June 6

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

• Jason Isaacs

  English actor.

• Sandra Bernhard

  American comedienne, tall, skinny,...

• Robert Englund

  American actor, a character player...

• Paul Giamatti

  American actor.

• Angela Cavagna

  Genoa, Italy -- Singer.

• Colin Quinn

  American actor and comedian, an MTV...

• Maria Montez
• Antonia Prebble
• Leslie Carter
• Jack Kilmer

  Movie Actor.

• Levi Stubbs

  American baritone singer (Four Tops)...

• Harvey Fierstein

  American actor and playwright.

• Julie Perreault
• Andrew Napolitano
• Sasha Luss
• Hirokazu Koreeda
• Ellie Kendrick

  TV Actress.

• David Dukes

  San Francisco, California -- Actor...

• Max Casella

  American actor and producer.

• Staci Keanan

  American actress.

• Robert Scott

  Scott was Royal Navy officer and...

• Walter Abel

  American actor and singer (d. 1987).

• Irene von Meyendorff

  Estonian-German actress (d. 2001).

• Billie Whitelaw

  Coventry, England -- Actress (Omen,...

• Gary Graham

  Actor (Money on the Side).

• Navid Negahban

  Actor.

• Arthur Askey

  Liverpool, England -- Actor (Bees in...

• Amanda Pays

  London, England -- Actress (Max...

• Judith Barsi

  Child actress, shot dead with mother by...

• Alexis Zall

  YouTube Star.

• Thomas Mann

  German writer, the author of novels,...

• Johnny Pacar

  American film actor.

• 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.

• Faudel

  French raï singer of Algerian descent.

• Aram Khatchaturian
• Zbigniew Seifert
• Sweden: independence
• Kim Hyun-joong
• Kim Hyun-a
• Cristina Scabbia

  Italian singer (Lacuna Coil).

• Albert II of Belgium
• Faure Gnassingbé
• 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...

• Arthur Shawcross

  American homicide, a serial killer of 13...

• Josie Lawrence

  British actress and alternative...

• François Santoni

  French Corsican politician, murdered on...

• Gérard Devouassoux
• David Scott (astronaut)
• Dominique Boeuf
• Sonya Walger

  English-American actress.

• Holly Near

  American bisexual entertainer, lesbian...

• Richard Hickock

  American homicide, noted by the...

• Katharina Abt
• Mónica Cervera
• Frida Gustavsson
• André Chamson

  French writer, politician, historian,...

• Sékouba Konaté
• Antoine Zacharias

  French business executive, an engineer...

• Oscar Sisto
• Tommie Smith

  American runner and football player.

• Alexander Sternberg
• Lance Reddick
• Dominique Ambiel

  French television producer and...

• Joy Enriquez

  American singer.

• Sweden first Constitution
• Didier Migaud

  French politician, a member of the...

• 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.

• Cam Neely

  Canadian ice hockey player and actor.

• David Blunkett

  British politician, a Member of...

• Tony Levin

  American musician, a bassist and early...

• Robert A Hughes
• Dorothy B Hughes
• Jean Cayrol
• Lyndie Greenwood
• Michel Husser
• Jean-Claude Fruteau
• Junior Giscombe
• Augusta Hornblower

  American Republican state representative...

• Elmer B Staats
• Frédéric Chau
• Jan Adriaensens
• Ben Hunter

  American radio and TV personality who...

• Al Checchi

  American business executive with...

• Babeth Étienne
• Lesley Blanch
• Jean-Pierre Verheggen
• Tina Lenert

  American mime artist born in Venezuela.

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Famous Deaths

• Jean Harlow

  Actress (Bombshell), dies from...

• Stan Getz

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Jazz tenor...

• Barry Sullivan

  American executive and CEO of First...

• Sophie Stewart

  Actress (As You Like It), dies at 69.

• Larry Blyden

  American actor and game show host, best...

• Olive Tell

  American actress and singer (d. 1951).

• Dana Elcar

  American actor and director (d. 2005).

• Yves Klein

  French artist considered an important...

• 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...

• James Bridges

  Writer / director (Paper Chase), dies of...

• Robert Warwick

  Actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies...

• Blanche Yurka

  Actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of...

• 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.

• Carleton S Coon

  American anthropologist (Born 1904).

• Claudette Orbison

  wife of singer Roy Orbison, dies in a...

• Peter Graves

  American athlete, musician, radio...

• Heinrich Gottlieb Noren

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Gerhart Hauptmann

  German dramatist, playwright, novelist...

• Carl Jung

  Swiss psychiatrist and author, noted as...

• Lillian Russell

  American actress, the epitome of the gay...

• 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...

• Larry Riley

  Memphis, Tennessee -- Actor (Harry-Stir...

• Julian Byng

  1st Viscount Byng of Vimy English field...

• George Snell

  American geneticist and immunologist...

• Karl Landsteiner

  Austrian / US pathologist (Nobel 1930),...

• Jack Haley

  American film executive and co-founder,...

• Ford Madox Ford

  Writer, dies at 65.

• Arnold Elston

  Composer, dies at 63.

• 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.

• Peter Tazelaar

  Adjutant of Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, dies...

• 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).

• A Bertram Chandler

  Australian author (Born 1912).

• 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;...

• Max Meldrum

  Australian painter known as the founder...

• Walter T Watts-Dunton

  England, lawyer / Poet / writer...

• Fritz Kasparek

  Austrian mountaineer (Born 1910).

• Yuan Shikai

  Chinese general and politician President...

• Frank Sutton

  American actor (Born 1923).

• Guinn Williams

  Actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of...

• Lester Matthews

  (Sir Dennis-Adventures of Fu Manchu),...

• Louis Lumiere

  French movie pioneer (Born 1864).

• Iacob Moresianu

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Jacques Urlus

  Tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the...

• 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...

• 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.

• Edward G Givens Jr

  Major USAF / Astronaut, dies in an car...

• Franklin C Fry

  US Minister (World Rad of Church).

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2017 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber - Despacito
• 2016 Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla - One Dance
• 2015 Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood
• 2014 Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli XCX - Fancy
• 2013 Macklemore - Can't Hold Us
• 2012 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Adele - Rolling In The Deep
• 2010 Usher - OMG
• 2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
• 2008 Lil Wayne - Lollipop
• 2007 Rihanna - Umbrella
• 2006 Chamillionaire - Ridin'
• 2005 Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
• 2004 Usher - Burn
• 2003 50 Cent - 21 Questions
• 2002 Ashanti - Foolish
• 2001 Christina Aguilera - Lady Marmalade
• 2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
• 1999 Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love
• 1998 Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine
• 1997 Hanson - MMMbop
• 1996 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
• 1995 Bryan Adams - Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?
• 1994 All-4-One - I Swear
• 1993 Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes
• 1992 Kris Kross - Jump
• 1991 Extreme - More Than Words
• 1990 Wilson Phillips - Hold On
• 1989 Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
• 1988 George Michael - One More Try
• 1987 Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On
• 1986 Madonna - Live To Tell
• 1985 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
• 1984 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
• 1983 Irene Cara - Flashdance...What A Feeling
• 1982 Paul McCartney - Ebony And Ivory
• 1981 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
• 1980 Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown
• 1979 Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out
• 1978 John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want
• 1977 KC and the Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man
• 1976 Diana Ross - Love Hangover
• 1975 John Denver - Thank God I'm A Country Boy
• 1974 Paul McCartney - Band On The Run
• 1973 Paul McCartney - My Love
• 1972 Sammy Davis Jr. - The Candy Man
• 1971 The Honey Cone - Want Ads
• 1970 Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful
• 1969 The Beatles - Get Back
• 1968 Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
• 1967 Aretha Franklin - Respect
• 1966 The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
• 1965 The Supremes - Back In My Arms Again
• 1964 The Dixie Cups - Chapel Of Love
• 1963 Lesley Gore - It's My Party
• 1962 Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You
• 1961 Roy Orbison - Running Scared
• 1960 The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown
• 1959 Johnny Horton - The Battle Of New Orleans
• 1958 The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
• 1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance
• 2014 Paramore - Ain't It Fun
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Linkin Park - Burn It Down
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Three Days Grace - The Good Life