June 7



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)

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