193 – Roman Emperor Didius Julianus was murdered.
1495 – Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1533 – Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen of England.
1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June was fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1869 – Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition left England.
1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary was founded.
1935 – The first driving tests were introduced in the United Kingdom.
1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom against Iraqi Jews, took place in Baghdad.
1942 – The Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade published the first news of the concentration camps.
1967 – The groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by The Beatles was released.
1970 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was egged.
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims was published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years took power, ending white minority rule.
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) began broadcasting.
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1993 - The shelling by Serb forces of a football match killed 11 people, including four children.
2001 - The Nepal royal family was massacred.
2008 – Yves Saint Laurent died.