Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
64981June 7Event1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
64982June 7Event1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
64983June 7Event1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
64984June 7Event1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
64985June 7Event1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
64986June 7Event1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
64987June 7Event1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
64988June 7Event1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles — civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
64989June 7Event1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
64990June 7Event1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
64991June 7Event1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
64992June 7Event1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
64993June 7Event1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
64994June 7Event1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
64995June 7Event1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
64996June 7Event1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
64997June 7Event1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
64998June 7Event1893 – Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience.
64999June 7Event1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
65000June 7Event1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
65001June 7Event1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
65002June 7Event1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
65003June 7Event1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
65004June 7Event1919 – Sette Giugno: Four people are killed in a riot in Malta.
65005June 7Event1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
65006June 7Event1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray was elected its first president.
65007June 7Event1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
65008June 7Event1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
65009June 7Event1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leaves Tromsø and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later
65010June 7Event1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.

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