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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Autistic Pride Day | unreferenced section |
| ; Father's Day in various countries (2017) | refimprove |
| Dragon Boat Festival (Chinese calendar, 2018) | refimprove |
| 1053 – Humphrey of Hauteville led the armies of the Normans in the Battle of Civitate against the combined forces of Pope Leo IX and the Holy Roman Empire. | unreferenced section |
| 1264 – The Parliament of Ireland met at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature. | unreferenced sections |
| 1908 – The University of the Philippines, the country's national university, was established. | refimprove section |
| 1979 – The United States and the Soviet Union signed the SALT II treaty, placing specific limits on each side's stock of nuclear weapons. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 860 – A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sailed into the Bosporus and started pillaging the suburbs of Constantinople.
- 1812 – The United States declared war against the United Kingdom, officially beginning the War of 1812.
- 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which prompted Darwin to publish his theory of evolution.
- 1953 – A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board.
- 1954 – Carlos Castillo Armas led a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
- 1972 – British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near the town of Staines less than three minutes after departing from London Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 people aboard, the worst air accident in the UK.
- 1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology, made its first flight.
- 1982 – The body of Italian banker Roberto Calvi, known as "God's Banker" due to his close association with the Vatican, was found hanging from scaffolding beneath London's Blackfriars Bridge.
- 1983 – Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman and third one overall in space.
- 1983 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women were hanged because of their membership in the Bahá'í Faith.
- 1994 – The Troubles: Ulster Volunteer Force members attacked a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, with assault rifles, killing six.
- 2012 – Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
- Born/died: Rogier van der Weyden (d. 1464) · Max Immelmann (d. 1916) · Queen Olga of Greece (d. 1926) · Paul McCartney (b. 1942) · Michael Hastings (d. 2013)
Notes
- Battle of Ligny/Battle of Quatre Bras appear on June 16, so Battle of Waterloo should not appear in the same year
- Valentina Tereshkova appears on June 16, so Sally Ride should not appear in the same year
- Sultan bin Salman Al Saud appears on June 17, so Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Sultan's father) should not appear in the same year
- 618 – Li Yuan (pictured) declared himself to be emperor of a new Chinese dynasty known as Tang, which lasted for three centuries.
- 1815 – War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo, in present-day Belgium.
- 1940 – Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech, inspiring the French Resistance, and Winston Churchill urged Britons to fight so that future generations would say, "This was their finest hour".
- 2009 – NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, its first mission to the moon in over ten years.
Lord Castlereagh (b. 1769) · Andrew Forsyth (b. 1858) · Kofoworola Abeni Pratt (d. 1992)