Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
June 7
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Events== ===Pre-1600=== * [[421]] – Emperor [[Theodosius II]] marries [[Aelia Eudocia]] at [[Istanbul|Constantinople]] ([[Byzantine Empire]]).<ref>{{cite book|author1=Dumbarton Oaks|author2=Melinda Mays|author3=Philip Grierson|title=Catalogue of Late Roman Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: From Arcadius and Honorius to the Accession of Anastasius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sdCjnwoQLR0C&pg=PA155|year=1992|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks|isbn=978-0-88402-193-3|pages=155}}</ref> * [[879]] – [[Pope John VIII]] recognises the [[Duchy of Croatia]] under Duke [[Branimir of Croatia|Branimir]] as an independent state.<ref>{{cite book|title=Croatia Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_a0cAQAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Croatia Press|page=58}}</ref> *[[1002]] – [[Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry II]], a cousin of Emperor [[Otto III]], is elected and crowned [[Kingdom of Germany|King of Germany]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Alexander|first=James W.|chapter=Henry II The Saint|title=The Middle Ages Dictionary of World Biography. Volume 2|date=12 November 2012 |editor-last=Magill|editor-first=Frank N.|location=New York|publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780203058527|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aBHSc2hTfeUC|page=449}}</ref> *[[1099]] – [[First Crusade]]: The [[Siege of Jerusalem (1099)|Siege of Jerusalem]] begins.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|chapter=Jerusalem, Crusader Siege of (June 7-July 15, 1099)|title=Middle East Conflicts From Ancient Egypt to the 21st Century: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection|editor-last=Tucker|editor-first=Spencer C.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2019|isbn=9781440853524|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkTPEAAAQBAJ|page=662}}</ref> *[[1420]] – Troops of the [[Republic of Venice]] capture [[Udine]], ending the independence of the [[Patria del Friuli]]. *[[1494]] – [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] sign the [[Treaty of Tordesillas]] which divides the [[New World]] between the two countries. ===1601–1900=== *[[1628]] – The [[Petition of Right]], a [[Fundamental Laws of England|major English constitutional document]], is granted the [[Royal Assent]] by [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] and becomes law. *[[1640]] – [[Corpus de Sang]] in [[Barcelona]]: Catalan reapers rioted against Spanish Royal soldiers and officers, killing the [[Viceroy of Catalonia]], [[Dalmau de Queralt, Count of Santa Coloma|Dalmau de Queralt]]. Escalation of hostilities between the [[Principality of Catalonia]] and the [[Habsburg Spain|Spanish Monarchy]], leading to the [[Reapers' War]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Corteguera|first1=Luis R.|title=For the Common Good: Popular Politics in Barcelona, 1580-1640|date=2002|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0801437806|page=188|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HhAjV4KygdQC&dq=Corpus+de+Sang&pg=PA188|accessdate=27 April 2018|language=en}}</ref> *[[1654]] – [[Louis XIV]] is crowned King of [[Kingdom of France|France]]. *[[1692]] – [[Port Royal, Jamaica]], is hit by a [[1692 Jamaica earthquake|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 will lead to the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. *[[1788]] – [[French Revolution]]: [[Day of the Tiles]]: Civilians in [[Grenoble]] toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops. *[[1800]] – [[David Thompson (explorer)|David Thompson]] reaches the mouth of the [[Saskatchewan River]] in [[Manitoba]]. *[[1810]] – The newspaper ''[[Gazeta de Buenos Ayres]]'' is first published in [[Argentina]]. *[[1832]] – The [[Reform Act 1832|Great Reform Act]] of England and Wales receives royal assent. * 1832 – [[1829–51 cholera pandemic|Asian cholera]] reaches [[Quebec]], brought by [[Irish Canadian|Irish immigrants]], and kills about 6,000 people in [[Lower Canada]]. *[[1862]] – The United States and the [[United Kingdom]] agree in the [[Lyons–Seward Treaty of 1862|Lyons–Seward Treaty]] to suppress the [[Atlantic slave trade|African slave trade]]. *[[1866]] – One thousand eight hundred [[Fenian raids|Fenian raiders]] are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the [[Saint-Armand, Quebec|Saint-Armand]] and [[Frelighsburg, Quebec|Frelighsburg]] areas of [[Canada East]]. *[[1880]] – [[War of the Pacific]]: The [[Battle of Arica]], the assault and capture of [[Morro de Arica]] (Arica Cape), ends the ''Campaña del Desierto'' (Desert Campaign). *[[1892]] – [[Homer Plessy]] is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]''. *[[1899]] – American [[Temperance movement in the United States|Temperance]] crusader [[Carrie Nation]] begins her campaign of [[vandalism|vandalizing]] alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in [[Kiowa, Kansas]]. ===1901–present=== *[[1905]] – Norway's parliament [[Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden|dissolves]] its [[Union between Sweden and Norway|union with Sweden]]. The vote was confirmed by a national [[1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum|plebiscite]] on [[August 13]] of that year. *[[1906]] – [[Cunard Line]]'s {{RMS|Lusitania}} is launched from the [[John Brown Shipyard]], [[Glasgow]] ([[Clydebank]]), Scotland. *[[1917]] – [[World War I]]: [[Battle of Messines (1917)|Battle of Messines]]: Allied soldiers detonate [[Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917)|a series of mines]] underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops. *[[1919]] – [[Sette Giugno]]: Nationalist riots break out in [[Valletta]], the capital of [[Malta]]. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people. *[[1929]] – The [[Lateran Treaty]] is ratified, bringing [[Vatican City]] into existence. *[[1938]] – The [[Douglas DC-4E]] makes its first test flight. * 1938 – [[Second Sino-Japanese War]]: The [[Kuomintang|Chinese Nationalist]] government creates the [[1938 Yellow River flood]] to halt [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese forces]]. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed. *[[1940]] – [[Haakon VII of Norway|King Haakon VII]], [[Olav V of Norway|Crown Prince Olav]] and the Norwegian government leave [[Tromsø (city)|Tromsø]] and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later. *[[1942]] – [[World War II]]: The [[Battle of Midway]] ends in American victory. * 1942 – World War II: [[Aleutian Islands Campaign]]: [[Empire of Japan|Imperial Japanese]] soldiers begin occupying the American islands of [[Attu Island|Attu]] and [[Kiska]], in the [[Aleutian Islands]] off Alaska. *[[1944]] – World War II: [[Invasion of Normandy|Battle of Normandy]]: At [[Ardenne Abbey]], members of the [[SS Division Hitlerjugend]] [[Ardenne Abbey massacre|massacre]] 23 Canadian [[prisoners of war]]. *[[1945]] – King [[Haakon VII of Norway]] returns from exactly [[Union Dissolution Day#Royal return after WWII|five years]] in [[exile]] during World War II. *[[1946]] – The United Kingdom's [[BBC]] returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II. *[[1948]] – [[1948 Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada|Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada]] take place.<ref name=Atrakchi>Dalit Atrakchi (2001). "The Moroccan Nationalist Movement and Its Attitude toward Jews and Zionism". In Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev. The Divergence of Judaism and Islam. University Press of Florida. p. 163.: "...the riots that broke out on 7 June 1948 in the cities of Oujda and Jerada, close to the border between Morocco and Algeria, which served as a transfer station for Moroccan Jews on their way to Israel... It is believed that the riots were brought on by the speech given a short while earlier by Sultan Muḥammad Ben-Yussuf, which inveighed against the Zionists and cried for solidarity with the Arabs fighting in Israel."</ref> * 1948 – [[Edvard Beneš]] resigns as [[List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia|President]] of [[Czechoslovakia]] rather than signing the [[Ninth-of-May Constitution]], making his nation a [[Communist state]]. *[[1955]] – ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'' signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] shows and popular films. *[[1962]] – The [[Organisation Armée Secrète]] (OAS) sets fire to the [[University of Algiers]] library building, destroying about 500,000 books. *[[1965]] – The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] hands down its decision in ''[[Griswold v. Connecticut]]'', prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of [[contraception]] by married couples. *[[1967]] – [[Six-Day War]]: [[Israel]]i soldiers enter [[Jerusalem]]. *[[1971]] – The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of [[Cohen v. California|Paul Cohen]] for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]]. * 1971 – The [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division]] of the U.S. [[Internal Revenue Service]] raids the home of [[Ken Ballew raid|Ken Ballew]] for illegal possession of [[hand grenade]]s. * 1971 – [[Allegheny Airlines Flight 485]] crashes on approach to [[Tweed New Haven Airport]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], killing 28 of 31 aboard.<ref name="ASN">{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-580 N5832 New Haven Airport, CT (HVN) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19710607-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050421111333/http://www.aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19710607-0 |archive-date=2005-04-21 |access-date=2021-02-19 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref> *[[1975]] – [[Sony]] launches [[Betamax]], the first [[videocassette recorder]] format.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Long|first=Tony|title=June 7, 1975: Before Digital, Before VHS ... There Was Betamax|language=en-US|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/2011/06/0607betamax-vcr-television-recorder/|access-date=2022-01-18|issn=1059-1028}}</ref> *[[1977]] – Five hundred million people watch the high day of the [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Silver Jubilee]] of Queen [[Elizabeth II]] begin on television. *[[1981]] – The [[Israeli Air Force]] destroys [[Iraq]]'s Osiraq [[nuclear reactor]] during [[Operation Opera]]. *[[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]] because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard. *[[1991]] – [[Mount Pinatubo]] [[1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo|erupts]], generating an ash column {{convert|7|km|mi}} high. *[[2000]] – The [[United Nations]] defines the [[Blue Line (Lebanon)|Blue Line]] as the border between [[Israel]] and [[Lebanon]]. *[[2017]] – A [[Myanmar Air Force]] [[Shaanxi Y-8]] [[2017 Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crash|crashes]] into the [[Andaman Sea]] near [[Dawei]], Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Shaanxi Y-8F-200W 5820 Dawei|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20170607-0|access-date=2021-05-19|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)