June 6

June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining.

Events

• 1513 - The Battle of Novara is fought
• 1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden
• 1683 - The Ashmolean Museum opens
• 1809 - Sweden promulgates the Constitution of 1809
• 1833 - President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train
• 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London
• 1862 - American Civil War: The Union captures Memphis, Tennessee
• 1918 - World War I: The Battle of Belleau Wood[?] begins
• 1925 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded
• 1933 - The first drive-in theater[?] opens, in Camden, New Jersey
• 1942 - World War II: Nazis burn the village of Lidice, Bohemia, as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich
• 1944 - World War II: D-Day: attack on Normandy by Allied forces
• 1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, is published
• 1956 - David Marshall[?], Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns
• 1966 - James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi
• 1971 - Soyuz 11 launches
• 1974 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy
• 1976 - The Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end of apartheid
• 1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele located and exhumed
• 1991 - George and Barbara Loeb, members of the Church of the Creator[?], are arrested and charged with murder
• 2002 - The United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee announces it is probing Martha Stewart's ImClone stock sales

Births

• 1502 - King John III of Portugal (+ 1557)
• 1553 - Bernardino Baldi, mathematican (+ 1617)
• 1599 - Diego Velázquez, painter (+ 1660)
• 1606 - Pierre Corneille, dramatist (+ 1648)
• 1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez[?], Jesuit missionary and explorer (+1857)
• 1755 - Nathan Hale[?], writer, patriot
• 1756 - Jonathan Trumbull[?], painter
• 1799 - Alexander Pushkin poet (+ 1837)
• 1810 - Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, classical scholar (+ 1856)
• 1850 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1909 (+ 1918)
• 1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, mathematician (+ 1918)
• 1862 - Henry John Newbolt, author (+ 1938)
• 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, explorer (+ 1912)
• 1872 - Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (+ 1918)
• 1875 - Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1929 (+ 1955)
• 1890 - Ted Lewis, bandleader (+ 1971)
• 1898 - Ninette de Valois, dancer (+ 2001)
• 1901 - Sukarno, first President of independent Indonesia (+ 1970)
• 1903 - Aram Khachaturian, composer [[+ 1978)
• 1906 - Max August Zorn, mathematician (+ 1993)
• 1907 - Bill Dickey[?], baseball star, coach, manager, scout (+ 1993)
• 1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, journalist (+ 1972)
• 1934 - King Albert II of Belgium
• 1934 - Bill Moyers, journalist
• 1934 - Gilbert Cates[?], producer, director
• 1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
• 1936 - Levi Stubbs[?], musician ("The Four Tops")
• 1939 - Louis Andriessen, composer
• 1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds[?], musician
• 1940 - Larry Lujack, disc jockey
• 1954 - Harvey Fierstein, actor
• 1956 - Björn Borg, tennis player
• 1960 - Steve Vai, musician
• 1961 - Tom Araya, musician ("Slayer")

Deaths

• 1557 - John III of Portugal
• 1799 - Patrick Henry, revolutionary
• 1829 - Shanawdithit[?], last known Beothuk indian of Newfoundland dies
• 1831 or 1832 - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher
• 1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist
• 1865 - William Quantrill[?], Confederate raider
• 1878 - Robert Stirling, inventor
• 1891 - Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
• 1916 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician
• 1922 - Lillian Russell[?], actress
• 1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, dramatist
• 1961 - Carl Gustav Jung, psychologist
• 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, former United States Attorney General and Senator from New York
• 1976 - J. Paul Getty, industrialist
• 1979 - Jack Haley[?], actor
• 1981 - Carleton S. Coon, anthropologist
• 1984 - A. Bertram Chandler, author
• 1991 - Stan Getz[?], musician, composer

Holidays and observances

• National holiday of Sweden
• Queensland Day
• South Korean Memorial Day

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