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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 four members of the same family.
- Robert Passelewe (d. 1252)
- John A. Macdonald (d. 1891)
- Maria Alyokhina (b. 1988)
- Rayan Aït-Nouri (b. 2001)
Surinam Airways Flight 764
- 421 – Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia, who later helped to protect Greek pagans and Jews from persecution.
- 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.
- 1929 – The Lateran Treaty was ratified to bring Vatican City into existence, thus ending the "Roman question".
- 1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 (pictured) 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)
- Amelia Edwards (b. 1831)
- Emily Ratajkowski (b. 1991)
- Uriah Rennie (d. 2025)
June 8: Bounty Day in Norfolk Island
RFA Sir Tristram after the Bluff Cove attacks
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last battle of the American invasion of Quebec.
- 1783 – Laki, a volcanic fissure in Iceland, began an eight-month eruption, triggering a major famine and causing widespread fluoride poisoning.
- 1982 – Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked British transport ships (damaged ship pictured) while unloading supplies off Bluff Cove in the Falkland Islands, killing 56 British servicemen and wounding 150 others.
- 2007 – A major storm caused the bulk carrier Pasha Bulker to run aground in New South Wales, Australia.
- 2008 – Seven people were killed and 10 others were injured in a 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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Skyline of Hamilton, Ontario
- 1846 – Hamilton, Ontario (skyline pictured), was granted city status by the Parliament of the Province of Canada.
- 1856 – The first company of Mormon handcart pioneers left Iowa City for Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 1920 – The courtesan Wang Lianying was murdered in Shanghai, leading to months of media and literary coverage.
- 1965 – Fighting began between the Viet Cong and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the Vietnam War.
- 2010 – A child suicide bomber attacked a wedding in Nadahan, Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring at least 70 others.
- Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1701)
- Sarah Roberts (d. 1913)
- Jackie Mason (b. 1928)
- Pik-Sen Lim (d. 2025)
Mount Tarawera eruption
- 731 – Tatwine was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1329 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The heavily armed Byzantine army was defeated by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Pelekanon.
- 1886 – Mount Tarawera, a volcano in New Zealand's North Island, erupted (depicted), killing around 120 people and creating the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley.
- 1916 – Hussein, King of Hejaz, orchestrated a revolt against the Ottoman Empire with the aim of creating a single unified and independent Arab state.
- 1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she remained a captive until 2009.
- Cheng Rui (d. 903)
- Cora Agnes Benneson (b. 1851)
- Sessue Hayakawa (b. 1886)
- Robert Maxwell (b. 1923)
The Blackstone Hotel
- 806 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Abbasid army departed Raqqa in northern Syria to begin an invasion of Byzantine-controlled Asia Minor.
- 1775 – The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.
- 1920 – During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel (pictured) to select their presidential candidate, leading to the phrase "smoke-filled room".
- 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.
- 2008 – Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
- James Francis Edward Keith (b. 1696)
- Claudia Lauper Bushman (b. 1934)
- Ben Waine (b. 2001)
- Taha Karaan (d. 2021)
June 12: Dia dos Namorados in Brazil; Loving Day and Women Veterans Day in the United States
Wreckage of Air India Flight 171
- 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 in the Indiana Jones franchise, was released.
- 1999 – In the aftermath of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War, the NATO-led Kosovo Force entered the territory with a mandate of establishing a secure environment.
- 2025 – Air India Flight 171 (wreckage pictured) crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, India, killing 260 people.
- John Fitzalan, 7th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435)
- Thomas C. Hart (b. 1877)
- Milorad Petrović (d. 1981)
- Christine Sinclair (b. 1983)
Aftermath of the June 2011 Christchurch earthquake
- 1850 – The American League of Colored Laborers, one of the first labor unions for African Americans, was established in New York City.
- 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Mont Sorrel in the Ypres Salient came to an end as a Canadian assault led German forces to withdraw to their original lines.
- 1971 – The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1981 – English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
- 2011 – A 6.0 Mw earthquake (aftermath pictured) caused up to NZ$6 billion of additional damage to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier.
- Mansur I (d. 976)
- Veronica Gambara (d. 1550)
- Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (d. 1846)
- Thabo Bester (b. 1986)
Title page of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
- 1646 – Franco-Spanish War: French and Spanish fleets fought the inconclusive Battle of Orbetello, with sailing vessels of both sides having to be towed into action by galleys due to light winds.
- 1846 – Settlers in Sonoma began rebelling against Mexico, later proclaiming the California Republic and raising a homemade flag with a bear and a star.
- 1940 – Second World War: Four days after the French government fled Paris, German forces occupied the French capital, a major accomplishment in the Fall Rot operation.
- 1966 – The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books (title page pictured).
- 1996 – After an 81-day standoff sparked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jordan, Montana, the Christian Patriot group Montana Freemen surrendered to the FBI.
- Priscilla Cooper Tyler (b. 1816)
- Mary Cassatt (d. 1926)
- Alan Carr (b. 1976)
- Taeil (b. 1994)
1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
- 1520 – Leo X issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine, censuring 41 propositions from Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses and subsequent writings, and threatening him with excommunication unless he recanted.
- 1896 – A magnitude-8.5 earthquake and a subsequent tsunami struck Japan, killing at least 22,000 people and destroying about 9,000 homes.
- 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.
- 1991 – An eruption of Mount Pinatubo (pictured) in the Philippines deposited large amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, enough to briefly lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).
- 2006 – US president George W. Bush designated 140,000 square miles (360,000 km2) around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, now one of the world's largest protected areas.
- Eadburh of Winchester (d. 960)
- Mehmed Rashid Pasha (d. 1876)
- John B. Fenn (b. 1917)
- Mohamed Muizzu (b. 1978)
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Valentina Tereshkova
- 1755 – After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War.
- 1883 – In the Victoria Hall disaster, 183 children were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show in Sunderland, England.
- 1960 – Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.
- 1963 – Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
- 2016 – Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.
- Johannes Tauler (d. 1361)
- Yang Jisheng (b. 1516)
- Mariana Mazzucato (b. 1968)
- Tupac Shakur (b. 1971)
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Pope Martin I
- 653 – Pope Martin I (pictured) was arrested in the Lateran Palace, Rome, and taken to Constantinople.
- 1579 – Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
- 1919 – Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.
- 1972 – Five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices of the Democratic National Committee, igniting the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of US president Richard Nixon more than two years later.
- M. C. Escher (b. 1898)
- Richard Gagnon (b. 1948)
- Amari Cooper (b. 1994)
- Mohamed Morsi (d. 2019)
Li Yuan
- 618 – Sui–Tang transition: Chinese governor Li Yuan (pictured) declared himself emperor, establishing the Tang dynasty.
- 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which encouraged him to publish his own theory of evolution.
- 1940 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech, often considered to be the origin of the French Resistance.
- 1953 – A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board.
- 2012 – Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
- Lord Castlereagh (b. 1769)
- James Montgomery Flagg (b. 1877)
- Giorgio Morandi (d. 1964)
- Richard Madden (b. 1986)
June 19: Dragon Boat Festival in China and Taiwan (2026); Juneteenth in the United States
Szymanowski in 1922
- 1718 – An earthquake on the Tibetan Plateau led to the deaths of more than 73,000 people.
- 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the "New York Nine" defeating the New York Knickerbockers 23–1.
- 1926 – King Roger, an opera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski (pictured), was premiered at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.
- 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, the commander of the South Vietnam Air Force, was appointed prime minister at the head of a military regime.
- 2010 – The royal wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling took place in Stockholm Cathedral.
- Friedrich Sertürner (b. 1783)
- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (b. 1861)
- Erna Schneider Hoover (b. 1926)
- James Gandolfini (d. 2013)
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: Commanded by Hannibal, the Carthaginians 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 – The United States captured Guam from Spain in a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War.
- 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
Autograph score of BWV 39
- 1726 – On the First Sunday after Trinity, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 (page pictured), one of a few new cantatas written that year.
- 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 in Alberta as the country's first national park.
- 1926 – The College Board administered the first Scholastic Aptitude Test, a major standardized test for university and college admissions in the United States.
- 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)
Aftermath of the Surfside condominium collapse
- 474 – Western Roman emperor Glycerius, who was not recognized by his Eastern counterpart Leo I, was forced to abdicate.
- 1559 – The Book of Common Prayer, a major component of the Elizabethan religious settlement, was introduced as the liturgy of the Church of England through the Act of Uniformity 1558.
- 1932 – A group of military officers and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri dynasty.
- 1989 – Following the Tiananmen Square massacre, the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party appointed Jiang Zemin as general secretary in place of Zhao Ziyang.
- 2021 – A portion of a 12-story condominium building collapsed (aftermath pictured) in Surfside, Florida, killing 98 people and injuring 11 others.
- Edward de Vere (d. 1604)
- Kapiʻolani (d. 1899)
- Jasmin Moghbeli (b. 1983)
- Lionel Messi (b. 1987)
CIA diagram of Area 51
- 1658 – Anglo-Spanish War: The largest battle ever fought on Jamaica, the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo, began.
- 1940 – Second World War: Operation Aerial, an evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports, was completed.
- 1950 – The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea.
- 2013 – In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51 (diagram pictured), a secretive U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada and a subject of various UFO, and other, conspiracy theories.
- 2022 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian forces captured the city of Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine, after six weeks of fighting.
- B. J. Habibie (b. 1936)
- Sonia Sotomayor (b. 1954)
- Michael Jackson (d. 2009)
- David Goldblatt (d. 2018)
June Days uprising
- 1243 – Mongol invasions of Anatolia: Mongols achieved a decisive victory over the Seljuq Turks, leading to the decline and disintegration of the Seljuk state.
- 1740 – War of Jenkins' Ear: Spanish troops stormed the British-held strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.
- 1848 – French authorities suppressed the June Days uprising (pictured), in which workers rioted in response to plans to close the National Workshops.
- 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.
- 2010 – A G20 summit, the largest and most expensive security operation in Canadian history, began in downtown Toronto.
- Henrietta of England (b. 1644)
- Daoud Corm (b. 1852)
- Richie Powell (d. 1956)
- Pommie Mbangwa (b. 1976)
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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