June 7
is the 158th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (159th in
leap years), with 207 days remaining.
In common years it is always in
ISO week 23.
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1099 - The
First Crusade: The
Siege of Jerusalem begins.
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1494 -
Spain and
Portugal sign the
Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the
New World between the two countries.
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1654 -
Louis XIV is crowned King of
France.
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1692 -
Port Royal,
Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic
earthquake; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured.
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1776 -
Richard Henry Lee presents the "
Lee Resolution" to the
Continental Congress. See
United States Declaration of Independence.
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1800 -
David Thompson reaches the mouth of the
Saskatchewan River in
Manitoba.
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1832 -
Asian
cholera brought to
Quebec by
Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in
Lower Canada.
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1862 - The
United States and
United Kingdom agree to suppress the
slave trade.
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1863 -
Mexico City is captured by
French troops.
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1866 - 1800
Fenian raiders are repelled back to the
United States after they loot and plunder around
St-Armand and
Frelighsburg, Quebec.
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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.
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1893 -
Gandhi's first act of
civil disobedience.
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1905 -
Norway dissolves its
union with Sweden.
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1917 -
World War I: Allied
ammonal mines underneath
German trenches in
Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000
German troops.
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1919 -
Sette giugno: Riot in
Malta; four patriots are killed.
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1935 -
Pierre Laval becomes
Prime Minister of
France.
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1938 - The
Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
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1940 - King
Haakon VII of Norway,
Crown Prince Olav and the
Norwegian government leave
Tromsø and go into exile in
London.
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1942 -
World War II: The
Battle of Midway ends.
*1942 -
Japanese soldiers occupy the
American islands of
Attu and
Kiska, in the
Aleutian Islands off
Alaska, as the
Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter.
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1944 -
Nazi Panzer SS troops murder 23
Canadian in
Normandy.
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1945 - King
Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to
Oslo after five years in exile.
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1948 -
Edvard Beneš resigns as
President of
Czechoslovakia rather than signing a
Constitution making his nation a
Communist state.
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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.
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1965 - The
US Supreme Court decides
Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of
contraception by married couples.
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1966 - Former
movie star,
Ronald Reagan, becomes the 22rd
governor of the
state of
California.
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1967 - The
Israeli forces occupy
Jerusalem during the
Six-Day War.
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1968 - The body of assassinated
U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at
St. Patrick's Cathedral in
New York City.
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1971 - The
US Supreme Court overturns the conviction of
Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precident that vulgar writing is protected under the
First Amendment.
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1975 -
Sony introduces the
Betamax for sale to the public.
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1977 - 500 million people watch on television as the high day of
Jubilee gets underway for
Queen Elizabeth II.
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1981 - The
Israeli Air Force destroys
Iraq's
Osiraq nuclear reactor during
Operation Opera. The
Israelis charged the facility could have been used to make
nuclear weapons.
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1982 -
Priscilla Presley opens
Graceland to the public; the bathroom where
Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
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1989 - A
Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near
Paramaribo Airport,
Suriname, killing 168.
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1990 -
Nickelodeon Studios in
Orlando,
Florida opened up.
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1991 -
Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.
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1993 -
Prince changes his name to a symbol (
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) and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
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1998 -
James Byrd, Jr is dragged to death by
Shawn Allen Berry,
Lawrence Russel Brewer, and
John William King in
Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.
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2001 -
Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the
General Election.
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2002 -
England beat
Argentina in the
2002 FIFA World Cup group stages
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2004 - The
Sikh leader
Prem Singh Chandumajra launches the
political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Longowal).
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2006 -
British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to
anthrax alert.
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1529 -
Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d.
1615)
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1761 -
John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d.
1821)
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1778 -
Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d.
1840)
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1811 -
James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d.
1870)
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1831 -
Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d.
1892)
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1837 -
Alois Hitler,
Adolf Hitler's father (d.
1903)
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1845 -
Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d.
1930)
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1848 -
Paul Gauguin, French painter (d.
1903)
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1862 -
Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1947)
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1868 -
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d.
1928)
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1877 -
Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1944)
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1879 -
Knud Rasmussen, Greenland-born explorer (d.
1933)
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1883 -
Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d.
1948)
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1886 -
Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d.
1972)
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1896 -
Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1986)
*1896 -
Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d.
1958)
*1896 -
Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d.
1990)
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1897 -
George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d.
1970)
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1899 -
Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d.
1973)
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1902 -
Herman B Wells, president and chancellor of
Indiana University (d.
2000)
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1906 -
Glen Gray, Jazz musician (d.
1963)
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1909 -
Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d.
1974)
*1909 -
Jessica Tandy, English-born actress (d.
1994)
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1911 -
Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d.
1995)
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1917 -
Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d.
2000)
*1917 -
Dean Martin, American actor (d.
1995)
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1920 -
Georges Marchais, French politician (d.
1997)
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1921 -
Tal Farlow, American jazz guitar virtuoso (d.
1998)
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1923 -
Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d.
2000)
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1928 -
James Ivory, American film director
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1929 -
John Turner, seventeenth
Prime Minister of Canada* 1929 -
The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager
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1931 -
Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
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1937 -
Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
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1938 -
Goose Gonsoulin, American football player
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1940 -
Tom Jones, Welsh singer
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1943 -
Nikki Giovanni, American poet
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1945 -
Wolfgang Schüssel,
Chancellor of Austria*
1946 -
Jenny Jones, Palestinian-born comedienne and talk show host
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1947 -
Thurman Munson, Major league baseball catcher (d.
1979)
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1950 -
Gary Graham American Actor
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1952 -
Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
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1953 -
Johnny Clegg, South African musician
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1954 -
Louise Erdrich, American author
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1955 -
Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d.
1989)
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1956 -
L.A. Reid, American music producer
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1958 -
Prince, American musician
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1961 -
Dave Catching, American musician
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1964 -
Judie Aronson, American actress
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1964 -
Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress
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1965 -
Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and author
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1966 -
Jim Gaffigan, American comedian
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1967 -
Dave Navarro, American Musician
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1969 -
Kim Rhodes, American actress
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1970 -
Mike Modano, American
ice hockey player
* 1970 -
Cafu, Brazilian footballer
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1972 -
Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
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1974 -
Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
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1975 -
Allen Iverson, American basketball player
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1977 -
Marcin Baszczyński, Polish football (soccer) player
* 1977 -
Joe Horgan, Baseball player
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1978 -
Tony An, Korean singer in the group
H.O.T*
1981 -
Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
*1981 -
Larisa Oleynik, Ukrainian-born actress
* 1981 -
Tyler Johnson, baseball player
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1985 -
Charlie Simpson, British pop singer
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1988 -
Douglas Fincher, famous drummer from
Cranbourne, popular with
hardcore kids.
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1993 -
Jordan Fry, American actor
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1329 -
Robert the Bruce,
King of Scotland (b.
1274)
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1358 -
Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b.
1305)
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1394 -
Anne of Bohemia, wife of
Richard II of England (plague) (b.
1367)
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1618 -
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b.
1577)
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1676 -
Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist
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1711 -
Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b.
1641)
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1779 -
William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b.
1698)
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1810 -
Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b.
1765)
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1821 -
Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca.
1780)
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1826 -
Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b.
1787)
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1840 - King
Frederick William III of Prussia (b.
1770)
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1854 -
Charles Baudin, French admiral (b.
1792)
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1859 -
David Cox, English artist (b.
1783)
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1866 -
Chief Seattle, Native American leader
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1911 -
Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b.
1842)
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1927 -
Edmund James Flynn, Premier of
Quebec (b.
1847)
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1936 -
Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b.
1875)
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1937 -
Jean Harlow, American actress (b.
1911)
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1942 -
Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b.
1903)
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1951 -
Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (b.
1892)
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1954 -
Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b.
1912)
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1963 -
Zasu Pitts, American actress (b.
1894)
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1965 -
Judy Holliday, American actress (b.
1921)
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1966 -
Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b.
1886)
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1967 -
Dorothy Parker, American writer (b.
1893)
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1968 -
Dan Duryea, American actor (b.
1907)
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1970 -
E. M. Forster, English author (b.
1879)
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1978 -
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
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1979 -
Forrest Carter, American author (b.
1925)
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1980 -
Henry Miller, American writer (b.
1891)
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1988 -
Vernon Washington, American actor (b.
1927)
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1993 -
Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b.
1964)
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1995 -
Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b.
1918)
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2001 -
Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b.
1952)
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2002 -
Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b.
1916)
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2003 -
Trevor Goddard, English actor (b.
1962)
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2004 -
Quorthon, Swedish musician (b.
1966)
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2006 -
John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b.
1963)
*2006 -
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born terrorist (b.
1966)
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Roman Empire - first day of the
Vestalia (
penus vestae) in honor of
Vesta.
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Norway -
Union Dissolution Day, observing the
1905 decision to dissolve the
Union between Sweden and Norway.
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Malta -
Sette giugno - Riot in
Malta that began the road to self government and then independence.
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United States - National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
Liturgical feasts
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Roman Catholic Church and
some Anglican churches:
Corpus Christi (moveable feast, 2007)
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Colman,
bishop of Dromore [BLS]
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Saint Godoald, bishop, confessor
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Saint Fortunatus, bishop, confessor
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Saint Maximinus,
bishop of Aix, confessor
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Saint Procopius [PCP (Paris), as Proces]
* Saint Robert, abbot of Chichester
* Blessed Robert, abbot of Newminster, Northumberland
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saint Servatius, bishop, confessor or martyr (Translation day)
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Saint Wulstan,
bishop of Worcester, confessor (Translation day)
* Blessed
Godeschalc, prince of the Vandals, martyr
* Blessed Meriadec,
bishop (of Vannes)* Blessed Paul, bishop of Constantinople, martyr
* Blessed Willibald
* Blessed
Anna of St. Bartholomaeus (died 1626)
* Blessed
Maria Theresia of Soubiran (died 1889)
* Luciana, virgin, martyr [WTS (Bruges)]
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BBC:
On This Day*
The New York Times:
On This Day*
On This Day in Canada*
History Channel:
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