Notable Historical Events on June 6th
June 6th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1002 |
German King Henry II the Saint crowned |
1242 |
24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris |
1391 |
Inhabitants of Seville, Spain, massacres 5,000 Jews |
1513 |
Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois |
1520 |
France & England sign treaty of Scotland |
1523 |
Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union. |
1536 |
Mexico begins its inquisition |
1639 |
Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill |
1654 |
Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to Catholicism |
1660 |
Denmark & Sweden sign peace treaty |
1665 |
Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army beat Spain |
1673 |
France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty |
1683 |
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum. |
1716 |
1st slaves arrive in Louisiana |
1744 |
France & Prussia sign peace treaty |
1752 |
3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed |
1772 |
Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago |
1795 |
Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured |
1801 |
Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal |
1809 |
Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established with a new constituion empowering Riksdag after 20 years of absolute monarchy |
1813 |
US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont) |
1816 |
10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer" (Mount Tambora) |
1831 |
2nd national black convention (Phila) |
1832 |
The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end. |
1844 |
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London |
1850 |
Levi Strauss make his 1st pair of blue jeans |
1859 |
Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day). |
1861 |
Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers |
1862 |
Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered |
1862 |
Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry) |
1862 |
Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA |
1863 |
Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD |
1864 |
Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou) |
1875 |
Netherlands goes on the gold standard |
1882 |
Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 |
1882 |
Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC |
1882 |
The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River. |
1885 |
19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43 |
1885 |
Opera "Lakmé" is produced (Paris) |
1889 |
Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks |
1890 |
United States Polo Association forms, NYC |
1892 |
Chicago South Side Elevated Railroad opens (1st 3.6 miles) |
1896 |
21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51 |
1896 |
Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo leave NY harbor to row across Atlantic; their 55 day record for rowing was not broken for 114 year |
1900 |
In China, Boxers cut off all railroad links between Peking and Tientsin, main port city of Peking |
1900 |
US Congress pass an act authorizing a civil code and government for the territory of Alaska after gold discoveries bring lawlessness and disorder to the area |
1903 |
President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France |
1904 |
National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ |
1905 |
French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request |
1906 |
Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz). |
1911 |
Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified) |
1912 |
The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. |
1913 |
Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times |
1914 |
1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway) |
1916 |
Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage |
1916 |
With the death of Yuan Shikai, who has ruled much of China since 1912, the central government virtually collapses in the face of warlords who assert themselves, including Sun Yat-Sen |
1918 |
Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I |
1919 |
Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910 |
1919 |
Finland declares war on bolsheviks |
1919 |
The Republic of Prekmurje ends. |
1920 |
Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army |
1921 |
Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0 |
1921 |
Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary. |
1923 |
Gangster Albert Anastasia is convicted of illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years in prison |
1924 |
28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich |
1925 |
Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old) |
1926 |
Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms |
1931 |
"There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1 |
1931 |
Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians |
1932 |
Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile |
1932 |
Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg |
1932 |
US Federal gas tax enacted |
1932 |
The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold. |
1933 |
1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ) |
1933 |
US Employment Service created |
1934 |
Securities & Exchange Commission established |
1934 |
Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game |
1936 |
40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
1936 |
68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30 |
1936 |
Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ |
1937 |
Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game |
1938 |
Sigmund Freud arrives in London |
1939 |
NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning |
1939 |
NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead |
1941 |
1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched |
1941 |
Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time |
1942 |
1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray) |
1942 |
74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2 |
1942 |
Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway |
1942 |
Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians |
1944 |
82nd Airborne division WWII D-day-landing at Ste Mere Eglise |
1944 |
Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion |
1944 |
Operation Neptune, D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France in WWII |
1944 |
Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad |
1944 |
Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor |
1944 |
U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje |
1944 |
Alaska Airlines commences operations. |
1945 |
"Free People" premieres in Amsterdam |
1946 |
11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season |
1946 |
Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV |
1946 |
Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip |
1946 |
The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City. |
1947 |
Treaty drawn for establishment of Intl Patent Institute |
1949 |
"It Pays To Be Ignorant" game show debut on CBS-TV |
1949 |
WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1950 |
German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border |
1950 |
Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized. |
1954 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
1955 |
Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1 |
1956 |
David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns. |
1958 |
Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger |
1958 |
Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French |
1960 |
Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely" |
1960 |
South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill |
1960 |
"Steve Allen Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
1962 |
Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums |
1963 |
Gasunie established |
1964 |
96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6 |
1964 |
Beatles arrive in Netherlands |
1964 |
Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume. |
1965 |
Rolling Stones release single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" |
1965 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational |
1965 |
Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating White Sox 12-0 |
1966 |
Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi |
1966 |
Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator" |
1966 |
NFL & AFL announce their merger |
1966 |
Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement |
1967 |
Israeli troops occupy Gaza |
1968 |
WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Senator robert kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night. |
1969 |
Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar |
1970 |
102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34 |
1971 |
"Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV |
1971 |
Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die |
1971 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in NYC |
1971 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
1971 |
Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station |
1971 |
WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, GA (CBN) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
Willie Mays hits record 22nd & last extra inning HR |
1972 |
David Bowie releases "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust" |
1972 |
Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia) |
1972 |
Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London |
1972 |
US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed |
1974 |
47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte |
1974 |
A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy. |
1975 |
British voters decide to remain in Common Market |
1975 |
Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning |
1975 |
Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established |
1976 |
30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2 |
1976 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic |
1977 |
"Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb |
1977 |
Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert for United Way |
1977 |
Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss) |
1977 |
Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws |
1978 |
Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57% |
1979 |
200th running of horse's Derby in England |
1979 |
Royal Air Force receives 1st F-16 |
1979 |
Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors |
1981 |
113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29 |
1981 |
51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64) |
1981 |
Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial |
1981 |
A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed. |
1982 |
30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO |
1982 |
36th Tony Awards: Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby & Nine win |
1982 |
52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64) |
1982 |
Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY |
1982 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic |
1983 |
17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins & Roy Acuff |
1983 |
Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland |
1983 |
Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time |
1983 |
Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR |
1983 |
Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats |
1983 |
Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1 |
1984 |
1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India |
1985 |
55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75) |
1985 |
58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu |
1985 |
Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed |
1985 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba |
1985 |
Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station |
1986 |
Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m) |
1986 |
Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself |
1987 |
119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2 |
1987 |
57th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (6-4 4-6 8-6) |
1987 |
NY Yankees play their 13,000th game |
1988 |
22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis & Statler Brothers |
1988 |
3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant |
1988 |
George H W Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989) |
1989 |
Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4 |
1990 |
2nd International Rock Awards |
1990 |
For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game |
1990 |
Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager |
1991 |
Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball |
1991 |
Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store |
1991 |
NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992 |
1991 |
Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley |
1992 |
124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26 |
1992 |
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1992 |
Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car |
1992 |
NY Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter |
1992 |
WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17 (Montreal) |
1993 |
47th Tony Awards: Angels in America & Kiss of the Spider Woman win |
1993 |
63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63) |
1993 |
6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
1993 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
1993 |
Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia |
1993 |
Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected pres of Guatemala |
1994 |
28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Ray Stevens |
1994 |
6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia (about 1000 killed) |
1994 |
Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham |
1994 |
CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade |
1994 |
Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day |
1994 |
Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed |
1994 |
Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham |
1998 |
130th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Victory Gallop wins in 2:29 |
1998 |
68th French Womens Tennis: |
1999 |
53rd Tony Awards: Fosse & Side Man win |
1999 |
In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299 by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937. |
1999 |
At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed. |
2002 |
Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. |
2004 |
58th Tony Awards: Avenue Q & I Am My Own Wife win |
2004 |
Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament. |
2005 |
The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich. |
2009 |
141st Belmont: Kent Desormeaux aboard Summer Bird wins in 2:27.54 |
2012 |
Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs |
2012 |
The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun |
2012 |
46th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert & Luke Bryan wins |
2013 |
Kevin Barry's City of Bohane wins the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award |
2016 |
Taiwan says won't recognize Chinese air defense zone over South China Sea |
2016 |
Australia storm kills three people, with more missing |
2017 |
Bloomberg delivers US pledge to continue Paris climate goals to UN |
2017 |
US State Dept approves $1.4 billion in military sales to Saudi |
2017 |
50 years today since the start of the 1967 Middle East War |
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