Historical Events in June, Month of June Events
Here is a list of some historical events in June. You can learn What major event happened in June?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| June 1, 2015 | A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people. |
| June 11, 1594 | Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines). |
| June 11, 1955 | Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports. |
| June 28, 1940 | Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum. |
| June 18, 1998 | Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11. |
| June 8, 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value. |
| June 3, 2015 | An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, kills more than 200 people. |
| June 25, 1938 | Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland. |
| June 5, 1837 | Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas. |
| June 13, 1625 | King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury. |
| June 26, 2008 | A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people. |
| June 25, 1976 | Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| June 3, 1991 | Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists. |
| June 10, 2009 | Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended. |
| June 3, 2012 | A plane carrying 153 people on board crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and six people on the ground. |
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