June
7
Events
June
7
421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia
Eudocia. The wedding is celebrated at Constantinople
(Turkey).
1099 – The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem
begins.
1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture
Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal
State of Friuli.
1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty
of Tordesillas which divides the New World
between the two countries.
1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English
constitutional document, is granted the Royal
Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic
earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people
are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee
Resolution" to the Continental Congress.
The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads
to the United States Declaration of Independence.
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of
the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres
is first published in Argentina.
1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought
by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000
people in Lower Canada.
1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom
agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico,
Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back
to the United States after they loot and plunder
around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica,
assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica
Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto
(Desert Campaign).
1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first
President of the United States to attend a
baseball game.
1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing
to leave his seat in the "whites-only"
car of a train; he would lose the resulting
court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
1893 – Mohandas Gandhi's first act of civil
disobedience.
1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie
Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing
alcohol-serving establishments by destroying
the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union
with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a
national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched
at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank),
Scotland.
1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut
at the age of 16.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied
ammonal mines underneath German trenches at
Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000
German troops.
1919 – Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are
killed.
1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing
Vatican City into existence.
1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Philip Murray is elected its first president.
1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test
flight.
1940 – King Haakon VII, 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 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign:
Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands
of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands
off Alaska.
1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae carrying
350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is
sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy –
At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division
Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners
of war.
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 the Ninth-of-May
Constitution making his nation a Communist
state.
1955 – Lux Radio Theater signs off the air
permanently. The show launched in New York
in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of
Broadway shows and popular films.
1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States
hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut,
effectively legalizing the use of contraception
by married couples.
1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during
the Six-Day War.
1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturns
the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing
the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar
writing is protected under the First Amendment.
1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service
raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession
of hand grenades, which all turn out to be
inert or dummies.
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette
recorder for sale to the public.
1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins
in England.
1977 – 500 million people watch on television
as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Queen
Elizabeth II begins.
1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's
Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
The facility could have been used to make
nuclear weapons.
1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to
the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley
died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes
on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International
Airport in Suriname due to pilot error, killing
176 of 187 aboard.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo explodes generating
an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
1995 – The long-range Boeing 777 enters service
with United Airlines.
1998 – James Byrd, Jr. of Texas is killed
when white supremacists drag him behind a
pickup truck along an asphalt pavement.
2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue
Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of
Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in an airstrike
by the United States Air Force.
Holidays
and observances
Anniversary
of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark)
Christian Feast Day:
Colmán of Dromore
Paul I of Constantinople
Robert of Newminster
June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Flag Day (Peru)
Journalist Day (Argentina)
Sette Giugno (Malta)
The first day of the Vestalia (Roman Empire)
Union Dissolution Day (Norway)
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