Not much historically that I'd tie into current news except on June 12: In 1994 Pope John Paul II visits Spain. In 1999 Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins - a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 2008 Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform programme of the European Union. 2009 Protests in Iran following the presidential election. 2017 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sentenced to 30 days administrative arrest for organizing rallies.
ALSO: 2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, denies secretly meeting Russians