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===1901–present===
*[[1913]] &ndash; Greece and [[Serbia]] annul their alliance with [[Bulgaria]].
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[Mary Pickford]] becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
*[[1918]] &ndash; First [[airmail]] service in Canada from [[Montreal]] to [[Toronto]].
*[[1922]] &ndash; The American Professional Football Association is renamed the [[National Football League]].
*[[1932]] &ndash; A bloodless [[Siamese revolution of 1932|revolution]] instigated by the [[Khana Ratsadon|People's Party]] ends the absolute power of King [[Prajadhipok]] of [[Rattanakosin Kingdom|Siam]] (now [[Thailand]]).
*[[1938]] &ndash; Pieces of a [[meteorite]] land near [[Chicora, Pennsylvania]]. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450&nbsp;[[metric ton]]s when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
*[[1939]] &ndash; Siam is renamed Thailand by [[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]], the country's third [[Prime Minister of Thailand|prime minister]].
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Operation Collar (commando raid)|Operation Collar]], the first [[British Commandos|British Commando]] raid on occupied France, by No&nbsp;11 [[Independent Company]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in [[Bamber Bridge]], England, sparking the [[Battle of Bamber Bridge]] mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
*[[1945]] &ndash; The first [[Victory Day Parade]] takes place on [[Red Square]] in [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]], symbolizing the victory of the Soviet Union over [[Nazi Germany]].<ref>{{cite web |website=Presidential Library |url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619337 |title=VICTORY PARADE TOOK PLACE ON THE RED SQUARE |date=24 June 1945}}</ref>
*[[1947]] &ndash; [[Kenneth Arnold]] makes the first widely reported [[Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting|UFO sighting]] near [[Mount Rainier]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]].
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: Start of the [[Berlin Blockade]]: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and [[West Berlin]] impossible.
*[[1949]] &ndash; The first [[Westerns on television|television western]], ''[[Hopalong Cassidy]]'', starring [[William Boyd (actor)|William Boyd]], is aired on [[NBC]].
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Apartheid]]: In South Africa, the [[Group Areas Act]] is passed, formally segregating races.
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[First Indochina War]]: [[Battle of Mang Yang Pass]]: [[Viet Minh]] troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M.&nbsp;100 of France in [[An Khê]].
*[[1957]] &ndash; In ''[[Roth v. United States]]'', the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] rules that obscenity is not protected by the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]].
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Venezuela]]n President [[Rómulo Betancourt]] is injured in an [[Assassination attempt of Rómulo Betancourt|assassination attempt]].
*[[1963]] &ndash; The United Kingdom grants [[Zanzibar]] internal self-government.
*[[1973]] &ndash; The [[UpStairs Lounge arson attack]] takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, US. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation.
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[Eastern Air Lines Flight 66]] encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK Airport]] killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=67 |title=Eastern Airlines Flight 66, B727 |publisher=[[Federal Aviation Administration]] |website=lessonslearned.faa.gov |access-date=7 May 2020}}</ref>
*[[1981]] &ndash; The [[Humber Bridge]] opens to traffic, connecting [[Yorkshire]] and [[Lincolnshire]]. It remained the world's longest bridge span for 17&nbsp;years.
*[[1982]] &ndash; "The Jakarta Incident": [[British Airways Flight 009]] flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of [[Mount Galunggung]], resulting in the failure of all four engines.<!--Resulted in world record, book, awards, etc. -->
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Jiang Zemin]] succeeds [[Zhao Ziyang]] to become the [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]] after the [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre]].
*[[1994]] &ndash; A [[Boeing B-52 Stratofortress]] [[1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash|crashes]] at [[Fairchild Air Force Base]] near [[Spokane, Washington]], killing four.<ref name="atrgatfc">{{cite news |last=Jewell |first=Mark |date=25 June 1995 |title=Another tragedy at Fairchild |page=1 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |agency=Associated Press |location=(Idaho-Washington) |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-vwtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qNAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5783%2C2507852}}</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[1995 Rugby World Cup|Rugby World Cup]]: [[South Africa national rugby union team|South Africa]] defeats [[New Zealand national rugby union team|New Zealand]] and [[Nelson Mandela]] presents [[Francois Pienaar]] with the [[Webb Ellis Cup]] in an iconic post-[[apartheid]] moment.
*[[2002]] &ndash; The [[Igandu train disaster]] in [[Tanzania]] kills 281, the worst train accident in [[Africa]]n history.
*[[2004]] &ndash; In New York, [[capital punishment]] is declared unconstitutional.
*[[2010]] &ndash; At [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]], [[John Isner]] of the United States defeats [[Nicolas Mahut]] of France, in [[Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships|the longest match in professional tennis history]].
*  2010   &ndash; [[Julia Gillard]] assumes office as the first female [[Prime Minister of Australia]].
*[[2012]] &ndash; Death of [[Lonesome George]], the last known individual of ''[[Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii]]'', a subspecies of the [[Galápagos tortoise]].
*[[2013]] &ndash; Former [[Prime Minister of Italy|Italian Prime Minister]] [[Silvio Berlusconi]] is [[Silvio Berlusconi prostitute trial|found guilty]] of abusing his power and engaging in sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.
*[[2021]] &ndash; The Champlain Towers South condominium in [[Surfside, Florida]] suffers a [[Surfside condominium collapse|sudden partial collapse]], killing 98 people inside.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gorman |first=Steve |date=2021-07-27 |title=Final death toll from Florida condominium collapse put at 98 |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/final-death-toll-florida-condominium-collapse-put-98-2021-07-26/ |access-date=2022-03-23}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; In ''[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]]'', the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] rules that the [[Constitution of the United States|U.S. Constitution]] does not assign the authority to regulate [[abortion]]s to the federal government, thereby returning such authority to the individual states. This overturns the prior decisions in ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' (1973) and ''[[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]]'' (1992).<ref>{{cite web |last=Liptak|first=Adam |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/24/us/roe-wade-abortion-supreme-court|title=Ending Constitutional Right to Abortion, Supreme Court Reshapes U.S. Politics|work=The New York Times|date=June 24, 2022|access-date=June 24, 2022}}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; The [[Wagner Group]] led by [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]] [[Wagner Group rebellion|launches an insurrection]] against the [[Government of Russia|Russian government.]]<ref>{{cite web |website=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-24-23/index.html |title=June 24, 2023 - Wagner head says group standing down |date=24 June 2023 |author1=Helen Regan |author2=Andrew Raine |author3=Sophie Tanno |author4=Hafsa Khalil |author5=Tori B. Powell |author6=Adrienne Vogt |author7=Kaanita Iyer}}</ref>