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653 — Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to ...
1242 — Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads ...
1300 — Turku Cathedral is consecrated by Bishop Magnus I in the city ...
1397 — The Kalmar Union is formed under the rule of Margaret I of ...
1462 — Vlad the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night ...
1497 — Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat ...
1579 — Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern ...
1596 — The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic ...
1631 — Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal ...
1665 — Battle of Montes Claros: Portugal definitively secured ...
1673 — French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the ...
1767 — Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is ...
1773 — Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
1775 — American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties ...
1789 — In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National ...
1794 — Foundation of Anglo-Corsican Kingdom.
1795 — The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company ...
1831 — The steam locomotive Best Friend of Charleston causes the ...
1839 — In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of ...
1843 — The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between ...
1861 — American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
1863 — American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg campaign.
1876 — American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five ...
1877 — American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez ...
1885 — The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1898 — The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1900 — Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture ...
1901 — The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the ...
1910 — Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
1922 — Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral ...
1929 — The town of Murchison, New Zealand is rocked by a 7.8 ...
1930 — U.S. president Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff ...
1932 — Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at ...
1933 — Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI ...
1939 — Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a ...
1940 — The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall ...
1940 — World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and ...
1940 — World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the ...
1944 — Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a ...
1948 — United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount ...
1952 — Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of ...
1953 — Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the ...
1958 — The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the ...
1960 — The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres ...
1963 — A day after South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm announced ...
1963 — The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School ...
1967 — Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of ...
1971 — U.S. president Richard Nixon in a televised press conference ...
1972 — Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested ...
1985 — Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle ...
1987 — With the death of the last individual of the species, the ...
1989 — Interflug Flight 102 crashes during a rejected takeoff from ...
1991 — Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population ...
1992 — A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction ...
1994 — Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson ...
2015 — Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African ...
2017 — A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 ...
2021 — Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by ...