Dean Martin (Dino Paul Crocetti) 1917 - Singer, actor (The Dean Martin Show, Rio Bravo, Young Lions)
- 1775 - The United Colonies changed their name to the United States.
- 1929 - The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
- 1942 - The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.
- 1942 - Japan landed troops on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians. The U.S. invaded and recaptured the Alutians one year later.
- 1965 - In the U.S., the Gemini 4 mission was completed. The mission featured the first spacewalk by an American.
- 1968 - Legoland Billund opend in Billund, Denmark. It was the original Legoland park.
- 1981 - Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed Iraq's only nuclear reactor.
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