| 2009 | Internet traffic reaches unprecedented levels after entertainer Michael Jackson's death triggers an outpouring of worldwide grief |
| 2006 | Warren Buffett donates $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| 1999 | NBA Finals, San Antonio Spurs beat New York Knicks 4 games to 1 |
| 1998 | Supreme Court rules attorney-client privilege extends beyond the grave, exempting Vince Foster's conversations with his lawyers from being used as evidence by Kenneth Starr |
| 1997 | Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million |
| 1997 | Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby, Orbit 9 |
| 1997 | Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful |
| 1997 | J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game |
| 1997 | NHL approves franchises in Nash, Atlanta, Columbus, and Minn-St. Paul |
| 1997 | Progress M-34 Collides with and damages Mir Space Station |
| 1997 | Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop |
| 1995 | Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to home run in 3 consecutive innings |
| 1994 | 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina |
| 1994 | 105 degrees F (40.5 degrees C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 1994 | 111 degrees F (43.9 degrees C) at El Paso, Texas |
| 1994 | Cleveland Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yankees 11-6 |
| 1994 | Gay Games close in New York City |
| 1994 | Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns |
| 1993 | New York Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame |
| 1993 | Parliamentary election in Morocco |
| 1992 | "Les Miserables," opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague |
| 1992 | Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores |
| 1992 | STS-50 launches (Columbia) |
| 1991 | Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon |
| 1991 | Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia |
| 1990 | "Dave Thomas Comedy Show," last airs on CBS-TV |
| 1990 | 120 degrees F in Phoenix, Arizona |
| 1990 | NBC decides to air episodes of "Quantum Leap" for 5 straight days |
| 1990 | Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known |
| 1989 | "Day By Day," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1989 | 1st U.S. postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride |
| 1989 | Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 1989 | Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils |
| 1988 | "Chess" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 68 performances |
| 1988 | 104 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June |
| 1988 | Cal Ripken, Jr. plays in his 1,000th consecutive game |
| 1988 | Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs |
| 1988 | Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadottir elected (90+%) |
| 1988 | Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1988 | Netherlands soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against U.S.S.R.) |
| 1987 | Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim |
| 1986 | Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud |
| 1986 | Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release |
| 1985 | Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes, 21 die |
| 1984 | Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America |
| 1984 | STS-41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem |
| 1983 | "Evita" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 1568 performances |
| 1983 | India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
| 1983 | Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m |
| 1982 | Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. resigns, replaced by George Schultz |
| 1981 | Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional |
| 1980 | "Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1979 | "Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1979 | Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium |
| 1978 | Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires |
| 1978 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1977 | Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time |
| 1976 | Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader |
| 1975 | Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day) |
| 1973 | John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee |
| 1973 | Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France |
| 1973 | Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m |
| 1972 | Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball |
| 1972 | Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
| 1971 | Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From" |
| 1969 | Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon |
| 1968 | Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants) |
| 1967 | 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special |
| 1967 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
| 1967 | KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, sentenced to 5 years |
| 1966 | Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| 1966 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad |
| 1966 | Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched |
| 1965 | Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kadar as premier of Hungary |
| 1964 | Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ) |
| 1964 | WMCA (New York City) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th |
| 1963 | Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies |
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt |
| 1963 | South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested |
| 1962 | Inonu Government forms in Turkey |
| 1962 | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms |
| 1962 | Supreme Court rules New York school prayer unconstitutional |
| 1961 | Baltimore and California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns |
| 1961 | Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees) |
| 1960 | Earthquake in NE Belgium |
| 1960 | Madagascar gains independence of France |
| 1957 | "Jonathan Winters Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1956 | 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" and "Stockholm" (Cape Cod) |
| 1956 | WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | "Can Can" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 892 performances |
| 1955 | "Imogene Coca Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1953 | 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours |
| 1953 | 86 degrees F in Anchorage Alaska |
| 1952 | "Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 597 performances |
| 1952 | 34th PGA Championship: Jim Turnesa at Big Spring CC Louisville |
| 1952 | Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election |
| 1951 | 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from New York City to 4 cities |
| 1950 | Israeli airline El Al begins service |
| 1950 | Johnny Pramesa (Reds) and Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park home runs |
| 1950 | Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea |
| 1950 | U.N. member states begin using integrated forces against North Korea |
| 1949 | Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote) |
| 1948 | Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1948 | Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to U.S.) |
| 1947 | 1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published |
| 1947 | Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello |
| 1947 | Tennis shoe introduced |
| 1945 | Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas |
| 1945 | Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa |
| 1944 | British assault at Caen Normandy |
| 1943 | Crematory III at Birkenau is finished |
| 1943 | Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians |
| 1942 | British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) |
| 1942 | British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London |
| 1942 | General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe |
| 1941 | Russian counter attack at Rovno |
| 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination |
| 1941 | Fair Employment Practices Commission established |
| 1941 | Finland declares war on Soviet Union |
| 1941 | Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there |
| 1940 | Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower and grave of Napoleon in France |
| 1938 | "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1 |
| 1938 | Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour |
| 1937 | Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit home runs in a game |
| 1935 | Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium |
| 1934 | Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets vs. Australia (7-61 and 8-43) |
| 1934 | New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2, |
| 1934 | Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times |
| 1932 | 36th U.S. Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY |
| 1932 | Commencement of India's 1st Test cricket, vs. England at Lord's |
| 1929 | President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam |
| 1928 | New York Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader |
| 1927 | WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout |
| 1926 | 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham |
| 1925 | Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece |
| 1921 | 56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St. Andrews |
| 1921 | Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 minutes Australia vs. Notts |
| 1920 | League of Nations places International head of Justice in Hague |
| 1919 | 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13) |
| 1919 | Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg |
| 1918 | Baku-Turkish Communist Party forms |
| 1916 | Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov |
| 1913 | Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority) |
| 1910 | Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes) |
| 1909 | George Sargent wins U.S. Open golf tournament |
| 1905 | Warsaw and Lodz revolt against Russian occupation |
| 1903 | Yankees and White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18 |
| 1903 | Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 and 5-3 |
| 1894 | American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike |
| 1888 | Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison |
| 1876 | Custer and 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Big Horn |
| 1870 | Opera "Die Walkure" is produced (Munich) |
| 1868 | FL, AL, LA, GA, North Carolina and South Carolina readmitted to US |
| 1868 | President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hour day |
| 1867 | 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio |
| 1864 | Horse tramway at the Hague, opens |
| 1864 | Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines |
| 1863 | U.S. General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive |
| 1862 | Battle of Oak Grove, Virginia (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days |
| 1861 | Western Virginia campaign |
| 1835 | 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF) |
| 1834 | Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published |
| 1798 | U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens |
| 1794 | French troops occupy Charleroi |
| 1788 | Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify U.S. constitution |
| 1749 | General fast because of drought in MA |
| 1716 | Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands |
| 1675 | Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden |
| 1672 | 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in U.S. held, Sandwich, Mass |
| 1667 | Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion |
| 1658 | Spanish garrison at Duinkerk surrenders to French and British |
| 1646 | Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford |
| 1638 | Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in U.S. |
| 1630 | Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop |
| 1621 | French government army occupies Fort St. Jean d'Angely at La Rochelle |
| 1607 | Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary and Moravia |
| 1606 | Alkmaarse clergy asks "Great Dertelheyt" |
| 1606 | St. Jansday is forbidden |
| 1580 | Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published |
| 1500 | Pope Alexander VI accept Treaty of Granada |
| 1298 | Rindfleish Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany |
| 1243 | Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV |
| 1183 | Peace of Konstanz |
| 1178 | 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon |
| 1139 | Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors |
| 1096 | 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany |
| 1080 | Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clemens III |
| 253 | St. Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
