June 7
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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 [change]
- 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas splits the "New World" between Spain and Portugal.
- 1654 – Louis XIV of France is crowned King.
- 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is destroyed by an earthquake, killing 1,000 people.
- 1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
- 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first US President to attend a baseball game.
- 1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves the Union with Sweden.
- 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 – The Battle of Midway ends.
- 1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem in the Six-Day War.
- 1973 – Willy Brandt becomes the first Chancellor of Germany to visit Israel.
- 1975 – The first Cricket World Cup begins in England.
- 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.
- 2000 – The UN defines the Blue Line as the Israel-Lebanon border.
- 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.
Births [change]
- 1770 – Robert Jenkinson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
- 1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish physician (d. 1870)
- 1837 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
- 1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
- 1862 – Philipp Lenard, German physicist (d. 1947)
- 1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish artist and architect (d. 1928)
- 1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic explorer (d. 1933)
- 1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist (d. 1986)
- 1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
- 1909 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995)
- 1928 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
- 1929 – John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada
- 1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress
- 1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer
- 1942 – Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan colonel and military leader
- 1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
- 1952 – Liam Neeson, Irish actor
- 1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer
- 1957 – Iain Gray, Scottish politician
- 1958 – Prince, American singer and musician
- 1965 – Damien Hirst, British artist
- 1967 – Dave Navarro, American guitarist
- 1969 – Prince Joachim of Denmark
- 1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
- 1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
- 1974 – Bear Grylls, British adventurer
- 1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian model and tennis player
- 1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
- 1985 – Charlie Simpson, English musician
- 1988 – Philipp Tischendorf, German figure skater
Deaths [change]
- 1329 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
- 1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
- 1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
- 1843 – Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer (b. 1767
- 1954 – Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)
- 1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
- 1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (b. 1897)
- 1996 – Jan Kerouac, American writer (b. 1952)
- 2001 – Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (b. 1915)
- 2001 – Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian President (b. 1907)
- 2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist, leader in Al-Qaeda (b. 1966)
- 2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
- 2011 – Jorge Semprun, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)
