June 7 in History

A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.

The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.

Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.

Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.

Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.

Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.

Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.

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 to the United States Constitution.

The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.

Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 crashes on approach to Tweed New Haven Airport in New Haven, Connecticut, killing 28 of 31 aboard.

Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.

The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.

Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.

Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.

Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.

The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II.

King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.

World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.

World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.

World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.

King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.

The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.

The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.

Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.

World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.

Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.

Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.

American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.

Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.

War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).

One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.

The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.

The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.

Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.

David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.

French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.

American Revolution: Richard Henry Lee proposes the "Lee Resolution" to the Second Continental Congress, with the motion being seconded by John Adams and leading to the United States Declaration of Independence.

Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.

Louis XIV is crowned King of France.

Corpus de Sang in Barcelona: Catalan reapers riot against Spanish Royal soldiers and officers, killing the Viceroy of Catalonia, Dalmau de Queralt. Escalation of hostilities between the Principality of Catalonia and the Spanish Monarchy, leading to the Reapers' War.

The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted royal assent by Charles I and becomes law.

The second parliament of James I of England ends after two months of deadlock and without passing any bills.

Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.

First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.

Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany.

Pope John VIII recognises the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.

Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).

Ōnosato Daiki, Japanese professional sumo wrestler and the 75th yokozuna

David Montgomery, American football player

Christian McCaffrey, American football player

George Ezra, English singer-songwriter

Swae Lee, American rapper

Jordan Clarkson, Filipino-American basketball player

Rasmus Vestergaard Madsen, Danish politician

Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress

Fetty Wap, American rapper, singer, and songwriter

Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model

Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician

Charlie Simpson, English musician

Larisa Oleynik, American actress

Anna Torv, Australian actress

Adrienne Frantz, American actress

Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter

Eric D. Johnson, American musician

Allen Iverson, American basketball player

Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host

Karl Urban, New Zealand actor

Helen Baxendale, English actress

Cafu, Brazilian footballer

Dave Navarro, American musician and television personality

Muhsin Hendricks, South African imam, Islamic scholar and LGBT activist

Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector

Mick Foley, American wrestler

Gordon Gano, American musician

Lance Reddick, American actor (died 2023)

Jim Hartung, American gymnast (died 2026)

Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana

Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016)

Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, composer, and record producer

L.A. Reid, American record executive and producer

William Forsythe, American actor

Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet

Colleen Camp, American actress and producer

Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor

Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Philip Davis, Bahamian politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Bahamas

Thurman Munson, American baseball player (died 1979)

Jenny Jones, Canadian television presenter and comedian

Micky Jones, Welsh musician

Zbigniew Seifert, Polish musician (died 1979)

Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria

Nikki Giovanni, American poet, writer and activist (died 2024)

"Superstar" Billy Graham, American wrestler (died 2023)

Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, British party planner, writer and socialite (died 2020)

Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor

Ronald Pickup, English actor (died 2021)

Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (died 2013)

Ian St John, Scottish international footballer and manager (died 2021)

Bert Sugar, American author and boxing historian (died 2012)

Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter (died 2025)

Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (died 2012)

Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (died 2013)

Virginia McKenna, English actress and author

John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020)

James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Charles Strouse, American composer (died 2025)

Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (died 2014)

Herbert R. Axelrod, American tropical fish expert, publisher of pet books, and entrepreneur (died 2017)

Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2020)

Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (died 2017)

Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (died 2000)

Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (died 1998)

Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (died 1997)

Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (died 2000)

Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (died 1995)

Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (died 1986)

Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (died 1995)

Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (died 2014)

Til Kiwe, German actor and screenwriter (died 1995)

Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (died 1989)

Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (died 2007)

Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (died 1990)

Bluey, Australian Cattle Dog, second-oldest recorded dog (died 1939)

Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (died 1974)

Peter W. Rodino, American lawyer, and politician (died 2005)

Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (died 1994)

Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (died 2002)

James J. Braddock, American world heavyweight boxing champion (died 1974)

Georges Van Parys, French composer (died 1971)

Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (died 2000)

Frederick Terman, American engineering professor and academic administrator, nicknamed "the father of Silicon Valley." (died 1982)

Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 1963)

Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic (died 1973)

George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (died 1970)

Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1990)

Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)

Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1958)

Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (died 1974)

Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (died 1938)

Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1975)

Karl Lashley, American psychologist and behaviorist (died 1958)

Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator (died 1958)

Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (died 1972)

Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect (died 1931)

Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (died 1948)

Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (died 1933)

Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1963)

Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer (died 1960)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (died 1928)

Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (died 1952)

Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947)

Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (died 1942)

Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (died 1922)

Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903)

George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa (died 1915)

Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1930)

Susan Blow, American educator (died 1916)

Carlota of Mexico (died 1927)

Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (died 1903)

Amelia Edwards, English journalist and author (died 1892)

James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (died 1870)

Beau Brummell, English cricketer and fashion designer (died 1840)

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1828)

John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (died 1821)

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (died 1806)

Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (died 1761)

Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian actor and singer (died 1734)

John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count and military theorist (died 1623)

Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (died 1615)

John III of Portugal (died 1557)

Federico da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (died 1482)

Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese noble (died 1481)

Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (died 1048)

Uriah Rennie, English association football referee (born 1959)

William Anders, American astronaut and lunar explorer (born 1933)

The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (born 1942)

Christopher Lee, English actor (born 1922)

Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1928)

Richard Ramirez, American serial killer and sex offender (born 1960)

Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (born 1925)

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (born 1966)

Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (born 1915)

Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (born 1907)

Betty Neels, English nurse and author (born 1910)

Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (born 1918)

Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (born 1909)

Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (born 1940)

Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (born 1906)

Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (born 1883)

Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (born 1913)

Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891)

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)

E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879)

Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (born 1907)

Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1909)

Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (born 1893)

Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (born 1886)

Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (born 1921)

John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (born 1879)

Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912)

Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (born 1870)

Alan Blumlein, English engineer (born 1903)

Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911)

Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (born 1875)

Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (born 1875)

John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (born 1856)

Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (born 1905)

Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (born 1847)

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1847)

Patrick Maher, executed Irish republican (born 1889)

Edmond Foley, executed Irish republican (born 1897)

Émile Faguet, French author and critic (born 1847)

Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (born 1822)

Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1842)

Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (born 1829)

William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (born 1836)

Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (born 1780)

Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (born 1790)

Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (born 1777)

David Cox, English painter (born 1783)

Charles Baudin, French admiral (born 1792)

Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (born 1787)

Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (born 1770)

Frederick William III of Prussia (born 1770)

Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1787)

Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (born 1765)

Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (born 1738)

William Warburton, English bishop and critic (born 1698)

Alexander Spotswood, Moroccan-American colonial and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (born 1676)

Henry Dodwell, Irish scholar and theologian (born 1641)

George II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania (born 1621)

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1577)

Rodrigo Lopez, physician of Queen Elizabeth I (born 1525)

Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 (born 1427)

Anne of Bohemia, Princess of Bohemia and Queen Consort of England (born 1366)

Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (born 1305)

An-Nasir Muhammad, Egyptian sultan (born 1285)

William I, Count of Hainaut (born 1286)

Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (born 1274)

Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (born 876)

Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (born 925)

Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (born 877)

Al-Muntasir, Abbasid caliph (born 837)

Vigilius, first pope of the Byzantine Papacy (born 500)