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Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; ... View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... June 1775 events (1 P) June 1800 events (13 P)
1914 – Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War. 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium (pictured) .
On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States. 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.
1929 – June Bronhill, Australian soprano and actress (d. 2005) 1929 – Fred Bruemmer , Latvian-Canadian photographer and author (d. 2013) 1929 – Milton Glaser , American illustrator and graphic designer (d. 2020)
2002 – June Jordan, American author and activist (b. 1936) 2003 – Dale Whittington , American race car driver (b. 1959) 2004 – Ulrich Inderbinen , Swiss mountaineer and guide (b. 1900)
618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.; 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.; 860 – Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.
Disasters and accidents Twenty-nine people are injured in a fire at a center used as temporary accommodation for about 500 migrants in the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa. (Reuters) An explosion at a Russian Military high-explosive production and storage facility in the city of Dzerzhinsk injures 79 people. (BBC News) Six earthquakes, the first 5.3 M w, in a two-hour period near ...