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Date | Description | Type |
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7th of June 1099 | EVENT | The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. |
7th of June 1420 | EVENT | Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli. |
7th of June 1494 | EVENT | Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. |
7th of June 1628 | EVENT | The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law. |
7th of June 1654 | EVENT | Louis XIV is crowned King of France. |
7th of June 1692 | EVENT | Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured. |
7th of June 1776 | EVENT | Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence. |
7th of June 1800 | EVENT | David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. |
7th of June 1810 | EVENT | The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina. |
7th of June 1832 | EVENT | Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. |
7th of June 1862 | EVENT | The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade. |
7th of June 1863 | EVENT | During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops. |
7th of June 1866 | EVENT | 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec. |
7th of June 1880 | EVENT | War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campana del Desierto (Desert Campaign). |
7th of June 1892 | EVENT | Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game. |
7th of June 1893 | EVENT | Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience. |
7th of June 1905 | EVENT | Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year. |
7th of June 1906 | EVENT | Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland. |
7th of June 1909 | EVENT | Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16. |
7th of June 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Messines : Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops. |
7th of June 1919 | EVENT | Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed. |
7th of June 1936 | EVENT | The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president. |
7th of June 1938 | EVENT | The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight. |
7th of June 1940 | EVENT | King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Troms? and go into exile in London. |
7th of June 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. |
7th of June 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Midway ends. |
7th of June 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The steamer Danae carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini. |
7th of June 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Normandy : At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war. |
7th of June 1945 | EVENT | King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile. |
7th of June 1948 | EVENT | Edvard Benes resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a constitution making his nation a Communist state. |
7th of June 1955 | EVENT | Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. |
7th of June 1965 | EVENT | The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples. |
7th of June 1967 | EVENT | Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. |
7th of June 1971 | EVENT | The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment. |
7th of June 1975 | EVENT | The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England. |
7th of June 1975 | EVENT | Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public. |
7th of June 1977 | EVENT | 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins. |
7th of June 1981 | EVENT | The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons. |
7th of June 1982 | EVENT | Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. |
7th of June 1991 | EVENT | Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high. |
7th of June 1993 | EVENT | The Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, UK, falls into the sea following a landslide. |
7th of June 1995 | EVENT | The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines. |
7th of June 1529 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Pasquier, French lawyer and writer (d. 1615) |
7th of June 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806) |
7th of June 1761 | BIRTHDAY | John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821) |
7th of June 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828) |
7th of June 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840) |
7th of June 1811 | BIRTHDAY | James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d. 1870) |
7th of June 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892) |
7th of June 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903) |
7th of June 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927) |
7th of June 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930) |
7th of June 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903) |
7th of June 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1947) |
7th of June 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Bones Ely, professional baseball player (d. 1952) |
7th of June 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist (d. 1928) |
7th of June 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Knud Rasmussen, Greenlander explorer (d. 1933) |
7th of June 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Voute, Dutch astronomer (d. 1963) |
7th of June 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956) |
7th of June 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948) |
7th of June 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972) |
7th of June 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander de Seversky, Russian-born aviation pioneer (d. 1974) |
7th of June 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990) |
7th of June 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986) |
7th of June 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958) |
7th of June 1897 | BIRTHDAY | George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970) |
7th of June 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973) |
7th of June 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (d. 1963) |
7th of June 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Herman B Wells, American college president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000) |
7th of June 1905 | BIRTHDAY | James J. Braddock, Irish-American boxer and one-time Heavyweight Champion of the World (d. 1974) |
7th of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland (d. 2002) |
7th of June 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Apgar, American physician and developer of the Apgar test (d. 1974) |
7th of June 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005) |
7th of June 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Tandy, English-born American actress (d. 1994) |
7th of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Sebastian, American football player (d. 1989) |
7th of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Bradford Washburn, American explorer (d. 2007) |
7th of June 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Brooks Stevens, American industrial designer (d. 1995) |
7th of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000) |
7th of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995) |
7th of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997) |
7th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder; adopted daughter of Babe Ruth (d. 1989) |
7th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (d. 1998) |
7th of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975) |
7th of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Deschenes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000) |
7th of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer and lecturer (d. 2008) |
7th of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953) |
7th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | James Ivory, American film director |
7th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Reg Park, British bodybuilder (d. 2007) |
7th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Bowen, Welsh international football manager (d. 1995) |
7th of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (d. 1983) |
7th of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | John Napier Turner, Canadian seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada |
7th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Morley, English painter |
7th of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Score, American baseball player (d. 2008) |
7th of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Crews, American author |
7th of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Kailath, American engineer |
7th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Neeme Jarvi, Estonian conductor |
7th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Goose Gonsoulin, American football player |
7th of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Jones, Welsh singer |
7th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Muammar al-Gaddafi, Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya |
7th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Giovanni, American poet |
7th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Osmond, American actor |
7th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Schussel, Chancellor of Austria |
7th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jenny Jones, Canadian-born American talk show host |
7th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Don Money, American baseball player and manager |
7th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979) |
7th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Graham American actor |
7th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Terry O'Reilly Canadian ice hockey player |
7th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor |
7th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer, Nobel laureate |
7th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Clegg, South African musician |
7th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Colleen Camp, American actress |
7th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster |
7th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Erdrich, American author |
7th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | William Forsythe, American actor |
7th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989) |
7th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Reid, American music producer |
7th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican musician |
7th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paddy McAloon, English singer and songwriter (Prefab Sprout) |
7th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Prince, American musician |
7th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand |
7th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Prady, American television producer |
7th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Catching, American musician |
7th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Thierry Hazard, French singer and songwriter |
7th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver |
7th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cartellone, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) |
7th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Alagna, French tenor |
7th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Judie Aronson, American actress |
7th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Gia Carides, Australian actress |
7th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Foley, American wrestler |
7th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Roque, French singer |
7th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Francois, French footballer and singer |
7th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Hirst, English artist |
7th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Kretz, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots) |
7th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player |
7th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Navarro, American musician |
7th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Buxton, British TV presenter and DJ |
7th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Joachim of Denmark |
7th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Rhodes, American actress |
7th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Kovalenko, Russian hockey player |
7th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Cafu, Brazilian footballer |
7th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Modano, American ice hockey player |
7th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alex X. Mooney, American politician |
7th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Terrell Buckley, American football player |
7th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Urban, New Zealand actor |
7th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Song Yun-ah, South Korean model and actress |
7th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player |
7th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Bear Grylls, British adventurer and former soldier, now Chief Scout |
7th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Cassius Khan, Canadian musician |
7th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Iverson, American basketball player |
7th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Bond, New Zealand cricket player |
7th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Necro, American rapper |
7th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cassidy Rae, American actress |
7th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Marcin Baszczynski, Polish footballer |
7th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Preston Campbell, Australian Rugby League Player |
7th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Horgan, American baseball player |
7th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Odalis Perez, Dominican baseball player |
7th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mini Anden, Swedish model |
7th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tony An, Korean singer (H.O.T) |
7th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Adrienne Frantz, American actress |
7th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Hader, American comedian |
7th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Evelina Papantoniou, Greek fashion model and actress |
7th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Donnelly, Canadian artist |
7th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer |
7th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Moses, American swimmer |
7th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Bywater, British footballer |
7th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Johnson, American baseball player |
7th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer |
7th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Larisa Oleynik, American actress |
7th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player |
7th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Virgil Vasquez, American baseball player |
7th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Jurcina, Slovakian hockey player |
7th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Pierce, American professional basketball player and convicted sex offender |
7th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lowe, American baseball player |
7th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Shorr, American poker player |
7th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Simpson, English singer (Busted, Fightstar) |
7th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Whaley, English footballer |
7th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player |
7th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cera, Canadian actor |
7th of June 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Allison Schmitt, American swimmer |
7th of June 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Fry, American actor |
7th of June 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer and actress |
7th of June 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Jasper Harris, English actor |
7th of June 1329 | DEATH | Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (Born 1274) |
7th of June 1358 | DEATH | Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (Born 1305) |
7th of June 1394 | DEATH | Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (Born 1367) |
7th of June 1618 | DEATH | Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English governor of Virginia (Born 1577) |
7th of June 1676 | DEATH | Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (Born 1606) |
7th of June 1711 | DEATH | Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (Born 1641) |
7th of June 1779 | DEATH | William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (Born 1698) |
7th of June 1810 | DEATH | Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (Born 1765) |
7th of June 1821 | DEATH | Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion leader (Born c. 1780) |
7th of June 1826 | DEATH | Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (Born 1787) |
7th of June 1840 | DEATH | King Frederick William III of Prussia (Born 1770) |
7th of June 1854 | DEATH | Charles Baudin, French admiral (Born 1792) |
7th of June 1859 | DEATH | David Cox, English artist (Born 1783) |
7th of June 1866 | DEATH | Chief Seattle, Native American leader |
7th of June 1879 | DEATH | William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist (Born 1836) |
7th of June 1896 | DEATH | Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (Born 1829) |
7th of June 1911 | DEATH | Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (Born 1842) |
7th of June 1915 | DEATH | Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (Born 1822) |
7th of June 1916 | DEATH | Emile Faguet, French writer and critic (Born 1847) |
7th of June 1927 | DEATH | Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (Born 1847) |
7th of June 1936 | DEATH | Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (Born 1875) |
7th of June 1937 | DEATH | Jean Harlow, American actress (Born 1911) |
7th of June 1942 | DEATH | Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (Born 1903) |
7th of June 1945 | DEATH | Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (Born 1870) |
7th of June 1951 | DEATH | Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (Born 1892) |
7th of June 1954 | DEATH | Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (Born 1912) |
7th of June 1963 | DEATH | Zasu Pitts, American actress (Born 1894) |
7th of June 1965 | DEATH | Judy Holliday, American actress (Born 1921) |
7th of June 1966 | DEATH | Jean Arp, German-born sculptor, painter, and poet (Born 1886) |
7th of June 1967 | DEATH | Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (Born 1909) |
7th of June 1967 | DEATH | Dorothy Parker, American writer (Born 1893) |
7th of June 1968 | DEATH | Dan Duryea, American actor (Born 1907) |
7th of June 1970 | DEATH | E. M. Forster, English author (Born 1879) |
7th of June 1978 | DEATH | Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1897) |
7th of June 1979 | DEATH | Forrest Carter, American author (Born 1925) |
7th of June 1980 | DEATH | Elizabeth Craig, British writer (Born 1883) |
7th of June 1980 | DEATH | Henry Miller, American writer (Born 1891) |
7th of June 1988 | DEATH | Vernon Washington, American actor (Born 1927) |
7th of June 1989 | DEATH | Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (Born 1907) |
7th of June 1992 | DEATH | Bill France, Sr., first president of NASCAR, NASCAR founder (Born 1909) |
7th of June 1993 | DEATH | Drazen Petrovic, Croatian basketball player (Born 1964) |
7th of June 1995 | DEATH | Hsuan Hua, Chinese-born religious leader (Born 1918) |
7th of June 1996 | DEATH | Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (Born 1904) |
7th of June 1999 | DEATH | Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (Born 1942) |
7th of June 2001 | DEATH | Victor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (Born 1907) |
7th of June 2001 | DEATH | Betty Neels, English novelist (Born 1910) |
7th of June 2001 | DEATH | Carole Fredericks, American singer (Born 1952) |
7th of June 2002 | DEATH | Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (Born 1916) |
7th of June 2002 | DEATH | Basappa Danappa Jatti, former Vice-President of India and Acting President (Born 1912) |
7th of June 2003 | DEATH | Trevor Goddard, English actor (Born 1962) |
7th of June 2006 | DEATH | Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born Mujahid (Born 1966) |
7th of June 2006 | DEATH | John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (Born 1963) |
7th of June 2008 | DEATH | Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (Born 1953) |
7th of June 2008 | DEATH | Jim McKay, American sportscaster (Born 1921) |
7th of June 2009 | DEATH | Kenny Rankin, American singer (Born 1940) |
7th of June 2009 | DEATH | Hugh Hopper, British musician (Born 1945) |
7th of June 2010 | DEATH | Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (Born 1970) |
7th of June 2010 | DEATH | Adriana Xenides, Australian TV personality (Born 1956) |
7th of June 2010 | DEATH | Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (Born 1928) |