Three French boys stare at a destroyed Nazi Panther tank near Normandy, France in 1944 (colourised)

Finnish soldiers in a shelter on the VT-line during an alert during the Second Soviet-Finnish War, 16 June 1944

Soldiers of the US 82nd Airborne in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, France, 16 June 1944

A street in Beijing, China, c. 1900-1920s

17 June 1579: English navigator Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New Albion"

🇵🇱 Polish lancers, 1939

Children play in a sprinkler, circa 1965.

18 June 618: Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China

Women waving Union Jacks greet passing soldiers, all Canadians, as they march from the docks after disembarking in France on June 18, 1940

18 June 1815: At the Battle of Waterloo, the French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, one Anglo-allied army led by the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army led by Field Marshal von Blücher. The battle was Napoleon's last, ending his rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his Hundred Days return from exile.

A farmer and his family on their front porch, Missouri, 1930s

Pro-Shah demonstration organized by the Resurgence Party in Tabriz, Iran, 1978. Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the Shah would be ousted and the country fall under Islamist control.

A US soldier gives a drink to a wounded German prisoner, Normandy, France, 19 June 1944

French lines near Lorraine, 1918 (colourised)

A tandem bicycle carries a whole Belgian family of four with some of their belongings strapped to their backs, as they flee from the advancing Nazis into France, June 1940.

The army of Timur, commanded by his son Umar Shaykh, attacks Urgench in 1379.

Victoria receives the news of her accession as Queen from Lord Conyngham and the Archbishop Howley following the death of her father, William IV, 20 June 1837. (Painting by Henry Tanworth Wells)

The Living Liberty Bell, Composed of 26,000 Officers and Men in Training at Camp Dix, Wrightstown, New Jersey, 20 June 1918.

Italian troops in Addis Ababa during the invasion of Ethiopia, 1936

A German armored tank crosses the Aisne River in France, on June 21, 1940, one day before the surrender of France