June 7 in History

Historical Events on June 7

421

Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding was celebrated at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
879

Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under duke Branimir as an independent state.
1099

First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1420

Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
1494

Spain 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.
1654

Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692

Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
1776

Richard 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.
1788

French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
1800

David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810

The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
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 Quebec.
1880

War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1892

Homer 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.
1906

Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania 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.
1919

Sette 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.
1940

King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later
1942

World 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.
1946

BBC One, the main channel of the United Kingdom's BBC returns to airing after being off air for 7 years due to the Second World War.
1948

Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
1955

Lux 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.
1967

Six-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.
1982

Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1989

Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
1991

Mount 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.

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