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30th June 1937: World’s first emergency telephone number began operating in London

The 999 service was launched in London on 30 June 1937, and initially covered a 12 mile radius from Oxford ...

29th June 2008: Apple release the iPhone

The 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first ...

28th June 1880: Australian outlaw Ned Kelly arrested following a violent shoot out

The Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was arrested following a violent shoot-out with police at Glenrowan in ...

27th June 1905: Mutiny on board the Russian battleship Potemkin

Seven of the ship’s eighteen officers, including Giliarovsky and the Captain, were killed in the mutiny before the Tsar's forces launched a crackdown at the Odessa ...

26th June 1974: World’s first barcode scanned on a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum

Sharon Buchanan, a cashier at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the world’s first Universal Product Code (better known as a barcode) on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit ...

25th June 1876: Battle of Little Bighorn takes place after American Lieutenant Colonel George Custer leads federal troops against Plains Indians

The forces of the Plains Indians outnumbered Custer's troops, and they wee caught in a pincer movement after Crazy Horse led another group of Sioux to surround ...

24th June 1812: Napoleon begins his failed invasion of Russia

Napoleon's Grande Armée began its failed invasion of Russia when it crossed the Neman River in what Russians refer to as the Patriotic War of ...

23rd June 1894: Establishment of the International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in ...

22nd June 1633: Galileo Galilei forced to recant his belief in heliocentrism after being found ‘suspect of heresy’ by the Papal Inquisition

Galileo was sentenced to house arrest where he remained for the final nine years of his ...

21st June 1791: Louis XVI’s attempts to escape from Paris in the Flight to Varennes

King Louis XVI of France and his family were caught attempting to escape Paris during the Flight to ...