| 1098 | 'Christian' Crusaders of the First Crusade seize Antioch, Turkey. | |
| 1539 | Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain. | |
| 1861 | Union troops defeat Confederate forces at Philippi, in western Virginia | |
| 1864 | Some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia. | |
| 1888 | The classic baseball poem “Casey at the Bat,” written by Ernest L. Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner. | |
| 1918 | The Finnish Parliament ratifies a treaty with Germany. | |
| 1923 | In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini grants women the right to vote. | |
| 1928 | Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin dies as a result of a bomb blast set off by the Japanese. | |
| 1938 | The German Third Reich votes to confiscate so-called “degenerate art.” | |
| 1940 | The German Luftwaffe hits Paris with 1,100 bombs. | |
| 1942 | Japanese carrier-based planes strafe Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands as a diversion of the attack on Midway Island. | |
| 1952 | A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea is put down by American troops. | |
| 1965 | Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space when he exits the Gemini 4 space capsule. | |
| 1969 | 74 American sailors die when the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was cut in two by an Australian aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. | |
| 1974 | Charles Colson, an aide to Nixon, pleads guilty to obstruction of justice. | |
| 1989 | The Chinese government begins its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Hundreds are killed and thousands are arrested. |
