1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
1778 – Washington's troops leave Valley Forge.
1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821 – Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
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1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
1857 – The 19 June 1857 law, also called loi relative à l'assainissement et de mise en culture des Landes de Gascogne (Law related to sanitation and culture of the Gascogne landes) ended traditional pastoralism and led to wide scale reforestation of the Landes forest.
1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
1864 – Civil War: The CSS Alabama, one of the Confederacy’s premier sea vessels, was sunk after a battle with the USS Kearsage off the French coast.
1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Union General Gordon Granger and his troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, to deliver the news to an estimated 250,000 remaining slaves that Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation and had granted enslaved Americans their freedom. This date marking the end of slavery is now celebrated across the U.S. as Juneteenth.
1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1900: The subway system in Paris, France began operations on Line 1 after two years of construction that involved tearing up several streets of the famed city. The Paris Metro was the first subway system in France and was said to symbolize a country in the forefront technologically, worldwide. Today, this rapid transit system in Paris remains mostly underground and runs to 214 kilometers (133 mi) in length. With 303 stations, of which 62 facilitate transfer to another line, it’s said to be Europe’s second busiest metro system after Moscow.
1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1911 – the Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded.
1913 – Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
1917 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1917.
1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1936 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1936.
1938 – The express train known as the "Olympian Flyer" crashes in Montana, killing 47.
1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1949 -- The first ever NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
2007 – The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
2010 – The Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling was held at Storkyrkan in Stockholm.
2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuatorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
2014 – Felipe VI, Prince of Asturias, rises to the Spanish throne following the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Holy Apostle Jude, the brother of the Lord (80)
Venerable Paisios the Great of Egypt (5th c.)
Martyr Zosimas the Soldier at Antioch in Pisidia (2nd c.)
Saint Paisios the Great (5th c.)
Saint John the Solitary of Jerusalem (6th c.)
Saint Zeno of Egypt, hermit
Saint Barlaam of Shenkursk, monk (1462)
Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, mother of the Apostle James
Russian New Martyr Parthenius, bishop (1937)
Hieromartyr Asyncretus, martyred at the Church of the Holy Peace
by the sea in Constnantinople
Saint John, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1966)
Venerable Paisios the Great of Egypt (5th c.)
Martyr Zosimas the Soldier at Antioch in Pisidia (2nd c.)
Saint Paisios the Great (5th c.)
Saint John the Solitary of Jerusalem (6th c.)
Saint Zeno of Egypt, hermit
Saint Barlaam of Shenkursk, monk (1462)
Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, mother of the Apostle James
Russian New Martyr Parthenius, bishop (1937)
Hieromartyr Asyncretus, martyred at the Church of the Holy Peace
by the sea in Constnantinople
Saint John, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1966)
Other commemorations
Repose of Blessed Leonty of Chile, archbishop (1971)
Coptic Orthodox
Departure of Pope Justus of Alexandria (135 A.D.)
Departure of Pope Cyril II of Alexandria (808 A.M.), (1092 A.D.)
Departure of Saint Euphemia the Widow
Departure of Pope Cyril II of Alexandria (808 A.M.), (1092 A.D.)
Departure of Saint Euphemia the Widow
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