Historical Events on June 6 (Part 2)

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• 2011 MLB Draft: UCLA pitcher Gerrit Cole first pick by Pittsburgh Pirates
• 2012 The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
• 2012 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs - last transit of 21st century

• 2013 Kevin Barry's City of Bohane wins the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
• 2013 MLB Draft: Stanford pitcher Mark Appel first pick by Houston Astros
• 2015 236th Epsom Derby: Golden Horn ridden by Frankie Dettori wins

• 2015 Convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat break out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York
• 2017 Floods in Salto, Paysandú and Artigas in Uruguay displace over 3,000 people
• 2017 Indian Arundhati Roy publishes her 2nd novel "The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness" 20 years after her first
• 2017 Korean singer T.O.P is rushed to hospital after a suspected overdose while serving mandatory military service
• 2017 Scooter Gennet hits four home runs in Cincinnati Reds 13-1 victory at home against St. Louis Cardinals, 17th player to do so
• 2017 Syrian Democratic Forces backed by the US launch offensive to take Raqqa from Islamic State in Syria
• 2018 At least 46 Ethiopian migrants drown after their boat capcizes of fthe coast of Yemen

• 2018 French man announced to have won France's €1 million My Lottery for the second time in 2 years, with odds of 1 in 16 trillion

• 2018 MLB Draft: Auburn pitcher Casey Mize first pick by Detroit Tigers
• 2018 Special pedestrian lane introduced just for "phubbers" slow-walking smartphone users in Xi'an, China
• 2019 Amir Ohana becomes the first openly gay minister in Israel as acting justice minister
• 2019 German serial killer nurse Niels Hoegel jailed for a second life sentence for the murder of 85 more people (previously convicted for six). Germany's worst post-war serial killer.

• 2021 Four members of a London, Ontario, family killed when they are struck by a truck in an anti-Muslim attack
• 2022 Former chairman of far-right group the Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio and four others, indicted for seditious conspiracy for their role in Jan 6 attack on the US Capitol [1]

• 2023 In a stunning development, the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf League agree to unify to create its own for-profit entity to be run by the PGA Tour and funded by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund
• 2023 Major dam at Nova Kakhovka, in Russian-held Ukraine collapses sending flooding down the Dnipro river, prompting evacuation of thousands amid suspicions of Russian sabotage [1]

• 2024 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings commemorated in Normandy, France attended by Allied leaders and likely the last major gathering of WWII veterans [1]
• 2024 Disfrutar in Barcelona is named the world's best restaurant, owned and run by Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas [1]

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