2011: An EF3 tornado killed 3 people in south-central Massachusetts.
1982: Hurricane Alberto formed just north of the Yucatán Peninsula, eventually causing devastating flooding in Cuba which killed 23 people.
2010: Cyclone Phet made landfall near Al Ashkharah, Oman, causing major flooding in the desert nation.
1958: A tornado outbreak killed 28 people in Wisconsin, including 21 deaths from a single F5 tornado.
1972: The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began in Stockholm, Sweden.
1973: Hurricane Ava became the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record in the Pacific Ocean.
1997: Cyclone Keli formed in the South Pacific Ocean, the first tropical cyclone ever recorded in the month of June in that region.
1924: Samuel B. Avis, a former member of United States House of Representatives, was struck and killed by lightning in Charleston, West Virginia.
1984: A tornado outbreak struck the Ivanovo and Yaroslavl regions of Russia (then the Soviet Union), killing more than 400 people.
1682: The first known tornado in the history of Connecticut caused severe tree damage in the southwestern part of the state.
2005: Tropical Storm Arlene, the first tropical cyclone of the hyperactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall on the Florida Panhandle.
1975: The Nimbus 6 weather satellite was launched.
2006: The North American Mesoscale Model officially replaced the obsolete Eta model for mesoscale numerical weather prediction in the United States.
2018: Hurricane Bud made landfall as a weak tropical storm in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
2010: Severe flooding struck the department of Var, France, killing 25 people.
1974: Hurricane Dolores made landfall near Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, causing widespread flooding and landslides that killed 18 people.
1946: One of the deadliest tornadoes in Canadian history struck Windsor, Ontario, killing 17 people.
1993: Météo-France, the national meteorological institution for France, was founded.
1999: The QuikSCAT satellite, which measured winds over the world's oceans for more than 10 years, was launched.
1957: An extremely damaging F5 tornado killed 11 people in Fargo, North Dakota.
2004: Typhoon Dianmu made landfall on Honshu, Japan, killing 4 people. Another 2 were killed in South Korea.
1972: Hurricane Agnes made landfall as a strong tropical storm near New York City. It would cause devastating flooding inland, killing 113 people and causing more than $2 billion in damage (1972 USD).
1981: The NOAA-7 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit. NOAA-6 returned a wide variety of observations of the earth, atmosphere, oceans, and space for 5 years until a power failure in June 1986.
1996: Hurricane Alma drifted just off the coast of the Mexican state of Michoacán, producing heavy rains and winds of up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) which would kill 20 people.
1977: Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning for the seventh time and survived, a world record.
1930: A boat carrying dynamite was struck by lightning near Brockville, Ontario, causing an explosion which killed 30 people.
1957: Hurricane Audrey, one of the deadliest tropical cyclones to strike the United States in the 20th century, killed 419 people and caused more than US$150,000,000 (equivalent to about $1,630,000,000 in 2023) in damage in Louisiana and Texas.
2013: A lightning strike ignited the Yarnell Hill Fire near Yarnell, Arizona. Two days later, high temperatures, strong winds, and erratic fire behavior would result in the deaths of 19 firefighters.
1998: The Corn Belt Derecho produced wind gusts as high as 123 mph (198 km/h) as well as dozens of tornadoes in its rampage across eight states in the Midwest and Ohio Valley, killing one person and injuring 174.
2011: Tropical Storm Arlene moved ashore on Veracruz, Mexico, bringing flooding, landslides, and high winds that killed 18 people.