1487: The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke.
1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.
1815: Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny, Netherlands.
1858: In a speech in Springfield, IL, U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved. He declared, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
1890: The second Madison Square Gardens opened.
1883: The New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies for free to the ballpark. It was the first Ladies Day.
1897: The U.S. government signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.
1903: Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
1904: The novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce took place. The main character of the book was Leopold Bloom.
1907: The Russian czar dissolved the Duma in St. Petersburg.
1909: Glenn Hammond Curtiss sold his first airplane, the "Gold Bug" to the New York Aeronautical Society for $5,000.
1910: The first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1922: Henry Berliner accomplished the first helicopter flight at College Park, MD.
1925: France accepted a German proposal for a security pact.
1932: The ban on Nazi storm troopers was lifted by the von Papen government in Germany.
1940: Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became the prime minister of the Vichy government of occupied France.
1941: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the closure of all German consulates in the United States. The deadline was set as July 10.
1952: "My Little Margie" debuted on CBS-TV.
1952: "Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" was published in the United States.
1952: A Swedish rescue plane was shot down by Soviet fighters over Swedish territorial waters. The rescue plane was searching for a lost aircraft.
1955: The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend Selective Service until 1959.
1955: Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Peron. The ban was lifted eight years later.
1955: Argentine naval officers launched an attack on President Juan Peron's headquarters. The revolt was suppressed by the army.
1958: Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy was hanged for treason. He had been the prime minister during the 1956 uprising that was crushed by Soviet tanks.
1961: Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union while in Paris, traveling with the Leningrad Kirov Ballet.
1963: 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft for three days. She was the first female space traveler.
1971: An El Greco sketch, "The Immaculate Conception," was recovered in New York City by the FBI. The work had been stolen 35 years earlier.
1972: Ulrike Meinhof was captured by West German police in Hanover. She was co-founder of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group and the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion).
1975: The Simonstown agreement on naval cooperation between Britain and South Africa ended. The agreement was formally ended by mutual agreement after 169 years.
1976: In Soweto, thousands of school children revolted against the South African government's plan to enforce Afrikaans as the language for instruction in black schools.
1977: Leonid Brezhnev was named the first Soviet president of the USSR. He was the first person to hold the post of president and Communist Party General Secretary. He replaced Nikolai Podgorny.
1978: U.S. President Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos ratified the Panama Canal treaties.
1978: The film adaptation of "Grease" premiered in New York City.
1979: General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong was executed for corruption. He was the former military ruler of Ghana from 1972-1978.
1980: The movie "The Blues Brothers" opened in Chicago, IL.
1981: The "Chicago Tribune" purchased the Chicago Cubs baseball team from the P.K. Wrigley Chewing Gum Company for $20.5 million.
1983: Yuri Andropov was elected chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The position was the equivalent of president.
1984: Wilson Ferreira Aldunate was arrested upon his return from an eleven year exile. Aldunate had been a popular Uruguayan opposition leader.
1985: Willie Banks broke the world record for the triple jump with a leap of 58 feet, 11-1/2 inches in the U.S.A. championships in Indianapolis, IN.
1987: A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him. He was convicted of illegal possession of a weapon. Also, in 1996 a civil jury ordered Goetz to pay $43 million to one of the people he shot.
1989: Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy was reburied. The funeral brought at least a quarter of a million people to the streets of Budapest. Nagy had been prime minister during the 1956 uprising that was crushed by Soviet tanks. He was hanged for treason on June 16, 1958.
1992: U.S. President George H.W. Bush welcomed Russian President Boris Yeltsin to a meeting in Washington, DC. The two agreed in principle to reduce strategic weapon arsenals by about two-thirds by the year 2003.
1993: The U.S. Postal Service released a set of seven stamps that featured Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Dinah Washington and Elvis Presley.
1996: Russian voters had their first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin was the winner after a run-off.
1996: "Batman Forever" opened in the U.S.
1999: Kathleen Ann Soliah was arrested by the FBI in St. Paul, MN. She had been wanted since 1976 after being indicted on murder conspiracy and explosives charges.
1999: The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that a 1992 federal music piracy law does not prohibit a palm-sized device that can download high-quality digital music files from the Internet and play them at home.
2000: U.S. federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp. The merger created the nation's largest local phone company.
2000: U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson reported that an employee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico had discovered that two computer hard drives were missing.
2008: California began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
