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===1901–present===
*[[1904]] &ndash; A fire aboard the steamboat {{SS|General Slocum}} in New York City's [[East River]] kills 1,000.
*[[1916]] &ndash; United States President [[Woodrow Wilson]] signs a bill incorporating the [[Boy Scouts of America]], making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[John Alcock (aviator)|John Alcock]] and [[Arthur Brown (aviator)|Arthur Brown]] complete the first nonstop [[Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown|transatlantic flight]] when they reach [[Clifden]], [[County Galway]], Ireland.
*[[1920]] &ndash; Following the [[1920 Schleswig plebiscites]], Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Contemporary Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=joFHAQAAMAAJ|year=1920|publisher=A. Strahan|page=284}}</ref>
*[[1921]] &ndash; [[Bessie Coleman]] earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
*[[1934]] &ndash; The United States [[Great Smoky Mountains National Park]] is founded.
*[[1936]] &ndash; First flight of the [[Vickers Wellington]] bomber.
*[[1937]] &ndash; A German expedition led by [[Karl Wien]] loses sixteen members in an [[avalanche]] on [[Nanga Parbat]]. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an [[Eight-thousander|8000m peak]].
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Operation Aerial]] begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: The United States [[Battle of Saipan|invades Saipan]], capital of Japan's [[South Seas Mandate]].
*  1944   &ndash; In the [[1944 Saskatchewan general election|Saskatchewan general election]], the [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation|CCF]], led by [[Tommy Douglas]], is elected and forms the first [[Socialism|socialist]] government in North America.
*[[1970]] &ndash; [[Charles Manson]] goes on trial for the [[Sharon Tate]] murders.
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Red Army Faction]] co-founder [[Ulrike Meinhof]] is captured by police in [[Langenhagen]].
*  1972   &ndash; [[Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z]] is destroyed by a bomb over [[Pleiku]], Vietnam (then [[South Vietnam]]) and kills 81 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-880-22M-21 VR-HFZ Pleiku|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19720615-1|access-date=2021-06-15|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1977]] &ndash; After the death of dictator [[Francisco Franco]] in 1975, the first democratic [[1977 Spanish general election|elections]] take place in [[Spain]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; [[Hussein of Jordan|King Hussein]] of [[Jordan]] marries Jordanian-American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name [[Queen Noor of Jordan|Queen Noor]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Herbert David Croly|title=The New Republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eosn0jxtK28C|year=1985|publisher=Republic Publishing Company|page=17}}</ref>
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Rembrandt]]'s painting ''[[Danaë (Rembrandt painting)|Danaë]]'' is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws [[sulfuric acid]] on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
*[[1991]] &ndash; In the Philippines, [[Mount Pinatubo]] erupts in the [[1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo|second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century]], killing over 800 people.
*[[1992]] &ndash; The [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] rules in ''[[United States v. Alvarez-Machain|United States v. Álvarez-Machaín]]'' that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[The Troubles]]: The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) detonates [[1996 Manchester bombing|a powerful truck bomb]] in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the [[Manchester city centre|city centre]] and injuring 200 people.
*[[2001]] &ndash; Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the [[Shanghai Cooperation Organisation]].
*[[2007]] &ndash; The [[Nokkakivi|Nokkakivi Amusement Park]] is opened in [[Lievestuore]], Laukaa, Finland.<ref>[http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/arkisto.shtml/arkistot/kotimaa/2007/06/536104 MTV3: Suomen kuudes huvipuisto avautui] (in Finnish)</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[Nik Wallenda]] becomes the first person to successfully [[Tightrope walking|tightrope walk]] directly over [[Niagara Falls]].
*[[2013]] &ndash; A [[June 2013 Quetta attacks|bomb explodes]] on a bus in the [[Pakistani]] city of [[Quetta]], killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Microsoft]] retires its ubiquitous [[Internet Explorer]] after 26 years in favor of its new browser, [[Microsoft Edge]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Novet|first=Jordan|title=Microsoft retires Internet Explorer browser after 26 years|work=CNN|date=June 15, 2022|accessdate=June 15, 2022|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/15/microsoft-retires-internet-explorer-and-ends-support.html}}</ref>
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