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1948 - Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
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1950 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
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1956 - Protests and demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań).
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1964 - Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
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1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
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1969 - Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
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1973 - Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
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1976 - The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
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1978 - The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
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1983 - The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
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