📚 Month
What Happened in June — Daily History Calendar
June has 30 days and about 1177 recorded events. Tap any date to open its page.
- 1 June 1 A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 442 people. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 2 June 2 A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of Balasor, Odisha in eastern India, results in 296 deaths and more than 1,200 people injured. 38 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 3 June 3 Reconstitution of the Academy of the Distrustful in the Sala Dalmases of the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona in Barcelona. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 4 June 4 Eleven people are killed and 56 people are injured during a crowd crush incident outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, India for the celebration of Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Indian Premier League victory. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 5 June 5 The Nintendo Switch 2 video game console is released worldwide. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 6 June 6 The launch of SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4) 38 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 7 June 7 A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 8 June 8 Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 9 June 9 At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar. 38 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 10 June 10 Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 11 June 11 Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 12 June 12 South African-American businessman Elon Musk becomes the first US$ trillionaire with the initial public offering of SpaceX. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 13 June 13 Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 14 June 14 Two helicopters collide mid-air in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing all 6 people on board, including American singer-songwriter Oliver Tree, Argentine YouTuber Gaspi, director and screenwriter Lucas A. Vignale, and Brazilian music producer Lucas Frota. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 15 June 15 A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others. 23 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 16 June 16 Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 17 June 17 Juneteenth National Independence Day is signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 18 June 18 Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, implodes in the North Atlantic Ocean while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board, including OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 19 June 19 Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 20 June 20 The first EF5 tornado in 12 years occurs in Enderlin, North Dakota. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 21 June 21 A hot air balloon catches fire mid-flight and crashes in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil, killing 8 of the 21 on board. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 22 June 22 The United States conducts airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 23 June 23 Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 24 June 24 Two earthquakes strike Venezuela, leaving more than 2,200 people dead and dozens of others missing. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 25 June 25 Thousands of people storm Kenya's Parliament Buildings protesting the passing of the government's 2024/25 Finance Bill. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 26 June 26 Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, returns to Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a Saipan court and subsequently being released by the United States Department of Justice. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 27 June 27 U.S. President Joe Biden debates former U.S. President Donald Trump. Biden's perceived poor performance leads to his withdrawal from the election on July 21. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 28 June 28 A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 29 June 29 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 30 June 30 A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25