Historical Events on June 6

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• 640 Arab Muslim army sent by Caliph Omar begins siege of Heliopolis, city succumbs mid to late July, paving way for Muslim conquest of Byzantine Egypt
• 1002 German King Henry II the Saint crowned
• 1242 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris

• 1328 Franciscan theologian William of Ockham [Occam] excommunicated by Pope John XXII
• 1391 Inhabitants of Seville, Spain, massacre 5,000 Jews
• 1513 Battle of Novara, the War of the League of Cambrai: the Swiss Confederacy defeat the French
• 1520 France and England sign treaty of Scotland

• 1536 Mexico begins its inquisition
• 1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
• 1654 Queen Christina of Sweden resigns and converts to Catholicism
• 1665 Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese armies beat Spain
• 1673 France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty

• 1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum
• 1716 French transport the first African slaves to Louisiana
• 1744 France and 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 in Chicago
• 1787 Franklin College founded, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Now part of Franklin & Marshall College.
• 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 constitution empowering Riksdag after 20 years of absolute monarchy
• 1813 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ontario)

• 1831 2nd US national black convention (Philadelphia)
• 1832 The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end
• 1832 The Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad opens its initial line from Philadelphia to Germantown, Pennsylvania; run is 6 miles (9.7 km) long and creates first US 'railroad suburb'

• 1848 New York Yacht Club holds its first annual regatta; won by the schooner Carnelia
• 1859 Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
• 1861 Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers
• 1862 Battle of Memphis fought on the Mississippi River, Union forces defeat Confederate fleet leading to the city's surrender
• 1862 Skirmish at Harrisonburg, Virginia, sees the Confederates win a minor victory in the Battle of Good's Farm
• 1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana and Williamsport, Maryland
• 1864 Battle of Lake Chicot, Arkansas (Dutch Bayou)
• 1875 Netherlands joins the gold standard
• 1882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 (disputed event)
• 1882 Electric iron patented by New York inventor Henry W. Seely. It weighed almost 15 pounds and was very slow to heat up.
• 1882 Ethiopia: Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
• 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 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo leave NY harbor to row across Atlantic; their 55 day record for rowing was not broken for 114 years
• 1900 Boxers cut off all railroad links between Peking and Tientsin, main port city of Peking
• 1900 US Congress pass an act authorizing a civil code and government for the territory of Alaska after gold discoveries bring lawlessness and disorder to the area

• 1903 President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France
• 1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey
• 1905 French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
• 1906 Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz)
• 1911 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)

• 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, Ohio approve 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 Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel opens White Russian offensive against red Army
• 1921 Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0

• 1926 Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms
• 1931 "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1
• 1931 Belgian government of Henri Jaspar falls
• 1931 NY Yankees turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Cleveland Indians
• 1932 Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg
• 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 Richard Hollingshead opens the world's 1st Drive-In movie theater on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pennsauken, New Jersey
• 1933 US Employment Service created
• 1934 Securities & Exchange Commission established
• 1934 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
• 1936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey
• 1937 Philadelphia Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
• 1937 Volcanoes Tavurvur and Vulcan destroy the town of Rabaul on New Britain island, Papua, New Guinea, killing over 500 people

• 1939 NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
• 1939 NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead
• 1939 The ship MS St. Louis, carrying 907 Jewish refugees from Europe, begins sailing back to the continent after it was refused entry into America. Approximately a quarter of those on board would perish in the Holocaust.
• 1941 1st US Navy vessel constructed as mine layer, USS Terror (CM-5) launched from the Philadelphia Navy Yard
• 1941 MLB New York Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time
• 1942 1st nylon parachute jump is made by Ameican parachute tester Adeline Gray (27-ish), at Brainard Field, an airport near Hartford, Connecticut; Dupont teamed with the Pioneer Parachute Company to develop use of an alternative to silk
• 1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
• 1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
• 1944 Alaska Airlines commences operations
• 1944 German submarines U-955, U-970, U-629 and U-373 sink in Bay of Biscay

• 1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II
• 1944 World War II: All Major League Baseball games are cancelled in honor of the D-Day landings in northern France
• 1945 "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
• 1946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
• 1946 The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City
• 1947 Treaty drawn up for establishment of International Patent Institute
• 1949 "It Pays To Be Ignorant" game show debut on CBS-TV
• 1949 Orapin Chaiyakan becomes the first Thai woman to be elected to the Parliament of Thailand
• 1949 WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast
• 1950 German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
• 1950 Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
• 1956 David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns.

• 1958 Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger

• 1960 South African police kill 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill

• 1963 Gasunie, Dutch gas and transportation company established
• 1964 The Beatles, with Jimmy Nichol substituting for Ringo, arrive in Netherlands, take a whirlwind boat tour through the canals of Amsterdam, and perform two shows at Veilinghal Op Hoop Van Zegen, an auction hall in the village of Blokker
• 1964 Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume

• 1965 Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating White Sox 12-0

• 1966 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
• 1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement

• 1968 WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1971 Air West flight 706 collides with a US Marine Corps F-4B Phantom jet over Los Angeles killing all 49 aboard the DC-6 and the pilot of the F-4B

• 1971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
• 1971 WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBN) begins broadcasting

• 1972 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia)
• 1972 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
• 1972 US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
• 1974 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
• 1974 A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy
• 1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market

• 1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
• 1976 "The Omen" premieres in the UK

• 1977 Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert at Calabasas Park Country Club & Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to benefit the United Way
• 1977 Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
• 1977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
• 1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%

• 1979 200th running of horse's Derby in England
• 1979 Royal Air Force receives 1st F-16
• 1979 Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors
• 1981 A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river, killing 268 officially with another 300 or more missing
• 1981 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
• 1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out the PLO
• 1982 36th Tony Awards: "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" (play) & "Nine" (musical) win
• 1982 Bernard Glassman installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY

• 1983 Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland

• 1983 Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats
• 1983 Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1
• 1984 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
• 1984 Video game Tetris is first released in the Soviet Union by Alexey Pajitnov
• 1985 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
• 1985 Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed
• 1985 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
• 1985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station

• 1986 Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m)
• 1986 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself

• 1987 NY Yankees play their 13,000th game
• 1988 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
• 1988 George H. W. Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
• 1989 Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
• 1990 2nd International Rock Awards
• 1990 For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game
• 1990 Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager
• 1991 Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
• 1991 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store

• 1991 Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley
• 1992 America West Arena opens in Phoenix, Arizona; home court of NBA Phoenix Suns
• 1992 Ben Vereen suffers head and leg injuries when hit by a vehicle while walking along a dark stretch of highway in Malibu, California; Vereen had earlier fallen asleep while driving and hit a tree, record producer David Foster was behind the wheel of vehicle that hit Vereen [1]

• 1993 47th Tony Awards: "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches" (play) and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (musical) win
• 1993 6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
• 1993 Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as President of Mongolia
• 1993 Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala
• 1994 6.0 earthquake followed by avalanche destroys Toez, Colombia (about 1000 killed)
• 1994 CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
• 1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
• 1994 Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham

• 1995 Moses Kiptanui of Kenya runs world 5,000m record 12:55.30 in Rome, Italy

• 1999 53rd Tony Awards: "Fosse" (musical) and "Side Man" (play) win
• 1999 Largest jailbreak in Brazilian history at the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.
• 1999 Sydney Swans Australian Rules Football forward Tony Lockett breaks Gordon Coventry's VFL/AFL career goals record with 1,300th major early in 145-94 win v Collingwood at the SCG

• 2002 A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. Resulting explosion estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
• 2004 58th Tony Awards: "Avenue Q" (musical) & "I Am My Own Wife" (play) win
• 2004 Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
• 2005 The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
• 2007 Stanley Cup Final, Honda Center, Anaheim, CA: Anaheim Ducks defeat Ottawa Senators, 6-2 for a 4-1 series win; Ducks' first Championship

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