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1508 Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops
1513 Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1523 Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected King of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.
1586 Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
1644 The Qing dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty.
1654 Queen Christina abdicates the Swedish throne and is succeeded by her cousin Charles X Gustav.
1674 Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.
1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1752 A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
1762 British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.
1808 Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, is crowned King of Spain.
1809 Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of enlightened absolutism. At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.
1813 War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1822 Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
1832 The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.
1833 Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. President to ride on a train.
1844 The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1857 Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of SwedenNorway.
1859 Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Memphis Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
1882 More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed when a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
1882 The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
1889 The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
1892 The Chicago "L" commuter rail system begins operation
1894 Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
1909 French troops capture Abιchι (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
1912 The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1918 World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chβteau-Thierry.
1919 The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
1921 Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1932 The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1⁄4’/L) sold.
1933 The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1934 New Deal: the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1939 Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
1942 World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
1944 World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1946 The National Basketball Association is created with eleven teams.
1964 Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.
1968 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
1971 Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.
1971 A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.
1971 Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
1974 A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1981 Bihar train disaster: a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the death toll is closer to 1,000.
1982 The 1982 Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
1982 A British Army Air Corps Gazelle helicopter is destroyed in a friendly fire incident, resulting in the loss of four lives.
1984 Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is first released in the USSR.
1985 The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
1992 The Fantoft Stave Church in Norway is destroyed by Varg Vikernes. This was the first in a string of church arsons in the Early Norwegian black metal scene
1993 Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
1997 Prom Mom incident: While attending her senior prom in Lacey Township, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler gives birth in a bathroom stall, leaves the baby to die in a trash can and then returns to the prom.
2002 Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2004 Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2005 In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.