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June 7

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

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
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 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
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
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.
1948 - Eduard Benes 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
1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".

See Also:

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

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