1805 – The first Trooping of the Colour took place on Horse Guards Parade. It was Edward VII who moved Trooping the Colour to its June date, because of the vagaries of British weather (his own natural birthday being in November).

1913 – Suffragette Emily Davison ran out in front of King George V’s horse, Anmer, at Tattenham Corner on the Epsom racecourse. She was trampled, never regained consciousness and died a few days later.

1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ended. British forces completed the evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivered his famous ‘We shall fight on the beaches … we shall never surrender’ speech to the House of Commons.

1962 – The Beatles signed a recording contract with EMI Parlophone.

1967 – British Midland flight G-ALHG crashed in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 of the 84 passengers and crew on board and left 12 people with serious injuries. Although the plane came down in the centre of a busy industrial town, miraculously, nobody outside the plane was injured. An air accident investigation found the cause of the crash to be fuel starvation due to a fault in the fuel lines and the poor warning system on the Canadair C-4 Argonaut propeller aircraft.

1977 – Five British plane-spotters imprisoned in Greece for alleged spying were released after 10 weeks in jail.

1977 – Scottish football fans caused at least £15,000 damage by breaking the goals and digging up the pitch at Wembley after Scotland beat England 2-1.

1991 – Defence Secretary Tom King confirmed Britain would reduce the amount it spent on the army.

1998 – The five major nuclear powers (the United States, Russia, China, France and Great Britain) renewed their appeal for India and Pakistan to stop development of nuclear arms and offered to help the two antagonists resolve their conflict over the Kashmir region.

1999 – A man who had all his fingers severed in a horrific accident at work became the first person to have all his fingers re-attached. Two teams of doctors along with nurses and theatre technicians performed the delicate micro-surgical procedure in a marathon 18-hour operation at Withington Hospital, Manchester.

2013 – Cornelius Harp, the original lead singer with The Marcels, dies aged 73.

2017 – Ariana Grande headlines benefit concert for victims of her Manchester concert bombing. Coldplay, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber also appear.

2018 – Donald Trump tweets: “I have the absolute right to pardon myself.”

2020 – Steve Priest, bassist and co-founder of glam rock band Sweet, dies ages 72. On the same day, musician, songwriter and record producer Rupert Hine dies age 72.