The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.

Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.

Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.

Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.

The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.

Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.

James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.

John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.

Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.

Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.

John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.

Saab produces its first automobile.

Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.

World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.

In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.

World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.

World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.

World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.

World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.

Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.

Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.

Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

The Austro-Hungarian battleship {{Ship|SMS|Szent István}} sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.

Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.

Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.

Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.

American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads. Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.

The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.

Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.

The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.

First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.

French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the ''revolutionary dictatorship''.

The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.

A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.

Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.

Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".

Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.

Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.

Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.

Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.