1377Richard II, aged 10, crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, succeeding his grandfatherEdward III

1429Joan of Arc and the French army enter the city of Rheims

1465 Battle at Montlhéry betweenLouis XI and the League of the Public Weal

1519 Public debate betweenMartin Luther and theologian Johann Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig, during which Luther denies the divine right of the Pope

1661 First banknotes in Europe are issued by the Bank of Stockholm

1755John Adams graduates from Harvard

1769 Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego the 1st mission in California

1782Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)" premieres in Vienna withMozart conducting

1789 French KingLouis XVI reinstatesJacques Necker as finance minister following riots at his dismissal

1801Pope Pius VII andNapoleon sign the Concordat of 1801, guaranteeing religious freedom for Catholics living in France

1819Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen sets sail to explore Antarctica for Tsar Alexander I

1862David Farragut becomes the first Rear Admiral in the US Navy

1897 The South African Committee, investigating the Jameson Raid releases its report finding that it was conducted almost implicitly through the support and encouragement ofCecil Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal

1921 Encouraged by the British, King Constantine of Greece launches a campaign to take Asia Minor from nationalists underMustafa Kemal Atatürk

1940Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

1945 First test detonation of an atomic bomb occurs at Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico, as part of the US Manhattan Project

1948 MLB manager merry-go-round: Philadelphia Phillies - Ben Chapman out, Eddie Sawyer in; NY Giants -Mel Ott out,Leo Durocher in; Brooklyn Dodgers - Durocher out, Burt Shotton in

1951 Novel "Catcher in Rye" byJ. D. Salinger is published by Little Brown and Company

1955Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his third Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by finishing second to fellow Mercedes driverStirling Moss in the British Grand Prix at Aintree

1957 US Marine MajorJohn Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)

1961Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"

1966 72 year-oldMao Zedong swims the Yangtze River near Wuhan to prove his strength as part of his launch of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution[1]

1967 Canadian singer-songwriterJoni Mitchell makes her Newport Folk Festival debut at a songwriters' workshop performance in Newport, Rhode Island

1969 Apollo 11 launches, carrying the first men to land on the Moon

1972Smokey Robinson and the Miracles final live performance, in Washington D.C.

1975 Major League Baseball owners re-elect CommissionerBowie Kuhn to a 7-year term

1979 Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr is succeeded bySaddam Hussein

1980Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit

1982George P. Shultz is sworn in as the 60th US Secretary of State

1982Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud

1988Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts

1990 The ANC send a report on police violence to PresidentF. W. de Klerk and demand an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa

1994 "The Three Tenors"Plácido Domingo,José Carreras, andLuciano Pavarotti, perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and chorus of the Los Angeles Opera, conducted by Zubin Mehta at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California; an estimated 1.3 billion viewers watch the worldwide broadcast

1999John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard; the Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy

2001 "Jurassic Park III", starringSam Neill andWilliam H. Macy, premieres in the US

2003 11th ESPY Awards:Lance Armstrong,Serena Williams win

2004Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators

2004 Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by MayorRichard M. Daley.

2005 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the 6th book in the series byJ. K. Rowling, is published worldwide. 9 million copies sell in 24 hrs

2012 "The Dark Knight Rises", directed byChristopher Nolan, starringChristian Bale andAnne Hathaway, premieres in New York

2014Bashar al-Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria

2016 Republican presidential nomineeDonald Trump announces Indiana governorMike Pence as his Vice Presidential running mate

2017Kawhi Leonard re-signs with the San Antonio Spurs to a five-year, $90 million contract

2017 Wimbledon Men's Tennis:Roger Federer beats Marin Čilić 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 for a record 8th Wimbledon men's title

2018 Musical film sequel "Mamma Mia! - Here We Go Again" premieres at Hammersmith-Apollo, London; worldwide box office receipts total over $400 million

2018 US PresidentDonald Trump appears to accept the word of Russian PresidentVladimir Putin over US intelligence services about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, in an interview after the two leader's Helsinki Summit

2023 Rev.Jesse Jackson steps down as head of Rainbow/PUSH after leading the non-profit organization for more than five decades

2023Taylor Swift’s re-recorded "Speak Now" album debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200, her 12th No. 1 album, surpassing Barbra Streisand's record for #1 albums by a female artist[1]