WillDekkard
06-08-2010, 03:49 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 7th
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# 1099 The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
# 1420 Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchate of Aquileia.
# 1494 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
# 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 leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.
# 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 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
# 1862 The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
# 1863 During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
# 1866 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
# 1880 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaρa del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
# 1892 Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
# 1893 Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
# 1905 Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
# 1906 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
# 1909 Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
# 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: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
# 1936 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
# 1938 The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
# 1940 King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsψ and go into exile in London.
# 1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
# 1942 World War II: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
# 1944 World War II: The steamer Danae carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans was sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
# 1944 World War II: Battle of Normandy At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
# 1945 King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
# 1948 Edvard Bene resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a constitution making his nation a Communist state.
# 1955 Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
# 1965 The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
# 1967 Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
# 1971 The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
# 1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
# 1977 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins.
# 1981 The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
# 1982 Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
# 1991 Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
# 1993 The Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, UK, falls into the sea following a landslide.
# 1995 The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines
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- June 7th
c/p from Wikipedia
# 1099 The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
# 1420 Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchate of Aquileia.
# 1494 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
# 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 leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.
# 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 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
# 1862 The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
# 1863 During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
# 1866 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
# 1880 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaρa del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
# 1892 Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
# 1893 Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
# 1905 Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
# 1906 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
# 1909 Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
# 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: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
# 1936 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
# 1938 The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
# 1940 King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsψ and go into exile in London.
# 1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
# 1942 World War II: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
# 1944 World War II: The steamer Danae carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans was sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
# 1944 World War II: Battle of Normandy At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
# 1945 King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
# 1948 Edvard Bene resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a constitution making his nation a Communist state.
# 1955 Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
# 1965 The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
# 1967 Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
# 1971 The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
# 1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
# 1977 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins.
# 1981 The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
# 1982 Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
# 1991 Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
# 1993 The Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, UK, falls into the sea following a landslide.
# 1995 The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines
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