- 1917: King Constantine of Greece abdicates in favor of his son, Prince Alexander.
- 1935: Bolivia and Paraguay signed an armistice to end the Chaco War, a three-year conflict over the Chaco region.
- 1957: American bandleader and saxophonist Jimmy Dorsey passed away.
- 1991: Boris Yeltsin defeated his communist rivals in the first direct elections for the presidency of the Russian Republic.
- 2003: Actor Gregory Peck, one of the great stars of Hollywood's golden age, passed away at the age of 87. He was renowned for his roles in "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Moby Dick," and "Cape Fear."
- 2005: Kuwait appointed its first female cabinet member, veteran women's rights activist Massouma Al-Mubarak, as Minister of Planning.
- 2006: Canadian businessman Ken Thomson, who helped transform his father's print empire into one of the largest electronic publishers in the world, passed away at the age of 82.
- 2007: The UN war crimes tribunal sentenced former Croatian Serb leader Milan Martić to 35 years in prison for issuing orders to commit atrocities in the early 1990s.
- 2008: Long-time political rivals Taiwan and China agreed during their first official talks in nearly a decade to launch direct passenger flights starting July 4, the first in nearly 60 years.
- 2014: Actress Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt joined the British Foreign Secretary at the first global summit to end sexual violence in conflict.
- 2017: American student Otto Frederick Warmbier was released from detention in North Korea.
