June 7
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is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining.In common years it is always in ISO week 23.
Events
- 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
- 1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
- 1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
- 1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured.
- 1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. See United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
- 1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
- 1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
- 1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops.
- 1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around St-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
- 1880 - Assault and Take of Morro de Arica (Arica Tall Hill),it meant the end of the Campaign of Tacna and Arica during the War of the Pacific.
- 1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
- 1905 - Norway dissolves its union with Sweden.
- 1917 - World War I: Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
- 1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four patriots are killed.
- 1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1938 - The Douglas DC-4 makes its first test flight.
- 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
- 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
- 1942 - Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter.
- 1944 - Nazi Panzer SS troops execute 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.
- 1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
- 1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
- 1955 - Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
- 1965 - The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
- 1966 - Former movie star, Ronald Reagan, becomes the 22rdgoverner of the state of California.
- 1967 - The Israeli forces occupy Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
- 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
- 1971 - The US Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precident that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
- 1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
- 1977 - 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The Israelis charged the facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
- 1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
- 1989 - A Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.
- 1991 - Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.
- 1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol (
) and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince". - 1998 - James Byrd, Jr is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.
- 2001 - Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.
- 2002 - England beat Argentina in the 2002 FIFA World Cup group stages
- 2004 - The Sikh leader Prem Singh Chandumajra launches the political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Longowal).
- 2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.
Births
- 1529 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615)
- 1761 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
- 1778 - Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840)
- 1811 - James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d. 1870)
- 1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
- 1837 - Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler's father (d. 1903)
- 1845 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
- 1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
- 1862 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
- 1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
- 1877 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
- 1879 - Knut Rasmussen, Greenland-born explorer (d. 1933)
- 1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
- 1886 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
- 1896 - Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
- 1896 - Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
- 1897 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)
- 1899 - Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973)
- 1902 - Herman B Wells, president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)
- 1906 - Glen Gray, Jazz musician (d. 1963)
- 1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974)
- 1909 - Jessica Tandy, English-born actress (d. 1994)
- 1911 - Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d. 1995)
- 1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
- 1917 - Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)
- 1920 - Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
- 1923 - Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)
- 1928 - James Ivory, American film director
- 1929 - John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1931 - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
- 1937 - Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
- 1938 - Goose Gonsoulin, American football player
- 1940 - Tom Jones, Welsh singer
- 1943 - Nikki Giovanni, American poet
- 1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
- 1946 - Jenny Jones, Palestinian-born comedienne and talk show host
- 1947 - Thurman Munson, Major league baseball catcher (d. 1979)
- 1950 - Gary Graham American Actor
- 1952 - Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
- 1953 - Johnny Clegg, South African musician
- 1954 - Louise Erdrich, American author
- 1955 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
- 1956 - L.A. Reid, American music producer
- 1958 - Prince, American musician
- 1961 - Dave Catching, American musician
- 1964 - Judie Aronson, American actress
- 1964 - Prince, American musician
- 1964 - Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress
- 1965 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and author
- 1966 - Jim Gaffigan, American comedian
- 1967 - Dave Navarro, American Musician
- 1970 - Mike Modano, American ice hockey player
- 1970 - Cafu, Brazilian footballer
- 1972 - Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
- 1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
- 1975 - Allen Iverson, American basketball player
- 1977 - Marcin Baszczyński, Polish football (soccer) player
- 1977 - Joe Horgan, Baseball player
- 1978 - Tony An, Korean singer in the group H.O.T
- 1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
- 1981 - Larisa Oleynik, Ukrainian-born actress
- 1985 - Charlie Simpson, British pop singer
- 1993 - Jordan Fry, American actor
Deaths
- 1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
- 1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
- 1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)
- 1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
- 1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist
- 1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
- 1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
- 1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
- 1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
- 1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
- 1840 - King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
- 1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
- 1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
- 1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
- 1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
- 1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
- 1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
- 1937 - Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
- 1951 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (b. 1892)
- 1954 - Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
- 1963 - Zasu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
- 1965 - Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
- 1966 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
- 1967 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
- 1968 - Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
- 1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
- 1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
- 1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1993 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
- 1995 - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
- 2001 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
- 2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
- 2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
- 2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (b. 1966)
- 2006 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
- 2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born terrorist (b. 1966)
Holidays and observances
- Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta.
- Norway - Union Dissolution Day, observing the 1905 decision to dissolve the Union between Sweden and Norway.
- Malta - Sette giugno - Riot in Malta that began the road to self government and then independence.
- United States of America - National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
Liturgical feasts
- Roman Catholic Church and some Anglican churches: Corpus Christi (moveable feast, 2007)
- Colman, bishop of Dromore [BLS]
- Saint Godoald, bishop, confessor
- Saint Fortunatus, bishop, confessor
- Saint Maximinus, bishop of Aix, confessor
- Saint Procopius [PCP (Paris), as Proces]
- Saint Robert, abbot of Chichester
- Blessed Robert, abbot of Newminster, Northumberland
- saint Servatius, bishop, confessor or martyr (Translation day)
- Saint Wulstan, bishop of Worcester, confessor (Translation day)
- Blessed Godeschalc, prince of the Vandals, martyr
- Blessed Meriadec, bishop (of Vannes
- Blessed Paul, bishop of Constantinople, martyr
- Blessed Willibald
- Blessed Anna of St. Bartholomaeus (died 1626)
- Blessed Maria Theresia of Soubiran (died 1889)
- Luciana, virgin, martyr [WTS (Bruges)]
External links
- BBC: [On This Day]
- The New York Times: [On This Day]
- [On This Day in Canada]
- History Channel: [This Day in History]
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