| 2012 | In an attempt to restore profitability, Air France announces plans to cut over 5,000 jobs by the end of 2013 |
| 2012 | Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo faces impeachment |
| 2011 | Volcanic ash from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordon Caulle eruption in Chile continues to disrupt flights in Australia |
| 2011 | Over 270,000 people in Illinois experience a power failure due to thunderstorms and funnel clouds |
| 2010 | Dhaka's University of Engineering and Technology in Bangladesh is shut down after a student rampage injures four people because of 2010 FIFA World Cup fever |
| 2001 | Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Atl Ocean (4m56s) |
| 1998 | 98th U.S. Golf Open: at Olympic Club SF |
| 1997 | "Defending the Caveman," closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 671 performances |
| 1997 | 35th NHL draft Boston picks center Joe Thornton 1st |
| 1997 | Women's National Basketball Association begins as New York Liberty beats LA Sparks |
| 1994 | Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal) |
| 1993 | "Camelot" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| 1993 | English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat |
| 1993 | STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit |
| 1992 | 92nd U.S. Golf Open: Tom Kite shoots a 285 at Pebble Beach GL California |
| 1992 | Actor Michael Chiklis (Commish) marries Michelle Epstein |
| 1992 | Actress Marina Sirtis, Star Trek NG, marries rocker Michael Lamper |
| 1992 | Danielle Ammaccapan wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1992 | Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham and Allan Lamb |
| 1991 | Islanders Denis Potvan and Michael Bossy inducted into NHL Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | Jorg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia |
| 1991 | New York Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame |
| 1990 | Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame |
| 1990 | Parliament of W and E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens |
| 1990 | U.S. House of Representatives vote 254-177 to stop U.S. flag burning, doesn't pass |
| 1990 | At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a New York Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!" |
| 1989 | Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher home run hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium |
| 1989 | Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson remarry |
| 1989 | Supreme Court rules ok to burn U.S. flag as a political expression |
| 1989 | Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret and Polonia |
| 1988 | 42nd NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3 |
| 1988 | Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon |
| 1988 | Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years |
| 1987 | 87th U.S. Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in SF |
| 1987 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1987 | Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB |
| 1987 | Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant |
| 1986 | "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61 |
| 1986 | "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18 |
| 1986 | Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with Kansas City Royals |
| 1986 | Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record) |
| 1986 | President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments |
| 1985 | American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele |
| 1983 | Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1983 | Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery |
| 1982 | Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away" |
| 1982 | Washington D.C. jury finds John Hinckley, Jr. innocent by insanity |
| 1982 | John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity |
| 1981 | 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000 |
| 1981 | 81st U.S. Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania |
| 1981 | Don Fagan and Walter Becker quit Steely Dan |
| 1981 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf |
| 1981 | Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200 |
| 1981 | Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election |
| 1979 | Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy |
| 1978 | Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rice's musical "Evita," premiers in London |
| 1977 | Former White House chief of staff home run Haldeman enters prison |
| 1977 | Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM |
| 1976 | Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy |
| 1975 | "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens |
| 1975 | Elton John, Eagles and Beach Boys play Wembley |
| 1975 | Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow |
| 1975 | Soyuz 19 returns to Earth |
| 1975 | West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
| 1971 | 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana |
| 1971 | 71st U.S. Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania |
| 1971 | Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf |
| 1971 | International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia |
| 1970 | 70th U.S. Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine National Minn |
| 1970 | Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup, in Mexico City |
| 1970 | Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892 |
| 1970 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
| 1969 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
| 1969 | John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m) |
| 1969 | Zager and Evans release "In the Year 2525" |
| 1968 | Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns |
| 1967 | Yankees take 5-3 lead in 11th and lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th and Yankees beat them 6-3 |
| 1966 | Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam |
| 1965 | 65th U.S. Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St. Louis |
| 1964 | Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later |
| 1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open |
| 1964 | Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH |
| 1963 | Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII |
| 1962 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m |
| 1960 | Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0) |
| 1956 | Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere |
| 1956 | East Germany frees almost 19,000 prisoners |
| 1956 | Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters |
| 1954 | John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0) |
| 1952 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
| 1951 | "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 180 performances |
| 1951 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
| 1951 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones |
| 1950 | Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit |
| 1948 | 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I |
| 1948 | 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced (DR Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records) |
| 1948 | Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor-General of India |
| 1948 | Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens |
| 1948 | WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's as Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record" |
| 1946 | 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas |
| 1946 | Bill Veeck purchases the Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million |
| 1946 | Federal judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman |
| 1945 | U.S. defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II |
| 1943 | Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead |
| 1942 | 129 degrees F (54 degrees C), Tirat Zevi, Israel |
| 1942 | Jacqueline Kennedy's mother marries Hugh Auchincloss |
| 1942 | President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. |
| 1942 | Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa |
| 1942 | Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m) |
| 1941 | 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria |
| 1941 | After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns |
| 1940 | German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State |
| 1939 | Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| 1939 | New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement |
| 1938 | Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit |
| 1938 | Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia vs. Lancashire |
| 1937 | French People's front government-Blum falls |
| 1933 | 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans |
| 1932 | Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (New York City) |
| 1932 | Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1930 | Ruth hits 3 home runs as Yankees blow 6-0 lead in 7th and lose 15-7 |
| 1924 | NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms |
| 1923 | Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud |
| 1921 | HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen |
| 1919 | Bauer forms German government |
| 1919 | German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet |
| 1917 | Hawaiian Red Cross forms |
| 1916 | Boston Rube Forster no-hits New York Yankees, 2-0 |
| 1916 | Mexican troops beat U.S. expeditionary force under General Pershing |
| 1915 | Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law |
| 1913 | Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane |
| 1907 | 13th U.S. Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Philadelphia Cricket Club PA |
| 1907 | E. W. Scripps founded United Press |
| 1904 | Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to New York club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913) |
| 1903 | Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place |
| 1900 | Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers |
| 1898 | Guam becomes a territory of U.S. |
| 1895 | British Roseberry government falls |
| 1894 | Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company |
| 1893 | 1st Ferris wheel premieres at Chicago's Columbian Exposition |
| 1887 | Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria |
| 1879 | F. W. Woolworth opens 1st store, failed almost immediately |
| 1868 | Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich |
| 1863 | Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities |
| 1858 | Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe |
| 1849 | Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels |
| 1834 | Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine |
| 1821 | African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (New York City) |
| 1805 | Great Stoneface Mount found in New Hampshire |
| 1792 | Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, BC |
| 1791 | Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne |
| 1788 | U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire is 9th to ratify |
| 1788 | Vizille France population demands local parliament |
| 1768 | 1st U.S. bachelor of medicine degree, Dr. John Archer |
| 1749 | Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Netherlands |
| 1684 | King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter |
| 1672 | Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded |
| 1672 | French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht |
| 1667 | Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England |
| 1661 | Treaty of Kardis: Russia and Sweden sign peace treaty |
| 1633 | Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views |
| 1607 | 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown |
| 1572 | Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda |
| 1547 | Great fire in Moscow |
| 1529 | Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France |
| 1498 | Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian |
| 1128 | Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik |
| 996 | Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas |
| 524 | Battle at Vezerone: Burgundy beats France |
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