June 7th. TODAY IN HISTORY

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.


421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding is celebrated at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).

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 – 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.

Births

• 1529 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and writer (d. 1615)
• 1687 – Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian alto castrato (d. 1734)
• 1732 – Giuseppe Demachi, Italian composer (d. 1791)
• 1757 – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
• 1761 – John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
• 1770 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1862 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1947)
• 1863 – Bones Ely, professional baseball player (d. 1952)
• 1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist (d. 1928)
• 1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlander explorer (d. 1933)
• 1879 – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (d. 1963)
• 1880 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956)
• 1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
• 1886 – Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
• 1894 – Alexander de Seversky, Russian-born aviation pioneer (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
• 1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
• 1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
• 1897 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)
• 1899 – Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973)
• 1900 – Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (d. 1963)
• 1902 – Herman B Wells, American college president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)
• 1905 – James J. Braddock, Irish-American boxer and one-time Heavyweight Champion of the World (d. 1974)
• 1907 – Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland (d. 2002)
• 1909 – Virginia Apgar, American physician and developer of the Apgar test (d. 1974)
• 1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Jessica Tandy, English-born American actress (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Mike Sebastian, American football player (d. 1989)
• 1910 – Bradford Washburn, American explorer (d. 2007)
• 1911 – Brooks Stevens, American industrial designer (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
• 1921 – Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder; adopted daughter of Babe Ruth (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
• 1923 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)
• 1925 – John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer and lecturer (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
• 1928 – Dave Bowen, Welsh international football manager (d. 1995)
• 1928 – James Ivory, American film director
• 1928 – Reg Park, British bodybuilder (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (d. 1983)
• 1929 – John Napier Turner, Canadian seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1931 – Malcolm Morley, English painter
• 1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress
• 1932 – Tina Brooks, American jazz musician (d. 1974)
• 1933 – Herb Score, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• 1935 – Harry Crews, American author
• 1935 – Thomas Kailath, American engineer
• 1937 – Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
• 1938 – Goose Gonsoulin, American football player
• 1938 – Ian St. John, Scottish footballer
• 1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer
• 1940 – Ronald Pickup, English actor
• 1943 – Nikki Giovanni, American poet
• 1943 – Ken Osmond, American actor
• 1943 – Michael Pennington, English actor
• 1944 – Annette Lu, Vice President of Taiwan
• 1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
• 1946 – Jenny Jones, Canadian-born American talk show host
• 1947 – Don Money, American baseball player and manager
• 1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
• 1950 – Gary Graham American actor
• 1951 – Terry O'Reilly Canadian ice hockey player
• 1952 – Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
• 1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer, Nobel laureate
• 1953 – Colleen Camp, American actress
• 1953 – Johnny Clegg, South African musician
• 1953 – Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster
• 1954 – Louise Erdrich, American author
• 1955 – William Forsythe, American actor
• 1955 – Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
• 1956 – Antonio Reid, American music producer
• 1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican musician
• 1957 – Paddy McAloon, English singer and songwriter (Prefab Sprout)
• 1958 – Prince, American musician
• 1958 – Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
• 1960 – Bill Prady, American television producer
• 1961 – Dave Catching, American musician
• 1961 – Kym Whitley, American actress and comedian
• 1962 – Michael Cartellone, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• 1962 – Thierry Hazard, French singer and songwriter
• 1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver
• 1962 – Simon Day, English comedian
• 1963 – Roberto Alagna, French tenor
• 1964 – Judie Aronson, American actress
• 1964 – Gia Carides, Australian actress
• 1965 – Mick Foley, American wrestler
• 1965 – Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
• 1965 – Billy Reeves, English songwriter and BBC radio presenter
• 1965 – Damien Hirst, English artist
• 1965 – Christine Roque, French singer
• 1966 – Eric Kretz, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
• 1966 – Stéphane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Dave Navarro, American musician
• 1969 – Adam Buxton, British TV presenter and DJ
• 1969 – Prince Joachim of Denmark
• 1969 – Kim Rhodes, American actress
• 1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
• 1970 – Andrei Kovalenko, Russian hockey player
• 1970 – Mike Modano, American ice hockey player
• 1970 – Helen Baxendale, English actress
• 1971 – Terrell Buckley, American football player
• 1971 – Alex X. Mooney, American politician
• 1972 – Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
• 1973 – Song Yun-ah, South Korean model and actress
• 1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
• 1974 – Bear Grylls, British adventurer and former soldier, now Chief Scout
• 1974 – Cassius Khan, Canadian musician
• 1974 – Jason King, Web Developer
• 1975 – Shane Bond, New Zealand cricket player
• 1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player
• 1976 – Necro, American rapper
• 1976 – Cassidy Rae, American actress
• 1977 – Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer
• 1977 – Preston Campbell, Australian Rugby League Player
• 1977 – Joe Horgan, American baseball player
• 1977 – Odalis Pérez, Dominican baseball player
• 1978 – Tony An, Korean singer (H.O.T)
• 1978 – Mini Anden, Swedish model
• 1978 – Adrienne Frantz, American actress
• 1978 – Bill Hader, American comedian
• 1979 – Brian Donnelly, Canadian artist
• 1979 – Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
• 1979 – Evelina Papantoniou, Greek fashion model and actress
• 1980 – Ed Moses, American swimmer
• 1981 – Stephen Bywater, British footballer
• 1981 – Tyler Johnson, American baseball player
• 1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
• 1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
• 1981 – Larisa Oleynik, American actress
• 1982 – Virgil Vasquez, American baseball player
• 1983 – Milan Jurcina, Slovakian hockey player
• 1983 – Mark Lowe, American baseball player
• 1983 – Pierre Pierce, American basketball player and convicted sex offender
• 1984 – Jennyfer Jewell, English-New Zealand actress
• 1984 – Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer (Amoral)
• 1985 – Dani Evans, American model
• 1985 – Shannon Shorr, American poker player
• 1985 – Charlie Simpson, English singer (Busted, Fightstar)
• 1985 – Simon Whaley, English footballer
• 1986 – Keegan Bradley, American golfer
• 1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
• 1988 – Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Shelley Buckner, American actress
• 1989 – Ashley Melnick, American model, Miss Texas 2010
• 1990 – Allison Schmitt, American swimmer
• 1992 – Sara Niemietz, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
• 1993 – Jordan Fry, American actor
• 1993 – Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer and actress (T-ara)
• 1993 – Cameron Wakefield, New Zealand actor
• 1996 – Jasper Harris, English actor

Deaths

• 1329 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
• 1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
• 1394 – Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (b. 1367)
• 1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
• 1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
• 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 revolutionary hero (b. c. 1780)
• 1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
• 1840 – King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
• 1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
• 1859 – David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
• 1866 – Chief Seattle, Native American leader
• 1879 – William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist (b. 1836)
• 1896 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
• 1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
• 1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)
• 1916 – Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
• 1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
• 1931 – Viktor Schwanneke, German stage director, stage and film actor (b. 1880)
• 1933 – Dragutin Domjanić, Kajkavian poet (b. 1875)
• 1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
• 1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1942 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
• 1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
• 1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
• 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, German-born sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
• 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, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
• 1979 – Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
• 1980 – Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
• 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., first president of NASCAR, NASCAR founder (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
• 1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese-born religious leader (b. 1918)
• 1996 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
• 1999 – Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)
• 2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Carole Fredericks, American singer (b. 1952)
• 2001 – Betty Neels, English novelist (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, former Vice-President of India and Acting President (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Wayne Cody, American popular radio and television sportscaster (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
• 2006 – John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (b. 1963)
• 2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born Mujahid (b. 1966)
• 2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Kenny Rankin, American singer (b. 1940)
• 2009 – Hugh Hopper, British musician (b. 1945)
• 2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
• 2010 – Adriana Xenides, Australian TV personality (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Nataraja Ramakrishna, Indian classical dancer and composer. (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)