SomeFacts | June 6

On this day - June 6

913 — Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI ...

1505 — The M8.2–8.8 Lo Mustang earthquake affects Tibet and Nepal, ...

1513 — War of the League of Cambrai: In the Battle of Novara, Swiss ...

1523 — Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, ...

1654 — Swedish Queen Christina abdicated her throne in favour of her ...

1674 — Shivaji is crowned as the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha ...

1762 — Seven Years' War: British forces begin the Siege of ...

1813 — War of 1812: In the Battle of Stoney Creek, considered a ...

1822 — Alexis St Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading ...

1832 — The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.

1844 — The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded ...

1859 — Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South ...

1862 — American Civil War: The First Battle of Memphis, a naval ...

1882 — The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame ...

1889 — The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.

1892 — The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins ...

1894 — Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to ...

1912 — The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the largest ...

1918 — World War I: U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single ...

1925 — The original Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter ...

1933 — The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.

1934 — New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the ...

1942 — World War II: The United States Navy's victory over the ...

1944 — World War II: Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges ...

1944 — World War II: Commencement of Operation Overlord: The Allied ...

1966 — March Against Fear: African-American civil rights activist ...

1971 — Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collides with a McDonnell Douglas ...

1971 — Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all ...

1975 — British referendum results in continued membership of the ...

1976 — Chief Minister of Sabah Faud Stephens, Peter Joinud Mojuntin, ...

1982 — 1982 Lebanon War: The war begins as forces under Israeli ...

1985 — The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, ...

1992 — Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes ...

1993 — Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in ...

1994 — China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an ...

2002 — Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated ...

2017 — Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive ...

2023 — Russo-Ukrainian War: The Kakhovka Dam is destroyed.

2024 — The launch of SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4)