June 7th Events |
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| June 7th, 2006 (June 07 2006) | Event | British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert. | |
| June 7th, 2001 (June 07 2001) | Event | Tony Blair s Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election. | Tony Blair Quotes |
| June 7th, 1998 (June 07 1998) | Event | James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime. | William King Quotes |
| June 7th, 1995 (June 07 1995) | Event | The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines. | |
| June 7th, 1991 (June 07 1991) | Event | Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high. | |
| June 7th, 1989 (June 07 1989) | Event | A Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168. | |
| June 7th, 1987 (June 07 1987) | Event | Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are transferred to The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| June 7th, 1982 (June 07 1982) | Event | Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. | Elvis Presley Quotes |
| June 7th, 1981 (June 07 1981) | Event | The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq s Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons. | |
| June 7th, 1977 (June 07 1977) | Event | 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II. | |
| June 7th, 1975 (June 07 1975) | Event | Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public. | |
| June 7th, 1971 (June 07 1971) | Event | The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment. | |
| June 7th, 1968 (June 07 1968) | Event | The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick s Cathedral, New York. | Robert F. Kennedy Quotes |
| June 7th, 1967 (June 07 1967) | Event | The Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. | |
| June 7th, 1965 (June 07 1965) | Event | The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples. | |
| June 7th, 1955 (June 07 1955) | Event | 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. | |
| June 7th, 1948 (June 07 1948) | Event | Edvard Benes resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state. | |
| June 7th, 1945 (June 07 1945) | Event | King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile. | |
| June 7th, 1945 (June 07 1945) | Event | Benjamin Britten s opera Peter Grimes was premiered in London | |
| June 7th, 1944 (June 07 1944) | Event | World War II: Battle of NormandyAt Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war. | |
| June 7th, 1942 (June 07 1942) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Midway ends. | |
| June 7th, 1942 (June 07 1942) | Event | World War II: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. | |
| June 7th, 1940 (June 07 1940) | Event | King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromso and go into exile in London. | |
| June 7th, 1938 (June 07 1938) | Event | The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight. | |
| June 7th, 1936 (June 07 1936) | Event | The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president. | |
| June 7th, 1919 (June 07 1919) | Event | Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed. | |
| June 7th, 1917 (June 07 1917) | Event | World War I: Battle of MessinesAllied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops. | |
| June 7th, 1909 (June 07 1909) | Event | Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16. | |
| June 7th, 1906 (June 07 1906) | Event | Cunard Line s RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland. | |
| June 7th, 1905 (June 07 1905) | Event | Norway s parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year. | |
| June 7th, 1893 (June 07 1893) | Event | Gandhi s first act of civil disobedience. | |
| June 7th, 1892 (June 07 1892) | Event | Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game. | |
| June 7th, 1880 (June 07 1880) | Event | War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campana del Desierto (Desert Campaign). | |
| June 7th, 1866 (June 07 1866) | Event | 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec. | |
| June 7th, 1863 (June 07 1863) | Event | During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops. | |
| June 7th, 1862 (June 07 1862) | Event | The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade. | |
| June 7th, 1832 (June 07 1832) | Event | Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. | |
| June 7th, 1800 (June 07 1800) | Event | David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. | |
| June 7th, 1776 (June 07 1776) | Event | 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. | John Adams Quotes |
| June 7th, 1692 (June 07 1692) | Event | Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured. | |
| June 7th, 1654 (June 07 1654) | Event | Louis XIV is crowned King of France. | |
| June 7th, 1494 (June 07 1494) | Event | Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. | |
| June 7th, 1420 (June 07 1420) | Event | Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independenceo f the Patriarchate of Aquileia. | |
| June 7th, 1099 (June 07 1099) | Event | The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. | |
