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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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- 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 Rivi�res, 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".
- 1491 - Jacques Cartier, explorer (+ 1557)
- 1778 - Beau Brummel[?], fashion leader
- 1811 - James Simpson[?], obstetrician (used chloroform) (+ 1870)
- 1848 - Paul Gauguin, painter (+ 1903)
- 1879 - Knut Rasmussen, explorer (+ 1933)
- 1886 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer (+ 1972)
- 1896 - Imre Nagy, politician (+ 1958)
- 1909 - Jessica Tandy, actress (+ 1994)
- 1917 - Dean Martin, actor (+ 1995)
- 1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks[?], poet
- 1920 - Georges Marchais[?], politician (+ 1997)
- 1928 - James Ivory[?], producer
- 1929 - John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1931 - Malcolm Morley, painter
- 1937 - Claus Peymann[?], theater director
- 1940 - Tom Jones, singer
- 1943 - Nikki Giovanni[?], poet
- 1945 - Wolfgang Sch�ssel[?], Austrian Bundeskanzler since 2000
- 1946 - Bill Kreutzmann[?] of The Grateful Dead
- 1946 - Jenny Jones[?], comedienne, talk show host
- 1952 - Liam Neeson, actor
- 1954 - Louise Erdrich, author
- 1960 - Prince Rogers Nelson, musician
- 1981 - Anna Kournikova, tennis player
- 1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland
- 1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
- 1937 - Jean Harlow[?], actress
- 1954 - Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist
- 1963 - Zasu Pitts, actress
- 1965 - Judy Holliday, actress
- 1966 - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet
- 1967 - Dorothy Parker, writer
- 1970 - E. M. Forster, author
- 1980 - Henry Miller, writer
- 1996 - Max Factor[?], cosmetics pioneer
- 2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium
- Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia[?] (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta
See Also:
June 6 - June 8 - May 7 - July 7 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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