June 13th

The United States withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The ABM Treaty was signed in 1972 by the Soviet Union and the United States. It regulated the establishment of anti-ballistic missile shields against nuclear missiles. Critics bemoaned the treaty's termination for its potential negative effect on nuclear proliferation.

President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

Bandleader and clarinetist Benny Goodman died.

The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system.

The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers.".

Thurgood Marshall was nominated to become the first African American on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court set forth in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must advise suspects of their rights upon taking them into custody.

After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control.

South Africa implements the Group Areas Act. The law assigned geographically separate residential and business areas for different racial groups, forcing non-whites from the most developed areas. It was a major pillar of the apartheid system of racial segregation and oppression.

The Boxer Rebellion began in China.

Congress of Berlin begins, determines the territories of the states in the Balkan peninsula following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.

US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights).

Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest extant) signed in London.