockburn (pictured).
- 1894 – Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio assassinated Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic, after Carnot delivered a speech at a public banquet in Lyon, France.
- 1947 – First widely-reported post-World War II sighting of UFOs: American businessman and pilot Kenneth Arnold saw nine luminous disks in the form of saucers flying above the U.S. state of Washington near Mount Rainier.
- 1948 – The Soviet Union blocked access to the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin, cutting off all rail and road routes going into Soviet-controlled territory in Germany.
More events: June 23 – June 24 – June 25
June 25: Statehood Day in Croatia and Slovenia
- 1530 – The Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, was presented to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg.
- 1876 – Indian Wars in North America: United States Army Colonel George Armstrong Custer (pictured) was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
- 1950 – The Korean War between North and South Korea began with the North Koreans launching a pre-dawn raid south over the 38th parallel.
- 1967 – Over 400 million people in over 30 countries watched Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production.
- 1993 – Kim Campbell was chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
More events: June 24 – June 25 – June 26
June 26: Flag Day in Romania; Sunthorn Phu Day in Thailand
- 363 – Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate was killed during the retreat from his campaign against the Sassanid Empire.
- 1409 – In trying to end the Western Schism, where Gregory XII in Rome and Benedict XIII in Avignon simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, the Council of Pisa instead ended up electing a third one, Alexander V.
- 1541 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro was assassinated in Lima by supporters of his rival Diego de Almagro's son.
- 1945 – At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
- 1976 – The CN Tower (pictured), the tallest freestanding structure on land, was opened to the public in Toronto.
More events: June 25 – June 26 – June 27
- 678 – Saint Agatho began his reign as Pope.
- 1358 – Republic of Ragusa founded.
- 1898 – Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the globe sailing on his refitted sloop-rigged fishing boat Spray, a distance of more than 46,000 miles (74,000 km).
- 1905 – The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin (pictured) began a mutiny against their oppressive officers.
- 1967 – The world's first electronic automated teller machine was installed in Enfield Town, London.
- 1991 – Yugoslavia invaded Slovenia, two days after the latter's declaration of independence from the former, starting the Ten-Day War.
More events: June 26 – June 27 – June 28
- 1389 - Ottoman wars in Europe: Turks under Murad I defeated Lazar Hrebeljanović and a coalition of Serb lords at the Battle of Kosovo.
- 1880 – Australian bank robber and bushranger Ned Kelly was captured in Glenrowan, Victoria after surviving a gun battle with police.
- 1914 – Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
- 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending World War I.
- 1956 – Workers in Poznań, Poland held massive protests demanding the lowering of food prices, rising of wages and revoking some recent law changes that worsened working conditions, but were violently repressed the following day.
- 1969 – In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn (pictured) 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.
More events: June 27 – June 28 – June 29
June 29: Holy Day of Obligation of Saints Peter and Paul (Roman Catholicism)
- 1184 – Sverre was crowned King of Norway.
- 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.
- 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis published a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to blame?", laying out his complaints against King George.
- 1922 – France granted 1 km² (100 hectares) at Vimy Ridge (pictured) to Canada in perpetuity in recognition of Canada's efforts during the Battle of Vimy Ridge in World War I.
- 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapsed in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
- 2006 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, ruling that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both U.S. and international law.
More events: June 28 – June 29 – June 30
June 30: Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960)
- 1864 – U.S. National Parks: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to California for "public use, resort, and recreation".
- 1894 – London's Tower Bridge, a combined bascule and suspension bridge, opened.
- 1905 – Albert Einstein (pictured) published the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" and introduced the theory of special relativity.
- 1908 – The Tunguska impact event occurred in Siberia, felling an estimated 80 million trees.
- 1971 – The Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurised during reentry, killing cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Georgiy Dobrovolskiy and Viktor Patsayev.
- 1997 – During an internationally televised ceremony at 16:00 UTC (00:00, July 1 HKT), the United Kingdom officially transferred sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
More events: June 29 – June 30 – July 1
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