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
- 1420 –Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli.
- 1494 –Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
- 1628 –The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
- 1654 –Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
- 1776 –Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1810 –The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
- 1863 –During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
- 1880 –War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
- 1892 –Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
- 1893 –Mohandas Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience.
- 1906 –Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
- 1909 –Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
- 1929 –The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
- 1944 –World War II: The steamer Danae carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
- 1955 –Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
- 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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