June 7

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

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-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.
• 1905 - Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved.
• 1914 - The first vessel passes through the locks of the Panama Canal.
• 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 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 sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
• 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".

Births

• 1491 - Jacques Cartier, explorer (d. 1557)
• 1761 - John Rennie, engineer (d. 1821)
• 1778 - Beau Brummel, 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
• 1909 - Jessica Tandy, actress (d. 1994)
• 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 - Neemi Järvi, Estonian conductor
• 1937 - Claus Peymann, theater director
• 1938 - Goose Gonsoulin, American football player
• 1940 - Tom Jones, singer
• 1943 - Nikki Giovanni, poet
• 1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
• 1946 - Bill Kreutzmann, musician (Grateful Dead)
• 1946 - Jenny Jones, comedienne and talk show host
• 1952 - Liam Neeson, Irish actor
• 1954 - Louise Erdrich, author
• 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

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 Réthy, Belgium (b. 1916)
• 2003 - Trevor Goddard, actor (b. 1962)
• 2004 - Quorthon, musician (b. 1966)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta

External links

• BBC: On This Day

---

June 6 - June 8 - May 7 - July 7 -- listing of all days