June 7

Events

1099 - The Siege of Jerusalem (1099)|Siege of Jerusalem begins.

1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

1654 - Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV is crowned King of France.

1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured.

1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. See United States Declaration of Independence.

United States|American invaders skirmish with Kingdom of Great Britain|British at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.

1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Ireland|Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.

1863 - Mexico City is captured by France|French troops.

1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around St-Armand, Quebec|St-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.

1880 - Assault and Take of Morro de Arica (Arica Tall Hill),it meant the end of the Campaign of Tacna and Arica during the War of the Pacific.

1905 - Norway Separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905|dissolves its union between Sweden and Norway|union with Sweden.

1914 - The first vessel passes through the Canal lock|locks of the Panama Canal.

1917 - World War I: Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.

1919 - Sette Giugno: Riot in Malta; four people killed.

1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.

1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France.

1938 - The Douglas DC-4 makes its first test flight.

1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav V of Norway|Olav and the Norway|Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.

1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.

Japanese troops land on the islands of Attu Island|Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.

1944 - Nazi Panzer Schutzstaffel|SS troops execute 23 Canada|Canadian POW|prisoners of war in Normandy.

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 signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.

1965 - The USSC|US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectivly legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

1977 - 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Jubilee gets underway for Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II.

1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.

1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

1989 - A Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.

1993 - Prince (artist)|Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".

2004 - The Sikh leader Prem Singh Chandumajra launches the political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Longowal).

Births

1529 to 1899

1529 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615)

1761 - John Rennie (engineer)|John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)

1778 - Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840)

1811 - James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d. 1870)

1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)

1845 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)

1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)

1862 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)

1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)

1877 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)

1879 - Knut Rasmussen, Greenland-born explorer (d. 1933)

1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)

1886 - Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)

1896 - Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)

1896 - Douglas Campbell (aviator)|Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)

1897 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)

1899 - Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973)

1900 to 1999

1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974)

1909 - Jessica Tandy, English-born actress (d. 1994)

1911 - Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d. 1995)

1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)

1917 - Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)

1920 - Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)

1928 - James Ivory (director)|James Ivory, American film director

1929 - John Napier Turner|John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada

1931 - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter

1937 - Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor

1938 - Goose Gonsoulin, American football player

1940 - Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones, Welsh singer

1943 - Nikki Giovanni, American poet

1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria

1946 - Jenny Jones (presenter)|Jenny Jones, Palestinian-born comedienne and talk show host

1952 - Liam Neeson, Irish actor

1954 - Louise Erdrich, American author

1955 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)

1956 - L.A. Reid, American music producer

1958 - Prince (artist)|Prince, American musician

1961 - Peter Sterling, Australian rugby player

1964 - Judie Aronson, American actress

1965 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and author

1972 - Karl Urban, New Zealand actor

1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player

1975 - Allen Iverson, American basketball player

1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player

1981 - Larisa Oleynik, Ukrainian-born actress

1985 - Charlie Simpson, Busted,Fightstar

Deaths

1329 to 1899

1329 - Robert I of Scotland|Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)

1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)

1394 - Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)

1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)

1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist

1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)

1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)

1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)

1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)

1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)

1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)

1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)

1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader

1900 to 1999

1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)

1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)

1937 - Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)

1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)

1954 - Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)

1963 - Zasu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)

1965 - Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)

1966 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)

1967 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)

1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)

1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)

1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)

1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)

1993 - Drazen Petrovic|Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)

2000 onwards

2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)

2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)

2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (b. 1966)

Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia (''penus vestae'') in honor of Vesta (mythology)|Vesta

Norway - Union Dissolution Day, observing the 1905 decision to dissolve the Union between Sweden and Norway

Malta- Sette Giugno - Riot in Malta that began the road to self government and then independence.

External links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/7 ---- June 6 - June 8 - May 7 - July 7 – historical anniversaries|listing of all days