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Sweden : June 6 1523
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Events
June 6
1513
– Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss
troops defeat the French under Louis de
la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon
Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1523 – Gustav Vasa is crowned king of Sweden
this is the Swedish national day
1644 – The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led
by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during
the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus
would rule China until 1912 when the Republic
of China is established.
1654 – Charles X succeeds his abdicated
cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.
1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire
is crowned.
1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England,
opens as the world's first university museum.
1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third
of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte
is crowned King of Spain.
1809 – Sweden promulgates a new Constitution,
which restores political power to the Riksdag
of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened
absolutism. At the same time, Charles XIII
is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as
King of Sweden.
1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek
– A British force of 700 under John Vincent
defeats an American force two times its
size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1822 – Alexis St. Martin accidentally shot
in the stomach, which leads way to William
Beaumont's studies on digestion.
1832 – The June Rebellion of Paris is put
down by the National Guard.
1833 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes
the first President to ride on a train.
1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association
(YMCA) is founded in London.
1857 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future
King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
1859 – Australia: Queensland is established
as a separate colony from New South Wales
(Queensland Day).
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis
– Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee,
from the Confederates.
1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of
Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian
Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of
Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the
Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus
Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory
leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories
south of the Abay River.
1889 – The Great Seattle fire destroys the
entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
1892 – Chicago 'L' begins operation
1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the
Colorado state militia to protect and support
the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek
miners' strike.
1909 – French troops capture Abéché (in
modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan
in the Ouaddai Empire.
1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska
begins. It is the second largest volcanic
eruption of the 20th century.
1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood
– The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst
single day's casualties while attempting
to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
1921 – The Southwark Bridge in London, is
opened for traffic by King George V and
Queen Mary.
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 – The first drive-in theater opens,
in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1934 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin
D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of
1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission.
1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known
as the "Missingest Man in New York",
is declared legally dead.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S.
Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser
Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy
begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord,
commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied
troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.
The allied soldiers quickly break through
the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the
largest amphibious military operation in
history.
1946 – The National Basketball Association
is created, with eleven original teams.
1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket
launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated,
though they never resume.
1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes
Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United
States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4
Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California
claims 50 lives.
1971 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh
between Australian and Vietnamese communist
forces begins.
1974 – A new Instrument of Government is
promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary
monarchy.
1981 – Bihar train disaster 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 – 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under
Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade
southern Lebanon in their "Operation
Peace for the Galilee", eventually
reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video
games of all-time, is released.
1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard"
is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains
found are later proven to be those of Josef
Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death".
Mengele is thought to have drowned while
swimming in February 1979.
1993 – Mongolia holds its first direct presidential
elections.
2002 – Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth
asteroid estimated at 10 meters 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 – 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 upholds
a federal law banning cannabis, including
medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Claude the Thaumaturge
Marcellin Champagnat
Norbert of Xanten
June 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Memorial Day (South Korea)
National Day, marks the end of the Danish-ruled
Kalmar Union and the day Gustav Vasa got
elected king of Sweden (Sweden)
National Huntington's Disease Awareness
Day (United States)
Queensland Day (Queensland)
Teachers' Day (Bolivia)
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