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A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état
Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.
The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to China.
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan
The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory.
King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery.
Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.
Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed in Rome by troops of the usurper Magnentius.
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