1848 – Statue of prince William the Silent, Prince of Orange by Lodewyk Royer unveiled in The Hague’s Het Plein
1976 – 108th Belmont Stakes: Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr., riding Bold Forbes wins his only Belmont classic
1988 – Longest champagne cork flight is 177 feet 9 inches in New York
1993 – Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah murders 23 UN peacekeepers from Pakistan
2000 – Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston, causing $5.5 billion in damages, the then costliest tropical storm in US history
2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region
2024 – World’s only surviving wild horse, the Przewalski’s Horse, is returned to the Golden Steppe of Kazakhstan for the first time in over 200 years