- 1547 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh nearMusselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
- 1898 – In an act of "propaganda of the deed", Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Empress Elisabeth of Austria (pictured) in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1937 – Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met in the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in theMediterranean Sea.
- 1961 – At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, German driver Wolfgang von Trips's vehicle collided with another, causing it to become airborne and crash into a side barrier, killing him and 15 spectators.
- 2008 – CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, was first powered up beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.
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