11.30pm (AEST) – T20 Cricket – Australia v Sri Lanka

Queen’s Official Birthday – UK

World Gin Day

World Jaguar Day

The 2022 Oz Comic-Con begins – Melbourne (until 12 June)

Birthdays for actors Hugh Laurie (1959), Peter Dinklage (1969), Shia LaBeouf (1986)

Anniversary of:
• the marriage of King Henry VIII to his first wife Catherine of Aragon (1509)
• Captain James Cook happening upon the Great Barrier Reef (1770)
• Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức’s self-immolation at a Saigon intersection, creating one of the Vietnam War’s most iconic images (1963)
• Margaret Thatcher becoming the first UK PM in 160 years to win a 3rd consecutive term (1987)
• the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Jurassic Park (1993)
• the WHO declaring H1N1 swine flu a global pandemic (2009)