Events for June 7
1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
1614 – The second parliament of James I of England ends after two months of deadlock and without passing any bills.
2017 – A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted royal assent by Charles I and becomes law.
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 to the United States Constitution.
1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
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).
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.
1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1975 – Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
1962 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
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.
1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
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.
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.
1919 – Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
1948 – Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
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.
Notable Births & Deaths for June 7
2000 – Ōnosato Daiki, Japanese professional sumo wrestler and the 75th yokozuna
1985 – Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (born 1906)
2001 – Betty Neels, English nurse and author (born 1910)
1991 – Rasmus Vestergaard Madsen, Danish politician
1980 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (born 1883)
2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (born 1907)
2024 – William Anders, American astronaut and lunar explorer (born 1933)
1974 – Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host
2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (born 1966)
1960 – Jim Hartung, American gymnast (died 2026)
1970 – E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879)
1967 – Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (born 1893)
1992 – Jordan Clarkson, Filipino-American basketball player
2015 – Christopher Lee, English actor (born 1922)
1965 – Mick Foley, American wrestler
1996 – Christian McCaffrey, American football player
2023 – The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (born 1942)
1997 – David Montgomery, American football player
1959 – Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana
1980 – Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891)
1991 – Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
1980 – Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (born 1913)
1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
1978 – Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
1987 – Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (born 1940)
1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, composer, and record producer
1954 – Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet
1962 – Lance Reddick, American actor (died 2023)
2025 – Uriah Rennie, English association football referee (born 1959)
1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician
1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1909)
1967 – Dave Navarro, American musician and television personality
1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (born 1907)
2002 – Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (born 1915)
2013 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer and sex offender (born 1960)
1965 – Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector
1991 – Fetty Wap, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
1993 – George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player
2012 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (born 1925)
1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model
1992 – Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (born 1909)
2013 – Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1928)
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{ "info":"OnThisDay API", "date":"April_20", "updated":"1615972324",
"data":{
"Events":[
{
"text":"1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.[1]",
"html":"<a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/1303\" title=\"1303\">1303</a> – The <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapienza_University_of_Rome\" title=\"Sapienza University of Rome\">Sapienza University of Rome</a> is instituted by a <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_bull\" title=\"Papal bull\">bull</a> of <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Boniface_VIII\" title=\"Pope Boniface VIII\">Pope Boniface VIII</a>."
},
//.. MORE DATA ..//
],
"Births":[
{
"text":"1494 – Johannes Agricola, German theologian and reformer (d. 1566)[8]",
"html":"<a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/1494\" title=\"1494\">1494</a> – <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Agricola\" title=\"Johannes Agricola\">Johannes Agricola</a>, German theologian and reformer (d. 1566)"
},
//.. MORE DATA ..//
],
"Deaths":[
{
"text":"689 – Cædwalla, king of Wessex (b. 659)[21]",
"html":"<a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/689\" title=\"689\">689</a> – <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dwalla_of_Wessex\" title=\"Cædwalla of Wessex\">Cædwalla</a>, king of <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex\" title=\"Wessex\">Wessex</a> (b. 659)" },
//.. MORE DATA ..//
}
]
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