Editing June 7 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1905]] &ndash; Norway's parliament [[Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden|dissolves]] its [[Union between Sweden and Norway|union with Sweden]]. The vote was confirmed by a national [[1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum|plebiscite]] on [[August 13]] of that year.
*[[1906]] &ndash; [[Cunard Line]]'s {{RMS|Lusitania}} is launched from the [[John Brown Shipyard]], [[Glasgow]] ([[Clydebank]]), Scotland.
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: [[Battle of Messines (1917)|Battle of Messines]]: Allied soldiers detonate [[Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917)|a series of mines]] underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Sette Giugno]]: Nationalist riots break out in [[Valletta]], the capital of [[Malta]]. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
*[[1929]] &ndash; The [[Lateran Treaty]] is ratified, bringing [[Vatican City]] into existence.
*[[1938]] &ndash; The [[Douglas DC-4E]] makes its first test flight.
*  1938   &ndash; [[Second Sino-Japanese War]]: The [[Kuomintang|Chinese Nationalist]] government creates the [[1938 Yellow River flood]] to halt [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese forces]]. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[Haakon VII of Norway|King Haakon VII]], [[Olav V of Norway|Crown Prince Olav]] and the Norwegian government leave [[Tromsø (city)|Tromsø]] and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Battle of Midway]] ends in American victory.
*  1942   &ndash; World War II: [[Aleutian Islands Campaign]]: [[Empire of Japan|Imperial Japanese]] soldiers begin occupying the American islands of [[Attu Island|Attu]] and [[Kiska]], in the [[Aleutian Islands]] off Alaska.
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: [[Invasion of Normandy|Battle of Normandy]]: At [[Ardenne Abbey]], members of the [[SS Division Hitlerjugend]] [[Ardenne Abbey massacre|massacre]] 23 Canadian [[prisoners of war]].
*[[1945]] &ndash; King [[Haakon VII of Norway]] returns from exactly [[Union Dissolution Day#Royal return after WWII|five years]] in [[exile]] during World War II.
*[[1946]] &ndash; The United Kingdom's [[BBC]] returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II. 
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[1948 Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada|Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada]] take place.<ref name=Atrakchi>Dalit Atrakchi (2001). "The Moroccan Nationalist Movement and Its Attitude toward Jews and Zionism". In Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev. The Divergence of Judaism and Islam. University Press of Florida. p. 163.: "...the riots that broke out on 7 June 1948 in the cities of Oujda and Jerada, close to the border between Morocco and Algeria, which served as a transfer station for Moroccan Jews on their way to Israel... It is believed that the riots were brought on by the speech given a short while earlier by Sultan Muḥammad Ben-Yussuf, which inveighed against the Zionists and cried for solidarity with the Arabs fighting in Israel."</ref>
*  1948   &ndash; [[Edvard Beneš]] resigns as [[List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia|President]] of [[Czechoslovakia]] rather than signing the [[Ninth-of-May Constitution]], making his nation a [[Communist state]].
*[[1955]] &ndash; ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'' signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] shows and popular films.
*[[1962]] &ndash; The [[Organisation Armée Secrète]] (OAS) sets fire to the [[University of Algiers]] library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
*[[1965]] &ndash; The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] hands down its decision in ''[[Griswold v. Connecticut]]'', prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of [[contraception]] by married couples.
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Six-Day War]]: [[Israel]]i soldiers enter [[Jerusalem]].
*[[1971]] &ndash; The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of [[Cohen v. California|Paul Cohen]] for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]].
*  1971   &ndash; The [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division]] of the U.S. [[Internal Revenue Service]] raids the home of [[Ken Ballew raid|Ken Ballew]] for illegal possession of [[hand grenade]]s.
*  1971   &ndash; [[Allegheny Airlines Flight 485]] crashes on approach to [[Tweed New Haven Airport]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], killing 28 of 31 aboard.<ref name="ASN">{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-580 N5832 New Haven Airport, CT (HVN) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19710607-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050421111333/http://www.aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19710607-0 |archive-date=2005-04-21 |access-date=2021-02-19 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[Sony]] launches [[Betamax]], the first [[videocassette recorder]] format.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Long|first=Tony|title=June 7, 1975: Before Digital, Before VHS ... There Was Betamax|language=en-US|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/2011/06/0607betamax-vcr-television-recorder/|access-date=2022-01-18|issn=1059-1028}}</ref> 
*[[1977]] &ndash; Five hundred million people watch the high day of the [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Silver Jubilee]] of Queen [[Elizabeth II]] begin on television.
*[[1981]] &ndash; The [[Israeli Air Force]] destroys [[Iraq]]'s Osiraq [[nuclear reactor]] during [[Operation Opera]].
*[[1982]] &ndash; [[Priscilla Presley]] opens [[Graceland]] to the public; the bathroom where [[Elvis Presley]] died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Surinam Airways Flight 764]] crashes on approach to [[Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport]] in [[Suriname]] because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Mount Pinatubo]] [[1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo|erupts]], generating an ash column {{convert|7|km|mi}} high. 
*[[2000]] &ndash; The [[United Nations]] defines the [[Blue Line (Lebanon)|Blue Line]] as the border between [[Israel]] and [[Lebanon]].
*[[2017]] &ndash; A [[Myanmar Air Force]] [[Shaanxi Y-8]] [[2017 Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crash|crashes]] into the [[Andaman Sea]] near [[Dawei]], Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Shaanxi Y-8F-200W 5820 Dawei|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20170607-0|access-date=2021-05-19|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>