History Events on June 06

Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.

#Vietnam_War

American Civil War: Battle of Memphis: Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.

#American_Civil_War

A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.

#Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706

The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.

#Chicago_"L"

War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek: A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.

#War_of_1812

Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.

#Southwark_Bridge

The grand opening of the sculpture of Yuriy Dolgorukiy took place in Moscow. This statue is one of the main monuments of Moscow.

#Statue_of_Yuriy_Dolgorukiy,_Moscow

New Deal: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

#New_Deal

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

#June_Rebellion

Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.

#Governor_of_Colorado

Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.

#Alexis_St._Martin

The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

#Novarupta

The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey, United States.

#Drive-in_theater

Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.

#Mongolia

Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.

#Italian_Wars

The Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

#1982_Lebanon_War

French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.

#Abéché

The Republic of Prekmurje ends.

#Republic_of_Prekmurje

The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.

#Shewa

The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains 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.

#Embu_das_Artes

Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.

#Tamil_language

Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

#2002_Eastern_Mediterranean_event

Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.

#Shivaji

Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.

#Francis_Drake

The Qing dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty.

#Qing_dynasty

The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.

#YMCA

China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an, China, killing all 160 people on board.

#China_Northwest_Airlines_Flight_2303

World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.

#World_War_II

Seven Years' War: British forces begin a siege of Havana, Cuba, and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.

#Seven_Years'_War

Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.

#Sophia_of_Nassau

The 8-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, Constantine VII, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire, under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed by Constantine's uncle Alexander III on his deathbed.

#Leo_VI_the_Wise

The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.

#Glaciarium

The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.

#Great_Seattle_Fire

Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, is crowned King of Spain.

#Napoleon

World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood: The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry.

#World_War_I

World War II: The Allied invasion of Normandy—codenamed Operation Overlord—begins with the execution of Operation Neptune (commonly referred to as D-Day), the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.

#Allies_of_World_War_II

In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.

Bihar train disaster: A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati River. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the death toll is closer to 1,000.

A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.

Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.

Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.

The Basketball Association of America is founded in New York City; the BAA was the precursor to the modern National Basketball Association.

Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.

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.

With the death of Yuan Shikai, who has ruled much of China since 1912, the central government virtually collapses in the face of warlords who assert themselves, including Sun Yat-sen.

More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are supposedly killed in the so-called 'Bombay Cyclone of 1882', but this has proved a hoax and did not happen.

Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).

Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of enlightened absolutism. At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.

The Conspiracy of the Slaves in Malta is discovered.

Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected King of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.