About June 7
June 7, 2024 is the 159th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 207 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 236 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 7
- 1099 –The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
- 1628 –The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
- 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.
- 1862 –The United States and the United Kingdom 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.
- 1892 –Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
- 1892 –Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the “whites-only” car of a train; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
- 1899 –American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
- 1905 –Norway’s parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
- 1909 –Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
- 1929 –The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
- 1936 –The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
- 1940 –King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
- 1967 –Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
- 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.
- 1989 –Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname due to pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
- 2000 –The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
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