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World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya from Italian forces.
Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg campaign.
American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Evelyn Irons, Scottish journalist and war correspondent (died 2000)
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general and politician, French Secretary of State for War (born 1653)
Second World War: RMS Lancastria was sunk by German aircraft near Saint-Nazaire, France, causing thousands of fatalities in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
American Revolutionary War: The British Army abandons Philadelphia.
Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.
Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.
Vera Lynn, English singer who was the "Forces' Sweetheart" in World War II (born 1917)
World War II: Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech, often considered to be the origin of the French Resistance.
Third Silesian War: The Austrian victory at the Battle of Kolín forced Prussian leader Frederick the Great to give up the Siege of Prague and retreat to Saxony.
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.
Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.