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June opens the summer season and carries deep historical significance. D-Day (June 6, 1944) is one of history's most pivotal military operations. Juneteenth on June 19 commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Pride Month is celebrated throughout June. Our archive covers every June date with births, deaths, and world events.
Every day in June
1
June 1
371 entries
2015 — A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze river in China's Hubei province,...2011 — A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes...2009 — Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a...
2
June 2
341 entries
2014 — Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India.2012 — Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role...2003 — Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's...
3
June 3
315 entries
2017 — London attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by...2013 — The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified...2013 — At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in...
4
June 4
327 entries
2015 — An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.2010 — Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches...1998 — Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
5
June 5
326 entries
2017 — Montenegro becomes the 29th member of the NATO.2017 — Six Arab countries - Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab...2015 — An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia killing 18...
6
June 6
331 entries
2005 — In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning...2004 — Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr A. P. J....2002 — Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter...
7
June 7
281 entries
2014 — At least 37 people are killed in an attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's...2013 — A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and...2013 — A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting...
8
June 8
323 entries
2014 — At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.2009 — Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and...2008 — At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it...
9
June 9
333 entries
2010 — At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a...2009 — An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.2008 — Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
10
June 10
379 entries
2016 — Former The Voice contestant Christina Grimmie is fatally shot in Orlando, Florida...2003 — The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.2002 — The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of...
11
June 11
316 entries
2015 — Greece's public broadcaster ERT is reopened by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.2013 — Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras.2012 — More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an...
12
June 12
347 entries
2016 — Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub...2009 — A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international...1999 — Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations...
13
June 13
370 entries
2015 — A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while...2012 — A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least...2010 — A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid...
14
June 14
318 entries
2017 — London: A fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington leaves at least...2014 — A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.2002 — Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about...
15
June 15
358 entries
2013 — A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people...2012 — Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over...2001 — Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan...
16
June 16
338 entries
2013 — A multi-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused...2012 — China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts,...2012 — The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a...
17
June 17
356 entries
2017 — A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others.2015 — Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...1994 — Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the...
18
June 18
386 entries
2009 — The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.2007 — The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing...2006 — The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
19
June 19
309 entries
2012 — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for...2009 — Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in...2009 — War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat...
20
June 20
297 entries
2003 — The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.1994 — The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured.1991 — German Bundestag votes to move seat of government to Berlin.
21
June 21
415 entries
2012 — A boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the...2009 — Greenland assumes self-rule.2006 — Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
22
June 22
331 entries
2015 — The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing....2012 — Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded...2012 — A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the...
23
June 23
331 entries
2016 — The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.2014 — The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.2013 — Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a...
24
June 24
391 entries
2013 — Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power...2012 — Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a...2010 — John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the...
25
June 25
364 entries
1998 — In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line...1997 — An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.1996 — The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
26
June 26
364 entries
2015 — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right...2015 — Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria...2013 — Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
27
June 27
307 entries
2015 — A midair explosion from flammable powder at a recreational water park in Taiwan...2014 — At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline...2013 — NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
28
June 28
352 entries
2016 — A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures...2009 — Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed...2004 — Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition...
29
June 29
340 entries
2014 — The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and...2012 — A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and...2007 — Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
30
June 30
313 entries
2015 — A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential...2013 — Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.2013 — Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and...
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