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- 1495 - Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1779 - Benedict Arnold was court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1922 - A police force in Northern Ireland called the Royal Ulster Constabulary was founded.
- 1938 - The first Superman comic was published.
- 1980 - The Cable News Network began broadcasting.
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- 455 - The Vandals plundered Rome.
- 1800 - The first smallpox vaccination was administered in North America.
- 1865 - Forces under General Edmund Kirby Smith became the last Confederate army to surrender in the American Civil War.
- 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: Italy became a republic and abolished the monarchy, exiling Umberto.
- 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
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- 1889 - The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States was constructed between Willamette Falls to downtown Portland, Oregon.
- 1937 - The Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson.
- 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ended with a German tactical victory.
- 1944 - Charles de Gaulle became Prime Minister of France.
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June 4: Independence Day in Tonga (1970)
- 1615 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle in Japan.
- 1792 - Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Great Britain.
- 1920 - The Kingdom of Hungary was split into five countries with the signing of the Treaty of Trianon in Paris.
- 1942 - The Battle of Midway began with a massive Imperial Japanese strike on Midway Atoll.
- 1989 - PRC military units cracked down on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.
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June 5: UN World Environment Day
- 1849 - Denmark became a constitutional monarchy.
- 1947 - George Marshall called for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
- 1967 - The Six-Day War began with an Israeli Air Force attack on Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
- 1968 - Sirhan Sirhan mortally shot Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles.
- 1995 - A new phase of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate was discovered.
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June 6: National holiday of Sweden observed.
- 1654 - Charles X succeeded his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne.
- 1925 - The Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Chrysler.
- 1944 - The Battle of Normandy began with 155,000 Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
- 1971 - The Ed Sullivan Show, a top rated variety show that introduced the United States to Elvis Presley and The Beatles, went off the air after twenty-three years.
- 1982 - A war in Lebanon began when Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to root out PLO militants.
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- 1099 - Crusaders of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city.
- 1905 - The Norwegian parliament dissolved the Union between Sweden and Norway.
- 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government left Tromsø for exile in London, following the WWII German invasion.
- 1948 - Edvard Beneš resigned as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state
- 1981 - The Israeli Air Force attacked and destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.
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- 632 - Muhammad, founder of Islam, died in Medina.
- 1887 - Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.
- 1949 - George Orwell's dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published.
- 1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hit Flint, Michigan, killing 115 people.
- 2004 - Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele broke the world record for outdoor 10,000 m in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
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June 9: St. Colmcille's Day in Ireland
- 68 - Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate.
- 1815 - Congress of Vienna ended, redrawing the political map of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon.
- 1885 - The end of the Franco-Chinese War. China gave up Tonkin and Annam (most of present day Vietnam).
- 1934 - Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen.
- 1986 - The Rogers Commission released its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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June 10: National holiday of Portugal observed: Camões, who wrote the national epic The Lusiads, dies in 1580.
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- 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in a river in Anatolia while leading an army to Jerusalem.
- 1829 - Oxford beat Cambridge in the first Boat Race.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Confederates defeated a much larger Union force at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads.
- 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio. This is the traditional date of the first day of sobriety of Dr. Bob Smith, AA's cofounder.
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June 11: Kamehameha Day in Hawaii
- 1509 - King Henry VIII of England married Catherine of Aragon.
- 1770 - Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
- 1899 - Pope Leo XIII dedicated the entire human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
- 1963 - The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after a stand in the schoolhouse door.
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June 12: Independence Day in the Philippines (1898) and the Russian Federation (1990), Dia dos Namorados in Brazil
- 1864 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor.
- 1889 - The Armagh rail disaster killed 88 people near Armagh, Northern Ireland.
- 1964 - Anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison by the South African government.
- 1979 - A human-powered aircraft named Gossamer Albatross flew across the English Channel.
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June 13: Queen's Birthday in Australia and New Zealand (2005)
- 1898 - Yukon Territory was formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
- 1935 - In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
- 1966 - The Miranda v. Arizona ruling established the Miranda Warning.
- 1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times began to publish the Pentagon Papers.
- 1983 - Pioneer 10 became the first man-made object to pass the orbit of Pluto.
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June 14: Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1982)
- 1381 - King Richard II of England met the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt.
- 1777 - The Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
- 1822 - Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
- 1940 - Paris fell under Nazi Germany occupation (see History of Paris).
- 1985 - TWA Flight 847 was hijacked by Hezbollah militants.
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- 1215 - King John of England put his seal to the Magna Carta.
- 1389 - In the Battle of Kosovo, Turks defeated Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1752 - Benjamin Franklin conducted an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm.
- 1904 - The General Slocum burned in New York's East River, over 1,000 died.
- 1954 - The Union of European Football Associations was founded in Basel, Switzerland.
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June 16: Bloomsday in Dublin, Ireland; Youth Day in South Africa
- 1487 - The Battle of Stoke Field, the final battle of the Wars of the Roses, was fought.
- 1745 - During King George's War, British colonial forces led by William Pepperrell captured the French stronghold at Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island after a six-week siege.
- 1846 - Pius IX was elected pope, beginning the longest reign of all popes since the days of the apostles.
- 1963 - Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
- 1976 - Police in Soweto, South Africa opened fire on schoolchildren protesting against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools, triggering a series of nationwide demonstrations, strikes, riots and violence.
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June 17: Independence Day in Iceland (1944)
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
- 1789 - French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the National Assembly.
- 1961 - Canada's New Democratic Party was founded with the merger of the CCF and organised labour.
- 1972 - Watergate scandal: Five men were arrested for burglarising the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel.
- 1994 - O. J. Simpson was chased down and arrested on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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- 1812 - The United States declared war against Great Britain, beginning the War of 1812.
- 1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo.
- 1858 - Charles Darwin received a manuscript by Alfred Russel Wallace on evolution, which prompted him to publish his theory.
- 1873 - Woman suffrage activist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 U.S. presidential election.
- 1979 - The SALT II treaty was signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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June 19: Father's Day in various countries (2005)
- 1846 - The first baseball game (using modern rules) was played in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- 1865 - The Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas, beginning the tradition of Juneteenth celebrations.
- 1867 - Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire was executed by firing squad in Querétaro.
- 1953 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as Soviet spies.
- 1961 - Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1978 - Garfield made his debut in a comic strip.
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June 20: Flag Day in Argentina (since 1938)
- 1756 - A garrison of the British army in India was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- 1789 - 577 deputies of the French National Assembly took the Tennis Court Oath, starting the French Revolution.
- 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeded to the British throne.
- 1947 - A Mafia hitman murdered gangster Bugsy Siegel in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
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June 21: Summer/Winter solstice, Midsummer
- 1734 - A black slave known as Marie-Joseph Angélique was tortured and then hanged in New France.
- 1788 - New Hampshire ratified the U.S. Constitution and was admitted as the 9th U.S. state.
- 1813 - Laura Secord set out to warn British forces of an impending American attack at Queenston, Ontario.
- 1864 - Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ended.
- 1985 - Greenland officially adopted its own flag, adding support to its independence movement.
- 2000 - The controversial amendment known as Section 28 was repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
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- 168 BC - In the Battle of Pydna, Roman forces defeated and captured Macedonian King Perseus.
- 1854 - The British Parliament abolished feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
- 1937 - Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France in the second Popular Front ministry.
- 1941 - Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa.
- 1986 - Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the quarter-final match of the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
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June 23: Jani held in ancient Latvia.
- 1713 - After Queen Anne's War, French residents of Acadia were given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia.
- 1887 - Canada's first national park, Banff, was created.
- 1894 - The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
- 1941 - June independence: Members of Lithuanian Activist Front declared independence from the Soviet Union and formed an underground government.
- 1985 - A bomb destroyed Air India Flight 182 above the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 329 on board.
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June 24: Fête nationale du Québec (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day) in Québec, Canada
- 1128 - Alfonso I of Portugal fights the Battle of São Mamede - the first step for total independence of Portugal
- 1314 - Scotland regained independence as forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II of England in the Battle of Bannockburn.
- 1441 - Eton College in Eton, Berkshire, England was founded by King Henry VI to provide free education to poor students who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge.
- 1535 - The Anabaptist state of Münster was conquered and subsequently disbanded.
- 1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reached Bantam on Java.
- 1821 - Battle of Carabobo: Venezuela gained total independence from Spain.
- 1947 - First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, noticed nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
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- 1950 - The Korean War, between United Nations and North Korean forces, began.
- 1993 - Kim Campbell was chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1996 - Khobar Towers bombing left 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia
- 1998 - Microsoft Windows 98 was released.
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- 1940 - Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union gave Romania an ultimatum requiring it to cede territory.
- 1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco, California.
- 1959 - The Saint Lawrence Seaway, a system of canals connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, was officially opened.
- 1963 - John F. Kennedy uttered "Ich bin ein Berliner."
- 1964 - The Beatles released the album A Hard Day's Night.
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- 1846 - Irish potato famine: An Irish newspaper ran a story about a new potato blight.
- 1967 - The world's first automatic teller machine was installed in the London Borough of Enfield.
- 1969 - The Stonewall riots began in New York City, starting the modern gay rights movement.
- 1979 - Muhammad Ali announced his retirement from boxing.
- 1986 - The International Court of Justice ruled against the United States in Nicaragua v. United States.
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- 1880 - Australian outlaw and folk hero Ned Kelly was captured in Glenrowan, Victoria.
- 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, was killed by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in the Assassination in Sarajevo, catalysing the outbreak of World War I.
- 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending World War I.
- 1978 - The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 438 US 265 1978, barred quota systems in college admissions but affirmed the constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities.
- 1990 - Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
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- 1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burned to the ground.
- 1922 - France granted 100 hectares at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
- 1927 - The First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller occurred.
- 1933 - Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
- 1995 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.
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June 30: Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960)
- 1864 - U.S. National Parks: Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California for "public ... recreation".
- 1905 - Albert Einstein published the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" and introduced the theory of special relativity.
- 1908 - The Tunguska impact event occurred in Siberia.
- 1936 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell was published.
- 1971 - The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft died when their air supply escaped through a faulty valve.
- 2002 - Brazil won the 17th Football World Cup.
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