History by month
June
30 days of history. Every date is an entry point to the events, births, and moments that shaped our world.
June 1
1938 Two teenagers from Cleveland bet everything on a character no publisher wanted.
June 2
1098 Bohemond of Taranto bribed a guard. After seven months of siege warfare, starvat
June 3
1965 Ed White refused to come back inside. Floating above the Pacific Ocean at 17,500
June 4
1989 Tanks rolled down Chang’an Avenue toward Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3
June 5
1967 Israeli pilots flew so low over the Mediterranean that Egyptian radar never saw
June 6
1944 Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower had already drafted a statement accepting fu
June 7
1776 Richard Henry Lee stood before the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia o
June 8
632 The Prophet Muhammad died on June 8, 632 AD, in the arms of his wife Aisha in Me
June 9
68 Nero drove a dagger into his own throat on June 9, 68 AD, with the help of his s
June 10
1692 Bridget Bishop was hanged from an oak tree at Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachuset
June 11
June 12
1987 President Ronald Reagan stood before the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on June
June 13
1966 "You have the right to remain silent." Those words, now among the most recognize
June 14
1775 The Continental Congress resolved on June 14, 1775, to organize and fund a unifi
June 15
1215 English barons forced King John to affix his seal to Magna Carta at Runnymede, a
June 16
1976 South African police opened fire on a crowd of Black schoolchildren marching thr
June 17
1631 Mumtaz Mahal died giving birth to her fourteenth child on June 17, 1631, in a mi
June 18
1815 Napoleon's last gamble ended on a rain-soaked field near Waterloo in present-day
June 19
1964 The United States Senate passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on June 19, ending
June 20
1967 Muhammad Ali was convicted of draft evasion in a Houston federal court on June 2
June 21
1788 A single vote in a New Hampshire convention hall completed the most audacious po
June 22
1940 Adolf Hitler chose the location with surgical precision. On June 22, 1940, Frenc
June 23
1988 NASA’s top climate scientist looked a Senate committee in the eye and said what
June 24
1948 Every road, rail line, and canal into West Berlin went dark overnight. On June 2
June 25
1950 Seventy-five thousand North Korean soldiers poured across the 38th parallel befo
June 26
2000 Two rival teams, one publicly funded and one privately financed, stood side by s
June 27
1969 Police raided a Greenwich Village bar at 1:20 AM, and for the first time, the pa
June 28
1914 A teenage assassin with a pistol and a borrowed sandwich stop killed an archduke
June 29
1995 Two spacecraft built by Cold War enemies locked together 245 miles above the Ear
June 30
1905 A 26-year-old patent clerk in Bern submitted a paper that dismantled two centuri