1968 – Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan shoots Robert F. Kennedy three times, who dies the next day. and wounds 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California
0070 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem
0754 – Friezen robbers murder Bishop Boniface (later Saint) and over 50 companions near Dokkum
1288 – Battle of Worringen: Jan I, Duke of Brabant defeats army of Archbishop Siegfried II of Cologne, one of the largest and fiercest battles of the Middle Ages
1752 – Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.
1794 – The U.S. Congress prohibited citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.
1832 – Anti-monarchist forces launch an uprising in Paris, starting the unsuccessful June Rebellion
1851 – Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in “The National Era.”
1865 – The first safe deposit vault was opened in New York. The charge was $1.50 a year for every $1,000 that was stored.
1873 – Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania
1883 – The first Orient Express leaves Paris – The legendary train journey from Paris to Istanbul featured in many works of popular culture, including Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express.“
1884 – U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
1902 – Emperor Wilhelm II responds to growing demands from Polish and other Slavic peoples living within German territory by calling for more ‘Germanization’ of the Slavs
1917 – 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
1933 – US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold
1937 – Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week
1940 – During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.
1944 – As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion
1947 – U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan.
1950 – US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
1967 – The National Hockey League (NHL) awarded three new franchises. The Minnesota North Stars (later the Dallas Stars), the California Golden Seals (no longer in existence) and the Los Angeles Kings.
1967 – American mass murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair (later reversed, dies in prison)
1967 – The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began.
1968 – Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan shoots Robert F. Kennedy three times, who dies the next day. and wounds 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California
1975 – Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
1976 – After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland
1981 – In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS.
1984 – Indira Gandhi orders an attack on Sikh’s holiest site, the Golden Temple in Amritsar
1986 – A federal jury in Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus 10 years.
1991 – Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.
1998 – A strike began at a General Motors Corp. parts factory near Detroit, MI, that closed five assembly plants and idled workers across the U.S. for seven weeks.
2000 – Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2001 – OPEC ministers agree to leave the cartel’s oil production quotas unchanged for at least a month, until a scheduled emergency meeting July 3
2004 – The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter was christened in the U.S. Navy in Groton, CT.
2013 – The British newspaper the Guardian published the first of many stories based on leaks by Edward Snowden about the top-secret surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.
2016 – Swiss vote to reject referendum to give each citizen a guaranteed income of $2,500 Swiss francs per month
2017 – Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt sever ties with Qatar, citing its support of terrorist groups, Yemen, the Maldives and Libya follow suit
2018 – US President Donald Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN
2019 – Average person ingests 50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathes in similar amount according to first-ever such study published in journal “Environmental Science and Technology”
2021 – At least 160 killed by suspected Islamist extremists in Solhan, Burkina Faso amid a deepening security crisis in the region
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
