A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.
The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 crashes on approach to Tweed New Haven Airport in New Haven, Connecticut, killing 28 of 31 aboard.
Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II.
King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.