June 6 is the 157th day of the year.
There are 208 days left until New Year's Eve.
1508. Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice.
1513. During the Italian Wars, Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille in the Battle of Novara, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1644. Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus would rule China until 1912 when the Republic of China was established.
1683. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1752. A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
1755. American patriot Nathan Hale is born. Nathan Hale was an officer for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Widely considered America's first spy, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission, but was captured by the British. He is best remembered for his speech before being hanged on September 22, 1776, following the Battle of Long Island, in which he reportedly said, "I only regret that I have but one life to give my country."
1813. At the Battle of Stoney Creek in the War of 1812, a British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1815. Ten inches of snow fall in New England during "the year without a summer" (caused by fallout from the eruption of Krakatoa).
1833. Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. President to ride a train.
1862. In the Battle of Memphis during the American Civil War, Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
1865. William Quantrill, the man who gave Frank and Jesse James their first education in killing, dies from wounds sustained in a skirmish with Union soldiers in Kentucky. 1882. More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay, India, are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbor.
1889. The Great Seattle Fire destroys downtown Seattle, Washington.
At approximately 2:30 pm on June 6, 1889, an accidentally overturned glue pot in the carpentry shop of John Bachs started the most destructive fire in the history of Seattle. Over thirty-two city blocks burned. Over five thousand jobs were lost in Seattle's business district. The fire destroyed nearly the entire business district, all of the railroad terminals, and all but four of the wharves.
1912. The Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. This is the second largest volcanic eruption in historic time. Novarupta, meaning "new eruption," is located on the Alaska Peninsula in the Katmai area, about 290 miles southwest of Anchorage. Novarupta sits below Mount Katmai.
Its eruption of June 6 - June 8, 1912, was ten times more powerful than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and led to the formation of this 841 m (2759 ft) volcano. It was the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. About 15 km³ of volcanic material was ejected over two and a half days.
1925. The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
1932. The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
1933. The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey. The drive-in theater was the creation of chemical company magnate Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr., They eventually lapsed into a quasi-novelty status with the remaining handful catering to a generally nostalgic audience.
1949. George Orwell's novel of a dystopian future, Nineteen Eighty-four, is published. The novel's all-seeing leader, known as "Big Brother," becomes a universal symbol for intrusive government and oppressive bureaucracy.
Orwell had become increasingly left wing in his views, although he never committed himself to any specific political party. He went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War to fight with the Republicans, but later fled as communism gained an upper hand in the struggle on the left. His barnyard fable, Animal Farm (1945), shows how the noble ideals of egalitarian economies can easily be distorted. The book brought him his first taste of critical and financial success. Orwell's last novel, Nineteen Eighty-four, brought him lasting fame with its grim vision of a future where all citizens are watched constantly and language is twisted to aid in oppression. Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950.
1957. Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British.
1966. Civil rights activist James Meredith is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.
1968. Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
1969. The first Internet connection was created when network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another.
1971. A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
1974. A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1981. More than 500 passengers are killed when their train plunges into the Baghmati River in India . The rail accident -- the worst in India to that date -- was caused by an engineer who was reverential of cows.
The nine-car train, filled with approximately 1,000 passengers, was traveling through the northeastern state of Bihar about 250 miles from Calcutta. Outside, monsoon-like conditions were battering the region. Extremely hard rains were swelling the rivers and making the tracks slick. As the train approached the bridge over the Baghmati River, a cow crossed the tracks. Seeking to avoid harming the cow at all costs, the engineer braked too hard. The cars slid on the wet rails and the last seven cars derailed straight into the river. With the river far above normal levels, the cars sank quickly in the murky waters.
1983. American porn star Gianna Michaels is born in Seattle, Washington. Her first job was at a hamburger restaurant in Seattle called Dick's Drive-In. After being approached about modelling, she eventually tried it, figuring that if she did not like it, she could stop. Her modelling eventually led to nude photo shoots and then pornography. She has also filmed porn under the aliases Becky and Gianna Rossi. (See pictures.)
1985. The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
1990. The 2 Live Crew album As Nasty As They Wanna Be is ruled obscene by a federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1999. At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.
2002. In the "Eastern Mediterranean Event," a near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
This explosion has been attributed to an asteroid undetected while approaching the Earth. The object vaprorized in the blast and no part was recovered. Since it didn't reach the surface and it exploded over the sea, no crater was formed.
The asteroid --- about 30ft in diameter -- exploded "as a consequence of the energetic alteration of atmospheric entries." It was detected by satellites and seismographic stations, with a calculated yield of about 26 kilotons (doubling Hiroshima, approximately Nagasaki, a small modern nuclear bomb). Had it detonated over a populated area, the consequences would have been catastrophic.
2008. A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills eight students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.
2011. Residents of three Western United States towns -- Springerville, Arizona; Eagar, Arizona; and Luna, New Mexico -- are warned to prepare for evacuation ahead of the Wallow Fire. one of the biggest in Arizona history. Nearly 6,000 people were evacuated. In addition to other air assets, a converted DC-10 Very Large Air Tanker ("VLAT"), capable of dropping up to 12,000 gallons of fire retardant in seconds, was deployed to help fight the fire. Two individuals were being questioned on June 15 as persons of interest who may have abandoned a campfire that started the blaze. On July 3rd, the fire was 95% contained. The Wallow Fire was declared 100 percent contained as of 6 p.m., Friday, July 8.
St Bonifatius murdered by the Frysk in Dokkum by pagans (natives who whorshipped Wodan and Donar). They, the frysk are even nowadays proud about their own tonque Frysk.
He never reached Germany (our inhabitants in that time were The German and Tubanten).
