Title: June 7 Content: == 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) June 07