Father's Day (United States)
Third Sunday of June. Started in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd in Spokane, Washington — to match Mother's Day. Took 60 years to become a federal holiday.
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American acrobat Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.- 2013A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.
- 1996The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
- 1992The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.