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| 0 | Flag Day |
| 1645 | Battle of Naseby, Cromwell's Parliamentarians defeats the Royalists |
| 1775 | US Army formed from the New England forces before Boston |
| 1777 | John Paul Jones takes command of the USS Ranger |
| 1777 | Congress adopts the Stars & Stripes, replacing the Grand Union flag |
| 1800 | Battle of Marengo: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians |
| 1814 | Wellington thanks his army for its performance in the Peninsula |
| 1815 | Napoleon opens the Waterloo Campaign |
| 1846 | Pro-American California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma |
| 1847 | Commo Matthew C Perry makes amphibious landing at Tabasco, Mexico |
| 1861 | Flag Day first observed, Hartford, Ct. |
| 1863 | Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia |
| 1864 | Congress orders that Black soldiers receive equal pay with whites |
| 1864 | Battle of Pine Mt |
| 1898 | US ships exchange fire with Spanish batteries at Santiago, Cuba |
| 1906 | Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia |
| 1917 | WW I: Gen John J. Pershing and his staff reach Paris |
| 1934 | Hitler & Mussolini meet in Vienna |
| 1936 | Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens |
| 1940 | Nazis open a concentration camp at Auschwitz |
| 1940 | German forces occupy Paris |
| 1940 | FDR signs the Naval Expansion Act, to increase fleet tonnage by 11 % |
| 1942 | German merchant cruiser Thor begins operating in the Indian Ocean. |
| 1942 | Bazooka goes into production at Bridgeport, Ct |
| 1943 | Japanese form "Indian National Army" |
| 1944 | Japanese capture Liu-yang, China |
| 1944 | First B-29 raid against mainland Japan |
| 1949 | State of Vietnam formed, Bao Dai installed as Emperor |
| 1952 | Keel laid for Nautilus, the first nuclear powered submarine |
| 1953 | Gen Gustavo Rojas Pinilla stages coup in Columbia |
| 1982 | Argentines surrender to Britain on the Falkland Is; 74-day war ends |
| 1985 | Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after takeoff from Athens |
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| 1215 | King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England |
| 1389 | Turks defeat Serbs at Battle of Kosovo (Old Style -- June 28, NS) |
| 1520 | Pope Leo X condemns Martin Luther as a heretic |
| 1567 | Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy |
| 1734 | Charles of Parma invests Gaeta (city falls to August 6) |
| 1743 | Battle of Dettingen, English under George II crush the French |
| 1775 | George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army |
| 1779 | General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point |
| 1785 | First fatal aeronautical accident: two French balloonists die |
| 1802 | Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, a prisoner of the French |
| 1815 | The Duchess of Richmond gives a ball in Brussels |
| 1861 | Joe Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry |
| 1862 | Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan" |
| 1864 | Robert E Lee's home, Arlington, becomes a miltary cemetery |
| 1864 | Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line |
| 1866 | Prussia declares war on Austria |
| 1877 | Henry O Flipper becomes the first black graduate of West Point |
| 1898 | Marines land at Caimanera, Cuba |
| 1904 | Excursion steamer General Slocum burns in the East River, 1,031 die |
| 1907 | Second Hague Peace Conference; 44 nations meet |
| 1931 | Poland & USSR sign friendship treaty |
| 1934 | Hitler meets Mussolini for the first time, Rome |
| 1940 | Soviet Army occupies Lithuania |
| 1940 | Italians Air Force bombs Luc-en-Province |
| 1940 | Bread & flour rationed in German-occupied Holland |
| 1943 | German raider Michel sinks a 7700-ton merchant ship west of Australia. |
| 1944 | Marines land on Saipan, in the Marianas |
| 1955 | First nationwide civil defense drill |
| 1964 | Last French troops leave Algeria |
| 1978 | Soyuz 29 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days |
| 1994 | Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations |
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| 1567 | Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned in Lochleven Castle |
| 1654 | Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates |
| 1755 | British capture Fort Beausojour, Nova Scotia, expel Acadians |
| 1815 | Waterloo Campaign: French win Battles of Quatre Bras and Ligny |
| 1832 | Blakchawk War: Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill |
| 1858 | Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" |
| 1861 | Lincoln witnessed balloon ascent over Washington by Thaddeus Lowe |
| 1861 | Battle of Secessionville/James Island, SC |
| 1864 | Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins |
| 1864 | Battle of Lynchburg VA |
| 1876 | The Rosebud: Crazy Horse defeats Gen. George Crook |
| 1898 | US ships exchange fire with Spanish batteries at Santiago, Cuba |
| 1898 | US ships exchange fire with Spanish batteries at Havana, Cuba |
| 1923 | Sun Yat Sen founds the Whampoa Military Academy |
| 1940 | USSR occupies Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia |
| 1942 | Japanese sub-borne airplane reconnoiters Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. |
| 1943 | Japanese lose 100 a/c over Guadalcanal, but only damage three ships |
| 1952 | Soviet Fighters shoot down Swedish Catalina reconnaissance airplane |
| 1953 | Soviet tanks crush workers's protest in Berlin |
| 1954 | Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam |
| 1954 | Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months |
| 1955 | Pope Pius XII excommunicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron |
| 1957 | French offensive in Algeria |
| 1989 | State Funeral of Imre Nagy, executed leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution |
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