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 22, 1942 | The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress. |
| June 19, 1306 | The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. |
| June 4, 1760 | Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians. |
| June 16, 1811 | Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonate a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and killing about 100 attackers. |
| June 26, 1522 | Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes. |
| June 12, 1665 | Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City. |
| June 11, 2008 | The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. |
| June 8, 1941 | World War II: The Allies commence the Syria |
| June 28, 1882 | The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone. |
| June 23, 1860 | The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office. |
| June 17, 653 | Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. |
| June 12, 2014 | Between 1,095 and 1,700 Shia Iraqi people are killed in an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[20] on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. It's the second deadliest act of terrorism in history, only behind 9/11. |
| June 5, 1997 | The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins. |
| June 5, 1864 | American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. |
| June 29, 1971 | Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev are the first humans to die in space. |
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