06 June History


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  • 1523    -    Gustav Vasa becomes king of Sweden.
  • 1641    -    Spain loses Portugal.
  • 1674    -    Sivaji crowns himself King of India.
  • 1813    -    The United States invasion of Canada is halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.
  • 1862    -    The city of Memphis surrenders to the Union navy after an intense naval engagement on the Mississippi River.
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  • 1865    -    Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill dies from a wound received while escaping a Union patrol near Taylorsville, Kentucky.
  • 1918    -    U.S. Marines enter combat at the Battle of Belleau Wood.
  • 1924    -    The German Reichstag accepts the Dawes Plan, an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.
  • 1930    -    Frozen foods are sold commercially for the first time.
  • 1934    -    President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • 1941    -    The U.S. government authorizes the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports.
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  • 1944    -    D-Day: Operation Overlord lands 400,000 Allied American, British, and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France.
  • 1961    -    Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, dies.
  • 1966    -    African American James Meridith is shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks.
  • 1982    -    Israel invades southern Lebanon.
  • 1985    -    The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele is located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil.

  • 06 June Birthdays

  • 1606    -    Pierre Corneille, French author.
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  • 1755    -    Nathan Hale, American revolutionary.
  • 1756    -    John Trumball, American painter.
  • 1799    -    Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer (Boris Godunov, The Queen of Spades).
  • 1868    -    Robert F. Scott, British explorer.
  • 1872    -    Alexandra, the last Russian Czarina.
  • 1875    -    Thomas Mann, German novelist and essayist, forced into exile by the Nazis.
  • 1902    -    Jimmie Lunceford, bandleader.
  • 1907    -    Bill Dickey, professional baseball player.
  • 1925    -    Maxine Kumin, poet novelist and children's author.
  • 1934    -    Bill Moyers, American broadcast journalist, press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson.
  • 1939    -    Marian Wright Edelman, first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar, founder of the Children's Defense Fund.