| 0 | | Feast of St. Æthelthryth or Æðelþryð or Æþelðryþe or Audrey, Princess of East Anglia, Queen of Fenland and Northumbria, Abbess of Ely |
| 1258 | | Naval Battle of Acre: Venetians defeat the Genoese |
| 1287 | | Battle of the Counts: Ruggiero di Lauria's Aragonese-Sicilian fleet defeats the Angevins off Naples, taking many noble prisoners |
| 1314 | | Edward II's English attacked Robert the Bruce's Scots, initiating the two day Battle of Bannockburn -- Learn More |
| 1495 | | The French take Gaeta from the Neapolitans amid great slaughter |
| 1532 | | Peace of Nuremburg: HRE Charles V secures peace in Germany by making concessions to the Protestants |
| 1606 | | Treaty of Vienna: The Habsburgs grant religious freedom to Protestants |
| 1757 | | Battle of Plassey: Clive's 2,800 troops defeat 50,000 Sirajis |
| 1758 | | Battle of Krefeld: Anglo-Hanoverians defeat the French |
| 1760 | | Battle of Landshut: Austrians defeat the Prussians |
| 1784 | | Edward Warrern, 13, took the first balloon flight in the US, at Baltimore |
| 1865 | | Stand Watie surrenders the last Confederate force still in the field |
| 1898 | | Spanish blockade runners escape US ships off Havana |
| 1902 | | Germany, Austria-Hungary, & Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for 12 years -- Learn More |
| 1915 | | First Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Jul 7) |
| 1917 | | Ammunition factory explosion in Boleweg, Bohemia, c. 1000 die |
| 1917 | | Japanese DD 'Matsu' is sunk by a German u-boat in the Mediterranean. |
| 1933 | | USS 'Macon' (ZRS-5) is commissioned, the last Navy rigid airship, crashes 1935 |
| 1939 | | France turns the Sanjak of Alexandretta over to Turkey |
| 1940 | | Hitler visited Paris, and ordered preparations for a possible invasion Switzerland |
| 1942 | | Rommel breaks the Gazala Line and drives on Egypt |
| 1943 | | Off San Cristobal Island, Japanese sub 'Ro-103' sinks transport 'Aldura' (AK-72) & damages 'Deimos' (AK-78), which has to be scuttled |
| 1943 | | Trobriand Is: 158th RCT lands on Kirwina |
| 1956 | | Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt (1956-1970) |
| 1960 | | US-Japan security treaty signed |
| 1961 | | Antarctic Treaty goes into effect |
| 1961 | | USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m |
| 1964 | | Maxwell Taylor appointed ambassador to South Vietnam |
| 1985 | | Air India Flight 182 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb off Ireland, 329 die |
| 1990 | | Moldava declares independence from the Soviet Union |
| 47 | BC | Ptolemy XV Caesarion, apparent son of Cleopatra & Caesar, executed 30 BC |
| 1534 | | Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord, d. 1582 |
| 1763 | | Josephine Beauharnais Bonaparte, Empress of the French (1804-10), d. 1814 |
| 1801 | | Daniel Smith Donelson, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1863 |
| 1822 | | Young Marshall Moody, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1866 |
| 1838 | | Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1868 |
| 1894 | | Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, briefly King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor-- Learn More |
| 1903 | | King Tribhuwan Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal (1911-1955), in exile 1950-1951 |
| 1912 | | Alan Turing, mathematician, cryptologist, d. 1954 |
| 1917 | | Peter Brunt, historian ("Italian Manpower, 225 BC - AD 14"), d. 2005. |
| 1921 | | Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (1964-), last absolute monarch in Europe |
| 1923 | | Giuseppina Tuissi, later known as "Gianna," Italian partisan leader [See: Deaths] |
| 1924 | | Prince Bayezid Effendi -- Osman Bayezid Osmanoglu, sometime U.S. soldier, Heir to the Ottoman Throne (2009-17) |
| 1938 | | The U.S. Maritime Service |
| 79 | | Roman Emperor Vespasian (69-79), became a god at 69 -- Learn More |
| 840 | | King Louis I "the Pious" King of Aquitaine (781-840) and Holy Roman Emperor (814-833, 834-840), at c. 62 |
| 1290 | | Henryk IV Probus, c. 32, Silesia at Wroclaw (1266-1290), and High Duke of the Polish Seniorate Province of Kraków (1288-1290), poisoned |
| 1514 | | Henry IV "the Elder" or "the Evil", 51, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg & Prince of Wolfenbüttel (1491-1514) |
| 1565 | | Turgut Reis, c. 80, Ottoman sea dog, Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, Bey of Algiers and Djerba, Pasha of Tripoli |
| 1691 | | Ottoman Sultan Suleiman II (1687-1691), 49 [possibly June 22] |
| 1779 | | Mikael Sehul, c. 88, Ethiopian warlord, Ras of Tigray (1748-1771 & 1772-1779) |
| 1944 | | Sefanaia Sukanaivalu, Fijian soldier, kia at 26, Mawaraka, Bougainville, earning the V.C. -- Learn More (scroll down) |
| 1945 | | Giuseppina Tuissi, the Italian partisan leader "Gianna," who helped capture Mussolini, was murdered at 22, possibly by Stalinists |
| 1980 | | Sanjay Gandhi, 33, son of Indira Gandhi, engineer, PM of India (Jan. 18-June 23, 1980), in an air crash |
| 1981 | | Zarah Leander, Swedish actress who made it big in Hitler's Reich, at 72 -- Learn More |
| 2009 | | Ed McMahon, Marine with 85 combat air missions, WW II & Korea, TV personality, at 86 |