| June 2, 1924 | June 2, 1966 |
| • Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all Native American Indians. | • The U.S. space probe Surveyor I landed on the moon and began transmitting photographs of the lunar surface. |
| June 3, 1800 | June 3, 1864 |
| • President John Adams becomes the first acting president to take up residence in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, the White House was not yet finished, so Adams moved into temporary digs at a tavern called Tunnicliffe's City Hotel. | • Union General Ulysses S. Grant makes what he later recognizes to be his greatest mistake of the Civil War by ordering a frontal assualt on entrenched Confederates at Cold Harbor in Virginia. The result was some 7,000 Union casualties in less than an hour of fighting. |
| June 4, 1940 | June 4, 1989 |
| • The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk on the Belgian coast ends as German forces capture the beach port. The nine day evacuation, the largest of its kind in history, saved 338,000 Allied troops from capture by the Nazis. | • Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people died as Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush the pro democracy movement. |
| June 5, 1917 | June 5, 1968 |
| • About 10 million U.S. men began registering for the draft in World War I. | • Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested. |
| June 6, 1944 | June 6, 1949 |
| • The D-Day invasion of Europe took place during World War II as allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. | • George Orwell's novel of a dystopian future, "1984" is published. The novel's all-seeing leader, known as "Big Brother", becomes a universal symbol for intrusive government and oppressive bureaucracy. |
| June 7, 1929 | June 7, 1942 |
| • The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome. | • During World War II, Japanese forces captured Kiska and Attu in Alaska's Aleutian island chain. The reconquest of the islands later by the United states secured the U.S. northern flank in the Pacific, and freed American forces to join in Allied offensives under way elsewhere in the Pacific Ocean. |
| June 8, 632 | June 8, 1968 |
| • In Medina, located in present day Saudi Arabia, Muhammad, one of the most influential religious and political leaders in history, died in the arms of Aishah, his third favorite wife. Today, Islam is the world's second largest religion. | • Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| June 9, 1898 | June 9, 1973 |
| • With the signing of the Second Convention of Peking by British and Chinese authorities, Britian was granted an additional 99 years of rule over the island of Hong Kong. On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong reverted back to Chinese rule. | • With a spectacular victory at the Belmont stakes, Secretariat becomes the the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America's coveted Triple Crown. An autopsy after his death in 1989 showed Secretariat's heart was more than twice the size of the average horse's, which may have contributed to his extraordinary racing abilities. |
| June 10, 1692 | June 10, 1935 |
| • In Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Bridget Bishop, the first colonist to be tried in the Salem witch trials, is hanged after being found guilty of the practice of witchcraft. | • In New York City, two recovering alcoholics, one a New York Broker, the other an Ohio physician, founded Alcoholics Anonymous, a 12-step rehabilitation program that has helped countless people cope with alcoholism. Today, there are more than 80,000 local groups in the United States, with an estimated membership of almost 2 million people. |
| June 11, 1967 | June 11, 1986 |
| • The Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors ends with a United Nations brokered cease fire. The outnumbered Isreal Defense Forces achieved a swift and decisive victory in the brief war, more than doubling the territory under Isreal's control. | • By a narrow margin, the Supreme Court votes to strike down a Pennsylvania state law severely restricting abortion, thus upholding the high court's controversial 1973 ruling that legalized abortion. |
| June 12, 1939 | June 12, 1978 |
| • The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, NY, 100 years to the day after Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the sport. (Most sports historians doubt, however, that Doubleday was the true inventor of baseball.) | • David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six "Son of Sam" killings in New York. |