June 7

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 1099 &ndash; First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
* 1420 &ndash; Troops of the Republic of Venice capture the city of Udine.
* 1494 &ndash; The Treaty of Tordesillas splits the "New World" between Spain and Portugal.
* 1628 &ndash; The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted Royal Assent by King Charles I of England and becomes law.
* 1654 &ndash; Louis XIV of France is crowned King.
* 1692 &ndash; Port Royal, Jamaica, is destroyed by an earthquake, killing 1,000 people.
* 1776 &ndash; Richard Henry Lee presents the Lee Resolution to the Continental Congress.
* 1788 &ndash; Citizens of Grenoble, France, toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
* 1800 &ndash; David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
* 1810 &ndash; The "Gazeta de Buenos Ayres" newspaper in Argentina is published for the first time.
* 1832 &ndash; Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, killing 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
* 1840 &ndash; Frederick William IV of Prussia becomes King.
* 1862 &ndash; The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
* 1880 &ndash; War of the Pacific: Battle of Arica (then part of Peru, now part of Chile).
* 1892 &ndash; Benjamin Harrison becomes the first US President to attend a baseball game.
* 1893 &ndash; Mahatma Gandhi does his first act of civil disobedience, while living in South Africa.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1905 &ndash; Norway's parliament dissolves the Union with Sweden.
* 1906 &ndash; The Cunard Line's RMS *Lusitania* is launched at the John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland.
* 1909 &ndash; Mary Pickford makes her first movie appearance at the age of 16.
* 1913 &ndash; Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, is climbed successfully for the first time, by Hudson Stuck.
* 1917 &ndash; World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied ammonal mines  underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
* 1919 &ndash; Sette Giugno: A riot in Malta kills 4 people.
* 1929 &ndash; The Lateran Treaty creates the Vatican City state, the world's smallest country.
* 1940 &ndash; Haakon VII of Norway and Crown Prince Olav go into exile in London. They return to Norway five years later.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign – Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu Island and Kiska.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: The steamer *Danae*, carrying 360 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the island of Santorini.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian POWs.
* 1945 &ndash; Norway's Royal Family returns from exile, after the end of World War II and Nazi occupation of Norway.
* 1948 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The Viqueque Rebellion begins against Portuguese colonists in present-day East Timor.
* 1967 &ndash; Israeli forces enter Jerusalem in the Six-Day War.
* 1968 &ndash; The first LEGOLAND opens in Billund, Denmark.
* 1973 &ndash; Willy Brandt becomes the first Chancellor of Germany to visit Israel.
* 1973 &ndash; Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Federal Republic of Germany.
* 1975 &ndash; The first Cricket World Cup begins in England.
* 1977 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The first elections to the European Parliament are held.
* 1981 &ndash; The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Usiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
* 1982 &ndash; Rebel leader Hissene Habri takes power through a coup in Chad.
* 1982 &ndash; Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public.
* 1989 &ndash; Suriname Airways Flight 764 crashes in jungle near Paramaribo in thick fog. More than 170 people on board are killed.
* 1991 &ndash; Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupts.
* 1995 &ndash; The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
* 2000 &ndash; The UN defines the Blue Line as the Israel–Lebanon border.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Tony Blair is elected to a second term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* 2006 &ndash; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in a US airstrike.
* 2008 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people.
* 2014 &ndash; At least 37 people are killed in an attack in South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
* 2014 &ndash; Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as President of Ukraine.
* 2016 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 2017 Tehran attacks: 12 people are killed in attacks on the Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran. 
* 2019 &ndash; The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup begins: Hosts France beat South Korea 4–0 in the opening game.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1502 &ndash; King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
* 1529 &ndash; Etienne Pasquier, French lawyer and writer (d. 1615)
* 1561 &ndash; Johann VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1623)
* 1660 &ndash; King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
* 1686 &ndash; Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1852)
* 1687 &ndash; Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian alto castrato (d. 1734)
* 1732 &ndash; Giuseppe Demachi, Italian composer (d. 1791)
* 1757 &ndash; Georgina Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
* 1761 &ndash; John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
* 1770 &ndash; Robert Jenkinson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
* 1809 &ndash; William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and antiquarian (d. 1892)
* 1811 &ndash; James Young Simpson, Scottish physician (d. 1870)
* 1825 &ndash; R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (d. 1900)
* 1831 &ndash; Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
* 1837 &ndash; Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
* 1840 &ndash; Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)
* 1845 &ndash; Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
* 1848 &ndash; Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
* 1849 &ndash; Manuel Bonilla, President of Honduras (d. 1913)
* 1851 &ndash; Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
* 1862 &ndash; Philipp Lenard, German physicist (d. 1947)
* 1863 &ndash; Bones Ely, American baseball player (d. 1952)
* 1868 &ndash; Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish artist and architect (d. 1928)
* 1877 &ndash; Roelof Klein, Dutch rower (d. 1960)
* 1879 &ndash; Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic explorer (d. 1933)
* 1880 &ndash; Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956)
* 1883 &ndash; Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
* 1886 &ndash; Henri Coanda, Romanian engineer and inventor (d. 1972)
* 1888 &ndash; Clarence DeMar, American long-distance runner (d. 1958)
* 1892 &ndash; Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
* 1894 &ndash; Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviator, author and inventor (d. 1974)
* 1896 &ndash; Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist (d. 1986)
* 1896 &ndash; Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
* 1897 &ndash; Kirill Meretskov, Russian marshal (d. 1968)
* 1897 &ndash; George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1970)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1906 &ndash; Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
* 1907 &ndash; Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, Swedish royal (d. 2002)
* 1909 &ndash; Jessica Tandy, British actress (d. 1994)
* 1909 &ndash; Virginia Apgar, American physician (d. 1974)
* 1909 &ndash; Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)
* 1910 &ndash; Bradford Washburn, American explorer, mountaineer, photographer and mapmaker (d. 2007)
* 1910 &ndash; Arthur Gardner, American actor and movie producer (d. 2014)
* 1911 &ndash; Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (d. 2001)
* 1914 &ndash; Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Indian director, producer and journalist (d. 1987)
* 1917 &ndash; Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
* 1917 &ndash; Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995)
* 1920 &ndash; Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
* 1921 &ndash; Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician (d. 2012)
* 1922 &ndash; Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
* 1927 &ndash; Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
* 1927 &ndash; Ian McColl, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2008)
* 1927 &ndash; Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
* 1928 &ndash; Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer (d. 1995)
* 1928 &ndash; James Ivory, American director
* 1928 &ndash; Randy Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
* 1929 &ndash; John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
* 1929 &ndash; Antonio Carbajal, Mexican footballer
* 1929 &ndash; Mickey Duff, Polish-born British boxing trainer and promoter (d. 2014)
* 1930 &ndash; Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
* 1930 &ndash; Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1974)
* 1931 &ndash; Virginia McKenna, English actress
* 1933 &ndash; Arkady Arkanov, Russian writer and satirist (d. 2015)
* 1936 &ndash; Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter
* 1937 &ndash; Neeme Jarvi, Estonian conductor
* 1938 &ndash; Ian St John, Scottish footballer
* 1940 &ndash; Tom Jones, Welsh singer
* 1940 &ndash; Ronald Pickup, English actor
* 1942 &ndash; Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan colonel and military leader (d. 2011)
* 1943 &ndash; Ken Osmond, American actor
* 1944 &ndash; Annette Lu, Taiwanese politician and lawyer
* 1944 &ndash; Miguel Ríos, Spanish singer
* 1945 &ndash; Wolfgang Schüssel, former Chancellor of Austria
* 1947 &ndash; Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
* 1949 &ndash; Lou Macari, Scottish footballer
* 1950 &ndash; Gary Graham, American actor

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1952 &ndash; Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
* 1952 &ndash; Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer
* 1953 &ndash; Johnny Clegg, British musician
* 1953 &ndash; Libuse Safrankova, Czech actress
* 1955 &ndash; William Forsythe, American actor
* 1956 &ndash; L.A. Reid, American recording executive, songwriter and record producer
* 1957 &ndash; Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, songwriter and producer
* 1957 &ndash; Fred Vargas, French writer, historian and archaeologist
* 1957 &ndash; Paulo Vitor, Brazilian footballer
* 1957 &ndash; Iain Gray, Scottish politician
* 1958 &ndash; Prince, American singer and musician (d. 2016)
* 1958 &ndash; Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai politician and diplomat
* 1959 &ndash; Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States and 50th Governor of Indiana
* 1960 &ndash; Bill Prady, American television writer and producer
* 1960 &ndash; Steffen Seibert, German television journalist and government spokesman
* 1961 &ndash; Dave Catching, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
* 1962 &ndash; Michael Cartellone, American drummer
* 1962 &ndash; Thierry Hazard, French singer-songwriter
* 1962 &ndash; Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver
* 1963 &ndash; Judie Aronson, American actress
* 1963 &ndash; Luca Fusi, Italian footballer
* 1964 &ndash; Geir Lippestad, Norwegian lawyer
* 1965 &ndash; Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and actor
* 1965 &ndash; Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
* 1965 &ndash; Damien Hirst, British artist
* 1967 &ndash; Dave Navarro, American guitarist
* 1969 &ndash; Prince Joachim of Denmark
* 1969 &ndash; Alex Aguinaga, Ecuadorean footballer
* 1969 &ndash; Adam Buxton, English comedian and actor
* 1969 &ndash; Kim Rhodes, American actress
* 1970 &ndash; Helen Baxendale, British actress
* 1970 &ndash; Cafu, Brazilian footballer
* 1970 &ndash; Mike Hodano, American ice hockey player
* 1970 &ndash; Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
* 1970 &ndash; Cha Seung-won, South Korean actor and model
* 1970 &ndash; Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
* 1972 &ndash; Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
* 1973 &ndash; Song Yun-ah, South Korean model, actress and singer
* 1974 &ndash; Sunshine Anderson, American singer
* 1974 &ndash; Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
* 1974 &ndash; Bear Grylls, British adventurer
* 1974 &ndash; Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian writer (d. 2014)
* 1975 &ndash; Shane Bond, New Zealand cricketer
* 1975 &ndash; Allen Iverson, American basketball player

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Necro, American rapper, producer and actor
* 1976 &ndash; Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player
* 1977 &ndash; Marcin Baszczynski, Polish footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Bill Hader, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
* 1978 &ndash; Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress and producer 
* 1979 &ndash; Viktor Kostyuchenko, Belarussian ice hockey player
* 1980 &ndash; Ed Moses, American swimmer
* 1981 &ndash; Anna Kournikova, Russian model and tennis player
* 1981 &ndash; Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Larisa Oleynuk, American actress
* 1982 &ndash; German Lux, Argentine footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Pierre Pierce, American basketball player
* 1984 &ndash; Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer
* 1985 &ndash; Dani Evans, American model
* 1985 &ndash; Charlie Simpson, English musician
* 1986 &ndash; Keegan Bradley, American golfer
* 1988 &ndash; Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1988 &ndash; Michael Cera, Canadian actor
* 1988 &ndash; Philipp Tischendorf, German figure skater
* 1990 &ndash; Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper
* 1990 &ndash; Amy Childs, English TV personality
* 1990 &ndash; Alison Schmitt, American swimmer
* 1991 &ndash; Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
* 1991 &ndash; Fetty Wap, American rapper
* 1993 &ndash; George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
* 1993 &ndash; Jordan Fry, American actor
* 1993 &ndash; Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer, actress and dancer

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 555 &ndash; Pope Vigilius (b. 500)
* 1329 &ndash; Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
* 1358 &ndash; Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
* 1394 &ndash; Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Richard II of England (b. 1367)
* 1594 &ndash; Roderigo Lopez, Portuguese-English physician
* 1676 &ndash; Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
* 1810 &ndash; Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
* 1821 &ndash; Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebel leader (b. 1780)
* 1826 &ndash; Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
* 1840 &ndash; Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
* 1842 &ndash; James Barbour, Governor of Virginia (b. 1775)
* 1843 &ndash; Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer (b. 1767)
* 1854 &ndash; Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
* 1863 &ndash; Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (b. 1787)
* 1866 &ndash; Chief Seattle, Native American leader
* 1871 &ndash; August Immanuel Bekker, German philologist (b. 1785)
* 1876 &ndash; Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1807)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1911 &ndash; Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
* 1916 &ndash; Emile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
* 1927 &ndash; Edmund James Flynn, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
* 1931 &ndash; Viktor Schwanneke, German director and actor (b. 1880)
* 1933 &ndash; Dragutin Domjanic, Croatian poet (b. 1875)
* 1936 &ndash; Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
* 1937 &ndash; Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
* 1945 &ndash; Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
* 1951 &ndash; Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
* 1954 &ndash; Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)
* 1965 &ndash; Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
* 1966 &ndash; Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter and poet (b. 1866)
* 1967 &ndash; Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
* 1967 &ndash; Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
* 1968 &ndash; Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
* 1970 &ndash; E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
* 1978 &ndash; Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (b. 1897)
* 1980 &ndash; Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
* 1988 &ndash; Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
* 1989 &ndash; Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
* 1992 &ndash; Bill France, Sr., American racing driver and businessman, co-founder of NASCAR (b. 1909)
* 1996 &ndash; Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
* 1996 &ndash; Jan Kerouac, American writer (b. 1952)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (b. 1915)
* 2001 &ndash; Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian President (b. 1907)
* 2002 &ndash; Basappa Danappa Jatti, 5th Vice president of India (b. 1912)
* 2006 &ndash; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist, leader in Al-Qaeda (b. 1966)
* 2008 &ndash; Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
* 2008 &ndash; Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
* 2009 &ndash; Baron Vaea, Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1921)
* 2010 &ndash; Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
* 2011 &ndash; Jorge Semprun, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)
* 2012 &ndash; Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer (b. 1957)
* 2012 &ndash; Bob Welch, American musician (b. 1945)
* 2012 &ndash; J. Michael Riva, American production designer (b. 1948)
* 2012 &ndash; Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi military officer (b. 1957)
* 2013 &ndash; Pierre Mauroy, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
* 2013 &ndash; Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
* 2014 &ndash; Jane Gray, Scottish-Australian supercentenarian (b. 1901)
* 2014 &ndash; Fernandao, Brazilian footballer (b. 1978)
* 2014 &ndash; Rafael Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast (b. 1928)
* 2014 &ndash; Jacques Herlin, French actor (b. 1927)
* 2014 &ndash; Pierre Patry, Canadian filmmaker (b. 1933)
* 2015 &ndash; Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer (b. 1954)
* 2015 &ndash; Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
* 2016 &ndash; Johnny Brooks, English footballer (b. 1931)
* 2016 &ndash; Amber Gurung, Nepalese musician and composer (b. 1937)
* 2016 &ndash; Sean Rooks, American basketball player (b. 1969)
* 2016 &ndash; Thomas J. Perkins, American businessman (b. 1932)
* 2016 &ndash; Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
* 2017 &ndash; Arthur Bunting, English rugby player and coach (b. 1936)
* 2017 &ndash; Trento Longaretti, Italian painter (b. 1916)
* 2017 &ndash; James Hardy, American football player (b. 1985)
* 2017 &ndash; France Rode, Slovenian engineer (b. 1934)
* 2018 &ndash; David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist (b. 1916)
* 2018 &ndash; Fu Da-ren, Taiwanese sports broadcaster and assisted suicide activist (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; Francis Smerecki, French footballer and manager (b. 1946)
* 2018 &ndash; Stefan Weber, Austrian singer (b. 1946)
* 2019 &ndash; Noémi Ban, Hungarian-American public speaker and Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
* 2019 &ndash; Ryszard Bugajski, Polish film director (b. 1943)
* 2019 &ndash; Nonnie Griffin, Canadian actress (b. 1933)
* 2019 &ndash; Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Uruguayan-Spanish film director (b. 1935)
* 2019 &ndash; Noel Lloyd, Welsh academic (b. 1946)
* 2019 &ndash; Tony Rodham, American businessman and political consultant, brother of Hillary Clinton (b. 1954)
* 2021 &ndash; 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)