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Battle of Öland
- 1676 – Scanian War: The Swedish warship Kronan, one of the largest ships in the world at the time, sank at the Battle of Öland (depicted) with the loss of around 800 men.
- 1796 – Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
- 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 – A Hamas-affiliated Islamist militant blew himself up outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 people, most of whom were teenage girls.
- 2015 – The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze, resulting in 442 deaths in China's worst peacetime maritime disaster.
- Marguerite Porete (d. 1310)
- J. F. Oberlin (d. 1826)
- Marilyn Monroe (b. 1926)
- Technoblade (b. 1999)
June 2: International Whores' Day; Festa della Repubblica in Italy (1946); Telangana Day in Telangana, India (2014)
Sketch of the wedding by Thure de Thulstrup
- 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured the British-held Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, Martinique.
- 1886 – The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom (wedding depicted) took place in the White House, in the only time that a U.S. president has married in the building.
- 1962 – One of the most violent football matches took place at the World Cup as Chile defeated Italy in a group match.
- 2008 – Artist Tim Buckley published "Loss" as part of his webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del.
- Al-Muwaffaq (d. 891)
- Adelaide Casely-Hayford (b. 1868)
- Phebe A. Hanaford (d. 1921)
- Sergio Agüero (b. 1988)
June 3: World Bicycle Day; Martyrs Day in Uganda
Anfield, Liverpool F.C.'s stadium
- 1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod established the border between Norway and the Novgorod Republic in Finnmark.
- 1892 – Liverpool F.C. (stadium pictured), one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.
- 1941 – World War II: In reprisal for the participation of the local population in the Battle of Crete, the German Wehrmacht destroyed the village of Kandanos, Greece, and killed about 180 of its inhabitants.
- 1968 – American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York City studio, the Factory.
- Staurakios (d. 800)
- Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (b. 1821)
- Flora MacDonald (b. 1926)
- Muhammad Ali (d. 2016)
June 4: Flag Day of the Finnish Defence Forces in Finland; Trianon Treaty Day in Romania (1920)
Roquefort cheese
- 1411 – King Charles VI of France granted a monopoly to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon for the ripening of Roquefort cheese (example pictured).
- 1561 – The spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London was destroyed by fire.
- 1913 – Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured after being trampled by a horse owned by King George V at the Epsom Derby.
- 1989 – The People's Liberation Army suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, leaving hundreds of people dead and wounded.
- 2004 – In Granby, Colorado, U.S., Marvin Heemeyer went on a rampage with a modified bulldozer over a zoning dispute, destroying several buildings before dying by suicide.
- Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1039)
- Robert Earl Hughes (b. 1926)
- Linda Martell (b. 1941)
- Princess Lilibet of Sussex (b. 2021)
June 5: World Environment Day; Feast day of Saint Boniface (Christianity)
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Teton Dam failure
- 663 – The Daming Palace in Chang'an became the seat of government and the royal residence of the Tang dynasty during the reign of Emperor Gaozong.
- 1610 – The masque Tethys' Festival was performed at the Palace of Whitehall to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick as Prince of Wales.
- 1963 – British politician John Profumo admitted that he had lied to the House of Commons about his involvement in a sex scandal with Christine Keeler, and resigned from government.
- 1976 – The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, U.S., collapsed (failure pictured) as its reservoir was being filled for the first time, resulting in the deaths of eleven people and 13,000 cattle, and causing up to $2 billion in damage.
- 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison, the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone that was never a hurricane, made landfall in Texas, causing approximately $8.5 billion in damage.
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia (b. 1646)
- Mary Helen Young (b. 1883)
- Paul Soros (b. 1926)
- TB Joshua (d. 2021)
June 6: National Day of Sweden; Queensland Day in Queensland, Australia
Fuad Stephens
- 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: Milanese forces with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara, forcing them to withdraw from the Duchy of Milan and Italy.
- 1894 – Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh.
- 1976 – A plane crashed near Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia, killing politicians Fuad Stephens (pictured) and Peter Joinud Mojuntin, along with nine others.
- 2021 – A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing 4 members of the same family.
- Robert Passelewe (d. 1252)
- John A. Macdonald (d. 1891)
- Maria Alyokhina (b. 1988)
- Rayan Aït-Nouri (b. 2001)
First page of the autograph score of BWV 39
- 421 – Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia, who later helped to protect Greek pagans and Jews from persecution.
- 1726 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 (page pictured), on the Sunday after Trinity, one of few new cantatas of that year.
- 1832 – The Reform Act, which is widely credited with launching modern democracy in the United Kingdom, received royal assent.
- 1900 – American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks.
- 1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashed while approaching Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, in Zanderij, killing 178 people, including members of the football team known as the Colourful 11.
- Joseph von Fraunhofer (d. 1826)
- Lady Elizabeth Shakerley (b. 1941)
- Emily Ratajkowski (b. 1991)
- Uriah Rennie (d. 2025)
Margaret Bondfield
- 1826 – In York, Upper Canada, members of the Family Compact destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in the Types Riot after Mackenzie accused them of corruption.
- 1929 – Margaret Bondfield (pictured) became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.
- 1941 – World War II: The Allies commenced the Syria–Lebanon campaign against Vichy French possessions in the Levant.
- 1953 – An F5 tornado struck Flint and Beecher, Michigan, causing 116 fatalities, 844 injuries and $19 million in damage during a larger tornado outbreak sequence.
- 2008 – Seven people were killed and 10 others were injured in vehicle and knife attack in Tokyo, Japan.
- Muhammad (d. 632)
- Suharto (b. 1921)
- Leo Walmsley (d. 1966)
- Kim Clijsters (b. 1983)
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Abraham Whipple
- 1549 – The first Book of Common Prayer was legally mandated by Parliament, introducing a fully vernacular Protestant liturgy to the Church of England.
- 1772 – In an act of defiance against the Navigation Acts, American colonists led by Abraham Whipple (pictured) attacked and burned the British schooner Gaspee.
- 1928 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed the Southern Cross in Brisbane, completing the first transpacific flight.
- 1999 – Yugoslav Wars: The Kumanovo Agreement was signed, bringing an end to the Kosovo War the next day.
- Sarah Rapelje (b. 1625)
- Doveton Sturdee (b. 1859)
- Jackie Mason (b. 1921)
- Pik-Sen Lim (d. 2025)
John Diefenbaker
- 1624 – Thirty Years' War: France and the Dutch Republic concluded the Treaty of Compiègne, a mutual defence alliance.
- 1786 – Ten days after being formed by an earthquake, a landslide dam on the Dadu River in China was destroyed by an aftershock, causing a flood that killed an estimated 100,000 people.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army only suffered eight casualties in its victory at the Battle of Big Bethel in York County, Virginia.
- 1957 – Led by John Diefenbaker (pictured), the Progressive Conservative Party won a plurality of House of Commons seats in the Canadian federal election.
- 1987 – Mass protests demanding direct presidential elections broke out across South Korea.
- Isabella Andreini (d. 1604)
- Gustave Courbet (b. 1819)
- Theo Sommer (b. 1930)
- Jun (b. 1996)
George Wallace protesting desegregation at the University of Alabama
- 1594 – Philip II of Spain recognized the sovereign rights of the principalía, local Philippine nobles and chieftains who had converted to Catholicism.
- 1724 – J. S. Bach led his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20, in Leipzig on the first Sunday after Trinity, beginning his chorale cantata cycle.
- 1914 – Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War.
- 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium (pictured).
- Roger Bresnahan (b. 1879)
- Sheila Heaney (b. 1917)
- A. Thurairajah (d. 1994)
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (d. 2014)
June 12: Dia dos Namorados in Brazil; Loving Day and Women Veterans Day in the United States
- 1240 – The Disputation of Paris, in which four rabbis defended the Talmud against Nicholas Donin's accusations of blasphemy, began in the court of King Louis IX.
- 1776 – The Fifth Virginia Convention adopted a declaration of rights, an influential document that proclaimed the inherent rights of men.
- 1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first film to star Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, was released.
- 1999 – In the aftermath of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War, the NATO-led Kosovo Force entered Kosovo with a mandate of establishing a secure environment in the territory.
- 2025 – Air India Flight 171 crashes shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, India, killing 260 people.
- John Fitzalan, 7th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435)
- Thomas C. Hart (b. 1877)
- Christine Sinclair (b. 1983)
- Malekeh Malekzadeh Bayani (d. 1999)
USS Jeannette
- 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, beginning the practice of clerical marriage in Protestantism.
- 1881 – The Jeannette expedition to reach the North Pole from the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait came to an end when the USS Jeannette (pictured), after having been trapped in ice for almost two years, was crushed and sank.
- 1952 – Soviet aircraft shot down a Swedish military plane carrying out signals-intelligence gathering operations, followed three days later by the shootdown of a second plane searching for the first one.
- 1969 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.
- 2013 – Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.
- Henry Middleton (d. 1784)
- Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre (b. 1804)
- Charles Algernon Parsons (b. 1854)
- Fran Allison (d. 1989)
June 14: Honor America Days begins in the United States
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Killing of Sudbury and Hales
- 1381 – During the Peasants' Revolt in England, rebels stormed the Tower of London, killing Simon Sudbury, Lord Chancellor, and Robert Hales, Lord High Treasurer (both pictured).
- 1644 – First English Civil War: Prince Maurice abandoned his siege of Lyme Regis in Dorset after learning of the approach of a Parliamentarian relief force.
- 1934 – The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia.
- 2014 – War in Donbas: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, killing all 49 people on board.
- Qalaherriaq (d. 1856)
- Emmeline Pankhurst (d. 1928)
- Heike Friedrich (b. 1976)
- Moon Tae-il (b. 1994)
June 15: Trinity Sunday (2025), Eid al-Ghadir (Shia Islam, 2025), Father's Day (various, 2025)
Sallie Gardner at a Gallop
- 1215 – King John of England and a group of rebel barons agreed on the text of Magna Carta, an influential charter of rights.
- 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: The signing of the Convention of Alessandria brought temporary peace between France and Austria.
- 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it gallops (animation pictured), which became the basis of motion pictures.
- 1944 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began the first air raid of its strategic bombing campaign against the Japanese archipelago, although little damage was caused.
- 1996 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring more than 200 people and causing widespread damage to buildings.
- Lisa del Giocondo (b. 1479)
- Adam Eckfeldt (b. 1769)
- James K. Polk (d. 1849)
- Hoshi (b. 1996)
June 16: Foundation Day of the Akal Takht (Sikhism)
James Joyce
- 632 – The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, ascended the throne at the age of eight.
- 1819 – A strong earthquake in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, caused a local zone of uplift that dammed the Nara River, which was later named the Allah Bund ('Dam of God').
- 1904 – Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses, commemorated as Bloomsday.
- 1936 – A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven people on board.
- 1997 – The English rock band Radiohead released their landmark third album OK Computer in the United Kingdom.
- John Cheke (b. 1514)
- Tomás Yepes (d. 1674)
- Helen Traubel (b. 1899)
- Tony Gwynn (d. 2014)
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Mumtaz Mahal
- 1579 – Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
- 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal (pictured), wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
- 1919 – Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.
- 1952 – Guatemalan Revolution: The Guatemalan Congress passed Decree 900, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres (0.91 km2) in area to local peasants.
- M. C. Escher (b. 1898)
- Richard Gagnon (b. 1948)
- Amari Cooper (b. 1994)
- Mohamed Morsi (d. 2019)
Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon
- 1898 – The Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon (pictured) in Bar-le-Duc, France, was designated a monument historique.
- 1958 – English composer Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde was premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival.
- 1967 – American musician Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the end of a performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in California.
- 1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology, made its maiden flight.
- 1994 – The Troubles: Ulster Volunteer Force members attacked a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, with assault rifles, killing six people.
- Rogier van der Weyden (d. 1464)
- Ambrose Philips (d. 1749)
- Lou Brock (b. 1939)
- Stephanie Kwolek (d. 2014)
June 19: Dragon Boat Festival in China and Taiwan (2026); Juneteenth in the United States
Lou Gehrig baseball card
- 1785 – The proprietors of King's Chapel, Boston, voted to adopt James Freeman's Book of Common Prayer, thus establishing the first Unitarian church in the Americas.
- 1838 – The Maryland province of the Jesuits contracted to sell 272 slaves to buyers in Louisiana in one of the largest slave sales in American history.
- 1939 – American baseball player Lou Gehrig (pictured) was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's disease".
- 2009 – War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan.
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (d. 1844)
- Gustav Schädler (d. 1961)
- Aage Bohr (b. 1922)
- Clayton Kirkpatrick (d. 2004)
June 20: World Refugee Day; Eid al-Mubahalah (Shia Islam, 2025)
Queen Victoria
- 1837 – Queen Victoria (pictured) acceded to the British throne, beginning a 63-year reign.
- 1921 – British Army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army near Moydrum, Ireland.
- 1959 – The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, causing 22 fishing boats to capsize and killing 35 people.
- 1979 – Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces.
- 1982 – The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the Armenian genocide.
- John of Lancaster (b. 1389)
- Fritz Koenig (b. 1924)
- Edith Windsor (b. 1929)
- Ulf Merbold (b. 1941)
June 21: Fête de la Musique; International Day of Yoga; National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada; Xiazhi in China (2026)
Replica of the Manchester Baby
- 217 BC – Second Punic War: The Carthaginians under Hannibal ambushed a Roman army at the Battle of Lake Trasimene, capturing or killing 25,000 men.
- 1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican government in present-day Romania.
- 1898 – In a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War, the United States captured Guam from Spain.
- 1919 – During a general strike in Winnipeg, Canada, members of the Royal North-West Mounted Police attacked a crowd of strikers, armed with clubs and revolvers.
- 1948 – The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first program.
- Joko Widodo (b. 1961)
- Lana Del Rey (b. 1985)
- Soad Hosny (d. 2001)
- Wendy Saddington (d. 2013)
June 22: Windrush Day (United Kingdom)
George V and Mary after their coronation
- 1593 – Habsburg troops defeated a larger Ottoman force at the Battle of Sisak in the Kingdom of Croatia, triggering the Long Turkish War.
- 1911 – King George V and Queen Mary (both pictured) were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1941 – World War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation.
- 1979 – Former British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.
- 2002 – A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck northwestern Iran, killing at least 230 people and injuring 1,300 others; the official response, perceived to be slow, later caused widespread public anger.
- Howard Staunton (d. 1874)
- Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (d. 1937)
- Elizabeth Warren (b. 1949)
- Meryl Streep (b. 1949)
June 23: Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg
Moraine Lake, Banff National Park
- 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In an action off Trapani, Sicily, a Venetian fleet captured all 27 opposing Genoese vessels.
- 1865 – Stand Watie became the last Confederate general of the American Civil War to surrender to Union forces.
- 1887 – The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park (pictured) in Alberta as the country's first national park.
- 1991 – The first instalment of the video-game series Sonic the Hedgehog was released in North America.
- Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1324)
- Len Hutton (b. 1916)
- Bill Torrey (b. 1934)
- Joss Whedon (b. 1964)
Julia Gillard
- 1374 – An outbreak of dancing mania, in which crowds of people danced themselves to exhaustion, began in Aachen (in present-day Germany) before spreading to other parts of Europe.
- 1717 – The first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, the Premier Grand Lodge of England, was founded in London.
- 1724 – On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach led the first performance of Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third cantata of his chorale cantata cycle.
- 1943 – Amid racial tensions, U.S. Army military police shot and killed a black serviceman after a confrontation at a pub in Bamber Bridge, England.
- 2010 – Julia Gillard (pictured) was sworn in as the first female prime minister of Australia after incumbent Kevin Rudd declined to contest a leadership spill in the Labor Party.
- William Arnold (b. 1587)
- John Lloyd Cruz (b. 1983)
- Lisa (b. 1987)
- Rodrigo (d. 2000)
Original rainbow flag
- 1658 – Anglo-Spanish War: The largest battle ever fought on Jamaica, the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo, began.
- 1910 – The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".
- 1944 – World War II: U.S. Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
- 1978 – The rainbow flag (original version pictured) representing gay pride was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade.
- 2009 – Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body.
- B. J. Habibie (b. 1936)
- Sonia Sotomayor (b. 1954)
- Hillel Slovak (d. 1988)
- David Goldblatt (d. 2018)
Douglas Skymaster plane Amana
- 1740 – War of Jenkins' Ear: Spanish troops stormed the British-held strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.
- 1945 – At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
- 1950 – A Douglas DC-4 Skymaster aircraft (pictured) crashed after departing from Perth, becoming the worst peacetime aviation accident in Australia's history.
- 2010 – A G20 summit, the largest and most expensive security operation in Canadian history, began in downtown Toronto.
- 2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the right of same-sex couples to marry is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
- Robert the Lotharingian (d. 1095)
- George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
- Walter C. Root (d. 1925)
- Pavel Belyayev (b. 1925)
June 27: Helen Keller Day in the United States
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Depiction of Pope Agatho
- 678 – Pope Agatho (depicted), later venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his pontificate.
- 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: French forces won a victory at the Battle of Neuburg, ending Austrian control over the River Danube.
- 1905 – First Russian Revolution: The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny against their officers.
- 1950 – Korean War: Five North Korean aircraft attacked an American air convoy above Suwon Air Base in the first air engagement of the Korean War.
- 2015 – Ignition of corn starch caused a dust fire at a water park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring more than 400 others.
- Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster (b. 1830)
- Frank Rattray Lillie (b. 1870)
- Harry Pollitt (d. 1960)
- Nico Rosberg (b. 1985)
Ned Kelly
- 1880 – Police captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon Ned Kelly (pictured) after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria.
- 1895 – The U.S. Court of Private Land Claims ruled that James Reavis's claim to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km2) of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
- 1904 – In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock and sank in the North Atlantic, resulting in more than 635 deaths.
- 1950 – Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North Korean sympathizers.
- 1969 – In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began demonstrations, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
- Charles Cruft (b. 1852)
- Olga Sapphire (b. 1907)
- Meralda Warren (b. 1959)
- Aparna Rao (d. 2005)
June 29: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity)
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Jayne Mansfield
- 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 roof.
- 1764 – One of the strongest tornadoes in history struck Woldegk in present-day northeastern Germany, killing one person.
- 1950 – The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.
- 1967 – Actress Jayne Mansfield (pictured), her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor injuries.
- 2020 – Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company.
- Ernest Fanelli (b. 1860)
- Johannes Kaiser (b. 1958)
- Paul Klee (d. 1940)
- Nestor Binabo (d. 2023)
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- 1598 – Anglo-Spanish War: After a 15-day siege Spanish troops in San Juan, modern-day Puerto Rico, surrendered to an English force under Sir George Clifford.
- 1905 – Nadir of American race relations: A mob of white Americans killed eight people in Oconee County, Georgia, as part of a mass lynching.
- 1960 – The Belgian Congo gained independence from colonial rule, beginning a period of instability that would lead to the dictatorship of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu.
- 1963 – The coronation of Pope Paul VI took place, the last such ceremony before its abandonment by later popes.
- 2015 – An Indonesian Air Force military transport aircraft (pictured) crashed near a residential neighborhood in Medan, killing 139 people.
- William Oughtred (d. 1660)
- Toyohara Kunichika (b. 1835)
- Cody Rhodes (b. 1985)
- Chris Gragg (b. 1990)
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