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June 1: International Children's Day
- 1648 – Second English Civil War: Parliamentarian troops defeated Royalist forces in the Battle of Maidstone.
- 1794 – The Glorious First of June (pictured), the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars, was fought.
- 1813 – War of 1812: Mortally wounded during a battle against the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon, American naval commander James Lawrence of the USS Chesapeake ordered his crew "Don't give up the ship!", today a popular battle cry.
- 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.
- 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
- 1848 – As part of the Pan-Slavism movement, the Prague Slavic Congress began in Prague, the first of several times that voices from all Slav populations of Europe were heard in one place.
- 1866 – Fenian raids: The Battle of Ridgeway, the first to be fought only by Canadian troops and led exclusively by Canadian officers, took place in Ontario.
- 1886 – Grover Cleveland became the only U.S. President to marry in the White House when he wed Frances Folsom (wedding pictured).
- 1967 – German university student Benno Ohnesorg was killed during a protest in West Berlin against the visit of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, sparking the formation of the militant group Movement 2 June.
- 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.
- 2010 – A lone gunman went on a shooting spree in Cumbria, England, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others before committing suicide.
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); Western Australia Day (2013)
- 1839 – Qing government official Lin Zexu catalysed the First Opium War after ordering the destruction of nearly 1.2 million kg (2.6 million lbs) of opium in Humen, China.
- 1937 – Nearly six months after Edward, Duke of Windsor, abdicated the British throne, he married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony near Tours, France.
- 1943 – Off-duty US sailors fought with Mexican American youths in Los Angeles, spawning the Zoot Suit Riots.
- 1968 – American artist Andy Warhol (pictured) and two others were shot and wounded at his New York City studio "The Factory" by radical feminist Valerie Solanas.
- 1973 – At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-flight and disintegrated, killing the six members of the crew and eight bystanders on the ground.
More anniversaries: June 2 – June 3 – June 4
June 4: Day of the Holy Spirit (Eastern Christianity, 2012); Day of National Unity in Hungary; Queen's Official Birthday in New Zealand (2012); Western Australia Day (2012)
- 1792 – Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver (pictured) claimed Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britain.
- 1920 – The Kingdom of Hungary lost 72% of its territory and 64% of its population with the signing of the Treaty of Trianon in Paris.
- 1939 – The German ocean liner St. Louis, carrying 937 Jewish refugees seeking political asylum from Nazi persecution, was denied permission to land in the United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba.
- 1987 – American intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to charges of spying for Israel.
- 1989 – The People's Liberation Army violently cracked down on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, leaving at least 241 dead and 7,000 wounded, and causing widespread international condemnation of the Chinese government.
- 1996 – The maiden flight of the Ariane 5 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.
- 1832 – The June Rebellion, an anti-monarchist uprising of students, broke out in Paris.
- 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.
- 1941 – Second Sino-Japanese War: During one sortie in a five-year bombing campaign on Chongqing, 4,000 people died of asphyxiation when the tunnel they were hiding in became blocked.
- 1981 – The Centers for Disease Control recorded a cluster of Pneumocystis pneumonia cases among homosexual men in Los Angeles, the first reported cases of AIDS.
- 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison (pictured) made landfall in southeast Texas, causing $5.5 billion in damage to make it the costliest tropical storm in US history.
More anniversaries: June 4 – June 5 – June 6
- 1674 – Shivaji, who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Sultanate of Bijapur and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.
- 1813 – War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
- 1844 – The YMCA (logo pictured), today a worldwide movement of more than 45 million members from 124 national federations, was founded in London.
- 1859 – Queen Victoria signed letters patent separating the colony of Queensland from New South Wales.
- 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.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: The Australian Army attacked a heavily fortified Vietnamese communist forces base camp in the Battle of Long Khanh.
More anniversaries: June 5 – June 6 – June 7
June 7: Corpus Christi (various Western Christian churches, 2012); Sette Giugno in Malta; Journalist Day in Argentina
- 1494 – Ferdinand II of Aragon and John II of Portugal (pictured left and right, respectively) signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the Americas and Africa between their two countries.
- 1810 – Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres.
- 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.
- 1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.
- 2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, was killed when the United States Air Force bombed his safehouse near Baqubah.
More anniversaries: June 6 – June 7 – June 8
- 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.
- 1950 – Thomas Blamey became the first Australian to attain the rank of Field Marshal.
- 1995 – Danish-Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of the scripting language PHP, which is now used as the server-side language on 75% of all Web servers.
- 2007 – A major storm in New South Wales, Australia, beached the bulk carrier ship MV Pasha Bulker.
- 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 before being apprehended.
More anniversaries: June 7 – June 8 – June 9
June 9: St. Colmcille's Day in Ireland
- 68 – Roman Emperor Nero (bust pictured) committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate.
- 1772 – In an act of defiance against the Navigation Acts, American patriots led by Abraham Whipple attacked and burned the British schooner Gaspée.
- 1873 – Sixteen days after it was built, Alexandra Palace in North London, England, was destroyed by fire.
- 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.
- 1954 – During the Army–McCarthy hearings investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy, Army lawyer Joseph N. Welch famously asked McCarthy, "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
More anniversaries: June 8 – June 9 – June 10
June 10: Portugal Day (Portugal's National Day and the date of Luís de Camões' death)
- 1829 – In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the first Boat Race (2002 race pictured) held on the Thames in London.
- 1871 – Nine days after Korean shore batteries attacked two American warships, an American punitive expedition landed and captured several forts on Ganghwa Island.
- 1918 – First World War: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast.
- 1967 – The Six-Day War ended with Israel and Syria agreeing to sign a ceasefire.
- 2008 – War in Afghanistan: An airstrike by the United States resulted in the deaths of eleven paramilitary troops of the Pakistan Army Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.
More anniversaries: June 9 – June 10 – June 11
- 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.
- 1776 – The Second Continental Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence for Britain's Thirteen Colonies.
- 1955 – More than 80 people were killed after Pierre Levegh and Lance Macklin collided during the 23rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car endurance race.
- 1962 – American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Island (pictured), one of the United States' most famous prisons.
- 2007 – Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall killed 130 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
More anniversaries: 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 in Hanover County, Virginia, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the American Civil War.
- 1889 – Runaway passenger carriages collided with a following train near Armagh, present-day Northern Ireland, killing 80 people.
- 1942 – On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank (pictured) began keeping her diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
- 1987 – Cold War: During a speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate by the Berlin Wall, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"
- 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 11 – June 12 – June 13
- 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in Lake Starnberg near Munich under mysterious circumstances.
- 1955 – Soviet geologists discovered a diamond-bearing deposit in Eastern Siberia, leading to the construction of the Mir mine (pictured), the first diamond mine in the USSR and the second-largest excavated hole in the world.
- 1981 – English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
- 1996 – After an 81-day standoff sparked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jordan, Montana, US, the Christian Patriot group Montana Freemen surrendered to the FBI.
- 2010 – The Japanese Hayabusa space mission became the first to return samples of an asteroid (25143 Itokawa) to Earth for analysis.
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
- 1645 – English Civil War: In the Battle of Naseby, the main army of King Charles I was defeated by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.
- 1822 – In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine (pictured), an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
- 1940 – World War II: Four days after the French government fled Paris, German forces occupied the French capital, essentially ending the Battle of France.
- 1985 – The Schengen Agreement, a treaty to abolish systematic border controls between participating European countries, was signed between five of the ten member states of the European Economic Community.
- 1994 – After the Vancouver Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in ice hockey's Stanley Cup Finals, a riot ensued in Downtown Vancouver, causing C$1.1 million in damage.
More anniversaries: June 13 – June 14 – June 15
- 1219 – Northern Crusades: According to a popular Danish legend, the Dannebrog (Flag of Denmark), today one of the oldest state flags in the world still in use, fell from the sky and gave the Danish forces renewed hope to defeat the Estonians at the Battle of Lyndanisse (pictured).
- 1520 – Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine to censure propositions from Martin Luther's 95 theses and threaten him with excommunication.
- 1859 – The shooting of a pig in the San Juan Islands led to the so-called Pig War over the border between the United States and British North America.
- 1920 – Three African American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for having taken place in the Northern United States.
- 1954 – The Union of European Football Associations, the administrative and controlling body for European football, was founded in Basel, Switzerland.
More anniversaries: June 14 – June 15 – June 16
June 16: Trooping the Colour and the Queen's Official Birthday in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries (2012); Bloomsday in Dublin, Ireland; Youth Day in South Africa
- 1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet.
- 1846 – Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti was elected as Pius IX, and he would become the longest-reigning elected pope in the history of the Catholic Church.
- 1904 – Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began his relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses.
- 1958 – Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 were executed following secret trials.
- 1960 – The thriller/horror film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, was released.
More anniversaries: June 15 – June 16 – June 17
June 17: Father's Day in various countries (2012)
- 1462 – Forces led by Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia (pictured) attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an attempt to assassinate Mehmed II.
- 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.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the earliest military movements of troops by train in the world.
- 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: Napoleon 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.
- 1972 – British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near the town of Staines less than three minutes after departing from London Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 people aboard, at the time the worst air disaster in the UK.
- 1983 – Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
More anniversaries: June 17 – June 18 – June 19
June 19: Day of the Independent Hungary; Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
- 1816 – The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- 1939 – Former American baseball player Lou Gehrig (pictured) was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's Disease".
- 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 people and injuring 45 others.
- 2006 – The ceremonial "first stone" of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a facility established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern in Spitsbergen, Norway, was laid.
More anniversaries: June 18 – June 19 – June 20
June 20: Solstice (23:09 UTC, 2012); Midsummer festivities begin (Northern Hemisphere); Winter solstice festivals (Southern Hemisphere); Flag Day in Argentina; International Surfing Day (2012)
- 1789 – French Revolution: Meeting in a tennis court near the Palace of Versailles, members of France's Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, pledging not to separate until a new constitution was established.
- 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the first Prime Minister of Romania, was assassinated after denying people the right of assembly to commemorate the Revolutions of 1848.
- 1895 – The Kiel Canal (pictured), crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, was officially opened.
- 1921 – Workers at the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, began a four-month strike.
- 2009 – During the Iranian election protests, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan was captured on video and widely distributed on the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".
More anniversaries: June 19 – June 20 – June 21
June 21: 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.
- 1898 – In a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War, the United States captured Guam from Spain.
- 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.
- 1963 – Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was elected as Pope Paul VI (pictured).
- 1964 – Three civil rights workers were lynched by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi, US.
More anniversaries: June 20 – June 21 – June 22
June 22: Teachers' Day in El Salvador
- 1633 – Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System by the Roman Inquisition, after which, as legend has it, he muttered under his breath, "And yet it moves".
- 1807 – The British warship HMS Leopard pursued and attacked the American frigate USS Chesapeake in the belief that the latter had deserters from the Royal Navy.
- 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck (both pictured) were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1937 – Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France for the third time, in the second Popular Front ministry.
- 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw struck a region of northwestern Iran, killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others, and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
More anniversaries: June 21 – June 22 – June 23
June 23: Pentecost (Eastern Christianity, 2013); Duanwu/Dragon Boat Festival in East Asian countries (2012); Victory Day in Estonia; Jāņi in Latvia; Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg; 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing
- 1858 – Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy, was seized by papal authorities and taken to be raised as a Roman Catholic, sparking an international controversy.
- 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.
- 1946 – Canada's largest onshore earthquake, measuring 7.3 Mw, struck Vancouver Island, but only caused two casualties since there were no heavily populated areas near its epicenter.
- 1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended (primary author Patsy Mink pictured) to prohibit gender discrimination in any educational program receiving federal funds, which allowed for huge growth in women's sports for student athletes.
- 1985 – A bomb attributed to the Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa destroyed Air India Flight 182 above the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 329 on board.
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
- 1622 – Dutch–Portuguese War: An outnumbered Portuguese force repelled a Dutch attack in the Battle of Macau, the only major military engagement that was fought between two European powers on the Chinese mainland.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée under Napoleon crossed the Neman River, marking the start of their invasion of Russia.
- 1932 – A group of military and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri Dynasty.
- 1981 – The Humber Bridge (pictured) opened, connecting the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in England, at the time the longest single-span suspension bridge.
- 1982 – British Airways Flight 9 flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Indonesia's Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four of its engines.
More anniversaries: June 23 – June 24 – June 25
June 25: Independence Day in Mozambique (1975)
- 1910 – The Firebird, the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (pictured), was premiered in Paris.
- 1940 – Second World War – The evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports was completed.
- 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.
- 1967 – More than 400 million people viewed Our World, the first live, international satellite television production.
- 2006 – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip on the crossing Kerem Shalom, and was held hostage by Hamas until 2011.
- 2009 – Singer Michael Jackson died after suffering cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home, which authorities later declared a homicide caused by the combination of drugs in his body.
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 was killed during the retreat from his campaign against the Sassanid Empire.
- 1740 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries stormed Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose, Florida.
- 1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan reported he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, an act for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- 1948 – Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", one of the most famous short stories in American literature, was published.
- 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech (video featured), underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
- 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
- 678 – Pope Agatho (pictured), later venerated as a saint in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his reign as Pope.
- 1571 – Elizabeth I of England issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford.
- 1899 – A. E. J. Collins scored 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
- 1986 – In Nicaragua v. United States, the International Court of Justice ruled that the United States had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government.
- 1989 – The International Labour Organization Convention 169, a major binding international convention concerning indigenous peoples, and a forerunner of the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, was adopted.
- 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
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Constitution Day in Ukraine
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: South Carolina militia repelled a British attack on Charleston.
- 1895 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims ruled that the title claimed by James Reavis to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km2) in present-day Arizona and New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
- 1942 – World War II: The German Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic summer offensive intended to knock the Soviet Union out of the war.
- 1956 – Workers demanding better conditions held massive protests in Poznań, Poland, but were violently repressed by the following day by 400 tanks and 10,000 soldiers of the People's Army of Poland and the Internal Security Corps.
- 1989 – President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević gave a speech in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development.
- 2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya (pictured) was ousted by a local military coup following his attempt to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran constitution.
More anniversaries: June 27 – June 28 – June 29
June 29: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul in Christianity (Gregorian calendar)
- 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.
- 1659 – Russo-Polish War: The hetman of Ukraine Ivan Vyhovsky and his allies defeated the armies of Russian Tsardom led by Aleksey Trubetskoy at the Battle of Konotop in the present-day Sumy Oblast of Ukraine.
- 1864 – Canada's worst railway accident took place when a passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 1974 – Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (pictured) defected from the Soviet Union while on tour with the Bolshoi Ballet in Toronto.
- 2002 – North and South Korean patrol boats clashed along a disputed maritime boundary near Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea.
More anniversaries: June 28 – June 29 – June 30
June 30: Armed Forces Day in the United Kingdom (2012)
- 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Gorge on a tightrope, turning him into one of the world's most famous tightrope walkers.
- 1908 – A massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, knocking over 80 million trees (sample pictured) over 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi).
- 1922 – The United States and the Dominican Republic signed an agreement that ended the former's occupation of the latter two years later.
- 1972 – The International Time Bureau added the first leap second to the Coordinated Universal Time time scale.
- 2009 – Schoolgirl Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor when Yemenia Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean killing 152 people.
More anniversaries: June 29 – June 30 – July 1
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