June in History

Historical Events on June

1990 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.

2012 Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

2013 The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

1989 The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

1967 Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.

1971 The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

2008 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.

1940 World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.

2017 London: A fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington leaves at least 80 people dead and another 74 injured.

1778 American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.

1928 Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

2012 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.

1972 Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

2016 The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.

1957 In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

1989 Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

1935 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.

2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.

Famous Birthdays on June

1977 A.J. Styles

1986 Rafael Nadal

1976 Alexei Navalny

1959 Mike Pence

1977 Kanye West

1946 Donald Trump

1964 Boris Johnson

1987 Lionel Messi

Famous Deaths on June

1946 Ion Antonescu

2004 Ronald Reagan

1968 Robert F. Kennedy

323 BC Alexander the Great

323 BC Alexander the Great

2009 Michael Jackson

2003 Strom Thurmond

2010 Robert Byrd

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