June 7

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June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining.

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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Events

1099 - Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
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 at 11:43am; 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-Rivi�res, Quebec.
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 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.
1905 - Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved.
1914 - The first vessel passes through the locks of the Panama Canal.
1917 - World War I: Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1919 - Sette Giugno - Riot in Malta. 4 people killed.
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 Troms� and go into exile in London.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
1942 - Japanese 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 sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
1965 US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectivly 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.
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.
1989 - At 01:23:45 AM the time and date by US reckoning was 01:23:45 6/7/89. This was also true 12 hours later excepting 24-hour time.
1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".

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Births

1761 - John Rennie, engineer (d. 1821)
1778 - Beau Brummell, fashion leader
1811 - James Simpson, obstetrician (d. 1870)
1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
1879 - Knut Rasmussen, explorer (d. 1933)
1886 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1897 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)
1899 - Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973)
1909 - Jessica Tandy, actress (d. 1994)
1909 - Virginia Apgar, childbirth specialist (d. 1974)
1911 - Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d. 1995)
1917 - Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)
1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, poet (d. 2000)
1920 - Georges Marchais, politician (d. 1997)
1928 - James Ivory, producer
1929 - John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada
1931 - Malcolm Morley, painter
1937 - Neeme J�rvi, Estonian conductor
1937 - Claus Peymann, theater director
1938 - Goose Gonsoulin, American football player
1940 - Tom Jones, singer
1941 - Jaime Laredo, violinist
1943 - Nikki Giovanni, poet
1945 - Wolfgang Sch�ssel, Chancellor of Austria
1946 - Jenny Jones, comedienne and talk show host
1952 - Liam Neeson, Irish actor
1954 - Louise Erdrich, author
1956 - L.A. Reid, Famed Music Producer
1955 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
1958 - Prince, musician
1965 - Mick Foley, professional wrestler and author
1972 - Karl Urban, actor
1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis player
1975 - Allen Iverson, basketball player
1981 - Anna Kournikova, tennis player
1981 - Larisa Oleynik, actress
1988 - Michael Cera, actor

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Deaths

1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1305)
1779 - William Warburton, English critic, Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1937 - Jean Harlow, actress (b. 1911)
1954 - Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist (b. 1912)
1963 - Zasu Pitts, actress (b. 1894)
1965 - Judy Holliday, actress (b. 1921)
1966 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
1967 - Dorothy Parker, writer (b. 1893)
1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1979 - Forrest Carter, author (b. 1925)
1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
1993 - Dražen Petrović, Basketball Hall of Famer (b. 1964)
1996 - Max Factor, cosmetics pioneer
2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of R�thy, Belgium (b. 1916)
2003 - Trevor Goddard, actor (b. 1962)
2004 - Quorthon, musician (b. 1966)

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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.

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