- In basketball, the New York Knicks win the NBA Finals (MVP Jalen Brunson pictured).
- Elon Musk becomes the world's first US-dollar trillionaire after his company SpaceX raises the largest initial public offering.
- English artist David Hockney dies at the age of 88.
- In athletics, Ja'Kobe Tharp sets a new world record in men's 110 metres hurdles.
- ... that a world-championship-medalist swimmer (pictured) called his sport "one of the dullest in existence"?
- ... that the houses in New York City's Henderson Place Historic District have been described as "gingerbread-type" and likened to dollhouse architecture?
- ... that actor Erwan Kepoa Falé said that sex was his escape from grief after the death of his father?
- ... that "almost every road in Sikka had campaign posts" during the 2018 regency election campaign?
- ... that the title of the 2026 album The World Is to Dig was inspired by a 1952 children's book?
- ... that John Kinsey remained speaker of the New Jersey colonial assembly despite moving to Pennsylvania?
- ... that nighttime programming on Romania's Tele7ABC in 2000 consisted of the poet Adrian Păunescu and a "crumpled blue curtain"?
- ... that, when James Baker was U.S. secretary of state, he banned Benjamin Netanyahu from the department's headquarters?
- ... that softball player Laura Taylor scored only four home runs in high school, but then became one of the top home run-hitters in college history?