On this day in History - Jun 07

1099 - Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
1329 - Robert the Bruce, dies (b. 1274). King of Scotland .
1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, dies (b. 1305). Ashikaga shogun.
1491 - Jacques Cartier, was born (d. 1557). Explorer.
1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica is hit by a catastrophic earthquake at 11:43am; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured.
1755 - Criação da Companhia Geral do Grão-Pará e Maranhão, que será estabelecida pelo Alvará de 30 de Outubro de 1756.
1761 - John Rennie, was born (d. 1821). Engineer.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. See United States Declaration of Independence.
1776 - American invaders skirmish with British at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
1778 - Beau Brummel, was born. Fashion leader.
1779 - William Warburton, dies (b. 1698). English critic, Bishop of Gloucester
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1801 - Assinatura do Tratado de Badajoz, que é antedatado para 6 de Junho, por conveniência do embaixador francês. Portugal perde a cidade e o termo de Olivença.
1811 - James Simpson, was born (d. 1870). Obstetrician.
1831 - Amelia Edwards, was born (d. 1892). English author and Egyptologist.
1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1848 - Paul Gauguin, was born (d. 1903). French painter.
1849 - Nasimento de Manuel Bonilla . Presidente das Honduras (1903-1907 e 1912-1913)
1854 - Charles Baudin, dies (b. 1792). French admiral .
1858 - Nascimento de José Leite de Vasconcelos . Escritor português.
1859 - David Cox, dies (b. 1783). English artist.
1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
1862 - Gennaios Kolokotronis assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Grécia.
1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around St-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1866 - Chief Seattle, dies. Native American leader
1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, was born (d. 1928). Architect, designer, and illustrator
1879 - Knut Rasmussen, was born (d. 1933). Explorer
1886 - Henri Coanda, was born (d. 1972). Aerodynamics pioneer.
1896 - Imre Nagy, was born (d. 1958). Hungarian politician.
1897 - George Szell, was born (d. 1970).Hungarian conductor.
1902 - Émile Combes assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da França
1905 - Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved.
1909 - Jessica Tandy, was born (d. 1994). Actress .
1914- The first vessel passes through the locks of the Panama Canal.
1917 - Dean Martin, was born (d. 1995). American actor .
1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, was bhorn (d. 2000). Poet.
1919 - Sette Giugno - Riot in Malta. 4 people killed.
1920 - Georges Marchais, was born (d. 1997). Politician
1928 - James Ivory, was born. Producer.
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
1929 - John Turner, was born. Seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada .
1931 - Malcolm Morley, was born. Painter .
1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France.
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, dies (d. 1875). Croatian explorer.
1936 - Morte de Lola Mora (Dolores Mora de la Vega). Escultora argentina.
1937 - Jean Harlow, dies (b. 1911). Actress.
1937 - Neemi Järvi, was born. Estonian conductor .
1937 - Claus Peymann, was born. Theater director
1938 - Goose Gonsoulin, was born. American football player
1938 - The Douglas DC-4 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.
1940 - Tom Jones,was born. Singer
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
1942 - Japanese troops land on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.
1943 - Nikki Giovanni, was born. Poet
1944 - Nazi Panzer SS troops execute 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.
1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, was born. Chancellor of Austria
1946 - Jenny Jones, was born. Comedienne and talk show host
1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
1952 - Liam Neeson, was born. Irish actor
1954 - Louise Erdrich, was born. Author.
1954 - Alan Turing, diess (b. 1912). Mathematician, computer scientist
1955 - Tim Richmond, was born (d. 1989). American race car driver.
1958 - Prince, was born. Musician.
1960 - Morreu o poeta português Tomás Oliveira da Cruz.
1963 - Zasu Pitts, dies (b. 1894). Actress.
1965 - Judy Holliday, dies (b. 1921). Actress .
1965 - Mick Foley, was born. Professional wrestler and author
1966 - Jean Arp, dies (b. 1886). Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet.
1967 - Dorothy Parker, dies (b. 1893). Writer.
1968 - Nascimento de Juan Antonio Pizzi . Jogador argentino de futebol.
1970 - E. M. Forster, dies (b. 1879). English author.
1970 - Cafu (Marcos Evangelista de Moraes) was born. Brazilien football player (Milan)
1972 - Karl Urban, was born. Actor
1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, was born. Tennis player
1975 - Allen Iverson, was born. Basketball player
1979 - Forrest Carter, dies (b. 1925). Author.
1980 - Henry Miller, dies (b. 1891). American writer .
1981 - Anna Kournikova, was born. Tennis player
1981 - Larisa Oleynik, was born. Actress.
1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.
1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1988 - Michael Cera, was born. Actor
1989 - A Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.
1989 - At 01:23:45 AM the time and date by US reckoning was 01:23:45 6/7/89. This was also true 12 hours later excepting 24-hour time.
1989 - Morte da cantora brasileira Nara Leão.
1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
1993 - Dražen Petrović, dies (b. 1964). Basketball Hall of Famer .
1996 - Max Factor, dies. Cosmetics pioneer.
2001 - Morte de Victor Paz Estenssoro. Presidente da Bolívia por quatro vezes entre 1952 e 1989.
2002 - O escritor espanhol Antonio Gracia recebe o Prêmio Internacional de Poesia em língua espanhola.
2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, dies (b. 1916). Princess of Réthy, Belgium .
2003 - Trevor Goddard, dies (b. 1962). Actor.
2003 - A tenista belga Justine Henin-Hardenne vence Kim Cljisters e conquista o torneio de Roland Garros.
2003 - Casamento do ator Ed Burns com a modelo Christy Turlington.
2004 - Quorthon, dies (b. 1966). Musician.
Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta
Norway - Union Dissolution Day, observing the 1905 decision to dissolve the Union between Sweden and Norway