Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway.

The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, was ratified for the first time by Norway.

Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.

In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.

The body of ''God's Banker'', Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.

Garfield appears in his first comic strip.

The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.

Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.

World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.

The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The USS Arizona (BB-39) is launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York.

The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.

After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.

Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.

Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.

The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.

Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.

The first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.

Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).

Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.

Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work ''True Christian Religion''.

English colonists leave Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.

The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.

King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.

The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.