1306: The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Robert the Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven

1829: Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London, the city’s first modern police force

1862: Slavery outlawed in US territories

1865: Union General Gordon Granger declares slaves are free in Texas, now the date the end of slavery is celebrated across the US as Juneteenth

1944: Day one of the two-day Battle of the Philippine Sea, US naval forces defeat the Japanese fleet in World War II

1991: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police

Source: Onthisday.com