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1924: Despite a forecast calling for thunderstorms, a Weather Bureau scientist and assistant manned a hot-air balloon for the purpose of taking meteorological upper atmosphere readings with the instruments they brought along. The balloon got too close to a thunderstorm, and both men were killed by lightning.

1967: San Francisco had its record one-day June rainfall with 1.34".

1980: Edwin Robinson from Falmouth, ME had been blind and partially deaf since a truck accident in 1971. After being struck by lightning on this date, his hearing and sight returned. It also caused his bald head to grow hair.

1998: A swarm of tornadoes swept across southern Ontario leaving a band of destruction and several injuries. The Norwich Anglican Church lost its parish hall and steeple.