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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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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 - 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.
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 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; four 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 Tromsø 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 signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
1965 - The 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.
1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
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)
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)
1886 - Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
1896 - Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1897 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)
1899 - Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973)
1909 - Jessica Tandy, English-born actress (d. 1994)
1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974)
1911 - Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d. 1995)
1917 - Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)
1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
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, Irish actor
1954 - Louise Erdrich, American author
1956 - L.A. Reid, American music producer
1955 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
1958 - Prince, American musician
1965 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and author
1972 - Karl Urban, New Zeland actor
1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
1975 - Allen Iverson, American basketball player
1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
1981 - Larisa Oleynik, Ukrainian-born actress

Deaths

1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 - Anne of Bohemia, queen 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)
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
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)
2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (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.