• 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. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the 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 - During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
• 1866 - 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
• 1880 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign) .
• 1892 - Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
• 1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
• 1905 - Norway dissolves its union with Sweden.
• 1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow(Clydebank), Scotland.
• 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 are killed.
• 1936 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
• 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.
• 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 33rd governor of the state of California.
• 1967 - The Israeli forces enter 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 precedent 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.
• 1987 - Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are transferred to The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
• 1989 - A Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.
• 1991 - Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.
• 1995 - The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines
• 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.
• 2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.

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