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2024
2024 – Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, returns to Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a Saipan court and subsequently being released by the United States Department of Justice.
2015
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.
2015
2015 – Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
2013
2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2013
2013 – Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
2012
2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
2008
2008 – A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
2007
2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
2006
2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2003
2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that sex-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2000
2000 – The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
1997
1997 – J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in United Kingdom.
1997
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1995
1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
1991
1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1988
1988 – The first crash of an Airbus A320 occurs when Air France Flight 296Q crashes at Mulhouse–Habsheim Airfield in Habsheim, France, during an air show, killing three of the 136 people on board.
1981
1981 – Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire. All three crew members perish.
1978
1978 – Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
1977
1977 – Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
1975
1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1974
1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
1967
1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
1963
1963 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
1960
1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1960
1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
1959
1959 – Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
1955
1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
1953
1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
1952
1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
1948
1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
1948
1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1948
1948 – Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.
1945
1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.
1944
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
1944
1944 – World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
1942
1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
1941
1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
1940
1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
1936
1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1934
1934 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1927
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1924
1924 – The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
1918
1918 – World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
1917
1917 – World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat in the Battle of Hamel on July 4.
1909
1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1906
1906 – The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
1889
1889 – Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
1886
1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
1857
1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1848
1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1843
1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
1830
1830 – William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
1794
1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marks the first successful military use of aircraft and turns the tide of the War of the First Coalition.
1740
1740 – A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1723
1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1718
1718 – Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1579
1579 – Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
1541
1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1522
1522 – Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
1483
1483 – Richard III becomes King of England.
1460
1460 – War of the Roses: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
1409
1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XIII in Avignon.
1407
1407 – Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
1295
1295 – Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
1243
1243 – Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
699
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.
684
684 – Pope Benedict II is the last pope to require confirmation by the Byzantine emperor before taking office.
363
363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire.
221
221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
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4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.