The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York. The special two-car excursion train chugged cautiously along rusty tracks into sleepy Cooperstown, N.Y. It…
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11 June 1509
Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon. Catherine and Arthur met on 4 November 1501 at Dogmersfield in Hampshire. Little is known about their…
10 June 1838
Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered in what was known as the Myall Creek massacre. On Sunday 10 June 1838, a group of 10 convict stockmen,…
9 June 1923
Bulgaria’s military takes over the government in a coup d’état. The Bulgarian coup d’état of 1923, also known as the 9 June coup d’état, was…
8 June 1949
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four is published. George Orwell’s 46th birthday was less than a month off when his last novel was published in London…
7 June 1942
The Battle of Midway comes to an end in American victory. On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories…
6 June 1889
The Great Seattle Fire destroys almost all of downtown Seattle. The spring of 1889 in Seattle had been beautiful. There had been little rain, and…
5 June 1963
John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, resigns in a sex scandal known as the “Profumo affair”. On June 5, 1963, British Secretary…
4 June 1989
The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army. The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in mainland China…
3 June 1940
The Luftwaffe bomb Paris. Unternehmen Paula Undertaking or Operation Paula is the German codename given for the Second World War Luftwaffe offensive operation to destroy…