1833 – Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. President to ride on a train.
1867 – David T. Abercrombie, American surveyor and businessman, founded Abercrombie & Fitch (d. 1931) is born.
1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
1892 – The Chicago "L" commuter rail system begins operation
1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
1923 – V. C. Andrews, American author, illustrator, and painter (d. 1986) is born.
1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1934 – New Deal: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
1941 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman, founded Chevrolet and Frontenac Motor Corporation (b. 1878) dies.
1946 – The National Basketball Association is created with eleven teams.
1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player and fashion designer is born.
1968 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.
1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is first released in the USSR.
1997 – Prom Mom incident: While attending her senior prom in Lacey Township, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler gives birth in a bathroom stall, leaves the baby to die in a trash can and then returns to the prom.
2005 – In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.
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