june 7

June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining.

Events

1000-1899

1099 - Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
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.
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-Rivires, Quebec.
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
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.

1900-1999

1905 - Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved.
1914 - The first vessel passes through the locks of the Panama Canal.
1919 - Sette Giugno - Riot in Malta. 4 people killed.
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France.
1938 - The Douglas DC-4 makes its first test flight.
1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Troms and go into exile in London.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
1942 - Japanese troops land on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.
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.
1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
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.
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.
1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
1997 - A computer user known as "_eci" publishes his Microsoft C source code on a Windows 95 and Windows NT exploit, which would later become WinNuke. The source code gets wide distribution across the internet, and Microsoft is forced to release a security patch.