June 7

Historic Events

2017

A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard. ›

2000

The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon. ›

1991

Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high. ›

1989

Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard. ›

1982

Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. ›

1981

The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. ›

1977

Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television. ›

1975

Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format. ›

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. ›

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. ›

1971

Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 crashes on approach to Tweed New Haven Airport in New Haven, Connecticut, killing 28 of 31 aboard. ›

1967

Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem. ›

1965

The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples. ›

1962

The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books. ›

1955

Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. ›

1948

Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place. ›

1948

Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state. ›

1946

The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II. ›

1945

King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II. ›

1944

World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war. ›

1942

World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory. ›

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. ›

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. ›

1938

The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight. ›

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. ›

1929

The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence. ›

1919

Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people. ›

1906

Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland. ›

1905

Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year. ›

1899

American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. ›

1892

Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. ›

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). ›

1866

One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East. ›

1862

The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade. ›

1832

The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent. ›

1832

Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. ›

1810

The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina. ›

1800

David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. ›

1788

French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops. ›

1776

American Revolution: Richard Henry Lee proposes the "Lee Resolution" to the Second Continental Congress, with the motion being seconded by John Adams and leading to the United States Declaration of Independence. ›

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. ›

1654

Louis XIV is crowned King of France. ›

1640

Corpus de Sang in Barcelona: Catalan reapers riot against Spanish Royal soldiers and officers, killing the Viceroy of Catalonia, Dalmau de Queralt. Escalation of hostilities between the Principality of Catalonia and the Spanish Monarchy, leading to the Reapers' War. ›

1628

The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted royal assent by Charles I and becomes law. ›

1614

The second parliament of James I of England ends after two months of deadlock and without passing any bills. ›

1494

Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. ›

1420

Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli. ›

1099

First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. ›

1002

Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany. ›

879

Pope John VIII recognises the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state. ›

421

Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire). ›