June 10

• June 10, 1190
  Frederick I Barbarossa, king of Germany and Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, drowns crossing the Saleph River while leading an army of the Third Crusade which causes disintegration of German crusader army
• June 10, 1358
  The leader of the Peasant Jacquerie Guillaume Cale is captured
• June 10, 1605
  False Dmitriy I, an impostors, who claims himself to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, tsarevitch Dmitriy Ivanovich, is crowned Russian tsar for first time
• June 10, 1610
  First Dutch settlers arrive from New Jersey, to colonize Manhattan Island
• June 10, 1692
  Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem for witchcraft which becomes the first official execution of the Salem witch trials, a series of prosecutions of people during which twenty people were executed and 150 others imprisoned
• June 10, 1752
  Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm and collects a charge in a Leyden jar when the kite is struck by lightning, enabling him to demonstrate the electrical nature of lightning
• June 10, 1776
  The Continental Congress appoint a committee to write a Declaration of Independence
• June 10, 1861
  The Virginia village of Big Bethel becomes the site of the first major land battle of the Civil War and private Henry L. Wyatt becomes the first Confederate soldier killed in a Civil War battle
• June 10, 1916
  Great Arab Revolt is begun by the Sherif Hussein bin Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen
• June 10, 1924
  Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, is assassinated by fascists
• June 10, 1940
  Italy declares war on Britain and France
• June 10, 1947
  Swedish aircraft company Saab introduces its first car, the Saab 92, featured front-wheel drive, two doors, green paint
• June 10, 1982
  Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut after the invasion of Lebanon
• June 10, 1997
  Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold
• June 10, 1999
  NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milosvic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo, marking end of Kosovo War and the Yugoslav Wars
• June 10, 2002
  In the United Kingdom, Kevin Warwick carries out the first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans

June 9

• June 9, 53 BC
  Parthians crush Roman army at battle of Carrhae, killing general Marcus Licinius Crassus
• June 9, 68
  Nero, Roman Emperor, commits suicide, ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty
• June 9, 922
  French chose Robert I as King of France
• June 9, 1064
  Ferdinand I, the Count of Castile, conquers the city of Coimbra, modern-day Portugal
• June 9, 1456
  Pope Callixtus III excommunicates the apparition of Halley's Comet, believing it to be an ill omen for the Christian defenders of Belgrade from the besieging armies of the Ottoman Empire
• June 9, 1660
  Louis XIV marries Maria Teresa, the daughter of Philip IV of Spain, as part of the Treaty of the Pyrenees
• June 9, 1732
  Royal charter for Georgia is granted to British general James Oglethorpe by George II, for whom the colony is named
• June 9, 1940
  King Haakon VI of Norway flees to London, England after Norway falls to German forces
• June 9, 1955
  "Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets" becomes the first Rock & Roll song to top the U.S. record charts, bringing rock and roll to the American mainstream
• June 9, 2008
  Afghan and British forces uncover a stash of 237 tonnes of hashish in Kandahar province of Afghanistan, believed to be the world's biggest seizure of drugs by weight

June 8

• June 8, 68
  Galba, a commander of Roman forces in Spain, assumes the title of Caesar beginning a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors
• June 8, 452
  Attila, military leader of Huns and one of the greatest of the barbarian rulers, invades Italy
• June 8, 632
  Mohammed, the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, dies, and Abu Bakr, his father-in-law, becomes the first Caliph of Rashidun Caliphate, the term comprising the first four "Rightly Guided" caliphs in Islam's history
• June 8, 793
  Vikings, seafaring north Germanic people, raid the Northumbrian coast in England and sack the city of Lindisfarne, beginning the Viking Age of Scandinavian history
• June 8, 1675
  Three Wampanoag Indians are hanged in Plymouth, Massachusetts for the recent murder of John Sassamon, an advisor to Metacom, a Native American Christian convert, triggering King Philip's War
• June 8, 1783
  Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 18-month eruption, pumping more ash into the atmosphere than any previous volcano in recorded history and wiping out 75% of the crops, which led to a severe famine that killed some 10,000 people or 20% of the population
• June 8, 1815
  The Congress of Vienna ends with creation of German Confederation, a loose association of 39 German states in Central Europe
• June 8, 1861
  One the second referendum Tennessee vote to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy, becoming the last state to do so
• June 8, 1869
  Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents first vacuum cleaner, working with a belt driven fan cranked by hand
• June 8, 1906
  Antiquities Act, an act giving the President of the United States the authority to restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government, is signed by Theodore Roosevelt
• June 8, 1948
  Texaco Star Theater, one of the first successful examples of American television broadcasting, hosted by an American comedian Milton Berle, starts
• June 8, 1949
  English novelist George Orwell publishes his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which describes totalitarian practices
• June 8, 2009
  American car-maker General Motors files for bankruptcy, the third-largest in U.S. history and the largest ever in United States manufacturing, forcing the United States government provide US$30 billion of additional taxpayer funds to restructure

June 7

• June 7, 1494
  Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas and agree to divide the World outside of Europe between themselves along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, a Portuguese colony off the west coast of Africa
• June 7, 1520
  Field of the Cloth of Gold; Fabulous meeting between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England
• June 7, 1546
  The Treaty of Ardres ends the war between France and England
• June 7, 1654
  Louis XIV is crowned King of France in Rheims
• June 7, 1692
  An earthquake at Port Royal, Jamaica, causes a landslide within the harbor, generates a tsunami, and destroys ninety percent of the buildings in the city, killing approximately 2,000 people
• June 7, 1753
  Britain's King George II gives his assent to an Act of Parliament establishing the British Museum
• June 7, 1769
  Daniel Boone, an American pioneer explorer, first begins to explore the Bluegrass State of Kentucky
• June 7, 1832
  The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act which increases the number of people who are eligible to vote
• June 7, 1848
  Paul Gauguin, a French post-impressionist painter, is born in Paris
• June 7, 1905
  In a session of the Norwegian parliament, a unanimous vote proclaims that "the union with Sweden under one king is dissolved in consequence of the king's ceasing to function as king of Norway", marking independence of Norway
• June 7, 1929
  Independent State of Vatican City comes into existence
• June 7, 1942
  Americans destroy 4 Japanese carriers, 248 carrier-based aircraft and kills 3,057 at the Battle of Midway, the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II
• June 7, 1991
  Ten-Day War in Slovenia begins the Yugoslav Wars

June 6

• June 6, 1002
  German king Henry II is crowned by Archbishop of Mainz at Mainz, the first time when a German king was crowned outside Aachen Cathedral since Emperor Otto I
• June 6, 1134
  Norbert of Xanten, founder of the Premonstratensian order, dies
• June 6, 1523
  Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union and a member of noble family Gustav Vasa is elected Gustavus I of Sweden
• June 6, 1674
  Shivaji, an aristocrat of the clan within the Maratha Kshatriya culture, crowns himself King of India, founding Maratha Empire in Indian subcontinent
• June 6, 1683
  The Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, is opened in Oxford to house natural-history artifacts given to Oxford University by Elias Ashmole
• June 6, 1698
  Streltsy, the Russian regiments, remove their commanding officers and make their way to Moscow, beginning Streltsy Uprising against military service hardships and harassment
• June 6, 1719
  The first slaves, over five hundred black slaves coming from Africa, arrive in Louisiana on two French ships, the Du Maine and the Aurore arrive in Louisiana, starting expansion of slavery
• June 6, 1772
  Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe DuSable settles Chicago
• June 6, 1809
  Sweden establish new constitution, which establishes a separation of powers between the King and the legislative branch, the Riksdag of the Estates
• June 6, 1844
  YMCA, the Young Men's Christian Association, is founded in London, England
• June 6, 1882
  An electric iron, weighed almost 7 kilograms, is patented by Henry W. Seely in New York City
• June 6, 1918
  Battle of Belleau Wood becomes the first United States victory of the First World War
• June 6, 1925
  Walter Percy Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corporation
• June 6, 1944
  About 155,000 Allied troops land 90 km of Normandy coastline in France during the D-Day, beginning the invasion of German-occupied western Europe
• June 6, 1946
  National Basketball Association, the premier men's professional basketball league in the world, is founded
• June 6, 1967
  Six-day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begins
• June 6, 1984
  Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, killing an estimated 2000 people
• June 6, 1993
  Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections
• June 6, 2002
  An asteroid or comet estimated at 5-10 metres in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya with an estimated force slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb
• June 6, 2013
  American Edward Snowden releases classified documents concerning mass surveillance by a U.S. government and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia

June 5

• June 5, 1595
  Henry IV's army defeat the and forces of Spanish and the Catholic League at the Battle of Fontaine-Française
• June 5, 1806
  Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland
• June 5, 1832
  In Paris an anti-monarchist insurrection takes place during General Lamarque's funeral when insurgents get as far as the Rue Montorgueil and are then driven back by national guard
• June 5, 1849
  Denmark peacefully becomes a constitutional monarchy when King Frederick VII accepts a new constitution agreeing to share power with a bicameral parliament called the Rigsdag
• June 5, 1941
  4,000 people are asphyxiated in a tunnel during bombing of Chinese city of Chongqing by Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
• June 5, 1945
  The European Advisory Committee announces the unconditional political capitulation of Germany, so control of the country is divided into four occupation zones, controlled by the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union
• June 5, 1968
  US Senator Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot and five others are wounded by assassins in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California
• June 5, 1972
  United Nations Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm, Sweden
• June 5, 1981
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, the first reported case of AIDS
• June 5, 1982
  The first Rubik's Cube World Championships is held in Budapest, Hungary
• June 5, 1984
  The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack to flush out separatist militants from Harimandir Sahib, the most sacred shrine of Sikhism
• June 5, 1989
  The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests
• June 5, 1989
  The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests
• June 5, 1989
  The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests
• June 5, 2007
  NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury
• June 5, 2011
  Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh travels to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an injury sustained during an attack on the presidential palace by protesters, who celebrate his transfer of power to his Vice-President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi

June 4

• June 4, 1070
  Roquefort cheese is accidentally discovered in a cave near Roquefort, France, when a shepherd finds a lunch he has forgotten several days before
• June 4, 1717
  The Freemasons, who begun in the 13th century as a guild of masons, establish their Grand Lodge in London, the oldest Grand Lodge in the world
• June 4, 1745
  Prussians defeat Austrians at Hohenfriedeberg
• June 4, 1783
  The Montgolfier brothers launched their first unmanned hot-air balloon in a 10-minute flight over Annonay, France
• June 4, 1792
  Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain after landing into the San Francisco Bay on his ship Discovery
• June 4, 1794
  Robespierre is unanimously elected president of the Convention in the French Revolution
• June 4, 1805
  The US signs a Treaty of Peace and Amity at Tripoli by which agrees to pay Tripoli $60,000 in war reparations and is in turn absolved of tribute demands
• June 4, 1859
  The French army under Napoleon III takes Magenta from the Austrian army after a bloody battle in northern Italy
• June 4, 1878
  Cyprus is ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
• June 4, 1896
  Henry Ford makes a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, through the streets of Detroit
• June 4, 1936
  Socialist Léon Blum leads the first Popular Front ministry composed of socialists and radical socialists, which passed important legislation, such as the 40-hour week and paid holidays for the workers
• June 4, 1940
  German forces enter Paris, France
• June 4, 1944
  In Italy, American forces take Rome
• June 4, 1970
  Tonga gains independence from Britain
• June 4, 1989
  A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia kills 645 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline
• June 4, 2002
  Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh ride in the gold state coach from Buckingham Palace to Saint Paul's Cathedral for a special service marking the Queen's 50 years on the throne