Wikipedia: June 6

June 6
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June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining.

Events

1513 - The Battle of Novara is fought
1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden
1683 - The Ashmolean Museum opens
1809 - Sweden promulgates the Constitution of 1809
1833 - President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train
1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London
1859 - Queen Victoria signs Letters Patent making Queensland into a seperate colony.
1862 - American Civil War: The Union captures Memphis, Tennessee
1912 - eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.
1918 - World War I: The Battle of Belleau Wood begins
1925 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded
1933 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey
1942 - World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich
1944 - World War II: D-Day: attack on Normandy by Allied forces
1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, is published
1956 - David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns
1966 - James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi
1971 - Soyuz 11 launches
1974 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy
1976 - The Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end of apartheid
1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele located and exhumed
1991 - George and Barbara Loeb, members of the Church of the Creator, are arrested and charged with murder
1996 - The sons of Darlie Routier, Damon and Devon are stabbed to death in their Rowlett, Texas home. Their mother would later be convicted of the murder.
2002 - The United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee announces it is probing Martha Stewart's ImClone stock sales

Births

1502 - King John III of Portugal († 1557)
1553 - Bernardino Baldi, mathematican († 1617)
1599 - Diego Velázquez, painter († 1660)
1606 - Pierre Corneille, dramatist († 1648)
1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez, Jesuit missionary and explorer (†1857)
1755 - Nathan Hale, writer, patriot
1756 - John Trumbull, painter
1799 - Alexander Pushkin poet († 1837)
1810 - Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, classical scholar († 1856)
1850 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1909 († 1918)
1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, mathematician († 1918)
1862 - Henry John Newbolt, author († 1938)
1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, explorer († 1912)
1872 - Tsarina Alexandra of Russia († 1918)
1875 - Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1929 († 1955)
1890 - Ted Lewis, bandleader († 1971)
1898 - Ninette de Valois, dancer († 2001)
1901 - Sukarno, first President of independent Indonesia († 1970)
1903 - Aram Khachaturian, composer † [[1978)
1906 - Max August Zorn, mathematician († 1993)
1907 - Bill Dickey, baseball star, coach, manager, scout († 1993)
1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, journalist († 1972)
1934 - King Albert II of Belgium
1934 - Bill Moyers, journalist
1934 - Gilbert Cates, producer, director
1936 - Levi Stubbs, musician ("The Four Tops")
1939 - Louis Andriessen, composer
1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds, musician
1940 - Larry Lujack, disc jockey
1954 - Harvey Fierstein, actor
1956 - Björn Borg, tennis player
1960 - Steve Vai, musician
1961 - Tom Araya, musician ("Slayer")

Deaths

1557 - John III of Portugal
1799 - Patrick Henry, revolutionary
1829 - Shanawdithit, last known Beothuk indian of Newfoundland dies
1832 - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher
1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist
1865 - William Quantrill, Confederate raider
1878 - Robert Stirling, inventor
1891 - Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
1916 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician
1922 - Lillian Russell, actress
1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, dramatist
1961 - Carl Gustav Jung, psychologist
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, former United States Attorney General and Senator from New York
1976 - J. Paul Getty, industrialist
1979 - Jack Haley, actor
1981 - Carleton S. Coon, anthropologist
1984 - A. Bertram Chandler, author
1991 - Stan Getz, musician, composer
1996 - Damon Routier, son of Darlie Routier
1996 - Devon Routier, son of Darlie Routier

Holidays and observances

See Also:

June 5 - June 7 - May 6 - July 6 -- listing of all days

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