** Commodore ( Finland ), in the Finnish Navy

** Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot ( 1849 Finnish mythology )

** Finnskogen, using the standard fiddle, but featuring some flatted notes influenced by Finnish folk music.

** Earliest day on which Day of the Finnish Flag can fall, while June 26 is the latest ; celebrated on Saturday of Midsummer's Day ( Finland )

** Finnish rulers

** Finnish markka, mark in Swedish, official currency of Finland from 1860 to 2001

** Finnish icebreaker Sampo ( 1898 )

** Finnish icebreaker Sampo ( 1960 )

** Finnish Whippet Club

** Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer

** Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper

** Tarja Turunen, Finnish operatic soprano

** Anu Nieminen, Finnish badminton player

** Juha Turunen, Finnish politician turned criminal

** Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( b. 1914 )

** End of the Finnish Civil War.

** Tauno Palo, Finnish actor ( d. 1982 )

** Lasse Viren, Finnish long-distance runner

** Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey goaltender

** J. Karjalainen, Finnish rock musician

** Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician

** Lea Laven, Finnish singer

** Sauli Niinistö, Finnish politician, President of Finland

** Keke Rosberg, Finnish Formula One champion

** Laila Kinnunen, Finnish singer ( d. 2000 )

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is declared ( this day is celebrated as Republic Day until the 1990s ).

** The Swiss Socialist Federation is banned.

** In the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, rioting breaks out against the settlement of Armenian refugees there.

** In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Socialist Republic of Slovenia holds Yugoslavia's first multiparty election since 1938.

** Boris Yeltsin is elected as the first ever elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

** First round of the Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election sees the Bulgarian Socialist Party win a majority.

** Costas Simitis is elected President of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement of Greece.

** Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates Inejiro Asanuma, the chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party.

** Spartacist uprising: Socialist demonstrations in Berlin, Germany turn into an attempted communist revolution.

** The Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( without the presence of Serb political delegates ) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

** Soviet Armed Forces suppresses mass demonstrations in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

** The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.

** United States presidential election, 1920: Republican Warren G. Harding defeats Democrat James M. Cox and Socialist Eugene V. Debs, in the first national U. S. election in which women have the right to vote.

** The 50th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution is celebrated in the Soviet Union.

** Fighting breaks out in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic between ethnic Uzbeks and the Turkish minority ; more than 100 people are dead by June 15.

** After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

** The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic becomes the first of the republics of the Soviet Union to abolish the Communist Party's monopoly on power.

** Georg von Vollmar, Socialist politician in Bavaria ( d. 1922 )

** Spanish legislative election, 2004: The incumbent government led by José María Aznar is defeated by the Socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

** since 1960 the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic ( ČSSR )

** Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth League ( North Korea )

** Związek Młodzieży Polskiej ( Poland ), after 1956 Związek Młodzieży Socjalistycznej, after 1976 Polish Socialist Youth Union

** ( Socialist Party of Senegal ) 1966-1974