# 30 June 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to China.
# 29 June 2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
# 28 June 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
# 27 June 1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
# 26 June 1959 – Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
# 25 June 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
# 24 June 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Banten, Java.
# 23 June 1868 – Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
# 22 June 1986 – The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup.
# 21 June 2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
# 20 June 2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
# 19 June 1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
# 18 June 1940 – The "Finest Hour" speech is delivered by Winston Churchill.
# 17 June 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
# 16 June 1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in spac
# 15 June 2000년 - 김대중 대통령과 김정일 위원장 이 6·15 남북 공동선언을 발표하다.
# 14 June 1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
# 13 June 2000 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
# 12 June 2018년 - 분단 65년만에 처음으로 미국과 북한의 정상이 싱가포르에서 정상회담을 개최하였다.
# 11 June 1748 – Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
# 10 June 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
# 09 June 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
# 08 June 1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
# 07 June 1592년 - 탄금대 전투 발발.
# 06 June 1951 – The 1st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held.
# 05 June 1967 – The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
# 04 June 1919 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
# 03 June 1964년 - 한일 회담에 반대하는 6.3 시위가 열리다.
# 02 June 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO: منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية) is formed.
# 01 June 2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.