Historical Events in June, Month of June Events
Here is a list of some historical events in June. You can learn What major event happened in June?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| June 10, 1719 | Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel. |
| June 6, 1971 | Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June. |
| June 26, 699 | En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. |
| June 21, 1788 | New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. |
| June 20, 1756 | A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. |
| June 15, 1648 | Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
| June 10, 1999 | Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. |
| June 26, 2015 | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| June 7, 1099 | First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. |
| June 7, 1832 | Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. |
| June 6, 1942 | The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū and Hiryū—are sunk, as is the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann are also sunk. |
| June 22, 2002 | An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response. |
| June 1, 1950 | The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America. |
| June 1, 1943 | BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. |
| June 27, 1927 | Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference. |
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