About June 6
June 6, 2025 is the 157th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 208 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 256 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 6
- 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.
- 1683 –The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world’s first university museum.
- 1808 –Napoleon’s brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.
- 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.
- 1859 –Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
- 1882 –More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
- 1889 –The Great Seattle fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
- 1894 –Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners’ strike.
- 1909 –French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
- 1912 –The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
- 1921 –The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
- 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 –Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
- 1982 –1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their “Operation Peace for the Galilee”, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
- 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.
- 2005 –The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
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