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
- 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.
- 1752 –A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
- 1808 –Napoleon’s brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.
- 1809 –Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.
- 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.
- 1909 –French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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