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- 0363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
- 0684 Benedict II becomes Pope.
- 1284 According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away.
- 1409 Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
- 1483 Richard III becomes king of England.
- 1541 Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Diego is later caught and executed.
- 1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
- 1723 After a lasting siege and firing from the cannons Baku surrendered to Russians.
- 1754 Anthony Henday, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, leaves York Factory with a party of Plains Cree returning to the interior; returns June 23, 1755, having traveled as far west as present-day Red Deer, Alberta.
- 1793 UK hist Gilbert White, naturalist, dies at Selborne, Hampshire
- 1797 Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow. Farmers fear the effects of the iron on the soil
- 1807 Lightning hits a warehouse in Luxembourg, killing 230 people.
- 1819 The bicycle is patented.
- 1830 UK hist George IV dies – his brother, William IV, accedes to the throne
- 1846 In London England, British protectionists repeal Corn Laws to raise price of wheat for British farmers; rioting in the streets; British property values fall 50%, and the Canadas will soon feel the effects.
- 1848 End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- 1857 Off Cap Rouge Quebec, the Steamer Montreal catches fire and sinks in 15 minutes in the St. Lawrence; left Quebec City at 5 pm a day earlier; 253 lives lost, mostly Scottish immigrants on their way to the west.
- 1857 The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
- 1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia
- 1862 Day 2 of the 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville
- 1870 First section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
- 1870 The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- 1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
- 1902 England establishes Order of Merit
- 1902 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #488 Kreusa
- 1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
- 1917 The first American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I
- 1919 The first issue of NY Daily News published
- 1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Domincan Republic
- 1924 American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
- 1925 In Toronto Ontario, Edward S. Ted Rogers Sr. invents the alternating-current tube which allows plug-in batteryless radios
- 1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
- 1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions
- 1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
- 1940 Hundreds of Kovno Jews are taken to the "Ninth Fort" and murdered.
- 1940 World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
- 1941 Finland enters WW II against Russia
- 1943 RCAF bomber wing begins operating from North Africa; 3 squadrons; a prelude to invasions of Sicily and Italy.
- 1943 Visitor posting - Birth of Ronald Dale Craig - USA
- 1944 Port of Cherbourg falls to the Allies.
- 1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations, in San Francisco
- 1948 The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.
- 1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin
- 1948 William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- 1949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
- 1950 In Ottawa Ontario, Minister of National Defence Brooke Claxton 1898-1960 announces invasion of Republic of Korea (South Korea) by North Korean forces June 25.
- 1956 Australians ambushed near Sungei Siput, Malaysia
- 1957 Hurricane Audrey strikes Louisiana claiming 500 lives
- 1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
- 1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
- 1959 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ
- 1959 Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway
- 1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
- 1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
- 1960 Former British Protectorate of Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence
- 1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
- 1963 John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.
- 1963 Visitor posting - Marriage of Marilyn Call & Sherman Beck in Id. Falls Temple (parents of ten) - USA [email protected]
- 1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)
- 1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
- 1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
- 1973 On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
- 1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
- 1974 The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
- 1975 Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India.
- 1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
- 1976 Number one hit on UK music charts - Real Thing - You To Me Are Everything
- 1976 The CN Tower, the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world, was opened.
- 1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
- 1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
- 1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overran the runway and crashed into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers onboard died.
- 1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
- 1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
- 1981 Couples For Christ, a Christian charismatic organization, established in the Philippines.
- 1982 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521
- 1982 Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig
- 1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Charlene - I've Never Been To Me
- 1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
- 1989 Canada updates coins with a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth.
- 1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time
- 1989 On Hawaii, a 6.1 quake (actually 2 events about 5 seconds apart) results in five people injured slightly, 5 homes destroyed and about 100 homes damaged in the Puna District. Landslides occurred in several places and blocked a road at Honomu
- 1990 122ø F in Phoenix Arizona
- 1992 Denmark wins the European Football Championship title by beating Germany 2-0 in Nya Ullevi stadium (Gothenburg,Sweden)
- 1993 The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Manuel Diaz Jr. was born
- 1994 Visitor posting - I was born-Monica Marie Burgos-Romero(: yeahhhh!!!!.. - USA
- 1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Liz Damary Arroyo was born - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - devins birthday - USA
- 1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
- 1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling is published in the United Kingdom.
- 1999 Visitor posting - my birthday- w.p. - USA
- 1999 Visitor posting - Me (babygirld is my nickname) was born!!!! I have a cutesy Shitzu. - USA
- 2000 Orel Hershiser pitches his last major league game.
- 2006 The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations.
- 2009 Visitor posting - June 26th 2009-Kathryn and Ashlee found their first posting date :)
- 2010 Visitor posting - Kylee-Rae was born - USA
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