JUNE 7

In common years it is always in ISO week 23.

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Liturgical feasts

External links

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 Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.

★ 1863 - During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.

★ 1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.

★ 1880 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the ''Campaña del Desierto'' (Desert Campaign) .

★ 1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.

★ 1905 - Norway dissolves its union with Sweden.

★ 1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow(Clydebank), Scotland.

★ 1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.

★ 1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.

★ 1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France.

★ 1936 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.

★ 1938 - The Douglas DC-4E 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 murder 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 33rd governor of the state of California.

★ 1967 - The Israeli forces enter 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, New York.

★ 1971 - The US Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent 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.

★ 1986 - Washington Metroraill "Vienna-Fairfax GMU" opens.

★ 1989 - A Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.

★ 1990 - Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida opens up its new 3 soundstages and begins production at Universal Studios Florida .

★ 1991 - Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.

★ 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.

★ 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)

★ 1770 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)

★ 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, father of Adolf Hitler (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 - Knud Rasmussen, Greenland-born explorer (d. 1933)

★ 1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)

★ 1886 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)

★ 1894 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (d. 1974)

★ 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)

★ 1900 - Glen Gray, Jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (d. 1963)

★ 1902 - Herman B Wells, president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)

★ 1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974)

★ 1909 - Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)

★ 1909 - Jessica Tandy, English-born actress (d. 1994)

★ 1910 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer, (d. 2007)

★ 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)

★ 1921 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (d. 1998)

★ 1922 - Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1923 - Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)

★ 1927 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)

★ 1928 - James Ivory, American film director

★ 1928 - Reg Park, British bodybuilder

★ 1929 - John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada

★ 1929 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager (d. 1983)

★ 1931 - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter

★ 1935 - Harry Crews, American author

★ 1935 - Thomas Kailath, American engineer

★ 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

★ 1945 - Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)

★ 1946 - Jenny Jones, Palestinian-born comedian and talk show host

★ 1947 - Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)

★ 1950 - Gary Graham American actor

★ 1952 - Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor

★ 1953 - Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster

★ 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

★ 1957 - Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican musician

★ 1958 - Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand

★ 1958 - Prince, American musician

★ 1960 - Bill Prady, American television producer

★ 1961 - Dave Catching, American musician

★ 1964 - Judie Aronson, American actress

★ 1964 - Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress

★ 1965 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler

★ 1966 - Stephane Richer, French Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1967 - Dave Navarro, American musician

★ 1969 - Kim Rhodes, American actress

★ 1969 - Prince Joachim of Denmark

★ 1970 - Mike Modano, American ice hockey player

★ 1970 - Cafu, Brazilian footballer

★ 1970 - Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player

★ 1971 - Alex X. Mooney, American politician

★ 1972 - Karl Urban, New Zealand actor

★ 1973 - Song Yun-ah, South Korean model and actress

★ 1973 - Bear Grylls, British survivor

★ 1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player

★ 1975 - Allen Iverson, American basketball player

★ 1976 - Necro, Jewish American rapper

★ 1977 - Marcin Baszczyński, Polish soccer player

★ 1977 - Joe Horgan, baseball player

★ 1977 - Odalis Pérez, baseball player

★ 1978 - Tony An, Korean singer H.O.T

★ 1978 - Bill Hader, American comedian

★ 1979 - Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer

★ 1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player

★ 1981 - Larisa Oleynik, Ukrainian-born actress

★ 1981 - Stephen Bywater, British goalkeeper

★ 1981 - Tyler Johnson, baseball player

★ 1981 - Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer

★ 1983 - Mark Lowe, American baseball player

★ 1985 - Charlie Simpson, British pop singer

★ 1988 - Michael Cera, Canadian actor

★ 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 (b. 1606)

★ 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

★ 1896 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)

★ 1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)

★ 1916 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)

★ 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)

★ 1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)

★ 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)

★ 1980 - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)

★ 1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)

★ 1989 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)

★ 1993 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)

★ 1995 - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)

★ 1996 - Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)

★ 1999 - Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)

★ 2001 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)

★ 2001 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)

★ 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.

Liturgical feasts

★ Roman Catholic Church and some Anglican churches: Corpus Christi (moveable feast, 2007)

★ Colman, bishop of Dromore [BLS]

★ Saint Maximinus, bishop of Aix, confessor

★ Blessed Robert, abbot of Newminster, Northumberland

★ Saint Servatius, bishop, confessor or martyr (Translation day)

★ Saint Wulstan, bishop of Worcester, confessor (Translation day)

★ Blessed Meriadec, bishop of Vannes

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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