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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
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Alexander Cartwright
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Maximilian I of Mexico
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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Michael Schumacher during qualifying races for the 2005 United States Grand Prix
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Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden
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Louise of the Netherlands
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Manifest of slaves aboard the Katherine Jackson
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast of Corpus Christi (2025) | Sourcing tags |
| 325 – The original Nicene Creed, a statement of belief widely used in Christian liturgy, was adopted at the First Council of Nicaea. | Large % of unreferenced material |
| 1269 – Louis IX of France imposed a fine of ten livres of silver on Jews found in public without a yellow badge. | refimprove section |
| 1306 – Wars of Scottish Independence: The Earl of Pembroke's English army defeated Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. | refimprove |
| 1800 – General Jean Victor Marie Moreau led French forces to victory at the Battle of Höchstädt, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna. | Primary sources; large part of the article is sourced to the involved commander |
| 1816 – The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Canada. | Self-published sources, missing page numbers |
| 1850 – Louise of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 1944 – World War II: The navies of the United States and Imperial Japan engaged each other off the Mariana Islands in the Philippine Sea. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom. | featured on February 25 |
| 1978 – Garfield, created by Jim Davis, debuted in American newspapers nationwide, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. | refimprove/unref sections |
| 1991 – The last Soviet Army soldiers left Hungary, ending the Soviet occupation. | needs more footnotes, date not in article |
| Leo Jud |d|1542 | lead too short, lots of CN tags (10) |
| May Whitty |b|1865 | unreferenced section (Filmography) |
| * 2006 – The ceremonial "first stone" of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a facility established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern in Spitsbergen, Norway, was laid. | Undercited |
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- 1718 – An earthquake on the Tibetan Plateau led to the deaths of more than 73,000 people.
- 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the "New York Nine" defeating the New York Knickerbockers Template:Nowrap.
- 1867 – Second French intervention in Mexico: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico was executed by firing squad in Querétaro City.
- 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies for passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
- 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, the commander of the South Vietnam Air Force, was appointed prime minister at the head of a military regime.
- 1970 – The international Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states.
- 1987 – The Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at a Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 people and injuring 45 others.
- 2005 – Only six race cars competed in the United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, after all the Michelin-shod entrants were withdrawn due to safety concerns.
- 2009 – Mass rioting broke out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
- 2010 – The royal wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling took place in Stockholm Cathedral.
- 2012 – Facing allegations of sexual assault in Sweden, Julian Assange (pictured), the founder of WikiLeaks, requested asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
- Born/died this day: | Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall |d|1312| Guru Hargobind |b|1595| Friedrich Sertürner |b|1783| Mary Tenney Gray |b|1833| Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig |b|1861| Sarah Rosetta Wakeman |d|1864| Evangelos Zappas |d|1865| Wallis Simpson|b|1896| Lou Gehrig |b|1903| Doris Sands Johnson |b|1921| Aage Bohr |b|1922| Erna Schneider Hoover |b|1926| Nick Drake |b|1948| Boris Johnson |b|1964| Jean Dujardin |b|1972| Jörg Widmann |b|1973| Macklemore |b|1983| Len Bias |d|1986| KSI |b|1993| James Gandolfini |d|2013| Gerry Goffin|d|2014|
Notes
- Wedding of Prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist appears on June 13, so Victoria–Westling wedding should not appear in the same year
June 19: Dragon Boat Festival in China and Taiwan (2026); Juneteenth in the United States Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1785 – The proprietors of King's Chapel, Boston, voted to adopt James Freeman's Book of Common Prayer, thus establishing the first Unitarian church in the Americas.
- 1838 – The Maryland province of the Jesuits contracted to sell 272 slaves to buyers in Louisiana in one of the largest slave sales in American history.
- 1939 – American baseball player Lou Gehrig (pictured) was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's disease".
- 2009 – War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan.