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WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
In the Puerto Rican Campaign, the United States seizes Puerto Rico from Spain.
The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.
Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.
The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral.
The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who is proclaimed King of Portugal.
Eleanor of Aquitaine married Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux.
The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
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