June 7 facts for kids

June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 207 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• 421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
• 879 – Pope John VIII recognises the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.
• 1002 – Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany.
• 1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
• 1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
• 1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

1601–1900

• 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
• 1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
• 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
• 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
• 1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
• 1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
• 1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
• 1832 – The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.
• 1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
• 1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
• 1866 – One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
• 1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
• 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
• 1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.

1901–present

• 1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
• 1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
• 1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
• 1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
• 1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
• 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
• 1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
• 1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
• 1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
• 1946 – The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II.
• 1948 – Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
• 1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
• 1955 – Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
• 1962 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
• 1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
• 1975 – Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
• 1977 – Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
• 1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
• 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
• 1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
• 1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
• 2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
• 2017 – A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1003 – Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (d. 1048)
• 1402 – Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese noble (d. 1481)
• 1422 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (d. 1482)
• 1502 – John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
• 1529 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (d. 1615)
• 1561 – John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count and military theorist (d. 1623)

1601–1900

• 1687 – Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian actor and singer (d. 1734)
• 1702 – Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1761)
• 1757 – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
• 1761 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
• 1770 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
• 1778 – Beau Brummell, English cricketer and fashion designer (d. 1840)
• 1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (d. 1870)
• 1831 – Amelia Edwards, English journalist and author (d. 1892)
• 1837 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (d. 1903)
• 1840 – Carlota of Mexico (d. 1927)
• 1845 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1930)
• 1847 – George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa (d. 1915)
• 1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (d. 1903)
• 1851 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
• 1861 – Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (d. 1942)
• 1862 – Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
• 1863 – Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)
• 1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (d. 1928)
• 1877 – Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer (d. 1960)
• 1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (d. 1933)
• 1879 – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1963)
• 1884 – Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect (d. 1931)
• 1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1948)
• 1886 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (d. 1972)
• 1888 – Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator (d. 1958)
• 1890 – Karl Lashley, American psychologist and behaviorist (d. 1958)
• 1892 – Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
• 1893 – Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (d. 1938)
• 1894 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1990)
• 1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1958)
• 1897 – George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1970)
• 1899 – Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic (d. 1973)

1901–present

• 1902 – Georges Van Parys, French composer (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (d. 2000)
• 1905 – James J. Braddock, American world heavyweight boxing champion (d. 1974)
• 1906 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
• 1907 – Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (d. 2002)
• 1909 – Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (d. 1974)
• 1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American lawyer, and politician (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (d. 2014)
• 1910 – Til Kiwe, German actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (d. 1989)
• 1910 – Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (d. 2007)
• 1910 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Bluey, Australian cattle dog, second-oldest recorded dog (d. 1939)
• 1911 – Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (d. 1986)
• 1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017)
• 1926 – Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
• 1927 – Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
• 1928 – James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1929 – John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
• 1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
• 1932 – Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Bert Sugar, American author and boxing historian (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Ian St John, Scottish international footballer and manager (d. 2021)
• 1939 – Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor
• 1940 – Ronald Pickup, English actor (d. 2021)
• 1943 – "Superstar" Billy Graham, American wrestler (d. 2023)
• 1944 – Clarence White, American guitarist and singer (d. 1973)
• 1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria
• 1946 – Zbigniew Seifert, Polish musician (d. 1979)
• 1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
• 1952 – Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
• 1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1954 – Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet
• 1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, composer, and record producer.
• 1958 – Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (d. 2016)
• 1959 – Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana
• 1960 – Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer
• 1962 – Lance Reddick, American actor (d. 2023)
• 1965 – Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector
• 1967 – Dave Navarro, American musician
• 1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
• 1974 – Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host
• 1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player
• 1978 – Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
• 1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
• 1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician
• 1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model
• 1991 – Fetty Wap, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
• 1991 – Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
• 1993 – George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
• 1996 – Christian McCaffrey, American football player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 555 – Vigilius, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 500)
• 862 – Al-Muntasir, Abbasid caliph (b. 837)
• 929 – Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (b. 877)
• 940 – Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (b. 925)
• 951 – Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (b. 876)
• 1329 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (b. 1274)
• 1337 – William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)
• 1341 – An-Nasir Muhammad, Egyptian sultan (b. 1285)
• 1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (b. 1305)
• 1394 – Anne of Bohemia, English queen (b. 1366)
• 1492 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 (b. 1427)
• 1594 – Rodrigo Lopez, physician of Queen Elizabeth I (b. 1525)

1601–1900

• 1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
• 1660 – George II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1621)
• 1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish scholar and theologian (b. 1641)
• 1740 – Alexander Spotswood, Moroccan-American colonial and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (b. 1676)
• 1779 – William Warburton, English bishop and critic (b. 1698)
• 1792 – Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (b. 1738)
• 1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (b. 1765)
• 1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1787)
• 1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
• 1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (b. 1770)
• 1853 – Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (b. 1787)
• 1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
• 1859 – David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)
• 1861 – Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (b. 1777)
• 1863 – Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (b. 1790)
• 1866 – Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (b. 1780)
• 1879 – William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (b. 1836)
• 1896 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)

1901–present

• 1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
• 1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (b. 1822)
• 1916 – Émile Faguet, French author and critic (b. 1847)
• 1921 – Patrick Maher, executed Irish republican (b. 1889)
• 1921 – Edmond Foley, executed Irish republican (b. 1897)
• 1924 – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (b. 1847)
• 1927 – Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (b. 1905)
• 1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
• 1932 – John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (b. 1856)
• 1933 – Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (b. 1875)
• 1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
• 1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
• 1942 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer (b. 1903)
• 1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (b. 1870)
• 1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
• 1956 – John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1879)
• 1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 1966 – Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
• 1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
• 1967 – Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 1970 – E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879)
• 1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883)
• 1980 – Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (b. 1913)
• 1980 – Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891)
• 1985 – Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940)
• 1992 – Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Betty Neels, English nurse and author (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
• 2023 – The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances

The Sette Giugno monument, in its original location in Palace Square, Valletta

• Christian feast day:
  • Antonio Maria Gianelli
  • Colmán of Dromore
  • St Gottschalk
  • Landulf of Yariglia (Asti)
  • Meriasek
  • Paul I of Constantinople
  • Robert of Newminster
  • Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)
  • Blessed Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière
  • Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)
  • Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Battle of Arica Day (Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile)
• Flag Day (Peru)
• Journalist Day (Argentina)
• Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
• Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark)
• Sette Giugno (Malta)
• Union Dissolution Day (Independence Day of Norway)
• Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day

See also

In Spanish: 7 de junio para niños