June 7

2024 Calendar

June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 207 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture the city of Udine.
1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas splits the "New World" between Spain and Portugal.
1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted Royal Assent by King Charles I of England and becomes law.
1654 – Louis XIV of France is crowned King.
1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is destroyed by an earthquake, killing 1,000 people.
1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the Lee Resolution to the Continental Congress.
1788 – Citizens of Grenoble, France, toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 – The "Gazeta de Buenos Ayres" newspaper in Argentina is published for the first time.
1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, killing 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1840 – Frederick William IV of Prussia becomes King.
1862 – The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
1880 – War of the Pacific: Battle of Arica (then part of Peru, now part of Chile).
1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first US President to attend a baseball game.
1893 – Mahatma Gandhi does his first act of civil disobedience, while living in South Africa.

1901 – 2000

1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves the Union with Sweden.
1906 – The Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland.
1909 – Mary Pickford makes her first movie appearance at the age of 16.
1913 – Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, is climbed successfully for the first time, by Hudson Stuck.
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: A riot in Malta kills 4 people.
1929 – The Lateran Treaty creates the Vatican City state, the world's smallest country.
1940 – Haakon VII of Norway and Crown Prince Olav go into exile in London. They return to Norway five years later.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign – Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu Island and Kiska.
1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 360 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the island of Santorini.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian POWs.
1945 – Norway's Royal Family returns from exile, after the end of World War II and Nazi occupation of Norway.
1948 – Edvard Benes resigns as President of Czechoslovakia, in order to avoid signing the Ninth of May Constitution that makes his country a Communist state.
1959 – The Viqueque Rebellion begins against Portuguese colonists in present–day East Timor.
1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem in the Six–Day War.
1968 – The first LEGOLAND opens in Billund, Denmark.
1973 – Willy Brandt becomes the first Chancellor of Germany to visit Israel.
1973 – Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Federal Republic of Germany.
1975 – The first Cricket World Cup begins in England.
1977 – 500 million people watch television coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee (25th anniversary of her reign in the UK and Commonwealth realms).
1979 – The first elections to the European Parliament are held.
1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Usiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
1982 – Rebel leader Hissene Habri takes power through a coup in Chad.
1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public.
1989 – Suriname Airways Flight 764 crashes in jungle near Paramaribo in thick fog. More than 170 people on board are killed.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupts.
1995 – The long–range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
2000 – The UN defines the Blue Line as the Israel–Lebanon border.

From 2001

2001 – Tony Blair is elected to a second term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2006 – Abu Musab al–Zarqawi, leader of Al–Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in a US airstrike.
2008 – UEFA Euro 2008 begins as the Switzerland national football team, as co–host with Austria, loses the opening match to the Czech Republic national football team.
2009 – In European elections, Social–Democratic political parties suffer heavy losses, as more Conservative MEPs are elected. Far–right politicians also gain several seats in the European Parliament.
2013 – A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people.
2014 – At least 37 people are killed in an attack in South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2014 – Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as President of Ukraine.
2016 – Hillary Clinton declares victory in the race for the Democratic nomination for US president, which would make her the first woman to achieve this.
2017 – 2017 Tehran attacks: 12 people are killed in attacks on the Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.
2019 – The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup begins: Hosts France beat South Korea 4–0 in the opening game.

Births

Up to 1900

1502 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1529 – Etienne Pasquier, French lawyer and writer (d. 1615)
1561 – Johann VII, Count of Nassau–Siegen (d. 1623)
1660 – King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
1686 – Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg–Strelitz (d. 1852)
1687 – Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian alto castrato (d. 1734)
1732 – Giuseppe Demachi, Italian composer (d. 1791)
1757 – Georgina Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
1761 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
1770 – Robert Jenkinson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
1809 – William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and antiquarian (d. 1892)
1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish physician (d. 1870)
1825 – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (d. 1900)
1831 – Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1837 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
1840 – Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)
1845 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
1849 – Manuel Bonilla, President of Honduras (d. 1913)
1851 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
1862 – Philipp Lenard, German physicist (d. 1947)
1863 – Bones Ely, American baseball player (d. 1952)
1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish artist and architect (d. 1928)
1877 – Roelof Klein, Dutch rower (d. 1960)
1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic explorer (d. 1933)
1880 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956)
1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
1886 – Henri Coanda, Romanian engineer and inventor (d. 1972)
1888 – Clarence DeMar, American long–distance runner (d. 1958)
1892 – Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
1894 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian–American aviator, author and inventor (d. 1974)
1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist (d. 1986)
1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1897 – Kirill Meretskov, Russian marshal (d. 1968)
1897 – George Szell, Hungarian–American conductor (d. 1970)

1901 – 1950

1906 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
1907 – Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, Swedish royal (d. 2002)
1909 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (d. 1994)
1909 – Virginia Apgar, American physician (d. 1974)
1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)
1910 – Bradford Washburn, American explorer, mountaineer, photographer and mapmaker (d. 2007)
1910 – Arthur Gardner, American actor and movie producer (d. 2014)
1911 – Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (d. 2001)
1914 – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Indian director, producer and journalist (d. 1987)
1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
1917 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995)
1920 – Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
1921 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician (d. 2012)
1922 – Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1927 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
1927 – Ian McColl, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2008)
1927 – Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
1928 – Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer (d. 1995)
1928 – James Ivory, American director
1928 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
1929 – John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
1929 – Antonio Carbajal, Mexican footballer
1929 – Mickey Duff, Polish–born British boxing trainer and promoter (d. 2014)
1930 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
1930 – Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1974)
1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress
1933 – Arkady Arkanov, Russian writer and satirist (d. 2015)
1936 – Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter
1937 – Neeme Jarvi, Estonian conductor
1938 – Ian St John, Scottish footballer
1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer
1940 – Ronald Pickup, English actor
1942 – Muammar al–Gaddafi, Libyan colonel and military leader (d. 2011)
1943 – Ken Osmond, American actor
1944 – Annette Lu, Taiwanese politician and lawyer
1944 – Miguel Ríos, Spanish singer
1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, former Chancellor of Austria
1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1949 – Lou Macari, Scottish footballer
1950 – Gary Graham, American actor

1951 – 1975

1952 – Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer
1953 – Johnny Clegg, British musician
1953 – Libuse Safrankova, Czech actress
1955 – William Forsythe, American actor
1956 – L.A. Reid, American recording executive, songwriter and record producer
1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, songwriter and producer
1957 – Fred Vargas, French writer, historian and archaeologist
1957 – Paulo Vitor, Brazilian footballer
1957 – Iain Gray, Scottish politician
1958 – Prince, American singer and musician (d. 2016)
1958 – Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai politician and diplomat
1959 – Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States and 50th Governor of Indiana
1960 – Bill Prady, American television writer and producer
1960 – Steffen Seibert, German television journalist and government spokesman
1961 – Dave Catching, American singer–songwriter, musician and producer
1962 – Michael Cartellone, American drummer
1962 – Thierry Hazard, French singer–songwriter
1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver
1963 – Judie Aronson, American actress
1963 – Luca Fusi, Italian footballer
1964 – Geir Lippestad, Norwegian lawyer
1965 – Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and actor
1965 – Jean–Pierre François, French footballer and singer
1965 – Damien Hirst, British artist
1967 – Dave Navarro, American guitarist
1969 – Prince Joachim of Denmark
1969 – Alex Aguinaga, Ecuadorean footballer
1969 – Adam Buxton, English comedian and actor
1969 – Kim Rhodes, American actress
1970 – Helen Baxendale, British actress
1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
1970 – Mike Hodano, American ice hockey player
1970 – Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
1970 – Cha Seung–won, South Korean actor and model
1970 – Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
1972 – Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
1973 – Song Yun–ah, South Korean model, actress and singer
1974 – Sunshine Anderson, American singer
1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
1974 – Bear Grylls, British adventurer
1974 – Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian writer (d. 2014)
1975 – Shane Bond, New Zealand cricketer
1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player

From 1976

1976 – Necro, American rapper, producer and actor
1976 – Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player
1977 – Marcin Baszczynski, Polish footballer
1978 – Bill Hader, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
1978 – Mini Andén, Swedish–American model, actress and producer
1979 – Viktor Kostyuchenko, Belarussian ice hockey player
1980 – Ed Moses, American swimmer
1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian model and tennis player
1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
1981 – Larisa Oleynuk, American actress
1982 – German Lux, Argentine footballer
1983 – Pierre Pierce, American basketball player
1984 – Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer
1985 – Dani Evans, American model
1985 – Charlie Simpson, English musician
1986 – Keegan Bradley, American golfer
1988 – Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
1988 – Philipp Tischendorf, German figure skater
1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper
1990 – Amy Childs, English TV personality
1990 – Alison Schmitt, American swimmer
1991 – Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
1991 – Fetty Wap, American rapper
1993 – George Ezra, English singer–songwriter
1993 – Jordan Fry, American actor
1993 – Park Ji–yeon, South Korean singer, actress and dancer

Deaths

Up to 1900

555 – Pope Vigilius (b. 500)
1329 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 – Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Richard II of England (b. 1367)
1594 – Roderigo Lopez, Portuguese–English physician
1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1821 – Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebel leader (b. 1780)
1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
1842 – James Barbour, Governor of Virginia (b. 1775)
1843 – Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer (b. 1767)
1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1863 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (b. 1787)
1866 – Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1871 – August Immanuel Bekker, German philologist (b. 1785)
1876 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1807)

1901 – 2000

1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1916 – Emile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1927 – Edmund James Flynn, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1931 – Viktor Schwanneke, German director and actor (b. 1880)
1933 – Dragutin Domjanic, Croatian poet (b. 1875)
1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
1954 – Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)
1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
1966 – Jean Arp, German–French sculptor, painter and poet (b. 1866)
1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
1970 – E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (b. 1897)
1980 – Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
1988 – Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
1992 – Bill France, Sr., American racing driver and businessman, co–founder of NASCAR (b. 1909)
1996 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
1996 – Jan Kerouac, American writer (b. 1952)

From 2001

2001 – Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (b. 1915)
2001 – Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian President (b. 1907)
2002 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, 5th Vice president of India (b. 1912)
2006 – Abu Musab al–Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist, leader in Al–Qaeda (b. 1966)
2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2008 – Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2009 – Baron Vaea, Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1921)
2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
2011 – Jorge Semprun, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)
2012 – Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer (b. 1957)
2012 – Bob Welch, American musician (b. 1945)
2012 – J. Michael Riva, American production designer (b. 1948)
2012 – Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi military officer (b. 1957)
2013 – Pierre Mauroy, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
2013 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
2014 – Jane Gray, Scottish–Australian supercentenarian (b. 1901)
2014 – Fernandao, Brazilian footballer (b. 1978)
2014 – Rafael Lecuona, Cuban–American gymnast (b. 1928)
2014 – Jacques Herlin, French actor (b. 1927)
2014 – Pierre Patry, Canadian filmmaker (b. 1933)
2015 – Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer (b. 1954)
2015 – Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
2016 – Johnny Brooks, English footballer (b. 1931)
2016 – Amber Gurung, Nepalese musician and composer (b. 1937)
2016 – Sean Rooks, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2016 – Thomas J. Perkins, American businessman (b. 1932)
2016 – Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
2017 – Arthur Bunting, English rugby player and coach (b. 1936)
2017 – Trento Longaretti, Italian painter (b. 1916)
2017 – James Hardy, American football player (b. 1985)
2017 – France Rode, Slovenian engineer (b. 1934)
2018 – David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist (b. 1916)
2018 – Fu Da–ren, Taiwanese sports broadcaster and assisted suicide activist (b. 1933)
2018 – Francis Smerecki, French footballer and manager (b. 1946)
2018 – Stefan Weber, Austrian singer (b. 1946)
2019 – Noémi Ban, Hungarian–American public speaker and Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
2019 – Ryszard Bugajski, Polish film director (b. 1943)
2019 – Nonnie Griffin, Canadian actress (b. 1933)
2019 – Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Uruguayan–Spanish film director (b. 1935)
2019 – Noel Lloyd, Welsh academic (b. 1946)
2019 – Tony Rodham, American businessman and political consultant, brother of Hillary Clinton (b. 1954)
2021 – Ben Roberts, British actor (b. 1950)

Observances

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation
Birthday of Prince Joachim of Denmark
Flag Day (Peru)
Journalist Day (Argentina)
Sette Giugno (Malta)
Union Dissolution Day (Norway)