Historical Events on June 7

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• 555 Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1099 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
• 1195 Earliest report of ball lightning in London by Benedictine monk Gervase of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury, [1]

• 1340 Rotterdam Netherlands founded
• 1413 King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome
• 1420 Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchate of Aquileia

• 1546 Peace of Andres Treaty ends the stalemated Italian War of 1542–1546 of France and the Ottoman Empire against the Holy Roman Empire and England, as well as England's dispute with Scotland and Ireland
• 1557 England declares war on France

• 1663 Munsee Esopus make a surprise attack on Dutch settlement of Wiltwijck (Kingston, Hudson Valley, NY), killing 25 colonists and taking 45 hostage [1]
• 1665 Boston's First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded [NS March 1]

• 1672 Battle by Solebay: Dutch admiral Michael de Ruyter beats a French-English fleet

• 1694 English invasion army under Thomas Tollemache reaches Brest

• 1780 Anti-Catholic riot in London, hundreds die
• 1788 French peasants stone the Army in Grenbole, an event known as the Day of the Tiles
• 1798 Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews

• 1832 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
• 1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
• 1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco
• 1862 Skirmish at Union Church, Virginia (Peninsular)
• 1862 The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade

• 1863 Mexico City captured by French troops

• 1866 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec
• 1875 California Rifle and Pistol Association founded
• 1880 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
• 1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Washington, D.C.
• 1892 Creole shoemaker Homer Plessy buys whites-only train ticket in New Orleans in act of civil disobedience - results in landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• 1892 John J. Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game
• 1892 Republican convention in Minneapolis begins

• 1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chicago
• 1900 Boer General Christian de Law occupies British rail depot at Roodewal
• 1905 Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
• 1906 Chicago Cubs score 11 runs in 1st inning of 19-0 drubbing of New York Giants off future Baseball Hall of Famers Christy Mathewson and Joe McGinnity; worst beating in Giants franchise history
• 1906 Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
• 1909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens

• 1912 St Pius X encyclical "On Indians of South America"
• 1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
• 1913 1st verifiable ascent of main summit of Denali (Mt McKinley), North America's highest mountain led by Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens

• 1917 Melvin Jones and a number of other Chicago businessmen found Lions Clubs International, now the largest service organization in the world
• 1917 The British detonate mines beneath the German-held Messines Ridge, in the Ypres area
• 1919 Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.

• 1926 Swedish government of Ekman forms
• 1929 Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st British female cabinet minister (Labour)
• 1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
• 1932 At 47, Brooklyn pitcher Jack Quinn becomes oldest player in MLB history to record an extra-base hit (double) as the Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 9-2

• 1936 Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout

• 1938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"
• 1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)

• 1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik

• 1942 Germany Army marches into Sebastopol, Russia
• 1942 Japanese troops land on Attu, Aleutian Islands
• 1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
• 1944 Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
• 1944 British forces attack Bréville in France during the Normandy invasion while other British forces attempt to encircle Caen
• 1944 Canadian 50th Division occupies Bayeux during the Normandy invasion
• 1946 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates players attempt to unionize and vote 20-16 to go on strike rather than play the New York Giants; vote fell short of required 2/3 majority and union fizzles, and Pirates win 10-5 at Forbes Field, Pittsburghn
• 1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns
• 1948 KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
• 1953 1st color network telecast in compatible color (Boston Massachusetts)
• 1953 WDAU (now WYOU) TV channel 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins
• 1954 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
• 1955 "$64,000 Question" hosted by Hal March, premieres on CBS TV

• 1956 Singapore government of Marshall resigns
• 1957 Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey v Northants

• 1958 Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out
• 1959 KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)

• 1963 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come On"
• 1964 Beatles travel canals of Amsterdam, with a substitute for Ringo
• 1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
• 1965 Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power
• 1965 Sony Corp introduces its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
• 1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples

• 1967 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
• 1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem
• 1967 NY Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1

• 1968 The body of assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York

• 1969 Tommy James and the Shondells release single "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
• 1969 Washington Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
• 1970 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire win

• 1970 British rock band The Who's perform their rock opera "Tommy" at the Metropolitan Opera House at NYC's Lincoln Center [1]
• 1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut space station
• 1972 Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America
• 1972 Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease" starring Barry Bostwick, Carole Demas, and Adrienne Barbeau, opens at Broadhurst Theater, NYC; runs for 3,388 performances
• 1972 Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th

• 1973 Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
• 1974 MLB San Diego Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1

• 1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public

• 1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law

• 1977 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1
• 1979 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature
• 1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
• 1979 Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns

• 1980 "Cars" by Gary Numan hits #9
• 1980 Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)

• 1981 35th Tony Awards: "Amadeus" (play) & "42nd Street" (musical) win
• 1981 Israeli F-15/F-16 destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility

• 1982 Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game & goes 0-for-4

• 1986 Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1
• 1987 41st Tony Awards: "Fences" (play) and "Les Misérables" (musical) win
• 1987 Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header
• 1988 Aluminum contaminates Cornwall's water supply
• 1989 1st Baseball game to start outdoors & end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2
• 1989 23-year-old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires
• 1989 Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons
• 1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
• 1989 Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173

• 1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time
• 1992 NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) launches
• 1993 American singer Prince celebrates his birthday by changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol

• 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame breaks ground for their museum in Cleveland, Ohio

• 1995 The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines
• 1996 Julia and Noah wed on "All My Children"
• 1997 Cosmos 2344 Proton-K Launch (Russia), Failed
• 1997 Stanley Cup Final, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings edge Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1 for a 4-0 series sweep; 8th title in Wings' franchise history and first since 1955
• 1998 52nd Tony Awards: "The Lion King" (musical) and '"Art" (play) win
• 1998 James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime
• 2001 BP announces that it will build a new $600-million platform offshore Trinidad that is expected to double the company's production of natural gas there by 2004

• 2004 Stanley Cup Final, Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL: Tampa Bay Lightning beat Calgary Flames, 2-1 for 4-3 series win; Tampa Bay's 1st-ever appearance in final
• 2006 British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert
• 2008 Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland formed as second-largest European national park, combining Skaftafell and Jökulsárgljúfur parks and the Vatnajökull ice cap (World Heritage Site 2019) [1]
• 2009 63rd Tony Awards: "Billy Elliot the Musical" (musical) and "God of Carnage" (play) win

• 2012 A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
• 2012 Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout speculation
• 2013 18 people are killed and 14 are injured after a bus plunges off a mountain road in Himachel Pradesh, India
• 2013 42 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus catches fire in Xiamen, China
• 2015 -8 41st G7 summit held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
• 2015 69th Tony Awards: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" (play) and "Fun Home" (musical) each win 5 awards
• 2016 "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", a play written by Jack Thorne with JK Rowling, premieres in London
• 2016 Car bomb attack on a police bus in central Istanbul kills 11

• 2017 Earliest-ever evidence of Homo Sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco unearthed by archaeologists published in "Nature", at 300,000 years old
• 2017 Police warn bald men against attacks in Mozambique after 5 men murdered for the gold believed in their heads

• 2018 Baltimore ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins, head of a rogue police unit sentenced to 25 years for robbery and racketeering
• 2018 Mars Curiosity Rover finds organic matter, including methane, on Mars in studies published in journal "Science"
• 2018 Stanley Cup Final, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV: Washington Capitals beat Las Vegas Golden Knights, 4-3 for a 4-1 series victory; first title in franchise history
• 2019 More than four million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to its economic crisis according to the UN
• 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests continue worldwide in large numbers, In Bristol England statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston pulled down
• 2020 COVID-19 global death toll passes 400,000 with confirmed cases at 6,973,195 according to Johns Hopkins figures

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