About June 6
June 6, 2023 is the 157th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 208 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 249 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 6
- 1513 –Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
- 1644 –The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus would rule China until 1912 when the Republic of China is established.
- 1654 –Charles X succeeds his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.
- 1752 –A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
- 1808 –Napoleon’s brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.
- 1822 –Alexis St. Martin accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads way to William Beaumont’s studies on digestion.
- 1844 –The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
- 1892 –Chicago ‘L’begins operation
- 1894 –Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners’ strike.
- 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.
- 1919 –The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
- 1932 –The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
- 1946 –The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven original teams.
- 1971 –A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
- 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.
- 2002 –Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
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