June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 207 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
- 1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture the city of Udine.
- 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas splits the "New World" between Spain and Portugal.
- 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted Royal Assent by King Charles I of England and becomes law.
- 1654 – Louis XIV of France is crowned King.
- 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is destroyed by an earthquake, killing 1,000 people.
- 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the Lee Resolution to the Continental Congress.
- 1788 – Citizens of Grenoble, France, toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
- 1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
- 1810 – The "Gazeta de Buenos Ayres" newspaper in Argentina is published for the first time.
- 1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, killing 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
- 1840 – Frederick William IV of Prussia becomes King.
- 1862 – The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
- 1880 – War of the Pacific: Battle of Arica (then part of Peru, now part of Chile).
- 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first US President to attend a baseball game.
- 1893 – Mahatma Gandhi does his first act of civil disobedience, while living in South Africa.
1901 – 2000
- 1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves the Union with Sweden.
- 1906 – The Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1909 – Mary Pickford makes her first movie appearance at the age of 16.
- 1913 – Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, is climbed successfully for the first time, by Hudson Stuck.
- 1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
- 1919 – Sette Giugno: A riot in Malta kills 4 people.
- 1929 – The Lateran Treaty creates the Vatican City state, the world's smallest country.
- 1940 – Haakon VII of Norway and Crown Prince Olav go into exile in London. They return to Norway five years later.
- 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
- 1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign – Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu Island and Kiska.
- 1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 360 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the island of Santorini.
- 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian POWs.
- 1945 – Norway's Royal Family returns from exile, after the end of World War II and Nazi occupation of Norway.
- 1948 – Edvard Benes resigns as President of Czechoslovakia, in order to avoid signing the Ninth of May Constitution that makes his country a Communist state.
- 1959 – The Viqueque Rebellion begins against Portuguese colonists in present-day East Timor.
- 1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem in the Six-Day War.
- 1968 – The first LEGOLAND opens in Billund, Denmark.
- 1973 – Willy Brandt becomes the first Chancellor of Germany to visit Israel.
- 1973 – Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 1975 – The first Cricket World Cup begins in England.
- 1977 – 500 million people watch television coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee (25th anniversary of her reign in the UK and Commonwealth realms).
- 1979 – The first elections to the European Parliament are held.
- 1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Usiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
- 1982 – Rebel leader Hissene Habri takes power through a coup in Chad.
- 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public.
- 1989 – Suriname Airways Flight 764 crashes in jungle near Paramaribo in thick fog. More than 170 people on board are killed.
- 1991 – Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupts.
- 1995 – The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
- 2000 – The UN defines the Blue Line as the Israel–Lebanon border.
From 2001
- 2001 – Tony Blair is elected to a second term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in a US airstrike.
- 2008 – UEFA Euro 2008 begins as the Switzerland national football team, as co-host with Austria, loses the opening match to the Czech Republic national football team.
- 2009 – In European elections, Social-Democratic political parties suffer heavy losses, as more Conservative MEPs are elected. Far-right politicians also gain several seats in the European Parliament.
- 2013 – A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people.
- 2014 – At least 37 people are killed in an attack in South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 2014 – Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as President of Ukraine.
- 2016 – Hillary Clinton declares victory in the race for the Democratic nomination for US president, which would make her the first woman to achieve this.
- 2017 – 2017 Tehran attacks: 12 people are killed in attacks on the Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.
- 2019 – The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup begins: Hosts France beat South Korea 4–0 in the opening game.
Births
Up to 1900
- 1502 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
- 1529 – Etienne Pasquier, French lawyer and writer (d. 1615)
- 1561 – Johann VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1623)
- 1660 – King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
- 1686 – Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1852)
- 1687 – Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian alto castrato (d. 1734)
- 1732 – Giuseppe Demachi, Italian composer (d. 1791)
- 1757 – Georgina Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
- 1761 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
- 1770 – Robert Jenkinson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
- 1809 – William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and antiquarian (d. 1892)
- 1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish physician (d. 1870)
- 1825 – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (d. 1900)
- 1831 – Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
- 1837 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
- 1840 – Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)
- 1845 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
- 1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
- 1849 – Manuel Bonilla, President of Honduras (d. 1913)
- 1851 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
- 1862 – Philipp Lenard, German physicist (d. 1947)
- 1863 – Bones Ely, American baseball player (d. 1952)
- 1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish artist and architect (d. 1928)
- 1877 – Roelof Klein, Dutch rower (d. 1960)
- 1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic explorer (d. 1933)
- 1880 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956)
- 1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
- 1886 – Henri Coanda, Romanian engineer and inventor (d. 1972)
- 1888 – Clarence DeMar, American long-distance runner (d. 1958)
- 1892 – Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
- 1894 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviator, author and inventor (d. 1974)
- 1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist (d. 1986)
- 1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
- 1897 – Kirill Meretskov, Russian marshal (d. 1968)
- 1897 – George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1970)
1901 – 1950
- 1906 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
- 1907 – Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, Swedish royal (d. 2002)
- 1909 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (d. 1994)
- 1909 – Virginia Apgar, American physician (d. 1974)
- 1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)
- 1910 – Bradford Washburn, American explorer, mountaineer, photographer and mapmaker (d. 2007)
- 1910 – Arthur Gardner, American actor and movie producer (d. 2014)
- 1911 – Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (d. 2001)
- 1914 – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Indian director, producer and journalist (d. 1987)
- 1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995)
- 1920 – Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
- 1921 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
- 1927 – Ian McColl, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2008)
- 1927 – Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer (d. 1995)
- 1928 – James Ivory, American director
- 1928 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
- 1929 – John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
- 1929 – Antonio Carbajal, Mexican footballer
- 1929 – Mickey Duff, Polish-born British boxing trainer and promoter (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1974)
- 1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress
- 1933 – Arkady Arkanov, Russian writer and satirist (d. 2015)
- 1936 – Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter
- 1937 – Neeme Jarvi, Estonian conductor
- 1938 – Ian St John, Scottish footballer
- 1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer
- 1940 – Ronald Pickup, English actor
- 1942 – Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan colonel and military leader (d. 2011)
- 1943 – Ken Osmond, American actor
- 1944 – Annette Lu, Taiwanese politician and lawyer
- 1944 – Miguel Ríos, Spanish singer
- 1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, former Chancellor of Austria
- 1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
- 1949 – Lou Macari, Scottish footballer
- 1950 – Gary Graham, American actor
1951 – 1975
- 1952 – Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
- 1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer
- 1953 – Johnny Clegg, British musician
- 1953 – Libuse Safrankova, Czech actress
- 1955 – William Forsythe, American actor
- 1956 – L.A. Reid, American recording executive, songwriter and record producer
- 1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, songwriter and producer
- 1957 – Fred Vargas, French writer, historian and archaeologist
- 1957 – Paulo Vitor, Brazilian footballer
- 1957 – Iain Gray, Scottish politician
- 1958 – Prince, American singer and musician (d. 2016)
- 1958 – Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai politician and diplomat
- 1959 – Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States and 50th Governor of Indiana
- 1960 – Bill Prady, American television writer and producer
- 1960 – Steffen Seibert, German television journalist and government spokesman
- 1961 – Dave Catching, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
- 1962 – Michael Cartellone, American drummer
- 1962 – Thierry Hazard, French singer-songwriter
- 1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver
- 1963 – Judie Aronson, American actress
- 1963 – Luca Fusi, Italian footballer
- 1964 – Geir Lippestad, Norwegian lawyer
- 1965 – Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and actor
- 1965 – Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
- 1965 – Damien Hirst, British artist
- 1967 – Dave Navarro, American guitarist
- 1969 – Prince Joachim of Denmark
- 1969 – Alex Aguinaga, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1969 – Adam Buxton, English comedian and actor
- 1969 – Kim Rhodes, American actress
- 1970 – Helen Baxendale, British actress
- 1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
- 1970 – Mike Hodano, American ice hockey player
- 1970 – Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
- 1970 – Cha Seung-won, South Korean actor and model
- 1970 – Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
- 1972 – Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
- 1973 – Song Yun-ah, South Korean model, actress and singer
- 1974 – Sunshine Anderson, American singer
- 1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
- 1974 – Bear Grylls, British adventurer
- 1974 – Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian writer (d. 2014)
- 1975 – Shane Bond, New Zealand cricketer
- 1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player
From 1976
- 1976 – Necro, American rapper, producer and actor
- 1976 – Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player
- 1977 – Marcin Baszczynski, Polish footballer
- 1978 – Bill Hader, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
- 1978 – Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress and producer
- 1979 – Viktor Kostyuchenko, Belarussian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Ed Moses, American swimmer
- 1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian model and tennis player
- 1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
- 1981 – Larisa Oleynuk, American actress
- 1982 – German Lux, Argentine footballer
- 1983 – Pierre Pierce, American basketball player
- 1984 – Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer
- 1985 – Dani Evans, American model
- 1985 – Charlie Simpson, English musician
- 1986 – Keegan Bradley, American golfer
- 1988 – Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
- 1988 – Philipp Tischendorf, German figure skater
- 1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper
- 1990 – Amy Childs, English TV personality
- 1990 – Alison Schmitt, American swimmer
- 1991 – Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
- 1991 – Fetty Wap, American rapper
- 1993 – George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
- 1993 – Jordan Fry, American actor
- 1993 – Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer, actress and dancer
Deaths
Up to 1900
- 555 – Pope Vigilius (b. 500)
- 1329 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
- 1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
- 1394 – Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Richard II of England (b. 1367)
- 1594 – Roderigo Lopez, Portuguese-English physician
- 1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
- 1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
- 1821 – Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebel leader (b. 1780)
- 1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
- 1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
- 1842 – James Barbour, Governor of Virginia (b. 1775)
- 1843 – Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer (b. 1767)
- 1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
- 1863 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (b. 1787)
- 1866 – Chief Seattle, Native American leader
- 1871 – August Immanuel Bekker, German philologist (b. 1785)
- 1876 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1807)
1901 – 2000
- 1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
- 1916 – Emile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
- 1927 – Edmund James Flynn, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
- 1931 – Viktor Schwanneke, German director and actor (b. 1880)
- 1933 – Dragutin Domjanic, Croatian poet (b. 1875)
- 1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
- 1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
- 1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
- 1954 – Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)
- 1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
- 1966 – Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter and poet (b. 1866)
- 1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
- 1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1970 – E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
- 1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (b. 1897)
- 1980 – Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
- 1988 – Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Bill France, Sr., American racing driver and businessman, co-founder of NASCAR (b. 1909)
- 1996 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
- 1996 – Jan Kerouac, American writer (b. 1952)
From 2001
- 2001 – Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (b. 1915)
- 2001 – Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian President (b. 1907)
- 2002 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, 5th Vice president of India (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist, leader in Al-Qaeda (b. 1966)
- 2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
- 2008 – Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
- 2009 – Baron Vaea, Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1921)
- 2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
- 2011 – Jorge Semprun, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer (b. 1957)
- 2012 – Bob Welch, American musician (b. 1945)
- 2012 – J. Michael Riva, American production designer (b. 1948)
- 2012 – Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi military officer (b. 1957)
- 2013 – Pierre Mauroy, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
- 2014 – Jane Gray, Scottish-Australian supercentenarian (b. 1901)
- 2014 – Fernandao, Brazilian footballer (b. 1978)
- 2014 – Rafael Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast (b. 1928)
- 2014 – Jacques Herlin, French actor (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Pierre Patry, Canadian filmmaker (b. 1933)
- 2015 – Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer (b. 1954)
- 2015 – Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
- 2016 – Johnny Brooks, English footballer (b. 1931)
- 2016 – Amber Gurung, Nepalese musician and composer (b. 1937)
- 2016 – Sean Rooks, American basketball player (b. 1969)
- 2016 – Thomas J. Perkins, American businessman (b. 1932)
- 2016 – Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
- 2017 – Arthur Bunting, English rugby player and coach (b. 1936)
- 2017 – Trento Longaretti, Italian painter (b. 1916)
- 2017 – James Hardy, American football player (b. 1985)
- 2017 – France Rode, Slovenian engineer (b. 1934)
- 2018 – David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist (b. 1916)
- 2018 – Fu Da-ren, Taiwanese sports broadcaster and assisted suicide activist (b. 1933)
- 2018 – Francis Smerecki, French footballer and manager (b. 1946)
- 2018 – Stefan Weber, Austrian singer (b. 1946)
- 2019 – Noémi Ban, Hungarian-American public speaker and Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
- 2019 – Ryszard Bugajski, Polish film director (b. 1943)
- 2019 – Nonnie Griffin, Canadian actress (b. 1933)
- 2019 – Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Uruguayan-Spanish film director (b. 1935)
- 2019 – Noel Lloyd, Welsh academic (b. 1946)
- 2019 – Tony Rodham, American businessman and political consultant, brother of Hillary Clinton (b. 1954)
- 2021 – Ben Roberts, British actor (b. 1950)
Observances
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