The New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win their first Stanley Cup Championship in 54 years.

TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.

The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.

The trial of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther, begins at Oxford Crown Court .

Mariner program: ''Mariner 5'' is launched toward Venus.

The Vatican announces the abolition of the ''Index Librorum Prohibitorum'' (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.

Nguyen Cao Ky became Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyen Van Thieu became the figurehead chief of state.

The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibits state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they live on a reservation.

The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.

A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all are killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army.

Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.

The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS ''Nautilus''.

UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.

June deportation, the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.

A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.

World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.

''Action Comics'' issue one is released, introducing Superman.

Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

U. S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.

Brazil leaves the League of Nations

John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

Norway adopts female suffrage.

The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.

Hawaii becomes a United States territory.

Trade unions are legalised in Canada.

Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.

American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester

Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.

Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.

Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".

Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.

Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.

The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.

Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.

Mutiny on the Bounty: ''Bounty'' mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat.

The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.

American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.

Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.

English Civil War: Battle of Naseby

Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.

Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.

Forces led by Prince Tran Quang Khai of Vietnam's Tran Dynasty destroys most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.

While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.