6th June is the 157th day of the year (158th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 208 days remain until the end of the year. Today also marks the UN Russian Language Day. Find out some important events that occurred on this day, 6th June, in history.

 

Historical events

1002 — German King Henry II the Saint crowned.

1242 — 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris.

1391 — Inhabitants of Seville, Spain, massacre 5,000 Jews

1639 — Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill.

1683 — The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world’s first university museum.

1716 — French transport the first African slaves to Louisiana.

1809 — Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established with a new constitution empowering Riksdag after 20 years of absolute monarchy.

1816 — 10″ of snowfall in New England, part of a “year without a summer” which followed the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.

1822 — Alexis St. Martin shot in the stomach and treated by physician William Beaumont on Mackinac Island. This leads Beaumont to conduct digestion experiments through a hole in St. Martin’s stomach.

1832 — The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end.

1844 — Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) formed by George Williams in London.

1882 — Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC.

1882 — Ethiopia: Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.

1882 — Cyclone in the Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 (disputed event).

1896 — Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo leave NY harbour to row across Atlantic; their 55-day record for rowing was not broken for 114 years.

1900 — The US Congress passes an act authorising a civil code and government for the territory of Alaska after gold discoveries bring lawlessness and disorder to the area.

 

6th June in the 20th Century

1904 — National Tuberculosis Association organised, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

1914 — The first air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway).

1916 — Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage.

1921 — Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.

1923 — Gangster Albert Anastasia is convicted of illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years in prison.

1923 — Edgar Wallace becomes the first British radio sports reporter reporting on The Derby for the British Broadcasting Company.

1925 — Walter Chrysler founds automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation.

1933 — The first drive-in theatre opens (Camden New Jersey).

1941 — The Giants use plastic batting helmets for the first time.

1942 — The first nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray).

1946 — Henry Morgan is the first to take off shirt on TV.

1949 — Orapin Chaiyakan becomes the first Thai woman to be elected to the Parliament of Thailand.

1951 — The first Berlin International Film Festival opens.

1956 — David Marshall, Singapore’s first Chief Minister, resigns.

1968 — Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night.

1972 — Singer-songwriter David Bowie releases his breakthrough album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”.

1972 — Explosion at world’s largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia).

 

More dates

1983 — “Octopussy”, 13th James Bond film, starring Roger Moore, Maud Adams and Louis Jourdan premieres in London.

1983 — Betty White becomes the first woman to win Outstanding Game Show Host at Daytime Emmy Awards for NBC’s “Just Men”.

1984 — Video game Tetris is first released in the Soviet Union by Alexey Pajitnov.

1985 — Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station.

1986 — Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m).

1986 — Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself.

1988 — 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant.

1988 — George H. W. Bush makes a campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (the promise is broken, May 1989).

1991 — Dana Plato receives a 6-year suspended sentence for robbing a video store.

1992 — Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car.

1993 — 47th Tony Awards: “Angels in America” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman” win.

1998 — TV sitcom “S*x and the City” premieres in the US on HBO, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.

1999 — Largest jailbreak in Brazilian history at the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.

 

6th June in the 21st Century

2002 — A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. Resulting explosion estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

2002 — “The Bourne Identity” directed by Doug Liman and starring Matt Damon premieres in Los Angeles, California.

2010 — 56th British Academy Television Awards: “The Armstrong and Miller Show” Best Comedy, “Misfits” Best Drama.

2012 — Transit of Venus (between Earth-Sun) occurs – last transit of 21st century.

2012 — The Solar Impulse completes the world’s first intercontinental flight powered by the sun.

2017 — Indian Arundhati Roy publishes her 2nd novel “The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness” 20 years after her first.

2017 — Korean singer T.O.P rushed to hospital after a suspected overdose while serving mandatory military service.

2018 — Iraqi parliament orders manual recount of legislative elections in May after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi claims evidence of irregularities.

2018 — Convicted drug trafficker, Alice Johnson, granted clemency by US President Trump. This came after Kim Kardashian highlights the case.

2018 — At least 46 Ethiopian migrants drown after their boat capsizes off the coast of Yemen.

2018 — French man announced to have won France’s €1 million My Lottery for the second time in 2 years. The odds are 1 in 16 trillion.

2018 — Special pedestrian lane introduced just for “phubbers” slow-walking smartphone users in Xi’an, China.