On this day in History - Jun 7

• 1099 - Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem
• 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. Portugal was to have all lands east of a line north and south drawn 370 leagues west of Cape Verde, Spain to have the rest.
• 1497 - English king Henry VII defeated the Cornish rebels under Lord Audley at Blackheath, London.
• 1502 - Gregory XIII was born. Pope, introduced Gregorian calendar in 1582
• 1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was tried for treason (he was executed on 22 June).
• 1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
• 1672 - Dutch Admiral de Ruyter was successful in action against the combined English and French fleets in Southwold Bay.
• 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). Scottish 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.
• 1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin was born. Russian novelist, playwright, and poet
• 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.
• 1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti dies (b. 1765). Italian engraver.
• 1811 - James Simpson was born (d. 1870). Scottish obstetrician who was a pioneer in the use of anaesthetics.
• 1812 - Antonio Bachiller y Morales was born (d. 10 Jan 1889). Cuban journalist, lawyer and intelectual, considered "Padre de la Bibliografía Cubana"
• 1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu dies (b. c. 1780). Romanian rebellion-leader.
• 1826 - Joseph von Frannhofer dies. Phisicist.
• 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.
• 1832 - The Reform Bill became law;
• 1847 - Adolph Göpel dies in Berlin (b. 29 Sep 1812 in Rostock). German mathematician.
• 1848 - Paul Gauguin was born (d. 1903). French painter (The Yellow Christ, Where Do We Come From? Where Are We? Where Are We Going?)
• 1849 - Manuel Bonilla was born. President of Honduras (1903-1907 and 1912-1913)
• 1854 - Charles Baudin dies (b. 1792). French admiral.
• 1858 - José Leite de Vasconcelos was born. portuguese writer.
• 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.
• 1862 - Philipp Lenard was born (d. 1947). Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops.
• 1863 - Van_Vleck was born in Middletown, Connecticut (d. 2 Jun 1943). American mathematician.
• 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). Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator
• 1877 - Charles Glover Barkla was born (d. 1944). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1879 - Knut Rasmussen was born (d. 1933). Artic explorer
• 1886 - Henri Coanda was born (d. 1972). Aerodynamics pioneer.
• 1892 - Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
• 1896 - Imre Nagy was born (d. 1958). Hungarian politician.
• 1897 - George Szell was born (d. 1970).Hungarian conductor.
• 1899 - Elizabeth Bowen was born. Author.
• 1902 - Émile Combes assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da França
• 1905 - Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved.
• 1907 - Edward John Routh dies in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England (b. 20 Jan 1831 in Quebec, Canada). Mathematician who was a founder member of the London Mathematical Society.
• 1909 - Actress Mary Pickford made her motion picture debut in The Violin Maker of Cremona.
• 1909 - Jessica Tandy was born (d. 1994). English actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included)
• 1909 - Virginia Apgar was born. American physician and anesthesiologist.
• 1910 - Pietro Annigoni, Italian painter
• 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 born (d. 2000). American poet.
• 1919 - Sette Giugno - Riot in Malta. 4 people killed.
• 1920 - Georges Marchais was born (d. 1997). French politician
• 1928 - James Ivory was born. Film director (Jefferson in Paris, The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End, A Room with a View, The Bostonians, Roseland, Wild Party, The Householder).
• 1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
• 1929 - John Turner was born. Seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada .
• 1931 - Malcolm Morley was born. Painter .
• 1931 - Virginia McKenna was born. Actress ( Duel of Hearts, Born Free, The Chosen, Simba).
• 1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1935 - In Britain, Stanley Baldwin, Conservative, succeeded Ramsay MacDonald as prime minister.
• 1936 - Stjepan Seljan dies (d. 1875). Croatian explorer.
• 1936 - Lola Mora (Dolores Mora de la Vega) dies. Argentine sculptor.
• 1937 - Jean Harlow dies (b. 1911). Actress.
• 1937 - David Cox dies (b. 1859). English painter.
• 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. Grammy Award-winning singer [Best New Artist - 1965]: It’s Not Unusual, She’s a Lady, What’s New Pussycat?, I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, Without Love, Delilah, Love Me Tonight, Green Green Grass of Home, Sex Bomb.
• 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends. The United States routs the Japanese Navy in a major three-day battle over a remote military base at Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean.
• 1942 - Japanese troops land on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.
• 1943 - Nikki Giovanni was born. Poet The Women and the Men, My House
• 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.
• 1948 - Louis Lumière dies.
• 1952 - Liam Neeson was born. Irish actor
• 1954 - Louise Erdrich was born. Author.
• 1954 - Alan Mathison Turing dies in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England (b. 23 Jun 1912). English mathematician and computer scientist.
• 1955 - Tim Richmond was born (d. 1989). American race car driver.
• 1958 - Prince was born. American musician.
• 1960 - Tomás Oliveira da Cruz dies. Portuguese poet.
• 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). American short story writer, poet, and critic.
• 1968 - Juan Antonio Pizzi was born. Argentine player.
• 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
• 1973 - An Icelandic coastguard vessel rammed a British warship in escalation of the 'Cod War'.
• 1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi was born. Tennis player.
• 1975 - Spain's Manuel Orantes wins US Open, beating Jimmy Connors in 3 sets
• 1975 - Allen Iverson was born. Basketball player
• 1979 - The first direct elections for the European Parliament were held.
• 1979 - Forrest Carter dies (b. 1925). Author.
• 1980 - 50th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Vitas Gerulaitis (6-4, 6-1 and 6-2)
• 1980 - Henry Miller dies (b. 1891). American writer .
• 1981 - 35th Tony Awards: Amadeus and 42nd Street win
• 1981 - Anna Kournikova was born. Tennis player, US Open winner[doubles: 1999]
• 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.
• 1985 - Portugal: Lançamento da primeira pedra da Torre do Tombo.
• 1987 - 41st Tony Awards: Fences & Les Miserables win
• 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 - Nara Leão dies. Brazilian singer.
• 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.
• 1994 - Dennis Potter dies. English playwright and journalist.
• 1995 - Portugal: O conto Dores, da escritora portuguesa Maria Velho da Costa, recebe o Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco.
• 1995 - Juan Carlos Onganía dies. Argentine general and dictator.
• 1995 - Hsuan Hua dies (b. 1918). Influential Buddhist master in the United States
• 1996 - Max Factor dies. Cosmetics pioneer.
• 1997 - 67th French Womens Tennis: Iva Majoli beats Martina Hingis (6-4 and 6-2)
• 1998 - A militar coup arises in Guiné-Bissau.
• 1998 - Carlos Moyá wins Roland Garros Tournment in tennis.
• 2001 - Victor Paz Estenssoro dies. President of Bolivia four times between 1952 and 1989.
• 2002 - O escritor espanhol Antonio Gracia recebe o Prêmio Internacional de Poesia em língua espanhola.
• 2003 - Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.
• 2002 - Mary Lilian Baels dies (b. 1916). Princess of Réthy, Belgium .
• 2003 - Trevor Goddard dies (b. 1962). English actor.
• 2003 - A tenista belga Justine Henin-Hardenne vence Kim Cljisters e conquista o torneio de Roland Garros.
• 2003 - Actor Ed Burns weds model Christy Turlington.
• 2004 - The Sikh leader Prem Singh Chandumajra launches the political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Longowal).
• 2004 - Quorthon dies (b. 1966). Swedish 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
• Día del Bibliotecario (Cuba)