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Originally posted by frankieV ↑

June 6

June 6 is the 157th day of the year (158th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 208 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1508 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops

1513 – Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.

1523 – Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected King of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.

1586 – Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.

1644 – The Qing dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty.

1654 – Queen Christina abdicates the Swedish throne and is succeeded by her cousin Charles X Gustav.

1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.

1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.

1749 – The Conspiracy of the Slaves in Malta is discovered.

1762 – Seven Years' War: British forces begin a siege of Havana, Cuba, and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.

1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, is crowned King of Spain.

1809 – Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of enlightened absolutism. At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.

1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek: A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.

1822 – Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.

1832 – The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.

1833 – Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. President to ride on 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.

1859 – Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).

1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis: Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.

1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed when a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.

1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.

1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.

1892 – The Chicago "L" commuter rail system begins operation

1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.

1909 – French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.

1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood: The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry.

1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje ends.

1921 – Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.

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 (¹⁄₄¢/L) sold.

1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.

1934 – New Deal: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.

1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.

1944 – World War II: The Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, 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 National Basketball Association is created with eleven teams.

1954 – The grand opening of the sculpture of Yuriy Dolgorukiy took place in Moscow. This statue is one of the main monuments of Moscow.

1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.

1968 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.

1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.

1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.

1971 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.

1974 – A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.

1981 – Bihar train disaster: 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 death toll is closer to 1,000.

1982 – The Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

1982 – A British Army Air Corps Gazelle helicopter is destroyed in a friendly fire incident, resulting in the loss of four lives.

1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is first released in the USSR.

1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains 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.

1992 – The Fantoft Stave Church in Norway is destroyed by Varg Vikernes. This was the first in a string of church arsons in the Early Norwegian black metal scene

1993 – Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.

1997 – Prom Mom incident: While attending her senior prom in Lacey Township, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler gives birth in a bathroom stall, leaves the baby to die in a trash can and then returns to the prom.

2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than theNagasaki atomic bomb.

2004 – Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.

2005 – In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.

Births

1972 – Natalie Morales, American television journalist and anchor

1972 – Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer-songwriter (Lacuna Coil)

1973 – Patrick Rothfuss, American author and academic

1974 – Uncle Kracker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1974 – Danny Strong, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1975 – Niklas Sundström, Swedish ice hockey player

1976 – Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder and businessman

1976 – Vlado Georgiev, Serbian singer-songwriter

1977 – David Connolly, English-Irish footballer

1978 – Carl Barât, English singer-songwriter (The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things)

1978 – Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)

1978 – Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer

1981 – Johnny Pacar, American actor and singer

1982 – Marian Oprea, Romanian triple jumper

1983 – Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer

1983 – Joe Rokocoko, Fijian rugby player

1984 – ByeAlex, Hungarian singer-songwriter and journalist

1984 – Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer

1985 – Drew Galloway, Scottish wrestler

1985 – Martyn Irvine, Northern Irish cyclist

1985 – Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer

1985 – Heiki Nabi, Estonian wrestler

1985 – Nikolay Varbanov, Bulgarian basketball player

1986 – Junichi Tazawa, Japanese-American baseball player

1987 – Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer

1988 – Maria Alyokhina, Russian singer and activist (Pussy Riot)

1988 – Ryan Brathwaite, Barbadian hurdler

1988 – Israel Dagg, New Zealand rugby player

1988 – Teerasil Dangda, Thai footballer

1989 – Monice, Bosnian-Austrian singer

1989 – Paula Brancati, Canadian actress

1989 – Paweł Wojciechowski, Polish pole vaulter

1990 – Vid Belec, Slovenian footballer

1990 – Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer and actress

1990 – Gavin Hoyte, English-Trinidadian footballer

1991 – Son Dong-woon, South Korean singer and dancer

1992 – Hyuna, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and model (4Minute, Wonder Girls, and Trouble Maker)

1992 – Megumi Murakami, Japanese singer and actress (Cute and ZYX)

1995 – Julian Green, American soccer player

Deaths

1962 – Tom Phillis, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1934)

1963 – William Baziotes, American painter and academic (b. 1912)

1968 – Randolph Churchill, English journalist and politician (b. 1911)

1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (b. 1925)

1968 – Kâzım Özalp, Turkish general and politician, 3rd Turkish Minister of National Defence (b. 1880)

1975 – Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)

1976 – J. Paul Getty, American businessman, founded the Getty Oil Company (b. 1892)

1976 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1891)

1979 – Jack Haley, American actor and singer (b. 1898)

1980 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player and manager (b. 1918)

1982 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and academic (b. 1905)

1983 – Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)

1984 – A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian soldier and author (b. 1912)

1991 – Stan Getz, American saxophonist (b. 1927)

1994 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)

1995 – Savely Kramarov, Russian-American actor (b. 1934)

1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

1997 – Magda **or, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (b. 1915)

2000 – Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (b. 1921)

2002 – Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt) (b. 1959)

2003 – Ken Grimwood, American author (b. 1944)

2003 – Dave Rowberry, English singer-songwriter and pianist (The Animals) (b. 1940)

2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)

2005 – Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)

2006 – Arnold Newman, American photographer and educator (b. 1918)

2006 – Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1946)

2006 – Hilton Ruiz, American pianist (b. 1952)

2006 – Camille Sandorfy, Hungarian-Canadian chemist and academic (b. 1920)

2009 – Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)

2009 – Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress and singer (b. 1913)

2009 – Jim Owens, American football player and coach (b. 1927)

2010 – Marvin Isley, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Isley Brothers and Isley-Jasper-Isley) (b. 1953)

2011 – Shrek, New Zealand sheep (b. 1994)

2012 – Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1960)

2012 – Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1957)

2012 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (b. 1946)

2012 – Mykola Volosyanko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972)

2012 – Li Wangyang, Chinese activist (b. 1950)

2013 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

2013 – Eugen Merzbacher, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1921)

2013 – Tom Sharpe, English-Spanish author and academic (b. 1928)

2013 – Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress, and singer (b. 1921)

2014 – Darío Barrio, Spanish chef (b. 1972)

2014 – Ado Bayero, Nigerian politician and diplomat (b. 1930)

2014 – Karen DeCrow, American lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1937)

2014 – Eric Hill, English-American author and illustrator (b. 1927)

2014 – Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician (b. 1928)

2015 – Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author (b. 1934)

2015 – Ronnie Gilbert, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers) (b. 1926)

2015 – Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer and coach (b. 1974)

2015 – Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Claude the Thaumaturge

Ini Kopuria (Church of England, Episcopal Church)

Marcellin Champagnat

Norbert of Xanten

Rafael Guízar y Valencia

June 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Memorial Day (South Korea)

National Day of Sweden (Sweden)

Normandy landings of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (D-Day), a.k.a. Operation Neptune, part of Operation Overlord (1944)

Queensland Day (Queensland)

Teachers' Day (Bolivia)

Argentina's engineering day

UN Russian Language Day (United Nations)

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