UN
Day
World
Food Safety Day
Events
of the day
421 – Emperor Theodosius
II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding is
celebrated at Constantinople (Turkey).
1099 – The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem
begins.
1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice
capture Udine, ending the independence of
the Patriarchal State of Friuli.
1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty
of Tordesillas which divides the New World
between the two countries.
1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English
constitutional document, is granted the
Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a
catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes,
1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously
injured.
1776 – 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.
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth
of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres
is first published in Argentina.
1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought
by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000
people in Lower Canada.
1862 – The United States and the United
Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 – During the French intervention in
Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French
troops.
1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled
back to the United States after they loot
and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg,
Quebec.
1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of
Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica
(Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del
Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first
President of the United States to attend
a baseball game.
1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing
to leave his seat in the "whites-only"
car of a train; he would lose the resulting
court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
1893 – Mohandas Gandhi's first act of civil
disobedience.
1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie
Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing
alcohol-serving establishments by destroying
the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its
union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed
by a national plebiscite on August 13 of
that year.
1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched
at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank),
Scotland.
1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut
at the age of 16.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines –
Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches
at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing
10,000 German troops.
1919 – Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four
are killed.
1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing
Vatican City into existence.
1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its
first president.
1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first
test flight.
1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav,
and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø
and go into exile in London.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway
ends.
1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign:
Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands
of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands
off Alaska.
1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae carrying
350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans
is sunk without survivors off the shore
of Santorini.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy
– At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division
Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners
of war.
1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns
with his family to Oslo after five years
in exile.
1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President
of Czechoslovakia rather than sign the Ninth-of-May
Constitution making his nation a Communist
state.
1955 – 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.
1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States
hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut,
effectively legalizing the use of contraception
by married couples.
1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during
the Six-Day War.
1971 – 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.
1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service
raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal
possession of hand grenades, which all turn
out to be inert or dummies.
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette
recorder for sale to the public.
1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins
in England.
1977 – 500 million people watch on television
as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Queen
Elizabeth II begins.
1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's
Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation
Opera. The facility could have been used
to make nuclear weapons.
1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland
to the public; the bathroom where Elvis
Presley died five years earlier is kept
off-limits.
1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes
on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International
Airport in Suriname due to pilot error,
killing 176 of 187 aboard.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo explodes generating
an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
1995 – The long-range Boeing 777 enters
service with United Airlines.
1998 – James Byrd, Jr. of Texas is killed
when white supremacists drag him behind
a pickup truck along an asphalt pavement.
2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue
Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader
of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in an airstrike
by the United States Air Force.
Holidays
and observances
Anniversary
of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark)
Christian Feast Day:
Colmán of Dromore
Paul I of Constantinople
Robert of Newminster
June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Flag Day (Peru)
Journalist Day (Argentina)
Sette Giugno (Malta)
The first day of the Vestalia (Roman Empire)
Union Dissolution Day (Norway)
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