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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 6 is the 157th day of the year (158th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
208 days remain until the end of the year. The date is most famously associated
with D-Day on Tuesday, 6 June 1944, when
the Western Allies carried
out landing and airborne
operations in Normandy to begin Operation Overlord during World War II. D-Day (codenamed Operation
Neptune) was the largest seaborne invasion in history. It began the
liberation of German-occupied France to lay the foundations of Allied victory
over Nazi Germany,
finally achieved in May 1945. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] pre-20th century[edit] ·
913 – Constantine VII, the 8-year-old illegitimate
son of Leo VI the Wise,
becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed
by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos,
appointed by Constantine's uncle Alexander
III on his deathbed.[1] ·
1513 – Battle of Novara.
In the Italian Wars,
Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la
Trémoille, forcing them to abandon Milan; Duke Massimiliano Sforza is
restored.[2] ·
1523 –
Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is
elected King of Sweden and,
marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the
country's national day.[3][4] ·
1762 –
In the Seven Years' War,
British forces begin the Siege of Havana and temporarily capture
the city.[5] ·
1813 –
The Battle of Stoney
Creek, considered a critical turning point in the War of 1812. A British force of 700
under John Vincent defeats
an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.[6] ·
1822 – Alexis St Martin is accidentally shot
in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.[7] ·
1832 –
The June Rebellion in
Paris is put down by the National Guard.[8][9] ·
1844 –
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
is founded in London.[10] ·
1859 – Queensland is established as a
separate colony from New South Wales. The date is still
celebrated as Queensland Day.[11] ·
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis: Union forces
capture Memphis, Tennessee,
from the Confederates. ·
1882 –
The Shewan forces of Menelik II of
Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus
Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over
the territories south of the Abay River. ·
1889 –
The Great Seattle Fire destroys
all of downtown Seattle. ·
1892 –
The Chicago
"L" elevated rail system begins operation. ·
1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to
protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple
Creek miners' strike. post-19th century[edit] ·
1909 –
French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad)
and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire. ·
1912 –
The eruption of Novarupta in
Alaska begins. It is the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. ·
1916 –
The death of Yuan Shikai marks
the beginning of China's Warlord Era. ·
1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau
Wood: The U.S. Marine Corps suffers
its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood
at Château-Thierry. ·
1933 –
The first drive-in theater opens
in Camden, New Jersey,
United States. ·
1934 – New Deal: The U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signs the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission. ·
1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers
sink the Japanese
cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers. ·
1944 –
World War II: The Allied invasion
of Normandy—codenamed Operation Overlord—begins
with the execution of Operation Neptune (commonly
referred to as D-Day), the landing of
155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers
quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the
largest amphibious military operation in history. ·
1946 –
The Basketball
Association of America is founded in New York City; the BAA was the precursor to
the modern National
Basketball Association. ·
1954 –
The grand opening of the sculpture
of Yuriy Dolgorukiy took place in Moscow. This statue is one of the main
monuments of Moscow. ·
1964 –
Under a temporary order, the rocket
launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume. ·
1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched. ·
1974 –
A new Instrument
of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy. ·
1982 –
The Lebanon War begins.
Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation
Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the
capital Beirut. ·
1985 –
The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later
proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's
"Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming
in February 1979. ·
1993 – Punsalmaagiin
Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia. ·
2002 – Eastern
Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated
at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece
and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a
force of 26 kilotons, slightly more
powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. ·
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. Births[edit] pre-19th century[edit] ·
1236 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese general and scholar
(d. 1283) ·
1243 – Alix
of Brittany, Dame de Pontarcy, Breton noble (d. 1288) ·
1296 – Wladyslaw of Legnica (d.
1352) ·
1436 – Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von
Königsberg), German mathematician, astronomer, and bishop (d. 1476)[12][13] ·
1519 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher,
physician, and botanist (d. 1603)[14] ·
1539 – Catherine Vasa, Regent of East Frisia (d.
1610) ·
1556 – Edward
la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, English politician and diplomat (d.
1625) ·
1580 – Godefroy Wendelin,
Belgian astronomer and author (d. 1667) ·
1584 – Yuan Chonghuan, politician, military general
and writer (d. 1630) ·
1599 – Diego Velázquez,
Spanish painter and educator (d. 1660) ·
1606 – Pierre Corneille, French playwright and
producer (d. 1684) ·
1622 – Claude-Jean Allouez,
French-American missionary and explorer (d. 1689) ·
1646 – Hortense Mancini, favourite Italian niece of
Cardinal Mazarin (d. 1699) ·
1661 – Giacomo Antonio
Perti, Italian composer and educator (d. 1756) ·
1699 – Johann Georg Estor,
German historian and theorist (d. 1773) ·
1714 – Joseph I of Portugal (d.
1777) ·
1735 – Anton Schweitzer, German composer (d. 1787) ·
1755 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (d. 1776) ·
1756 – John Trumbull, American soldier and painter
(d. 1843) ·
1772 – Maria
Theresa of Naples and Sicily (d. 1807) ·
1799 – Alexander Pushkin,
Russian author and poet (d. 1837) 19th century[edit] ·
1807 – Thiệu
Trị, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1847) ·
1810 – Friedrich
Wilhelm Schneidewin, German philologist and scholar (d. 1856) ·
1829 – Honinbo Shusaku, Japanese Go player (d. 1862) ·
1841 – Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and
publisher (d. 1910) ·
1844 – Konstantin Savitsky,
Russian painter and academic (d. 1905) ·
1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun,
German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1918) ·
1857 – Aleksandr Lyapunov,
Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1918) ·
1862 – Henry Newbolt, English historian, author,
and poet (d. 1938) ·
1867 – David T. Abercrombie,
American surveyor and businessman, founded Abercrombie &
Fitch (d. 1931) ·
1868 – Robert Falcon Scott,
English sailor and explorer (d. 1912) ·
1872 – Alix of Hesse, German princess and Russian
empress (d. 1918) ·
1875 – Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1955) ·
1878 – Vincent de
Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (d. 1956) ·
1884 – Jock Hutchison, Scottish-American golfer (d.
1977) ·
1890 – Ted Lewis,
American singer, clarinet player, and bandleader (d. 1971) ·
1891 – Masti Venkatesha
Iyengar, Indian author and academic (d. 1986) ·
1891
– Erich Marcks,
German general (d. 1944) ·
1896 – Henry Allingham, English World War I soldier and supercentenarian (d. 2009).[15] ·
1896
– Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and
politician (d. 1940) ·
1898 – Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987) ·
1898
– Jacobus Johannes
Fouché, South African politician, 2nd State
President of South Africa (d. 1980) ·
1898
– Ninette de Valois,
English ballerina, choreographer, and director (d. 2001) ·
1900 – Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist
and physician (d. 1957) 1901–1930[edit] ·
1901 – Jan Struther, English author and hymnwriter
(d. 1953) ·
1901
– Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician,
1st President of
Indonesia (d. 1970) ·
1902 – Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and
bandleader (d. 1947) ·
1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (d.
1978) ·
1903
– Bakht Singh, Indian evangelist, well-known
bible teacher and preacher (d. 2000) ·
1906 – Max August Zorn, German mathematician and
academic (d. 1993) ·
1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1993) ·
1907
– Robin Humphreys,
British scholar of Latin America (d. 1999) ·
1908 – Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (d.
1968) ·
1909 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian and
philosopher (d. 1997) ·
1913 – Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American author,
critic, and academic (d. 1991) ·
1915 – Vincent Persichetti,
American pianist and composer (d. 1987) ·
1916 – Hamani Diori, Nigerian academic and
politician, 1st President of Niger (d.
1989) ·
1917 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman,
founded the Tracinda Corporation (d.
2015) ·
1918 – Kenneth Connor, English comedy actor (d.
1993)[16] ·
1918
– Edwin G. Krebs,
American biochemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2009) ·
1919 – Peter
Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, English army officer and
politician, 6th Secretary
General of NATO (d. 2018) ·
1923 – V. C. Andrews, American author, illustrator,
and painter (d. 1986) ·
1923
– Jean Pouliot,
Canadian broadcaster (d. 2004) ·
1925 – Maxine Kumin, American poet and author (d.
2014) ·
1925
– Frank Chee Willeto,
American soldier and politician, 4th Vice
President of the Navajo Nation (d. 2013) ·
1926 – Torsten Andersson,
Swedish painter and illustrator (d. 2009) ·
1926
– Erdal Inönü,
Turkish physicist and politician, Prime Minister
of Turkey (d. 2007) ·
1926
– Klaus Tennstedt,
German conductor (d. 1998) ·
1929 – James Barnor, Ghanaian photographer[17][18] ·
1929
– Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director,
producer, and politician (d. 2005)[19] ·
1930 – Frank Tyson, English-Australian cricketer,
coach and journalist (d. 2015)[20] 1931–1945[edit] Tommie Smith, born 6 June 1944, at the 1968
Olympic medal ceremony where he and John Carlos (behind) protested against
racism. ·
1932 – David Scott, American colonel, engineer, and
astronaut ·
1932
– Billie Whitelaw,
English actress (d. 2014) ·
1933 – Eli Broad, American businessman and
philanthropist, co-founded KB Home ·
1933
– Heinrich Rohrer,
Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2013) ·
1935 – Jon Henricks, Australian swimmer; winner of
two Olympic gold
medals in 1956.[21] ·
1936 – Mompati Merafhe, Botswana general and
politician, Vice-President
of Botswana (d. 2015) ·
1936
– D. Ramanaidu,
Indian actor, director, and producer, founded Suresh Productions (d.
2015) ·
1936
– Levi Stubbs, American soul singer (d. 2008)[22] ·
1938 – Prince
Luiz of Orléans-Braganza ·
1938
– Ryuchi Matsuda,
Japanese martial artist and author (d. 2013) ·
1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer ·
1939
– Gary U.S. Bonds,
American singer-songwriter ·
1939
– Eddie Giacomin,
Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster ·
1940 – Kumar
Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, Indian-English engineer and
academic (d. 2019) ·
1940
– Willie John McBride,
Northern Irish rugby player, coach, and manager ·
1941 – Alexander Cockburn,
Scottish-American journalist and author (d. 2012) ·
1943 – José de Jesús
Gudińo Pelayo, Mexican lawyer and jurist (d. 2010) ·
1943
– Richard Smalley,
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2005) ·
1943
– Joe Stampley,
American country music singer-songwriter ·
1944 – Monty Alexander, Jamaican jazz pianist.[23] ·
1944
– Phillip Allen Sharp,
American molecular biologist; 1993 Nobel
Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine).[24] ·
1944
– Tommie Smith,
American sprinter and football player; winner of 1968 Olympic 200m gold medal
in a world record time.[25] 1946–2000[edit] ·
1946 – Tony Levin, American bass player and
songwriter.[26] ·
1947 – David Blunkett, British Labour politician; Home Secretary 2001–2004.[27] ·
1947
– Robert Englund,
American actor; best known for Nightmare on Elm
Street.[28] ·
1947
– Ada Kok, Dutch butterfly stroke swimmer; winner of
three Olympic medals
including gold in 1968.[29] ·
1948 – Arlene Harris,
American entrepreneur, inventor, investor and policy advocate.[30] ·
1949 – Holly Near, American folk singer and
songwriter.[31] ·
1954 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor and
playwright; twice a winner at the Tony Awards.[32] ·
1954
– Wladyslaw Zmuda,
Polish footballer and manager; 91 caps for Poland and voted Best Young Player
at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.[33] ·
1955 – Sam Simon, American director, producer and
screenwriter; co-developer of The Simpsons (d. 2015).[34] ·
1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player; winner of
eleven Grand Slam singles
titles including five consecutive Wimbledons.[35] ·
1972 – Natalie
Morales, American television journalist and NBC News anchor.[36] Deaths[edit] pre-18th century[edit] ·
184 – Qiao Xuan, Chinese official (b. c. 110).[37] ·
863 – Abu Musa Utamish, vizier to the Abbasid Caliphate.[38] ·
913 – Alexander
III, Byzantine emperor (b. 870).[39] ·
1097 – Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre ·
1134 – Norbert of Xanten,
German bishop and saint (b. 1060) ·
1217 – Henry I, King of Castile and Toledo (b. 1204) ·
1237 – John
of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon ·
1251 – William III
of Dampierre, Count of Flanders ·
1252 – Robert Passelewe, Bishop of Chichester ·
1333 – William
Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (b. 1312) ·
1393 – Emperor Go-En'yu of
Japan (b. 1359) ·
1480 – Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor, and
architect (b. 1412) ·
1548 – Joăo de Castro,
Portuguese soldier and politician, Governor
of Portuguese India (b. 1500) ·
1561 – Ridolfo Ghirlandaio,
Italian painter (b. 1483) ·
1583 – Nakagawa Kiyohide,
Japanese daimyo (b. 1556) ·
1659 – Nadira Banu Begum,
Mughal princess (b. 1618) ·
1661 – Martino Martini, Italian Jesuit missionary
(b. 1614) 1701–1900[edit] ·
1730 – Alain
Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, French general (b. 1646) ·
1740 – Alexander Spotswood,
Moroccan-American colonial and politician, Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia (b. 1676) ·
1784 – Joan
van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741) ·
1799 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and
politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (b.
1736) ·
1813 – Alexandre-Théodore
Brongniart, French architect, designed the Hôtel de
Mademoiselle de Condé (b. 1739) ·
1813
– Antonio Cachia,
Maltese architect, engineer and archaeologist (b. 1739) ·
1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and
philosopher (b. 1748) ·
1840 – Marcellin Champagnat,
French priest and saint, founded the Marist Brothers (b. 1789) ·
1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin,
German poet and author (b. 1770) ·
1861 – Camillo
Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1810) ·
1862 – Turner Ashby, American colonel (b. 1828) ·
1865 – William Quantrill,
American captain (b. 1837) ·
1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish minister and
engineer, invented the stirling engine (b. 1790) ·
1881 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and
composer (b. 1820) ·
1883 – Ciprian Porumbescu,
Romanian composer and poet (b. 1853) ·
1891 – John A. Macdonald,
Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1815) 1901–1950[edit] ·
1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician,
2nd President
of the Republic of China (b. 1859) ·
1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress and singer
(b. 1860) ·
1924 – William
Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of
Belfast (b. 1847) ·
1934 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author
(b. 1864) ·
1935 – Julian
Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and
politician, 12th Governor-General
of Canada (b. 1862) ·
1941 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car
driver and businessman, founded Chevrolet and Frontenac
Motor Corporation (b. 1878) ·
1943 – Pandelis
Pouliopoulos, Greek politician (b. 1900) ·
1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann,
German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1862) ·
1947 – James Agate, English author and critic (b.
1877) ·
1948 – Louis Lumičre,
French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1864) 1951–2000[edit] ·
1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894) ·
1954 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer and
author (b. 1910) ·
1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter and
educator (b. 1875) ·
1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist
(b. 1875) ·
1962 – Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928) ·
1962
– Tom Phillis, Australian motorcycle racer (b.
1934) ·
1963 – William Baziotes, American painter and
academic (b. 1912) ·
1968 – Randolph Churchill,
English journalist and politician (b. 1911) ·
1968
– Robert F. Kennedy,
American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th United
States Attorney General (b. 1925) ·
1968
– Kâzim
Özalp, Turkish general and politician, 3rd Turkish Minister of National Defence (b.
1880) ·
1975 – Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925) ·
1976 – J. Paul Getty, American businessman, founded
the Getty Oil Company (b. 1892) ·
1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1897) ·
1980 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player
and manager (b. 1918) ·
1982 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and academic
(b. 1905) ·
1983 – Hans Leip, German author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1893) ·
1984 – A. Bertram Chandler,
English-Australian soldier and author (b. 1912) ·
1991 – Stan Getz, American saxophonist and jazz
innovator (b. 1927)[40][41] ·
1994 – Barry Sullivan,
American film actor (b. 1912)[42] ·
1996 – George Davis Snell,
American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for his studies of
histocompatibility (b. 1903)[43] 21st century[edit] ·
2005 – Anne Bancroft, American film actress; winner
of the 1963 Academy
Award for Best Actress for The
Miracle Worker (b. 1931)[44] ·
2006
– Billy Preston,
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1946)[45] ·
2009 – Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist
and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the
genetic basis of immunological reaction (b. 1916)[46] ·
2012 – Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player;
together with Igor Larionov and Sergei
Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line. (b. 1960)[47][48] ·
2013 – Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and
academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of
chemical compounds (b. 1918)[49] ·
2013
– Esther Williams,
American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)[50] ·
2014 – Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and
physician; pioneered studies of autism (b. 1928)[51] ·
2015 – Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and
author; prosecuting attorney in the Tate–LaBianca
murders case (b. 1934)[52] ·
2015
– Ludvík Vaculík,
Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand
Words which inspired the Prague Spring (b. 1926)[53] ·
2016 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster;
arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (b.
1931)[54] ·
2016
– Peter Shaffer,
English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (b. 1926)[55] Holidays and observances[edit] 6 June is the feast
day of St Claude Christian feast days[edit] Further
information: June
6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Ini Kopuria (Church of England, Episcopal Church, Anglican
Church of Melanesia)[57] Others[edit] ·
D-Day Invasion Anniversary.[60] ·
Engineer's Day in Taiwan.[61] ·
Korean
Children's Union Foundation Day in North Korea.[62] ·
Memorial Day in
South Korea.[63] ·
National Day of
Sweden, marking the end of the Danish-ruled Kalmar Union.[4] ·
National
Huntington's Disease Awareness Day in the USA.[64] ·
UN Russian Language
Day.[66] |
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