Events Pre-1600 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia. 1325 – Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years).| 1381 – In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace. 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated. 1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1601–1900 1625 – King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury. 1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine. 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army. 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River. 1850 – The American League of Colored Laborers, the first African American labor union in the United States, is established in New York City. 1855 – Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris. 1878 – Start of the Congress of Berlin in which the major powers of Europe revise the Treaty of San Stefano, signed on March 3 the same year, that Russia had imposed on a defeated Ottoman Empire. 1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack. 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia. 1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death. 1895 – Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about .Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017) 1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
1901–present 1907 – The Workers' Federation of Chile declares a general strike in solidarity with a rail workers' strike. 1917 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries. 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank. 1944 – World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan. 1944 – World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets. 1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter. 1956 – Spanish football club Real Madrid CF wins the inaugural European Cup, UEFA's premier club competition, by winning 4–3 against French club Stade de Reims in the final. 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing"). 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. 1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers. 1973 – In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers teammates Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the Major League Baseball record of staying together for years. 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before. 1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II. 1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid. 1982 – Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War. 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune. 1990 – First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections. 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages. 1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents. 1996 – Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170. 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 1997 – The Uphaar Cinema Fire takes place at Green Park, Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 59 people and seriously injuring 103 others. 1999 – BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans. 2000 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang. 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. 2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. 2005 – The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of all charges for allegedly sexually abusing a child in 2003. 2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time. 2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback. 2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others. 2018 – Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal. 2021 – A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China, kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others. 2023 – At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria. 2023 – Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England. 2025 – Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.
Births Pre-1600 AD 40 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (died 93) 823 – Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (died 877) 839 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (died 888) 1367 – Taejong of Joseon, third monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea (died 1422) 1500 – Ernest of Bavaria, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (died 1560) 1508 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (died 1579) 1539 – Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (died 1591) 1555 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (died 1617) 1580 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (died 1626) 1595 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech medical doctor and scientist (died 1667)
1601–1900 1617 – Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (died 1656) 1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (died 1706) 1711 – Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (died 1773) 1752 – Frances Burney, English novelist and playwright (died 1840) 1761 – Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (died 1820) 1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (died 1838) 1773 – Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (died 1829) 1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian composer and politician (died 1833) 1786 – Winfield Scott, American general (died 1866) 1790 – José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (died 1873) 1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German psychiatrist and author (died 1894) 1822 – Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (died 1894) 1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (died 1882) 1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (died 1879) 1840 – Augusta Lundin, the first international Swedish fashion designer (died 1919) 1854 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company (died 1931) 1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (died 1935) 1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic (died 1922) 1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (died 1939) 1865 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer (died 1932) 1865 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1939) 1868 – Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic (died 1919) 1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961) 1872 – Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1951) 1873 – Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (died 1942) 1875 – Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and medical doctor (died 1932) 1876 – William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (died 1937) 1879 – Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (died 1941) 1879 – Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (died 1929) 1884 – Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (died 1944) 1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (died 1978) 1885 – Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (died 1969) 1887 – André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (died 1978) 1887 – Bruno Frank, German-American author, poet, and playwright (died 1945) 1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (died 1935) 1889 – Gao Qifeng, Chinese painter (died 1933) 1892 – Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (died 1967) 1893 – Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (died 1963) 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (died 1957) 1894 – Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and medical doctor (died 1981) 1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (died 1986) 1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner and coach (died 1973) 1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (died 1978) 1900 – Ian Hunter, British Cape Colony actor of stage and film (died 1975)
1901–present 1901 – Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1985) 1902 – Carolyn Eisele, American mathematician and historian (died 2000) 1903 – Willard Harrison Bennett, American physicist and chemist (died 1987) 1905 – Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (died 1997) 1905 – James T. Rutnam, Sri Lankan historian and author (died 1988) 1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (died 1985) 1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (died 1998) 1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (died 1999) 1910 – Mary Wickes, American actress (died 1995)