Facts & Historical Events On This Day
More than 100,000 people attended a vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched on its maiden flight.
American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen released 'Born in the USA.'
The Sci-Fi movie 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' was released in the US.
Animal fossils found in North Carolina became the oldest known in the US.
Trio inventors were granted the patent to the ATM.
Armando Socarras Ramirez arrived in Madrid from Havana after hiding inside the wheel pod of a plane.
The Beatles started their world tour.
Winston Churchill presented his famous speech 'We Shall Fight on the Beaches.'
The US used a national minimum wage for the first time in Massachusetts.
Abercrombie & Fitch opened their first store in Manhattan, New York City, US.
French aviator Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly an untethered hot air balloon.
King Charles VI of France granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the village of Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon.
The oldest known recording of a solar eclipse from China was reported.