Movies set in June
Anne Boleyn is crowned queen
Adolf Eichmann is executed
Pakistan shells National Highway 1
Jack Kevorkian is released from prison
An attempt is made on Attorney General Palmer's life
Lou Gehrig dies
Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter marry
The Shah of Iran visits West Berlin
Bruce McLaren dies in a car crash
The birthday of McLovin
Edward Snowden meets Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald
Edward Snowden meets Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald
The Nostromo intercepts a distress call and wakes its passengers
Emily Davison runs onto the track at the Epsom Derby
Churchill gives his "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech
The battle of Midway begins
Ian Curtis and Debbie Woodruff attend a Sex Pistols concert in Manchester
Janet Adkins chooses to die with Jack Kevorkian's help
The Springboks lose to the Lions
Hit 'Em Up is released
The day before D-Day
Churchill prepares for D-Day
President Kennedy visits Texas
Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated
Ferris Bueller skips school
Glenn Greewald's first Snowden article, on mass surveillance by the US government of its people, is published
D-Day
D-Day
D-Day
D-Day
D-Day
London burns
Damien is born
Damien is born
Soyuz T-13 launches, docking with Salyut 7
Damien is born
Jason Moss Commits suicide
The date in Aileen Wuornos' final statement that she says she'll "be back"
Lady Georgiana Spencer marries William Cavendish
The mines are detonated at the start of the Battle of Messines
Alan Turing commits suicide
The Ford sewing machinists go on strike
Goonies Day is celebrated in Astoria, Oregon, where The Goonies was filmed
Walter McMillian is arrested for the murder of Ronda Morrison
The Supreme Court rules in favour of Maria Altmann
Marcela Gracia Ibeas, using a fake male identity of "Mario", marries Elisa Sánchez Loriga, the first same sex marriage in Spain since the Roman Empire
Lisa Lopes burns down Andre Rison's house
Sepp Blatter is voted the new head of FIFA
Leticia visits her husband on death row
Jack Abramoff is released from prison into a half way house
Jules Rimet mocks Uruguay's Olympic victory at soccer
Mr Boddy is killed
Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes race, and in doing so became the first horse in 25 years to win the Triple Crown
Edward Oxford attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
Edward Oxford attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
King George VI and queen Elizabeth arrive to stay with President Roosevelt
Thelma "Sister" Husband is killed by a tornado
John Gotti dies of cancer in prison
The Nipah virus outbreak is over
Alexander the Great dies
King George VI joins FDR for a picnic and eats a hotdog
A group of prisoners escape from Alcatraz
Ian Hutchinson wins his fifth of five Isle of Man TT races
The Rolfe family arrive in England
Anne is given a diary on her 13th birthday
Anne is given a diary on her 13th birthday
Anne is given a diary on her 13th birthday
Nelson Mandela and his colleagues are found guilty
The Supreme Court rules that interracial marriage is legal
The movie Deep Throat is released
Nicole Simpson is murdered outside her home
Jesse Arista graduates
Burke sends a group of colonists to check out a crashed alien spaceship
James J. Braddock beats Max Baer
Nelson Mandela is transferred to Robben Island
The 24 hour long Le Mans race starts
The New York Times prints the first of their articles about the leaked Pentagon Papers
Cindy Paulson escapes from killer Robert Hansen
The Indian Army secures Tololing mountain
Emily Davison's funeral is held
The Le Mans race ends, 24 hours after it began
TWA flight 847 is hijacked
Cheryl Strayed begins her long walk along the Pacific Crest Trail
Henry O. Flipper becomes the first black man to graduate from West Point military adademy
The steamboat General Slocum catches fire and sinks
Leslie Mahaffy, who Tina McCarthy is based on, is kidnapped
Tom Merrick changes history by averting a plane crash
A young engineer displays uncommon gallantry
Al Capone pleads guilty to tax evasion
George Stinney Jr is executed by electrocution
George Stinney Jr is executed by electrocution
George Reeves dies
Psycho premiers
Rudolf Nureyev defects from Russia, seeking asylum in France
Clifford Irving pleads guilty
Roberto Durán beats Davey Moore
Tina McCarthy is murdered
Jesse and Celine meet and spend the day together
Jay Moriarty is given a radio on his 16th birthday
Tom Merrick saves 340 people from dying in a train crash
Taylor and Zavala save three children from a house fire
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, as a passenger
The Supreme Court rules that mandatory prayer in schools is illegal
Five men break into DNC headquarters at the Watergate Complex
Five men break into DNC headquarters at the Watergate Complex
The "White House Plumbers" break in to Watergate
Stephen Hawking is made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour
O.J. Simpson leads the police on a car chase
Jesse and Celine part ways
The IRA attempt to kill Martin McGartland
Tom Merrick averts disaster for a third time, when he warns people about a bomb in a stadium
Paul Potts wins Britain's Got Talent
The battle of Waterloo is fought
Harilal Gandhi dies of tuberculosis
The 24 hour long Le Mans race starts
Superman lands on earth
Princess Sophie dies
Joe Louis and Max Schmeling fight for 12 rounds in the boxing ring
The Le Mans race ends, 24 hours after it began
Victoria becomes Queen on the death of her father, William IV
Victoria is informed that her uncle has died, and she is now queen
Bugsy Siegel is killed
Roberto Durán beats Sugar Ray Leonard at "The Brawl in Montreal"
Andrea Yates drowns her five children in the bathtub
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are murdered
A memorial service is held for the victims of a fatal plane crash
Maziar Bahari is arrested in Iran
Joe Louis and Max Schmeling meet in the ring for a historic rematch
German and Russian soldiers play a game of soccer
Gary King embarks on an epic pub crawl
The Rolling Stone article "The Runaway General" is published
Whitey Bulger is captured, at the age of 81
Robert the Bruce invokes the name of William Wallace at the Battle of Bannockburn
Abdul Karim delivers a mohur gold coin to Queen Victoria
Nixon secretly records the "smoking gun" tape
A French unit is ambushed by the Viet Minh
The Rugby World Cup final is played between South Africa and New Zealand
General Custer dies at the Battle of Little Bighorn
Barry Seal uses a plane with hidden cameras to deliver cocaine to Nicaragua
Héctor Lavoe plays to a small audience at the Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum
Michael Jackson dies of an overdose, and the "This is It" tour is cancelled
Lee Harvey Oswald is questioned by the FBI
Héctor Lavoe jumps from the ninth floor of the Condado Regency Hotel
Veronica Guerin is murdered
Gay marriage is legalised in the US
Reinhold and Günther Messner reach the summit of Nanga Parbat
Air France Flight 139 is hijacked
Tommy Wiseau's debut movie, The Room, premieres in Los Angeles
Four Navy SEALs are inserted deep into Afghanistan
Victoria is crowned Queen of England
Hijacked Air France Flight 139 lands at Entebbe Airport in Uganda
The US beat England in a FIFA world cup game
Brazil wins the 1958 World Cup
Dieter Dengler escapes from the Pathet Lao
Günther Messner dies while climbing Nanga Parbat
A fisherman finds Tina McCarthy's body
The Sampoong department store collapses
Mark stabs his friend John
The High Court sides with the New York Times
Four turtles and a rat are injected with a mutagen
The Yarnell Hill Fire kills 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots