The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.

The Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, UK, falls into the sea following a landslide.

Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column {{convert|7|km|mi}} high.

Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

500 million people watch on television as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins.

The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.

Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.

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.

Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.

The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.

Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a constitution making his nation a Communist state.

King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.

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World War II: The steamer ''Danae'' carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans was sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.

World War II: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.

World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.

King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.

The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.

The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.

Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.

World War I: Battle of Messines

Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.

Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.

Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.

Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.

Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.

War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the ''Campaña del Desierto'' (Desert Campaign).

1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.

During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.

The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.

Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

The newspaper ''Gazeta de Buenos Ayres'' is first published in Argentina.

David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.

Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.

Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.

Louis XIV is crowned King of France.

The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.

Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli.

The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.