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June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 207 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).[1]
  • 879Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.[2]
  • 1002Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany.
  • 1099First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
  • 1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
  • 1494Spain 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.
  • 1654Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
  • 1692Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
  • 1776Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • 1788French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
  • 1800David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
  • 1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
  • 1832 – The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.
  • 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 in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
  • 1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
  • 1866 – One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
  • 1880War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
  • 1892Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • 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. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
  • 1906Cunard Line's Template:RMS is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • 1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
  • 1919Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
  • 1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
  • 1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
  • 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
  • 1940King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
  • 1942World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
  • 1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying 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 Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
  • 1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
  • 1946 – The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
  • 1948Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.[3]
  • 1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
  • 1955Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
  • 1962 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
  • 1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
  • 1967Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
  • 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 to the United States Constitution.
  • 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.
  • 1977 – Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
  • 1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
  • 1982Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
  • 1989Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
  • 1991Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
  • 2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
  • 2013 – A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.
  • 2013 – A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.
  • 2014 – At least 37 people are killed in an attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province.

Births[]

  • 1003Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (d. 1048)
  • 1402Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese noble (d. 1481)
  • 1422Federico da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (d. 1482)[4]
  • 1502John III of Portugal (d. 1557)[5]
  • 1529Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (d. 1615)[6]
  • 1687Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian actor and singer (d. 1734)
  • 1702Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1761)
  • 1757Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
  • 1761John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
  • 1770Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
  • 1778Beau Brummell, English cricketer and fashion designer (d. 1840)
  • 1811James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (d. 1870)
  • 1831Amelia Edwards, English journalist and author (d. 1892)[7]
  • 1837Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (d. 1903)
  • 1840Carlota of Mexico (d. 1927)
  • 1845Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1930)
  • 1847George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa (d. 1915)
  • 1848Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (d. 1903)
  • 1851Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
  • 1861Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (d. 1942)[8]
  • 1862Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
  • 1863Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)
  • 1868Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (d. 1928)
  • 1877Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer (d. 1960)
  • 1879Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (d. 1933)
  • 1879 – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1963)
  • 1884Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect (d. 1931)
  • 1883Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1948)
  • 1886Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (d. 1972)
  • 1888Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator (d. 1958)
  • 1892Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
  • 1893Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (d. 1938)
  • 1894Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (d. 1974)
  • 1896Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1990)
  • 1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
  • 1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1958)
  • 1897George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1970)
  • 1899Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic (d. 1973)
  • 1902Georges Van Parys, French composer (d. 1971)
  • 1902 – Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (d. 2000)
  • 1905James J. Braddock, American lieutenant and boxer (d. 1974)
  • 1906Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
  • 1907Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (d. 2002)
  • 1909Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (d. 1974)
  • 1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2005)
  • 1909 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (d. 1994)
  • 1910Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (d. 2014)
  • 1910 – Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (d. 1989)
  • 1910 – Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (d. 2007)
  • 1910 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (d. 1990)
  • 1911Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (d. 1995)
  • 1912Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (d. 1986)
  • 1917Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
  • 1917 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995)
  • 1920Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (d. 1997)
  • 1921Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer and softball player (d. 2010)
  • 1921 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2012)
  • 1922Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
  • 1923Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2000)
  • 1925Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017)
  • 1926Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
  • 1927Charles de Tornaco, Belgian race car driver (d. 1953)
  • 1927 – Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
  • 1928Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 1995)
  • 1928 – James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1928 – Randolph Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
  • 1929Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (d. 1983)
  • 1929 – John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
  • 1931Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
  • 1932Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (d. 2013)
  • 1933Romeo Galán, Argentine athlete[9]
  • 1935Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2012)
  • 1935 – Shyama, Indian actress (d. 2017)
  • 1936Bert Sugar, American author and boxing historian (d. 2012)
  • 1938Ian St John, Scottish international footballer, forward and manager[10]
  • 1939Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (d. 2013)
  • 1940Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor
  • 1940 – Ronald Pickup, English actor
  • 1944Annette Lu, Taiwanese lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of the Republic of China
  • 1944 – Clarence White, American guitarist and singer (d. 1973)
  • 1945Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
  • 1945 – John Olsen, Australian politician, 42nd Premier of South Australia
  • 1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria
  • 1947Don Money, American baseball player and coach
  • 1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
  • 1948Jim Walton, American businessman
  • 1952Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
  • 1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1953Johnny Clegg, English- born South African singer-songwriter, guitarist and anthropologist (d. 2019)
  • 1954Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet
  • 1955William Forsythe, American actor and producer
  • 1955 – Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
  • 1956L.A. Reid, American songwriter and producer, co-founded LaFace Records
  • 1957Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1957 – Paddy McAloon, English singer-songwriter[11]
  • 1958Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (d. 2016)
  • 1958 – Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai politician and diplomat
  • 1959Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana
  • 1960Hirohiko Araki, Japanese manga artist and creator of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
  • 1960 – Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer
  • 1961Dave Catching, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
  • 1962Thierry Hazard, French singer-songwriter
  • 1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese race car driver
  • 1963Gordon Gano, American musician[12]
  • 1964Gia Carides, Australian actress
  • 1964 – Graeme Labrooy, Sri Lankan cricketer
  • 1965Mick Foley, American wrestler, actor, and author
  • 1965 – Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
  • 1965 – Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector
  • 1966Eric Kretz, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
  • 1966 – Tom McCarthy, American director, screenwriter and actor
  • 1966 – Stéphane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1967Dave Navarro, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1970Helen Baxendale, English actress
  • 1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
  • 1970 – Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
  • 1970 – Mike Modano, American ice hockey player
  • 1972Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
  • 1974Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host
  • 1975Allen Iverson, American basketball player
  • 1976Necro, American rapper, producer, and director
  • 1976 – Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player
  • 1977Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer
  • 1978Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress, and producer
  • 1978 – Bill Hader, Two-time Emmy winning American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
  • 1979Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
  • 1979 – Anna Torv, Australian actress
  • 1980Ed Moses, American swimmer
  • 1981Stephen Bywater, English footballer
  • 1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
  • 1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
  • 1983Milan Jurčina, Slovak ice hockey player
  • 1983 – Piotr Małachowski, Polish discus thrower
  • 1984Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer-songwriter
  • 1984 – Eri Yanetani, Japanese snowboarder[13]
  • 1985Arkadiusz Piech, Polish footballer
  • 1985 – Charlie Simpson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1985 – Richard Thompson, Trinidadian sprinter
  • 1986Keegan Bradley, American golfer
  • 1988Michael Cera, Canadian actor
  • 1988 – Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1990Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper
  • 1990 – T. J. Brodie, Canadian ice hockey player[14]
  • 1990 – Allison Schmitt, American swimmer[15]
  • 1991Cenk Tosun, Turkish professional footballer
  • 1991 – Fetty Wap, American rapper
  • 1992Sara Niemietz, American singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1992 – Mathias Gehrt, Danish professional footballer
  • 1992 – Alípio, Brazilian footballer
  • 1993George Ezra, English singer, songwriter and guitarist[16]

Deaths[]

  • 555Vigilius, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 500)
  • 862Al-Muntasir, Abbasid caliph (b. 837)
  • 929Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (b. 877)
  • 940Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (b. 925)
  • 951Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (b. 876)
  • 1329Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (b. 1274)
  • 1337William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)
  • 1341An-Nasir Muhammad, Egyptian sultan (b. 1285)
  • 1358Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (b. 1305)
  • 1394Anne of Bohemia, English queen (b. 1366)
  • 1492Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 (b. 1427)
  • 1594Rodrigo Lopez, physician of Queen Elizabeth (b. 1525)
  • 1618Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
  • 1660George II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1621)
  • 1711Henry Dodwell, Irish scholar and theologian (b. 1641)
  • 1779William Warburton, English bishop and critic (b. 1698)
  • 1792Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (b. 1738)[17]
  • 1810Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (b. 1765)
  • 1826Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1787)
  • 1840Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
  • 1843Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet (b. 1770)
  • 1853Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (b. 1787)
  • 1854Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
  • 1859David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)
  • 1861Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (b. 1777)
  • 1863Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (b. 1790)
  • 1866Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (b. 1780)
  • 1879William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (b. 1836)
  • 1896Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
  • 1911Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
  • 1915Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (b. 1822)
  • 1916Émile Faguet, French author and critic (b. 1847)
  • 1927Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (b. 1905)
  • 1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
  • 1932John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (b. 1856)
  • 1933Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (b. 1875)
  • 1936Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
  • 1937Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
  • 1942Alan Blumlein, English engineer (b. 1903)
  • 1945Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (b. 1870)
  • 1954Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)[18]
  • 1956John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1879)
  • 1961Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (b. 1885)
  • 1963ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
  • 1965Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
  • 1966Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
  • 1967Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
  • 1967 – Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (b. 1893)
  • 1968Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
  • 1970E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879)
  • 1978Charles Moran, American race car driver (b. 1906)
  • 1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
  • 1979Asa Earl Carter, American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1925)
  • 1980Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883)
  • 1980 – Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (b. 1913)
  • 1980 – Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891)
  • 1985Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (b. 1906)
  • 1987Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940)
  • 1988Martin Sommer, German SS officer (b. 1915)
  • 1989Chico Landi, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1907)
  • 1989 – William McLean Hamilton, Canadian politician, Postmaster General of Canada (b. 1919)
  • 1992Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909)
  • 1993Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer 2002 (b. 1964)
  • 1995Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (b. 1918)
  • 1995 – Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat, High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom (b. 1906)
  • 1996Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
  • 1997Jacques Canetti, French music executive and talent agent (b. 1909)
  • 2001Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
  • 2001 – Carole Fredericks, French singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
  • 2001 – Betty Neels, English nurse and author (b. 1910)
  • 2002Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (b. 1915)
  • 2002 – B. D. Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (b. 1912)
  • 2002 – Lilian, Princess of Réthy (b. 1916)
  • 2004Quorthon, Swedish musician (b. 1966)
  • 2008Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor and producer (b. 1953)
  • 2008 – Jim McKay, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1921)
  • 2008 – Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
  • 2009Hugh Hopper, English bass player and songwriter (b. 1945)
  • 2011Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
  • 2012Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Bob Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)[19]
  • 2013Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)[20]
  • 2014Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1978)[21]
  • 2014 – Dora Akunyili, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1954)
  • 2014 – Epainette Mbeki, South African activist (b. 1916)
  • 2015Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)[22]
  • 2015 – Sheikh Razzak Ali, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1928)[23]

Holidays and observances[]

Christian feast days[]

Further information: June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Antonio Maria Gianelli
  • Colmán of Dromore
  • St Gottschalk[24]
  • Landulf of Yariglia (Asti)
  • Meriasek
  • Paul I of Constantinople
  • Robert of Newminster
  • Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)
  • Blessed Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière
  • Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)
  • Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))

Others[]

  • Battle of Arica Day (Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile)
  • Flag Day (Peru)
  • Journalist Day (Argentina)
  • Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
  • Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark)
  • Sette Giugno (Malta)
  • Union Dissolution Day (Independence Day of Norway)

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  2. Croatia Press. Croatia Press. 1977. p. 58.
  3. Dalit Atrakchi (2001). "The Moroccan Nationalist Movement and Its Attitude toward Jews and Zionism". In Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev. The Divergence of Judaism and Islam. University Press of Florida. p. 163.: "...the riots that broke out on 7 June 1948 in the cities of Oujda and Jerada, close to the border between Morocco and Algeria, which served as a transfer station for Moroccan Jews on their way to Israel... It is believed that the riots were brought on by the speech given a short while earlier by Sultan Muḥammad Ben-Yussuf, which inveighed against the Zionists and cried for solidarity with the Arabs fighting in Israel."
  4. June Osborne (1 October 2003). Urbino: The Story of a Renaissance City. frances lincoln ltd. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-0-7112-2086-7.
  5. Paul Robert Kruse (1958). The Story of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1768-1943. Department of Photoduplication, University of Chicago Library.
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  11. "Happy Birthday". Mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  12. "Band Bios: Gordon Gano". Archived from the original on July 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-20.
  13. "Eri Yanetani Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  14. "Brodie to Heat, Mikkelson a Flame". NHL.com. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  15. "Allison Schmitt". teamusa.org. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  16. "George Ezra". contactmusic.com. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
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