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June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (159th in Leap Year s), with 207 days remaining.
Events
- 1099 - 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 .
- 1776 - American invaders skirmish with British at Trois-Rivières, Quebec .
- 1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba .
- 1832 - Asia n 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 .
- 1905 - Norway Dissolves its Union With Sweden .
- 1914 - The first vessel passes through the Locks of the Panama Canal .
- mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
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- 1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
- 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 .
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- 1942 - Japan ese troops land on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands .
- 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 .
- 1965 - The US Supreme Court decides Griswold V. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of Contraception by married couples.
- 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 .
- 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.
- 1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
- 2001 - Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election .
- 2004 - The Sikh leader Prem Singh Chandumajra launches the Political Party Shiromani Akali Dal (Longowal) .
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 )
- 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 )
- 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
- 1952 - Liam Neeson , Northern Irish actor
- 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
- 1964 - Judie Aronson , American actress
- 1965 - Mick Foley , American professional wrestler and author
- 1966 - Jim Gaffigan , American comedian
- 1970 - Mike Modano , American Ice Hockey player
- 1972 - Karl Urban , New Zealand actor
- 1972 - Josh Levine , American artist
- 1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi , Indian tennis player
- 1975 - Allen Iverson , American basketball player
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 1936 - Stjepan Seljan , Croatian explorer (b. 1875 )
- 1937 - Jean Harlow , American actress (b. 1911 )
- 1942 - Alan Blumlein , English electronics engineer (b. 1903 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 2002 - Mary Lilian Baels , Belgian princess (b. 1916 )
- 2003 - Trevor Goddard , English actor (b. 1962 )
- 2004 - Quorthon , Swedish musician (b. 1966 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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