Western Australia Day public holiday

Queensland Day, marking the day the Sunshine State was established as a separate colony from New South Wales (1859)

Sweden’s National Day

Russian Language Day

World Pest Day

Australian Made Week begins (until 12 June)

Anniversary of:
• the patenting of the electric iron by New Yorker Henry Seely (1882)
• the beginning of D-Day as the Allies land in Normandy, France (1944)
• the release of David Bowie’s breakthrough album The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) and video game Tetris by Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov (1984)
• the premiere of Sex and the City (1998)