June
6
Independence
Day
Sweden : June 6 1523
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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