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
- 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.
- 1800 –David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
- 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.
- 1893 –Mohandas Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience.
- 1899 –American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
- 1906 –Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
- 1938 –The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
- 1940 –King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
- 1945 –King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
- 1948 –Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a constitution making his nation a Communist state.
- 1975 –The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.
- 1977 –500 million people watch on television as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins.
- 1982 –Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
- 1989 –Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname due to pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
- 1995 –The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
- 2006 –Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in an airstrike by the United States Air Force.
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