June 7

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 7. From 1900 until now. June 7 is under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Prince (musician) (1958), Muammar al-Gaddafi (1942) and Liam Neeson (1952). Several movies were released around June 7 over the years, such as Ace in the Hole in 1951 directed by Billy Wilder and Punishment Park in 1971 directed by Peter Watkins.
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Holidays

Luciana, virgin, martyr [WTS (Bruges)]
Blessed Maria Theresia of Soubiran (died 1889)
Saint Procopius [PCP (Paris), as Proces]
Saint Wulstan, bishop of Worcester, confessor (Translation day)
Malta - Sette giugno - Riot in Malta that began the road to self government and then independence.
Roman Catholic Church and some Anglican churches: Corpus Christi (moveable feast, 2007)
Colman, bishop of Dromore [BLS]
Saint Godoald, bishop, confessor
Norway - Union Dissolution Day, observing the 1905 decision to dissolve the Union between Sweden and Norway.
Saint Maximinus, bishop of Aix, confessor
Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta.
Saint Robert, abbot of Chichester
Blessed Robert, abbot of Newminster, Northumberland
saint Servatius, bishop, confessor or martyr (Translation day)
Blessed Paul, bishop of Constantinople, martyr
Blessed Meriadec, bishop (of Vannes
Blessed Godeschalc, prince of the Vandals, martyr
Saint Fortunatus, bishop, confessor
Blessed Anna of St. Bartholomaeus (died 1626)
Blessed Willibald
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Events

2019 Syrian Civil War: Over 120 rebels are killed in northwestern Hama Governorate, after failed attacks against Syrian troops. (Al-Masdar News)
2018 Economy of the United Kingdom: House of Fraser announces that it intends to close 31 of its 59 stores, including its flagship store on London's Oxford Street. (BBC)
2017 2017 Tehran attacks: Gunmen attack the Islamic Consultative Assembly and Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran. Eighteen civilians are killed in the attack on the Parliament and one in the attack on the mausoleum. (Reuters via The Canberra Times) (AP)The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claims responsibility for the shootings. (The Telegraph)
2016 Seven police officers and four civilians are killed, and 36 people are wounded, three critically, by a car bomb explosion near the main tourism district in Istanbul, Turkey. The explosives, detonated by remote control, wrecked a passing police bus, reports CNN Türk. There is no immediate claim of responsibility. (Reuters) (AP)
2015 Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: The Saudi-led coalition launches airstrikes on Houthi gatherings in Taez. (Al-Arabiya)
2014 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant gunmen storm the campus of the University of Anbar, killing 3 guards and holding dozens of students hostage before withdrawing. (Sky News) (AP)The dead bodies of 21 policemen who were kidnapped a day before by militants are recovered in Mosul, Iraq. (IANS via Biharprabha)At least 52 people are dead following a series of bombings in Baghdad. (AP via Business Week)
2013 Drone attacks in Pakistan: A U.S. drone attack kills at least seven people in Pakistan. (The New York Times)
2012 U.S. military drone attacks carried out by the CIA on Pakistan raise serious legal questions, announces United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay at the end of a fact-finding visit to Pakistan. (BBC)
2011 Syrian uprising:
2010 The Israeli Navy kills four Palestinians wearing diving gear; Israel says they were carrying weapons and planning an attack, off the coast of Gaza. (Ynetnews) (Haaretz) (BBC) (RTÉ) (Aljazeera)
2009 The European Union's parliamentary election concludes in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. (BBC) (RTÉ)
2008 US Senator Hillary Clinton suspends her campaign to become the Democratic nominee for US president, and asks her supporters to help elect Barack Obama.
2007 Sri Lankan Civil War: Police in Sri Lanka force hundreds of the minority Sri Lankan Tamils community out of Colombo for what they say are security reasons. (BBC)
2006 A meteorite impact event occurs in northern Troms County, Norway. Locals compare the resultant explosion to the nuclear explosion at Hiroshima. The impact location was apparently desolate, and no structural damage or casualties are reported. (Aftenposten) (PhysOrg)
2005 Hungarian opposition candidate László Sólyom wins the 2005 presidential election in a 185-182 victory over Katalin Szili.
2004 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) opens its two-day conference on Humanitarian Needs of Palestinian Refugess opens in Geneva, Switzerland. Participation in the conference is by invitation only. Israel is excluded from the conference. (UNRWA) (IMRA)
2003 Foreign affairs minister of Finland, Erkki Tuomioja, says that NATO could be a good option for the Scandinavian country. Finland has been previously very conservative about military alliances and known for its neutrality. (In Finnish) A more balanced view is given in an interview in Helsingin Sanomat's English edition of June 10.
2001 Tony Blair's Labour Party elected for second term in UK general election.
2000 In the US Justice Department versus Microsoft anti-trust case, Judge Thomas Jackson orders the breakup of Microsoft into two companies, one producing operating systems, the other producing application programs.
1998 68th French Mens Tennis
1997 129th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Touch Gold wins in 2:28.8
1996 Julia and Noah wed on All My Children
1995 The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
1993 27th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Vince Gill
1992 Small Family Business closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 48 performances
1991 Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson
1990 Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains
1989 1st Baseball game to start outdoors and end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, and beat Brewers 4-2
1987 41st Tony Awards: Fences and Les Miserables win
1986 118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8
1983 Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies strikes out Lonnie Smith for his 3,522nd career strikeout to pass Nolan Ryan as the all-time strikeout leader.
1982 16th Music City News Country Awards: Barbara Mandrell
1981 35th Tony Awards: Amadeus and 42nd Street win
1980 Billy Bishop Goes to War closes at Morosco NYC after 12 performances
1979 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature
1978 32nd NBA Championship: Washington Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3
1977 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1
1976 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, premieres
1975 Dennis Lillee takes 1st one-day 5WI, 5-34 vs. Pakistan World Cup
1974 Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1
1973 Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
1972 Grease opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances
1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes first transfer to orbiting Salyut.
1970 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young and Susan Hampshire
1969 Johnny Cash Show, debuts on ABC-TV
1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassination.
1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem
1966 New York Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1964 The Beatles travel the canals of Amsterdam.
1963 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) and release 1st single, Come on
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
1960 U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy wins the California Democratic primary.
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1958 90th Belmont: Pete Anderson aboard Cavan wins in 2:30.2
1956 Singapore government of Marshall resigns
1955 $64,000 Question premieres on CBS TV
1954 First microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA).
1953 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1952 3 Wishes after Jamie closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 94 performances
1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns
1947 The Royal Romanian Army founded, the-now most successful romanian football club, Steaua București, as ''A.S.A. București'' History of FC Steaua.
1946 Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants
1945 King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
1944 Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Nimitz wins 1st WWII naval defeat of Japan
1941 45th US Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Ft Worth
1940 British / French troops evacuate Narvik
1939 Cleveland Indians set American League record of 16-inning game without striking out, however lose game 5-4 to New York Yankees.
1938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, Susan & God
1936 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
1933 Balanchine / Weills 7 Deadly Sins, premiers in Paris
1932 Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) and bat in a run, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2
1930 62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6
1929 Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female Minister (of Labor)
1927 Peter Voikov, the Soviet ambassador to Poland, is murdered.
1926 Swedish government of Ekman forms
1924 56th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8
1917 World War I: Battle of Messines : Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1916 Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
1912 US army tests first machine gun mounted on a plane.
1911 Mexican Revolution: Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City just after a local earthquake.
1909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens.
1906 Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating New York Giants 19-0
1905 Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1900 Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal
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Anna Kournikova: Russian tennis player: WTA Tour.
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Dean Martin: American actor and singer who teamed up...
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Michael Cera: Movie Actor.
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Emily Ratajkowski: Model.
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Karl Urban: New Zealand actor.
Damien Hirst: English painter and art collector.
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Bill Hader: American comedian.
Prince Joachim of Denmark
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Anna Torv: Australian actress.
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Jean-Pierre François: French singer and former footballer...
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Kym Whitley: TV Actress.
William Forsythe: American actor and producer.
LA Reid: American songwriter and producer...
Colleen Camp: American actress and producer.
Johnny Clegg: English-South African guitarist (Juluka...
Stéphane Richer: Canadian ice hockey player.
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Thierry Hazard: French singer and songwriter.
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John Turner: Canadian politician, an important...
Mahesh Bhupathi: Indian tennis player.
Patrick Le Lay: French business leader, a former CEO of...
James Ivory: American director producer and...
Gwendolyn Brooks: US poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen,...
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Tim Richmond: American race car driver (won 13 NASCAR...
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Elizabeth S Kingsley: Double-Crostic puzzle creator.
Robert Griffith: Producer of Pajama Game.
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Edward M Forster: British writer (Maurice, passage to...
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Stuart Percy: Suriname / Dutch sports journalist.
Betty Neels: English nurse and author (d. 2001).
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Benjamin Lambord: Composer, dies at 35.
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Richard Billinger: Austria Poet / writer (Bauernpassion).
Pauline Brooks: Actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer...
Henry [Valentine] Miller: US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at...
Richard Bonnelli: Actor (Enter Madame).
Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha: Belgium prince, buried.
Daniele Amfiteatrov: Composer, dies at 81.
Milton van Embricqs: Suriname / Dutch publicist.
Eric Francis: Actor (Shillingbury Blowers).
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Stuart Havelock Hollingdale: Anthropologist, dies at 42.
Vincent Nsengijumva: Rwandan Archbishop of Kigali, murdered.
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Edmund James Flynn: Premier of Quebec (Born 1847).
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E M Forster: English author (Born 1879).
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Kitaro Nishida: Japanese philosopher (Born 1870).
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Hugh Hopper: British musician (Born 1945).
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Adriana Xenides: Australian TV personality (Born 1956).
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