| 2004 | Lance Armstrong makes history, winning his 6th consecutive Tour de France. |
| 2000 | An Air France Concorde supersonic passenger jet crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground. |
| 1999 | Lance Armstrong wins first Tour de France. |
| 1998 | The United States Navy commissions the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and puts her into service. |
| 1997 | K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalits caste to hold this office. |
| 1994 | Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948. |
| 1990 | Comedian Roseanne Barr grabs her crotch and spits on the ground when performing the U.S. national anthem at a San Diego Padres game. |
| 1989 | Rock/Hip-hop trio The Beastie Boys release the classic Paul's Boutique. |
| 1984 | Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. |
| 1978 | The first so-called test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born. |
| 1977 | A supposed thunderbird is reported attacking a boy named Marlon Lowe. |
| 1976 | The first performance of the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach |
| 1973 | Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched. |
| 1969 | Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. |
| 1965 | Newport Folk Festival: Bob Dylan goes electric. |
| 1958 | The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. |
| 1956 | 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the SS Stockholm in heavy fog, killing 51. |
| 1952 | Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States. |
| 1946 | Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean when the United States detonates the "Baker Day" device. |
| 1946 | At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. |
| 1944 | World War II: Operation Spring |
| 1943 | World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio. |
| 1934 | Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. |
| 1920 | Telecommunications: first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast. |
| 1917 | Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). |
| 1909 | Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (Calais to Dover in 37 minutes). |
| 1908 | Ajinomoto is born. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG) and patents a process for manufacturing it. |
| 1907 | Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan. |
| 1898 | The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops landing at Guánica Bay. |
| 1897 | Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories. |
| 1894 | The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship. |
| 1869 | The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869) |
| 1868 | Wyoming becomes a United States territory. |
| 1866 | The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (now called "5-star general") Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank. |
| 1861 | American Civil War: The Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery. |
| 1853 | Joaquin Murietta, famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed. |
| 1814 | War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane |
| 1799 | At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. |
| 1797 | Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island (Spain). |
| 1759 | French and Indian War: In Canada, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé. |
| 1758 | French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken. |
| 1722 | Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border. |
| 1593 | Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. |
| 1567 | Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. |
| 1547 | Henry II (France) crowned |
| 1261 | The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing Thessalonica and the rest of the Latin Empire. |
