| | 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom |
| | 168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War |
| | 1593 - Battle of Sisak: Slovene - Croat troops defeat the Turks |
| | 1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe. |
| | 1812 - Napoleonic Wars- Napoleon invades Russia. |
| | 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. |
| | 1844 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University. |
| | 1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris. |
| | 1866 - Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War. |
| | 1893 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. |
| | 1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba. |
| | 1911 - George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII. |
| | 1918 - Hammond circus train wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana. |
| | 1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France |
| | 1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany. |
| | 1940 - The Nagpur conference of the All India Forward Bloc concludes, declared the Bloc as a socialist party. |
| | 1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II. |
| | 1941 - First Croatian anti-fascist armed unit (partisans) founded near Sisak, Croatia. |
| | 1941 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins |
| | 1941 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group. |
| | 1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre |
| | 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113 |
| | 1963 - Giovanni Cardinal Montini elected Pope by the College of Cardinals, and takes the name Pope Paul VI. |
| | 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment. |
| | 1978 - Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered. |
| | 1986 - Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City. |
| | 1986 - The All Jharkhand Students Union is founded, in order to fight for autonomy for tribal peoples in India. |
| | 2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people. |