EVENTS:
- 1910 – The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
- 1911 – the Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded.
- 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
- 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
- 1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
- 1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
- 2007 – The Al-Khilani Mosque in Baghdad is bombed, killing 78 people and injuring 218 others.
- 2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
- 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
- 2018 – The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
- 2018 – Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.
- 2020 – Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.
BIRTHS:
- 1816 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (d. 1899)
- 1851 – Billy Midwinter, Australian-Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
- 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
- 1903 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
- 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
- 1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
- 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian author
- 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
- 1979 – Quentin Jammer, American football player
- 1985 – Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
- 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
- 1992 – C. J. Mosley, American football player
