| 1381 | | The Peasant's Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
| 1642 | | Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law in the colonies. |
| 1645 | | Oliver Cromwell's army routs the king's army at Naseby. |
| 1775 | | The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops. |
| 1777 | | The Continental Congress authorizes the "stars and stripes" flag for the new United States. |
| 1789 | | Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrives in Timor in a small boat. He had been forced to leave his ship when his crew mutinied. |
| 1846 | | A group of settlers declare California to be a republic. |
| 1864 | | At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell. |
| 1893 | | The city of Philadelphia observes the first Flag Day. |
| 1907 | | Women in Norway win the right to vote. |
| 1919 | | John William Alcot and Arthur Witten Brown take off from St. John's, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. |
| 1922 | | President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to speak on the radio. |
| 1927 | | Nicaraguan President Porfirio Diaz signs a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country. |
| 1932 | | Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill. |
| 1940 | | German forces occupy Paris. |
| 1942 | | The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional. |
| 1944 | | Boeing B-29 bombers conduct their first raid against mainland Japan. |
| 1945 | | Burma is liberated by the British. |
| 1949 | | The State of Vietnam is formed. |
| 1951 | | UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Prosper Eckert, Jr. |
| 1954 | | Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack. |
| 1965 | | A military triumvirate takes control in Saigon, South Vietnam. |
| 1982 | | Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War. |
| 1985 | | Gunmen hijack a passenger jet over the Middle East. |
| 1989 | | Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives. |
| 1995 | | Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia. |
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