06 June History
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.