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===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; The [[College Board]] introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the [[SAT]].
*[[1910]] &ndash; [[Aurel Vlaicu]] pilots an [[A. Vlaicu nr. 1]] on its first flight.
*[[1922]] &ndash; [[Portuguese Naval Aviation|Portuguese naval aviators]] [[Gago Coutinho]] and [[Sacadura Cabral]] complete the [[first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic]].
*[[1929]] &ndash; The town of [[Murchison, New Zealand]] is rocked by a [[1929 Murchison earthquake|7.8 magnitude earthquake]] killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
*[[1930]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Herbert Hoover]] signs the [[Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act]] into law.
*[[1932]] &ndash; [[Bonus Army]]: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the [[United States Capitol]] as the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Kansas City massacre|Union Station massacre]]: In [[Kansas City, Missouri]], four [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents and captured fugitive [[Frank Nash]] are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
*[[1939]] &ndash; Last public guillotining in France: [[Eugen Weidmann]], a convicted murderer, is executed in [[Versailles (city)|Versailles]] outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: {{RMS|Lancastria}} is attacked and sunk by the [[Luftwaffe]] near [[Saint-Nazaire]], France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lancastria: Service for Britain's worst maritime disaster |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-57611470 |website=BBC News |access-date=27 June 2021 |date=2021-06-27}}</ref>
*  1940   &ndash; World War II: The British Army's [[11th Hussars]] assault and take [[Fort Capuzzo]] in [[Libya]], Africa from [[Kingdom of Italy|Italian]] forces.
*  1940   &ndash; The three [[Baltic states]] of [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]] and [[Lithuania]] fall under the [[Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940)|occupation]] of the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[Iceland]] declares [[Icelandic National Day|independence]] from Denmark and becomes a [[republic]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Arnason|first=Agust Thor|chapter=The European Union Seen From the Top — The View of an Inside-Outsider|title=Nordic and Other European Constitutional Traditions|editor-last=Nergelius|editor-first=Joakim|location=Leiden|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff|date=2006|isbn=9789004151710|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfR5DwAAQBAJ|page=29}}</ref>
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[United Airlines Flight 624]], a [[Douglas DC-6]], crashes near [[Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania]], killing all 43 people on board.
*[[1952]] &ndash; Guatemala passes [[Decree 900]], ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54Guat/intro |work=US Department of State |title=FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1952–1954, GUATEMALA}}</ref>
*[[1953]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: [[Uprising of 1953 in East Germany|East Germany Workers Uprising]]: In [[East Germany]], the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into [[East Berlin]] to quell a rebellion.
*[[1958]] &ndash; The [[Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing]], in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and [[North Vancouver (district municipality)|North Vancouver]] (Canada), collapses into the [[Burrard Inlet]] killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=Gordon C.|last2=Shjaw|first2=Patricia|last3=McPhee|first3=John|title=Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience: Practice and Ethics|location=Toronto|publisher=Nelson|date=2019|isbn=9780176764678|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=35Nfi0K9uuwC|page=279}}</ref>
*[[1960]] &ndash; The [[Nez Perce people|Nez Perce]] tribe is awarded $4&nbsp;million for {{convert|7|e6acre|km2}} of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
*[[1963]] &ndash; The [[United States Supreme Court]] rules 8–1 in ''[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]'' against requiring the reciting of [[Bible]] verses and the [[Lord's Prayer]] in [[public school (government funded)|public schools]].
*  1963   &ndash; A day after [[Leaders of South Vietnam|South Vietnamese President]] [[Ngô Đình Diệm]] announced the [[Joint Communiqué (Vietnam)|Joint Communiqué]] to end the [[Buddhist crisis]], a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Nuclear weapons testing]]: [[China]] announces a [[Test No. 6|successful test]] of its first [[thermonuclear weapon]].
*[[1971]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] in a televised press conference called [[Substance abuse|drug abuse]] "America's public enemy number one", starting the [[War on drugs]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/the-war-on-drugs-turns-40/240472/|last=Friedersdorf|first=Conor|title=The War on Drugs Turns 40 |website=[[The Atlantic]]|access-date=17 June 2021|date=15 June 2011}}</ref>
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Watergate scandal]]: Five [[White House]] operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the [[Democratic National Committee]] during an attempt by members of the [[Presidency of Richard Nixon|administration of President Richard M. Nixon]] to illegally [[Telephone tapping|wiretap]] the political opposition as part of a [[Operation Sandwedge|broader campaign to subvert the democratic process]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bernstein|first1=Carl|last2=Woodward|first2=Bob|title=All the President's Men|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=1974|isbn=9781476770512|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEA7CQAAQBAJ|pages=13–16|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Emery|first=Fred|title=Watergate|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=1994|isbn=9780684813233|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEPuUNqYRyIC|pages=74–105|postscript=none}};{{cite book|last=Shepard|first=Geoff|title=The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=2015|isbn=9781621573289|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx1pCQAAQBAJ|page=35}}</ref>
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle program]]: [[STS-51-G]] mission: [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] launches carrying [[Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]], the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a [[payload specialist]].
*[[1987]] &ndash; With the death of the last individual of the species, the [[dusky seaside sparrow]] becomes extinct.
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Interflug Flight 102]] crashes during a [[rejected takeoff]] from [[Berlin Schönefeld Airport]], killing 21 people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-62M DDR-SEW Berlin-Schönefeld Airport (SXF) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19890617-2 |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Apartheid]]: The [[Parliament of South Africa|South African Parliament]] repeals the [[Population Registration Act]] which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
*[[1992]] &ndash; A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush|George Bush]] and [[President of Russia|Russian President]] [[Boris Yeltsin]] (this would be later codified in [[START II]]).
*[[1994]] &ndash; Following a televised low-speed highway chase, [[O. J. Simpson]] is arrested for the [[O. J. Simpson murder case|murders]] of his ex-wife, [[Nicole Brown Simpson]], and her friend [[Ronald Goldman]].
*[[2015]] &ndash; Nine people are killed in [[Charleston church shooting|a mass shooting]] at [[Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church]] in [[Charleston, South Carolina]].
*[[2017]] &ndash; A [[June 2017 Portugal wildfires|series of wildfires]] in central [[Portugal]] kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others.
*[[2021]] &ndash; [[Juneteenth]] National Independence Day, was signed into law by President [[Joe Biden]], to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/17/politics/biden-juneteenth-bill-signing/index.html|title = Biden signs bill into law making Juneteenth a national holiday| website=[[CNN]] | date=17 June 2021 }}</ref>