| | 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. |
| | 1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. |
| | 1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France. |
| | 1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured. |
| | 1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. See United States Declaration of Independence. |
| | 1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. |
| | 1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. |
| | 1862 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade. |
| | 1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops. |
| | 1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around St-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec. |
| | 1880 - Assault and Take of Morro de Arica (Arica Tall Hill),it meant the end of the Campaign of Tacna and Arica during the War of the Pacific. |
| | 1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience. |
| | 1905 - Norway dissolves its union with Sweden. |
| | 1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops. |
| | 1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four patriots are killed. |
| | 1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France. |
| | 1938 - The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight. |
| | 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. |
| | 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends. |
| | 1942 - Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter. |
| | 1944 - Nazi Panzer SS troops murder 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy. |
| | 1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile. |
| | 1947 - ASA Bucharest(actually Steaua Bucharest) was founded. |
| | 1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state. |
| | 1955 - Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. |
| | 1965 - The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples. |
| | 1966 - Former movie star, Ronald Reagan, becomes the 22nd governor of the state of California. |
| | 1967 - The Israeli forces occupy Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. |
| | 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. |
| | 1971 - The US Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precident that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment. |
| | 1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public. |
| | 1977 - 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II. |
| | 1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The Israelis charged the facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons. |
| | 1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. |
| | 1989 - A Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168. |
| | 1990 - Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida opened up. |
| | 1991 - Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high. |
| | 1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol () and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince". |
| | 1998 - James Byrd, Jr is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime. |
| | 2001 - Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election. |
| | 2002 - England beat Argentina in the 2002 FIFA World Cup group stages |
| | 2004 - The Sikh leader Prem Singh Chandumajra launches the political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Longowal). |
| | 2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert. |