1432 Battle of San Romano: The Florentines defeat the Sienese, commemorated in Uccello's famous triptych

1498 Pagolo Vitelli is appointed captain of the Florentine Republic

1676 Naval Battle of Oland: Dutch defeat the Swedes in the Baltic

1774 British close the Port of Boston in punishment for the "Tea Party"

1794 "The Glorious First of June": Lord Howe defeats the French Fleet in what is also known as "The Battle of the Atlantic"

1813 USS 'Chesapeake' is taken by HMS 'Shannon'

1815 Grand Review of the French Royal Army, at Ghent, c. 2,100 march

1861 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, Va

1861 Skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Va

1862 Battle of Seven Pines: Confederate Gen. Joe Johnston is wounded and relinquishes command, which will go to Robert E. Lee

1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, Day 1

1866 Fenians attack Fort Erie, Ontario, from US soil

1871 US Sailors & Marines land in Korea, to protect U.S. citizens

1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits & Indians into Mexico

1906 Three day pogrom begins in Bialystok, c. 110 Jews die

1914 SecNav Josephus Daniels' G.O. 99 bars alcohol in the fleet

1915 1st Zeppelin air raid over England

1916 Battle of Jutland: Fleets return to port

1917 The French Army "Mutinies" begin: Troops go on strike. Order is restored in about four weeks, with minimal violence, and the Germans never learn of them

1936 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy is proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia

1939 British sub 'Thetis' accidentally sinks, Liverpool Bay, 99 die

1939 Captain Hollis M. Cooley of the Naval Research Laboratory proposes research into atomic energy for use in submarines

1940 Coffee & tea rationing begins in Nazi-occupied Holland

1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications

1943 Tanker 'Montana' rams & sinks SS 'John Morgan' off Norfolk, 86 die

1944 Allied forces begin covering much of Britain with smoke screens, as troops crowd assembly areas for D-Day

1947 The US dissolves the 'Office of Price Administration", America's WW II rationing agency

1948 Cease-fire ends Israeli War for Independence

1958 Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France

1964 Military coup installs a junta in Greece

1991 Philippines: Mt Pinatubo, erupts and closes Clark AFB

1993 Guatemalan President Jorge Serrano overthrown by the army