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
- 1523 –Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.
- 1683 –The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world’s first university museum.
- 1752 –A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
- 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.
- 1844 –The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
- 1857 –Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1921 –The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
- 1946 –The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven original teams.
- 1974 –A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
- 1985 –The grave of “Wolfgang Gerhard” is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death”. Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
- 1993 –Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
- 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.
- 2004 –Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
- 2005 –The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
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