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June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (158th in Leap Year s), with 208 days remaining.
Events
- 1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor , is defeated in Friulia by Venetian Forces ; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice
- . Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis De La Tremoille , forcing the French to abandon Milan . Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
- 1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden , marking the end of the Kalmar Union .
- 1654 - Christina , reigning queen of the Protestant nation Sweden , abdicates the throne and secretly converts to Catholicism . Charles X succeedes his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.
- 1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford , England , opens as the world's first University Museum .
- 1752 - A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow , including 18,000 homes.
- 1809 - Sweden promulgates a new Constitution , which restores political power to the Riksdag Of The Estates after 20 years of Enlightened Absolutism .
- - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler .
- 1832 - The Barricades fall and the Student Uprisings of 1832 end.
- 1833 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a Train .
- 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London .
- 1857 - Sophia Of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway .
- is established as a separate Colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
- - Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee , from the Confederates .
- 1882 - More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a Cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
- 1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland .
- 1912 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest Volcanic eruption in historic time.
- 1918 - Battle Of Belleau Wood begins .
- 1925 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler .
- 1932 - The Revenue Act Of 1932 is enacted, creating the first Gas Tax in the United States , at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (26 ¢/L) sold.
- 1933 - The first Drive-in Theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey , United States .
- signs the Securities Act Of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission .
- begins. ''Operation Overlord'', code named D-Day , commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France . The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious Military operation in history.
- 1946 - The Basketball Association Of America is formed in New York City .
- in Arabic is legalized.
- 1956 - David Marshall , Singapore 's first Chief Minister, resigns.
- 1962 - The Beatles audition for EMI .
- 1964 - Under a temporary order, the Rocket Launches At Cuxhaven , Germany , are terminated, though they never resume.
- 1966 - James Meredith , Civil Rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi .
- 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy dies.
- 1969 - The first Internet connection was created when network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another
- launches.
- 1971 - A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
- 1971 - '' The Ed Sullivan Show '' goes off the air.
- 1972 - David Bowie releases the classic album '' The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars ''.
- 1974 - A new Instrument Of Government is promulgated making Sweden a Parliamentary Monarchy .
- 1981 - A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa , India , jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati River . The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
- i Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut .
- 1984 - The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar in an effort to flush out terrorists, following an order from Indira Gandhi . Official casualities are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire.
- 1985 - The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu , Brazil ; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele , Auschwitz 's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979 .
- 1990 - U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the Rap album '' As Nasty As They Wanna Be '' by the 2 Live Crew violates Florida 's obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind."
- 1991 - George And Barbara Loeb , members of the Church Of The Creator , are arrested and charged with murder.
- 1991 - Former '' Diff'rent Strokes '' child star Dana Plato is given a six-year suspended sentence for robbing a Las Vegas video store five weeks earlier.
- 1993 - Mongolia holds its first direct presidential Election s.
- 1999 - At the Putim Maximum Security Prison in Brazil , 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazil ian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.
- 2002 - The United States House Of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee announces it is probing Martha Stewart 's ImClone stock sales.
- 2002 - A Near-Earth Asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea . The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 Kiloton s, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb .
- 2002 - The Wye Oak , Maryland 's honorary State Tree , is destroyed in a Thunderstorm .
- 2005 - United States Supreme Court says no to Medical Marijuana .
Births
- 1236 - Wen Tianxiang , Chinese prime minister (d. 1283 )
- 1436 - Regiomontanus , German mathematician (d. 1476 )
- 1502 - King John III Of Portugal (d. 1557 )
- 1519 - Andrea Cesalpino , Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (d. 1603 )
- 1542 - Richard Grenville , English soldier and explorer (d. 1591 )
- 1576 - Giovanni Diodati , Swiss protestant clergyman (d. 1649 )
- 1580 - Godefroy Wendelin , Flemish astronomer (d. 1667 )
- 1599 - Diego Velázquez , Spanish painter (d. 1660 )
- 1606 - Pierre Corneille , French dramatist (d. 1684 )
- 1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez , French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1857 )
- 1714 - King Joseph I Of Portugal (d. 1777 )
- 1755 - Nathan Hale , American writer and patriot (d. 1776 )
- 1756 - John Trumbull , American painter (d. 1843 )
- 1799 - Alexander Pushkin Russian poet (d. 1837 )
- 1810 - Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin , German classical scholar (d. 1856 )
- 1829 - Shusaku Honinbo , Japanese Go player (d. 1862 )
- 1850 - Karl Ferdinand Braun , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918 )
- 1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov , Russian mathematician (d. 1918 )
- 1862 - Henry John Newbolt , English author (d. 1938 )
- 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott , English explorer (d. 1912 )
- 1872 - Tsarina Alexandra Of Russia (d. 1918 )
- 1875 - Thomas Mann , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955 )
- 1890 - Ted Lewis , American bandleader (d. 1971 )
- 1898 - Ninette De Valois , Irish dancer (d. 2001 )
- 1900 - Manfred Sakel , Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957 )
- 1901 - Sukarno , first President Of Indonesia (d. 1970 )
- 1903 - Aram Khachaturian , Armenian composer (d. 1978 )
- 1906 - Max August Zorn , German-born mathematician (d. 1993 )
- 1907 - Bill Dickey , baseball player, coach, manager, and scout (d. 1993 )
- 1916 - Henriette Roosenburg , Dutch journalist (d. 1972 )
- 1918 - Edwin G. Krebs , American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- 1924 - Jinyong , Chinese novelist
- 1926 - Klaus Tennstedt , German conductor (d. 1998 )
- 1929 - Sunil Dutt , Indian actor and politician ( d. 2005 )
- 1933 - Heinrich Rohrer , Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1934 - King Albert II Of Belgium
- 1936 - Levi Stubbs , American musician ( The Four Tops )
- 1939 - Louis Andriessen , Dutch composer
- 1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds , American musician
- 1940 - Larry Lujack , American disc jockey
- 1943 - Richard Smalley , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1944 - Phillip Allen Sharp , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- 1945 - David Dukes , American actor (d. 2000 )
- 1945 - David E. Bonior , American politician
- 1947 - David Blunkett , English politician
- 1947 - Ada Kok , Dutch swimmer
- 1948 - Tony Levin ], American bassist
- 1949 - Robert Englund , American actor
- 1954 - Harvey Fierstein , American actor
- 1954 - Cynthia Rylant , American author
- 1955 - Sandra Bernhard , American actress and comedian
- 1956 - Björn Borg , Swedish tennis player
- 1956 - Bubbi Morthens , Icelandic singer and songwriter.
- 1959 - Colin Quinn , American comedian
- 1960 - Gary Graham , American actor
- 1960 - Steve Vai , American musician
- 1961 - Tom Araya , Chilean musician ( Slayer )
- 1963 - Wolfgang Drechsler , German social scientist
- 1965 - Cam Neely , Canadian Ice Hockey player
- 1967 - Paul Giamatti , American actor
- 1970 - Anthony Norris , American professional wrestler
- 1972 - Cristina Scabbia , Italian singer
- 1974 - Uncle Kracker , American rock and roll musician
- 1975 - Staci Keanan , American actress
- 1978 - Carl Barat , English singer and guitarist ( The Libertines )
- 1978 - Judith Barsi , American actress (d. 1988 )
1987- Ann Howell Brown, English major at UNC-Chapel Hill
Deaths
- 1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359 )
- 1480 - Vecchietta , Italian artist and architect
- 1548 - Juan De Castro , Portuguese explorer (b. 1500 )
- 1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa , Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519 )
- 1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide , Japanese warlord (b. 1556 )
- 1740 - Alexander Spotswood , British governor of Virginia Colony
- 1784 - Joan Van Der Capellen Tot Den Pol , Dutch politician (b. 1741 )
- 1799 - Patrick Henry , American revolutionary (b. 1736 )
- 1813 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart , French architect
- 1832 - Jeremy Bentham , English philosopher (b. 1748 )
- 1840 - Marcellin Champagnat , French priest, Saint (b. 1789 )
- 1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin , German poet, novelist, and dramatist (b. 1770 )
- 1861 - Count Camillo Benso Di Cavour , Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810 )
- 1865 - William Quantrill , American Confederate raider (b. 1837 )
- 1878 - Robert Stirling , Scottish inventor (b. 1790 )
- 1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps , Belgian composer (b. 1820 )
- 1891 - Sir John A. Macdonald , first Prime Minister Of Canada (b. 1815 )
- 1916 - Yuan Shikai , Chinese military official and politician (b. 1859 )
- 1922 - Lillian Russell , American actress (b. 1860 )
- 1941 - Louis Chevrolet , American automotive pioneer and race car driver (b. 1878 )
- 1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann , German dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862 )
- 1961 - Carl Jung , Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875 )
- 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy , United States Attorney General and Senator from New York (b. 1925 )
- 1968 - Randolph Churchill , only son of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (b. 1911 )
- 1976 - J. Paul Getty , American industrialist (b. 1892 )
- 1976 - Victor Varconi , Hungarian actor (b. 1891 )
- 1979 - Jack Haley , American actor (b. 1898 )
- 1981 - Carleton S. Coon , American anthropologist (b. 1904 )
- 1984 - A. Bertram Chandler , Australian author (b. 1912 )
- 1991 - Stan Getz , American musician and composer (b. 1927 )
- 1996 - George Davis Snell , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1903 )
- 1999 - Anne Haddy , Australian actress (b. 1930 )
- 2003 - H.I.T.L.A.H. Capo Confucious , American rapper (b. 1980 )
- 2004 - Iona Brown , British violinist and conductor (b. 1941 )
- 2005 - Anne Bancroft , American actress (b. 1931 )
Holidays and observances
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