This Day in History for 6th June ◀ May June Jul ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 222 1002 - German king Henry II the Saint crowned 1242 - 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris 1391 - Inhabitants of Seville, Spain, massacres 5,000 Jews 1513 - Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois 1520 - France & England sign treaty of Scotland 1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union. 1536 - Mexico begins its inquisition 1639 - Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill 1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to Catholicism 1660 - Denmark & Sweden sign peace treaty 1664 - New Amsterdam renamed New York 1665 - Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army beat Spain 1673 - France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty 1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the worlds first university museum. 1716 - 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana 1744 - France & Prussia sign peace treaty 1752 - 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed 1772 - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago 1795 - Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured 1801 - Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal 1809 - Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established with a new constituion empowering Riksdag after 20 years of absolute monarchy 1813 - US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont) 1816 - 10 snowfall in New England, year without a summer (Mount Tambora) 1831 - 2nd national black convention (Phila) 1832 - The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end. 1844 - Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London Fashion Designer Levi StraussFashion Designer Levi Strauss 1850 - Levi Strauss make his 1st pair of blue jeans 1859 - Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day). 1861 - Lincolns cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers 1862 - Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered 1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry) 1862 - Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA 1863 - Battle of Millikens Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD 1864 - Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou) 1875 - Netherlands goes on the gold standard 1882 - Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 1882 - Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC 1882 - The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River. 1885 - 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43 1885 - Opera Lakmé is produced (Paris) 1889 - Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks 1890 - United States Polo Association forms, NYC 1892 - Chicago South Side Elevated Railroad opens (1st 3.6 miles) 1896 - 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51 1896 - Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo leave NY harbor to row across Atlantic; their 55 day record for rowing was not broken for 114 year 1904 - National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ 1905 - French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request 1906 - Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place dItalie to the Gare dOrléans (today known as Gare dAusterlitz). 1911 - Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified) 1912 - The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. 1913 - Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times 1914 - 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway) 1916 - Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage 1918 - Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I 1919 - Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910 1919 - Finland declares war on bolsheviks 1919 - The Republic of Prekmurje ends. 1920 - Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army 1921 - Detroit Stars Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0 1921 - Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary. 1924 - 28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich 1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old) 1926 - Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms 1931 - There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time by Guy Lombardo hits #1 1931 - Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians 1932 - Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile 1932 - Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg 1932 - US Federal gas tax enacted 1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold. 1933 - 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ) 1933 - US Employment Service created 1934 - Securities & Exchange Commission established 1934 - Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game 1936 - 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ 1936 - 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30 1936 - Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ 1937 - Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game Father of Psychology Sigmund FreudFather of Psychology Sigmund Freud 1938 - Sigmund Freud arrives in London 1939 - NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning 1939 - NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead 1941 - 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched 1941 - Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time 1942 - 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray) 1942 - 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2 1942 - Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway 1942 - Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians 1944 - 82nd Airborne division D-day-landing at Ste Mere Eglise 1944 - Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion 1944 - Operation Neptune, D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France 1944 - Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad 1944 - Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor 1944 - U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje 1944 - Alaska Airlines commences operations. 1945 - Free People premieres in Amsterdam 1946 - 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season 1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV 1946 - Martin Kresses begins publishing Eric the Viking comic strip 1946 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City. 1947 - Treaty drawn for establishment of Intl Patent Institute 1949 - It Pays To Be Ignorant game show debut on CBS-TV 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 234 1236 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283) 1436 - Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables 1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557) 1519 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603) 1576 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649) 1580 - Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667) 1599 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660) 1606 - Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace) 1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857) 1625 - Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor 1661 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer 1676 - Georg Riedel, German composer 1695 - Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen Neth-Indies (1737-41)/killed 8,000 Chinese 1714 - King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777) 1722 - Adrien Trudo Sale, composer 1735 - Anton Schweitzer, composer 1755 - Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country 1756 - John Trumbull, US painter (Declaration of Independence) 1765 - Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet (Dwingelandij) 1772 - Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress consort (d. 1807) 1799 - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russian writer and poet (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS) 1804 - Petter Conrad Boman, composer 1807 - Adrien Francois Servais, composer 1813 - Israel Washburn, gov (Union), died in 1883 1815 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer 1819 - William Howard Glover, composer 1826 - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist 1829 - John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 1829 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862) 1840 - John Stainer, composer 1840 - William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 1841 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (d.1910) 1842 - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art) 1844 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905) 1847 - Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen) 1850 - Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909) 1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918) 1860 - William R Inge, English theologist/Deacon St Pauls Cathedral 1862 - Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet 1867 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (d. 1931) Naval Officer and Explorer Robert ScottNaval Officer and Explorer Robert Scott (1868) 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, Plymouth, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition 1869 - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor 1872 - Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918) 1875 - Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929) 1878 - Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956) 1879 - L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect 1880 - William T Cosgrave, president Irish Free state 1886 - Paul Dudley White, heart specialist 1890 - Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy) 1890 - Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971) 1891 - Istvan Kardos, composer 1891 - Vladislac Vancura, writer 1892 - Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (d. 1971) 1893 - Ludovic Feldman, composer 1894 - Sabin V Dragoi, composer Novelist Thomas MannNovelist Thomas Mann (1875) 1896 - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome) 1896 - Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journeys End) 1896 - Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran 1898 - Ninette de Valois, [Edris Stannus], Engl, ballerina (Royal Ballet) 1898 - Walter Abel, St Paul Mn, actor (Suspicion, Dream Girl) 1900 - Arthur Askey, Liverpool, actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train) 1900 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957) 1901 - Achmed Sukarno, Java, PM of Indonesia (1945-67) 1902 - Avraham Daus, composer 1902 - Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer 1902 - Jimmie Lunceford, American bandleader (d. 1947) 1903 - Aram Ilyich Khachaturian, Tiflis Georgia, musician/composer (Gayane) 1905 - John Gart, Russia, orchestra leader (Paul Winchell Show) 1906 - Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn) 1906 - Stefan Andres, writer 1907 - Bill Dickey, NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43)/manager (1946) 1909 - Isaiah Berlin, philosopher 1909 - M J Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34) 1910 - Ben Aerden, [John Mikkelsen], actor (Hamlet) 1910 - Toshitsugu Ogiwara, composer 1913 - Jiri Hajek, Czech jurist/foreign minister 1913 - Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991) 1915 - Vincent Persichetti, Phila Pennsylvania, composer (Sibyl) 1917 - Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA) 1917 - Prior Jones, cricketer (WI pace bowler in 9 Tests 1948-52) 1918 - Maria Montez, Dominican Rep, actress (Arabian Nights) 1918 - Richard Crane, Newcastle Ind, actor (Surfside 6) 1918 - Tom Scott, poet/editor 1919 - Charles Pringle, British air marshal 1922 - Ian Hamilton, composer 1923 - V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986) 1924 - Serge Nigg, composer 1926 - Klaus Tennstedt, Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio) 1926 - Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist (Tumbleweeds) 1928 - George Deukmejian, Menands NY, (Gov-Cal) 1929 - Boguslaw Schaffer, composer 1929 - Viktor Konezki, writer 1929 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005) 1930 - Frank Tyson, cricketer (Typhoon England pace destroyer mid-50s) 1931 - Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp 1932 - Billie Whitelaw, Coventry England, actress (Omen, Adding Machine) 1932 - David R Scott, San Antonio Tx, Col USAF/astronaut (Gem 8, Apol 9, 15) 1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986), (d. 2013) 1934 - Ad G J Lansink, chemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA) 1934 - Albert II FHTCEM, king of Belgium (1993- ) 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 11 of 11 1857 - Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway. 1942 - The Thin Man actress Myrna Loy (36) weds John Hertz Jr. in New York City 1956 - Three-time Olympic Champion figure skater Sonja Henie (44) weds Norwegian shipping magnate and art patron Niels Onstad (47) 1960 - Singer-actress Eartha Kitt (33) weds Bill McDonald 1966 - Socialite Claus von Bulow marries heiress Martha [Sunny]Sharp Crawford 1976 - Pittsburgh Steelers quaterback Terry Bradshaw (27) weds ice skater Jo Jo Starbuck (25) at Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles 1992 - The Montel Williams Show talk show host Montel Williams (35) weds burlesque dancer Grace Morley 2002 - Former Survivor contestant and talk show host Elisabeth Filarski (25) weds former Boston College quarterback Tim Hasselbeck (24) at St. Mary 2004 - Trick Pony lead singer Heidi Newfield (33) weds NFL agent Bill Johnson in Destin, Florida 2007 - Spice Girl singer Melanie Brown (32) weds producer Stephen Belafonte in Las Vegas, Nevada 2009 - Survivor: Gabon castaway Matty Whitmore weds Jamie Mass at Malibou Lake Mountain Club in Malibu Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 1 of 1 2010 - Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford (40) divorces German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch (34) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 118 840 - Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies 1134 - Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51 1393 - Emperor Go-Enyu of Japan (b. 1359) 1480 - Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect 1548 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500) 1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519) 1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556) 1671 - Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader quartered alive (ns. 16 June) 1686 - Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Neth, dies at 60 1710 - Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of King Louis XIV, dies at 65 1730 - Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646) 1735 - Georg Osterreich, composer, dies at 71 1740 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony 1747 - Jean Barriere, composer, dies 1784 - Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42 1785 - Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36 1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736) 1813 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect 1815 - Samuel Whitbread, English Politician 1816 - Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51 1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748) 1836 - Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80 1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789) 1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770) 1852 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79 1861 - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59 1861 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810) 1862 - Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33 1877 - Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear, dies 1878 - Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70 1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790) 1881 - Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61 1883 - Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29 1891 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815) 1898 - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62 1914 - Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies 1916 - Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56 1917 - Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59 1922 - Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60 1926 - Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52 1928 - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67 1934 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864) 1935 - Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68 1935 - Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862) 1937 - Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26 1939 - Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65 1940 - E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56 1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878) 1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74 1944 - Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day 1944 - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 1945 - Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart HauptmannAuthor and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann (1946) 1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83 1947 - Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies 1948 - Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864) 1951 - Lionel Hallam, cricketer (England capt 1921), dies 1951 - Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894) 1955 - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (b. 1875) 1956 - Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74 1958 - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71 1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875) 1961 - Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist, dies at 85 1962 - Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning at 63 1962 - Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34 1964 - Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85 1965 - Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64 1966 - Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash Psychiatrist Carl Gustav JungPsychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1961) 1967 - Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47 1968 - Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies 1968 - Robert Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42 1968 - Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911) 1971 - Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63 1974 - Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86 1975 - Larry Blyden, actor (Joe & Mabel, Whats My Line), dies at 49 1976 - J. Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 1976 - Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings), dies at 85 1977 - Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69 1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), dies of a heart attack at 80 1982 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905) 1984 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72 1984 - Bill Voce, cricketer (key player of the Bodyline series), dies 1985 - Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54 Actor Jack HaleyActor Jack Haley (1979) 1986 - Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress 1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66 1991 - Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60 1991 - Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64 1991 - Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77 1992 - Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39 1992 - Thijs van Lier, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies at 44 1993 - James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57 1993 - Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73 1994 - Barry Sullivan, actor (Great Gadsby), dies at 81 1994 - John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80 1994 - John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies 1994 - Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59 1994 - Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82 1994 - Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93 1995 - Imam Elissa, singer, dies at 76 1995 - James Anderson, writer, dies at 41 1996 - George Snell, genetecist, dies at 92
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