Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.
27 June 1950
The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
26 June 1906
The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
25 June 2017
The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 cases of cholera.
24 June 1793
The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
23 June 1972
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
22 June 1907
The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
21 June 1529
French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
20 June 1837
Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne
19 June 1978
Garfield’s first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication