2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.

1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.

1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.

 DaveInSaoMiguel wrote:

The Molly Pitcher rest stop is the highest ranked on the New Jersey Turnpike. according to at least one person.

1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.

On this day in history, June 28, 1778, ‘Molly Pitcher' provides water to husband’s regiment, ascends to fame

On this day in 1954, CIA-sponsored Exile Army succeeds in overthrowing Guatemala’s Jacobo Árbenz after major lobbying efforts by the United Fruit Company, an arm of US imperialism which John Foster Dulles owned major stock in.

Árbenz had become enormously popular, with an Agrarian Reform policy which saw uncultivated portions of large land-holdings expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. Approximately 500,000 people benefited from the decree.

Árbenz had threatened to nationalise the United Fruit Company, which was an arm of US imperialism exploiting Guatemala. John Foster Dulles owned significant stock in the United Fruit Company. The coup was led by CIA asset General Castillo Armas, what would follow would be 4 decades of US-backed brutality by successive dictatorial regimes, which fought to protect US interests. Among the horrors was the genocide of the Maya people.

1905 – During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.

On this day in history, June 27, 1985, iconic Route 66 reaches the 'end of the road'

On this day in history, June 26, 1945, United Nations is formally established

1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.

1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.

On this day in history, June 25, 1942, Eisenhower is appointed supreme commander of Allied Forces in Europe

2022 – In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Constitution does not assign the authority to regulate abortions to the federal government, thereby returning such authority to the individual states. This overturns the prior decisions in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).

2012 – Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
Wonder what would happen if they could vote again? (with hindsight)

On this day in history, June 24, 1997, Air Force releases 'The Roswell Report: Case Closed'