About June 6
June 6, 2024 is the 158th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 208 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 237 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 6
- 1683 –The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world’s first university museum.
- 1809 –Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.
- 1813 –War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
- 1822 –Alexis St. Martin accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads way to William Beaumont’s studies on digestion.
- 1832 –The June Rebellion of Paris is put down by the National Guard.
- 1833 –U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.
- 1859 –Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
- 1882 –More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
- 1882 –The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
- 1894 –Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners’ strike.
- 1912 –The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
- 1918 –World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day’s casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
- 1933 –The first drive-in theater opens in Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States.
- 1939 –Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the “Missingest Man in New York”, is declared legally dead.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
- 1974 –A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
- 1981 –Bihar train disaster A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
- 1984 –Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, is released.
- 1993 –Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
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