June 6

June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap
years), with 208 days remaining.

Events

   * 1513 - The Battle of Novara is fought
   * 1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden
   * 1683 - The Ashmolean Museum opens
   * 1809 - Sweden promulgates the Constitution of 1809
   * 1833 - President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a
     train
   * 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in
     London
   * 1862 - American Civil War: The Union captures Memphis, Tennessee
   * 1918 - World War I: The Battle of Belleau Wood begins
   * 1925 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded
   * 1933 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey
   * 1942 - World War II: Nazis burn the village of Lidice, Bohemia, as
     reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich
   * 1944 - World War II: D-Day: attack on Normandy by Allied forces
   * 1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, is published
   * 1956 - David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns
   * 1966 - James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to
     march across Mississippi
   * 1971 - Soyuz 11 launches
   * 1974 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a
     parliamentary monarchy
   * 1976 - The Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end
     of apartheid
   * 1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele located and exhumed
   * 1991 - George and Barbara Loeb, members of the Church of the Creator,
     are arrested and charged with murder
   * 2002 - The United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce
     Committee announces it is probing Martha Stewart's ImClone stock sales

Births

   * 1502 - King John III of Portugal (+ 1557)
   * 1553 - Bernardino Baldi, mathematican (+ 1617)
   * 1599 - Diego Vel‡zquez, painter (+ 1660)
   * 1606 - Pierre Corneille, dramatist (+ 1648)
   * 1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez, Jesuit missionary and explorer (+1857)
   * 1755 - Nathan Hale, writer, patriot
   * 1756 - Jonathan Trumbull, painter
   * 1799 - Alexander Pushkin poet (+ 1837)
   * 1810 - Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, classical scholar (+ 1856)
   * 1850 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
     physics 1909 (+ 1918)
   * 1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, mathematician (+ 1918)
   * 1862 - Henry John Newbolt, author (+ 1938)
   * 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, explorer (+ 1912)
   * 1872 - Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (+ 1918)
   * 1875 - Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
     literature 1929 (+ 1955)
   * 1890 - Ted Lewis, bandleader (+ 1971)
   * 1898 - Ninette de Valois, dancer (+ 2001)
   * 1901 - Sukarno, first President of independent Indonesia (+ 1970)
   * 1903 - Aram Khachaturian, composer [[+ 1978)
   * 1906 - Max August Zorn, mathematician (+ 1993)
   * 1907 - Bill Dickey, baseball star, coach, manager, scout (+ 1993)
   * 1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, journalist (+ 1972)
   * 1934 - King Albert II of Belgium
   * 1934 - Bill Moyers, journalist
   * 1934 - Gilbert Cates, producer, director
   * 1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
   * 1936 - Levi Stubbs, musician ("The Four Tops")
   * 1939 - Louis Andriessen, composer
   * 1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds, musician
   * 1940 - Larry Lujack, disc jockey
   * 1954 - Harvey Fierstein, actor
   * 1956 - Bjšrn Borg, tennis player
   * 1960 - Steve Vai, musician
   * 1961 - Tom Araya, musician ("Slayer")

Deaths

   * 1557 - John III of Portugal
   * 1799 - Patrick Henry, revolutionary
   * 1829 - Shanawdithit, last known Beothuk indian of Newfoundland dies
   * 1831 or 1832 - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher
   * 1843 - Friedrich Hšlderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist
   * 1865 - William Quantrill, Confederate raider
   * 1878 - Robert Stirling, inventor
   * 1891 - Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
   * 1916 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician
   * 1922 - Lillian Russell, actress
   * 1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, dramatist
   * 1961 - Carl Gustav Jung, psychologist
   * 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, former United States Attorney General and
     Senator from New York
   * 1976 - J. Paul Getty, industrialist
   * 1979 - Jack Haley, actor
   * 1981 - Carleton S. Coon, anthropologist
   * 1984 - A. Bertram Chandler, author
   * 1991 - Stan Getz, musician, composer

Holidays and observances

   * National holiday of Sweden
   * Queensland Day
   * South Korean Memorial Day