12th June 1942: Anne Frank receives her famous diary as a thirteenth birthday present from her father
Over three volumes Anne Frank recorded the relationships between the Frank family, the Van Pels family, and her father’s friend Fritz Pfeffer with whom they shared a confined hiding place in the 'Secr...
12 Jun 20220s
11th June 1963: Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death to protest again the government of Ngô Đình Diệm
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death at a busy crossroads in ...
11 Jun 20220s
10th June 1916: Arab Revolt begins when Sharif Hussein bin Ali orders his troops to attack the Ottoman Caliphate’s garrison in the holy city of Mecca
The British supported the Revolt as it distracted tens of thousands of Ottoman troops from joining other fronts in the First World ...
10 Jun 20220s
9th June 68: Emperor Nero commits suicide
Nero, the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, committed ...
9 Jun 20220s
8th June 793: Viking raiders attack Lindisfarne in Northumbria
Norse raiders attacked the holy island of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast in an event that is generally accepted as the start of the ‘Viking’ period of British ...
8 Jun 20220s
7th June 1628: The Petition of Right ratified by King Charles I
The Petition of Right is a major British constitutional document that recognises four key principles of government: no taxation without the consent of Parliament, no imprisonment without cause, no qua...
7 Jun 20220s
6th June 1944: D-Day landings mark the start of Operation Overlord
The 6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne invasion in history, when the Allied forces of the Second World War launched Operation Neptune – more commonly known as the D-Day ...
6 Jun 20220s
5th June 1967: Start of the Six Day War as Israel launches air strikes against the Egyptian air force
By the time a final ceasefire was signed on 10 June, Israel’s territorial gains had put around a million Arabs under their control, signalling the start of a new phase in Arab-Israeli ...
5 Jun 20220s
