Historical Events on 7 Jun

Historical Events on 7 Jun

1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1420 - Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independenceo f the Patriarchate of Aquileia.
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; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
1776 - 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.
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1862 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 - During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1866 - 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1880 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1892 - Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1905 - Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1909 - Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
1936 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
1938 - The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
1942 - World War II: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy - At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
1945 - Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes was premiered in London
1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
1955 - 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.
1965 - The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.