7 June 1999

A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashed into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, killing all 122 people on board.

Surinam Airways Flight 764 (pictured) crashed while approaching Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, in Zanderij, killing 178 people, including members of the football team known as the Colourful 11.

The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear-weapons program.

In their only UK concert, the rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, debuted in London's Hyde Park in front of 100,000 fans.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraceptives violated the "right to marital privacy".

Anti-Jewish riots broke out in the French protectorate in Morocco, during which 44 people were killed and 150 injured.

The Lateran Treaty was ratified to bring Vatican City into existence, thus ending the "Roman question".

First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under German lines, killing perhaps 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history during the Battle of Messines.

American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks.

The Reform Act, which is widely credited with launching modern democracy in the United Kingdom, received royal assent.

Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres.

An earthquake registering approximately 7.5 Mw caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people.

The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document that set out specific liberties of individuals, received royal assent from King Charles I.

Pope John VIII officially recognised Croatia as an independent state, and Branimir as its duke.

Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia, who later helped to protect Greek pagans and Jews from persecution.

A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.

The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.

Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.

Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.

Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.

Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.

Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.

The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.