June 6

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 6. From 1900 until now. June 6 is under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Steve Vai (1960), Chantal Akerman (1950) and Kirk Kerkorian (1917). Several movies were released around June 6 over the years, such as Psycho in 1960 directed by Alfred Hitchcock and The Apartment in 1960 directed by Billy Wilder.
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Holidays

Memorial Day - South Korea.
Doomsday (weekday)
Queensland Day.
National holiday of Sweden.
D-Day landings - Europe.
Bonza Bottler Day - USA.
National Yo-yo Day - USA.
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Events

2019 Reuters, citing "a source familiar with the matter", said that the hedge fund firm Elliott Management is in talks to acquire the storied bookseller Barnes & Noble for roughly $476 million. (Reuters)
2018 Syrian Civil War: The Syrian government re-opens the Homs–Hama highway after it was closed for seven years. (Reuters)
2017 War in Afghanistan: 2017 Herat bombing: An explosion occurs near police offices and a mosque in Herat, killing at least ten people. (Al Jazeera)
2016 Five people working for Jordanian intelligence are killed in an attack in a Palestinian Baqa'a refugee camp near Amman. (Al Arabiya)
2015 Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: Saudi Arabia shoots down a Scud missile fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen according to Saudi State media. (Reuters)At least four Saudi Arabian Army soldiers and "dozens of" Yemeni Republican Guard are killed in fighting near the border, according to Saudi government. (AFP via France 24)
2014 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: Abdullah Abdullah of the National Coalition of Afghanistan, a frontrunner in the Afghan presidential election, survives a bombing attempt. (BBC)
2013 Gunmen ambush a bus in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq, killing 10 border police and 5 civilians. (Reuters)
2012 NATO planes launch an air strike on Afghanistan, allegedly killing civilians in the process. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
2011 2011 Libyan civil war: Rebels retake the town of Yafran in the west of the country. (New York Times) (al Jazeera)
2010 41 people have been killed in fighting over the past three days in Sudan's western region of Darfur according to a Sudan tribal leader. (AFP)
2009 The European Union's parliamentary election continues in Cyprus, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and France's overseas departments and territories. (Europarl)
2008 After five years of searching, the Caribbean Monk Seal is declared officially extinct (MSNBC)
2007 The Anaheim Mighty Ducks defeat the Ottawa Senators 4 games to 1 to win the NHL's Stanley Cup.
2006 2006 Toronto terrorism case: Toronto police uncover an alleged subplot where Steven Vikash Chand, alias Abdul Shakur, intended to lead an invasion of the Parliament of Canada building and assassinate Prime Minister Stephen Harper. (CBC)
2005 The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
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.
2003 NASA investigators cracked a reinforced carbon fiber wing by shooting it with a piece of insulation, providing more evidence that falling insulation may have caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2002 Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
1999 In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299 by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937.
1998 130th Belmont
1997 In Lacey Township, New Jersey, high school senior Melissa Drexler kills her newborn baby in a toilet.
1996 Leighton W. Smith, Jr. resigns as NATO commander in the face of increasing criticism.
1995 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1994 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Ray Stevens
1993 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America and Kiss of the Spider Woman win
1992 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26
1991 Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
1990 2nd International Rock Awards
1989 Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1988 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis and Statler Brothers
1987 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2
1986 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of the North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself.
1985 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
1984 1,200 die in Sikh Golden Temple uprising India
1983 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff
1982 36th Tony Awards: Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Nine win
1981 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
1979 Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil
1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent.
1977 Washington Post reports US has developed neutron bomb
1976 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established.
1974 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1972 David Bowie releases Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust
1971 Ed Sullivan Show last broadcasts on CBS-TV
1970 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
1968 WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza
1966 Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational
1964 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6
1963 Gasunie established
1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record Besame Mucho with Peter Best on drums
1960 Steve Allen Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1958 Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
1957 The decision of the Automobile Manufacturers Association (in the USA) to ban race involvement is announced. The ban on racing involvement includes not helping others, not supply pace cars, not publicize any results, not advertise any features of passenger cars that suggest speed.
1956 In Singapore, chief minister David Marshall resigns after the breakdown of talks about internal self-government in London.
1955 Bill Haley and The Comets' song "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1.
1954 Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1950 German DR and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
1949 It Pays To Be Ignorant, game Show, debut on CBS-TV
1947 Treaty drawn for establishment of International Patent Institute
1946 Martin Kresses begins publishing Eric the Viking comic strip
1945 Free People premieres in Amsterdam
1944 Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
1942 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1941 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1939 New York Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1937 Phillies trailing 8-2 to St. Louis, forfeit game
1936 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol Golf Club - New Jersey
1934 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
1933 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)
1932 Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile
1931 There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time by Guy Lombardo hits #1
1926 Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old)
1924 28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills Country Club - Michigan
1921 The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1920 Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
1919 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
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 Chateau-Thierry.
1916 Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage
1913 Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home three times.
1912 The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1911 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified).
1906 Paris Metro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orleans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz).
1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Famous Birthday

Steve Vai: American musician, a guitarist who has...
Chantal Akerman: Belgian film director born to a Jewish...
Kirk Kerkorian: American entrepreneur and former...
Bjorn Borg: Swedish tennis player.
Jason Isaacs: English actor.
Faudel : French raï singer of Algerian descent.
Sandra Bernhard: American comedienne, tall, skinny,...
Aram Khatchaturian
Zbigniew Seifert
Sweden: independence
Kim Hyun-joong
Kim Hyun-a
Robert Englund: American actor, a character player...
Cristina Scabbia: Italian singer (Lacuna Coil).
Albert II of Belgium
Faure Gnassingbé
Paul Giamatti: American actor.
Tom Araya: Chilean musician (Slayer).
Solenne Figuès: French swimmer, she won a bronze medal...
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Sukarno : President of Indonesia (Born 1901).
René Monory: French politician, president of french...
Ryan Higa: YouTube Star.
Guillaume Musso: French wrter, a prolific novelist whose...
Angela Cavagna: Genoa, Italy -- Singer.
Arthur Shawcross: American homicide, a serial killer of 13...
Josie Lawrence: British actress and alternative...
François Santoni: French Corsican politician, murdered on...
Colin Quinn: American actor and comedian, an MTV...
Gérard Devouassoux
David Scott (astronaut)
Dominique Boeuf
Sonya Walger: English-American actress.
Holly Near: American bisexual entertainer, lesbian...
Katharina Abt
Richard Hickock: American homicide, noted by the...
Mónica Cervera
Frida Gustavsson
André Chamson: French writer, politician, historian,...
Sékouba Konaté
Antoine Zacharias: French business executive, an engineer...
Maria Montez
Oscar Sisto
Tommie Smith: American runner and football player.
Alexander Sternberg
Lance Reddick
Dominique Ambiel: French television producer and...
Joy Enriquez: American singer.
Didier Migaud: French politician, a member of the...
Sweden first Constitution
René Mella
Malgosia Bela
Carol Cady: American athlete, the NCAA shotput...
Neville Heath: British murderer and sadist who is noted...
Henri Jammet: French physician and educator.
David Blunkett: British politician, a Member of...
Cam Neely: Canadian ice hockey player and actor.
Tony Levin: American musician, a bassist and early...
Robert A Hughes
Antonia Prebble
Dorothy B Hughes
Lyndie Greenwood
Michel Husser
Jean Cayrol
Junior Giscombe
Augusta Hornblower: American Republican state representative...
Jean-Claude Fruteau
Frédéric Chau
Al Checchi: American business executive with...
Elmer B Staats
Jan Adriaensens
Ben Hunter: American radio and TV personality who...
Lesley Blanch
Babeth Étienne
Jean-Pierre Verheggen
Tina Lenert: American mime artist born in Venezuela.
Jay Bentley: American singer and bass player (Bad...
John Clem Clarke
Frankie King: NBA guard (LA Lakers).
Maurice Seveno: Cherbourg Journalist.
Daniel Logan (New Zealand actor)
Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington
Eddie Cano: American pro piano player; mostly in...
Jill Strong: American singer, pro from the time she...
Son Dong-woon: South Korean singer and dancer.
Leslie Carter
Paolo Stoppa
George Deukmejian: American attorney and politician: a...
Joel Fisher: American artis and sculptor.
Jimmie Lunceford: American saxophonist and bandleader...
Patrick Guyon
Yves Durand (politician)
Rocco Buttiglione: Politician.
Richard Pottier
Bernard Depierre
Henri-Robert Courand
Natalie Morales: American television journalist.
Yukihiro Takahashi: Japanese drummer producer and actor...
Sam Simon: TV Producer.
Jean-Michel Bertrand
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Famous Deaths

Jean Harlow: Actress (Bombshell), dies from...
Dana Elcar: American actor and director (d. 2005).
Yves Klein: French artist considered an important...
Stan Getz: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Jazz tenor...
Robbin Crosby: American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt)...
Mark McManus: Scottish actor best known for his...
Larry Kert: American actor and singer, best known...
Sylvia Porter: American writer and economist.
Dave Rowberry: English pianist and songwriter (The...
Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen: Anti semite / NSB (1937-41), suicide.
Margaret Wycherly: Actress (Claudia), dies at 74.
Lily Theresa Strickland: Composer, dies at 71.
Guinn Williams: Actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of...
Robert Warwick: Actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies...
Edward G Givens Jr: Major USAF / Astronaut, dies in an car...
Franklin C Fry: US Minister (World Rad of Church).
Arnold Elston: Composer, dies at 63.
Blanche Yurka: Actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of...
Sophie Stewart: Actress (As You Like It), dies at 69.
A[rthur] Bertram Chandler: Author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at...
Siem Devout: Dutch actor, dies at 54.
Thijs van Lier: Lawyer / Dutch MP (PvdA), dies at 44.
James Bridges: Writer / director (Paper Chase), dies of...
Peter Tazelaar: Adjutant of Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, dies...
Imam Elissa: Singer, dies at 76.
John Morey Downs: Actor / dancer / singer, dies at 80.
John Slot: Mayor of Eethen / Hardenberg / Ede.
Johnny Morey Downs: Actor / singer (Algiers, Red Head), dies...
Willie Humphrey: Jazz clarinetist, dies at 93.
Glyn Worsnip: Broadcaster, dies at 57.
Jean Sinclair: Teacher / campaigner, dies at 88.
Richard Michael Hills: Comedy script writer, dies at 70.
J Paul Getty: American industrialist (Born 1892).
Carleton S Coon: American anthropologist (Born 1904).
A Bertram Chandler: Australian author (Born 1912).
Claudette Orbison: wife of singer Roy Orbison, dies in a...
Robert F Kennedy (Senator-Democrat-New York): dies of gunshot wounds at age 42 in Los...
Ioannis Theotokis: Greek politician, 146th Prime Minister...
Frederic Dard: French writer (Born 1921).
Jim Owens: American college football head coach...
Mary Howard de Liagre: American actress (Born 1913).
Marvin Isley: American musician The Isley Brothers...
Khaled Saeed: victim of Egyptian Police Brutality;...
Larry Blyden: American actor and game show host, best...
Peter Graves: American athlete, musician, radio...
Jack Haley: American film executive and co-founder,...
Gerhart Hauptmann: German dramatist, playwright, novelist...
Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and author, noted as...
Max Meldrum: Australian painter known as the founder...
Lillian Russell: American actress, the epitome of the gay...
Barry Sullivan: American executive and CEO of First...
Louis Lumiere: French movie pioneer (Born 1864).
Julije Kempf: Croatian historian and writer (Born...
Pandelis Pouliopoulos: secretary of the Communist Party of...
Henry Tate: English businessman and philanthropist...
Victor Varconi: Hungarian-American actor and director...
Lester Matthews: (Sir Dennis-Adventures of Fu Manchu),...
Larry Riley: Memphis, Tennessee -- Actor (Harry-Stir...
Fritz Kasparek: Austrian mountaineer (Born 1910).
Julian Byng: 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy English field...
Yuan Shikai: Chinese general and politician President...
Olive Tell: American actress and singer (d. 1951).
Frank Sutton: American actor (Born 1923).
George Snell: American geneticist and immunologist...
Walter T Watts-Dunton: England, lawyer / Poet / writer...
Karl Landsteiner: Austrian / US pathologist (Nobel 1930),...
Iacob Moresianu: Composer, dies at 59.
Heinrich Gottlieb Noren: Composer, dies at 67.
Jacques Urlus: Tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the...
Ford Madox Ford: Writer, dies at 65.
E E Clive: Actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss...
Karl Landsteiner: Austrian / US pathologist (Nobel 1930),...
Danny Brotheridge: British lieutenant, 1st to die during...
Gerrit John van de Peat: Artist / resistance fighter, executed at...
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