June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ==Events== *1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friulia by Venice ; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice *1513 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara (1513) - Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored. *1523 - Gustav I of Sweden is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union. *1654 - Christina of Sweden, reigning queen of the Protestantism nation Sweden, abdicates the throne and secretly converts to Catholicism. Charles X of Sweden succeedes his abdicated cousin Christina of Sweden to the Sweden throne. *1683 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the world's first university museum. *1752 - A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes. *1809 - Sweden promulgates a new Instrument of Government (1809), which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism. *1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A United Kingdom force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an United States force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler. *1833 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a railroad. *1844 - The YMCA (YMCA) is founded in London. *1857 - Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden of Sweden-Norway. *1859 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom signs Letters patent making Queensland into a separate colony. *1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Memphis - United States forces capture Memphis, Tennessee from the Confederate States of America. * 1882 - More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour. *1912 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time. *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 gallon sold. *1933 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey. *1934 - New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission. *1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins - ''Operation Overlord'', code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allies 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. *1946 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City. *1956 - David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns. *1962 - The Beatles audition for EMI Records. *1964 - Under a temporary order, the Rocket experiments in the area of Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated, though they never resume. *1966 - James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi. *1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, dies *1971 - Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches. *1971 - ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' goes off the air. *1972 - David Bowie releases the classic album ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars''. *1974 - A new Instrument of Government (1974) is promulgated making Sweden a Parliamentarism monarchy. *1981 - 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 actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed. *1982 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut. *1984 - The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar in an effort to flush out terrorists, following an order from Indira Gandhi. Official casualities are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire. * 1985 - The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz concentration camp' "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979. *1990 - U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the rap album ''As Nasty As They Wanna Be'' by the 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind." *1991 - George and Barbara Loeb, members of the Church of the Creator, are arrested and charged with murder. *1991 - Former ''Diff'rent Strokes'' child star Dana Plato is given a six-year suspended sentence for robbing a Las Vegas, Nevada video store five weeks earlier. *1993 - Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections. *1996 - The sons of Darlie Routier, Damon and Devon, are stabbed to death in their Rowlett, Texas home. Their mother was later convicted of the murder. *1997 - New Jersey teenager Melissa Drexler gives birth to a healthy baby in a bathroom stall during her senior prom, then strangles the child with a plastic bag and stashes the corpse in the trash. *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 3-year old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed. *2002 - The United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee announces it is probing Martha Stewart's ImClone stock sales. *2002 - A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. *2005 - United States Supreme Court says no to medical marijuana. *2005 - , Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs announced in his keynote address at WWDC that Apple would be switching from its long-favored PowerPC Architecture to Intel CPUs. ==Births== *1436 - Regiomontanus (Johannes Mller), German astronomer *1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557) *1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617) *1599 - Diego Velzquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660) *1606 - Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684) *1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857) *1755 - Nathan Hale, American writer, patriot (d. 1776) *1756 - John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843) *1799 - Alexander Pushkin Russian poet (d. 1837) *1810 - Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856) *1829 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862) *1850 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918) *1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918) *1862 - Henry John Newbolt, English author (d. 1938) *1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912) *1872 - Alexandra of Hesse (d. 1918) *1875 - Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1955) *1890 - Ted Lewis (musician), American bandleader (d. 1971) *1892 - Donald Duncan, Sr., American marketer, modifier of yo-yo (d. 1971) *1898 - Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001) *1901 - Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970) *1903 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978) *1906 - Max August Zorn, mathematician (d. 1993) *1907 - Bill Dickey, baseball star, coach, manager, and scout (d. 1993) *1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972) *1926 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998) *1929 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician *1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (Nobel Prize 1986 for scanning tunneling microscope) *1934 - King Albert II of Belgium *1934 - Gilbert Cates, producer, director *1935 - Bobby Mitchel, American football player *1936 - Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops) *1939 - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer *1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds, musician *1940 - Larry Lujack, American disc jockey *1945 - David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000) *1947 - David Blunkett, politician *1949 - Robert Englund, American actor (aka. Freddy Krueger) *1953 - Jack Novak, American football player *1954 - Harvey Fierstein, American actor *1954 - Cynthia Rylant, author *1955 - Sandra Bernhard, American actress, comedian *1956 - Bjrn Borg, Swedish tennis player *1960 - Gary Graham, American actor *1960 - Steve Vai, American musician *1961 - Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer) *1963 - Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist *1967 - Max Casella, American actor *1970 - James \"Munky\" Shaffer, American musician (Korn guitarist) *1975 - Staci Keanan, American actress *1978 - Carl Barat, singer and guitarist (The Libertines) *1978 - Judith Barsi, actress (d. 1988) ==Deaths== *1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736) *1829 - Shanawdithit, last known Beothuks (b. 1801) *1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748) *1843 - Friedrich Hlderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist (b. 1770) *1865 - William Quantrill, Confederate States of America raider (b. 1837) *1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790) *1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820) *1891 - Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815) *1916 - Yuan Shikai, China military official and politician (b. 1859) *1922 - Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1861) *1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer, race car driver (b. 1878) *1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, Silesian dramatist (b. 1862) *1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (b. 1875) *1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, former United States Attorney General and United States Senate from New York (b. 1925) *1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892) * 1976 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891) *1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898) *1981 - Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904) *1984 - A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912) *1991 - Stan Getz, American musician, composer (b. 1927) *1996 - Damon Routier and Devon Routier, sons of Darlie Routier (b. 1989 and 1991) *1999 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930) *2002 - Hans Janmaat, controversial far-right politician in the Netherlands (b. 1934) *2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931) ==Holidays and observances== *Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) - Israel *National holiday of Sweden *Queensland Day *South Korean Memorial Day *Samantha Smith Day - Maine (first Monday of June) *Teacher's Day - America *National Yo-yo Day - America == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/6 BBC: On This Day] ---- June 5 - June 7 - May 6 - July 6 -- historical anniversaries ka:6 ივნისი ml:ജൂണ് 6 th:6 มิถุนายน
--User:Maveric149 23:46, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:June 6 selected anniversaries - Template talk:June 6 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:June_6_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- ---- I decided to change the picture from the Swedish Coat of Arms to the D-Day picture as this year is the 60th anniversary of the landings. Also in the selected anniversaries deleted the entry for 1523 - Gustav Vasa was elected King of Sweden And added 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London Considering that there are already three entries about Sweden selected for June 6 ==Moved/removed== Moved to June 9: *1942 - World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich. From what I could tell, this was on June 9th (which is the date also given in the article). --User:Maveric149 Moved to June 8: *1949 - ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', by George Orwell, is published. My research indicates a June 8 date (which is also the date given in the article). --User:Maveric149 05:06, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC) Moved to June 16: *1976 - The Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. Nope - was on the 16th. --User:Maveric149 05:06, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC) Removed: *1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele located and exhumed. I could not confirm this outside of 'this day in history'-type websites and Wikipedia mirrors. --User:Maveric149 05:06, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)] Moved to June 1: *1918 - World War I: The Battle of Belleau Wood begins Nope - was on June 1. -- User:Maveric149 06:59, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ==Events== *1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friulia by Venice ; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice *1513 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara (1513) - Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored. *1523 - Gustav I of Sweden is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union. *1654 - Christina of Sweden, reigning queen of the Protestantism nation Sweden, abdicates the throne and secretly converts to Catholicism. Charles X of Sweden succeedes his abdicated cousin Christina of Sweden to the Sweden throne. *1683 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the world's first university museum. *1752 - A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes. *1809 - Sweden promulgates a new Instrument of Government (1809), which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism. *1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A United Kingdom force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an United States force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler. *1833 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a railroad. *1844 - The YMCA (YMCA) is founded in London. *1857 - Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden of Sweden-Norway. *1859 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom signs Letters patent making Queensland into a separate colony. *1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Memphis - United States forces capture Memphis, Tennessee from the Confederate States of America. * 1882 - More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour. *1912 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time. *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 gallon sold. *1933 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey. *1934 - New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission. *1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins - ''Operation Overlord'', code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allies 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. *1946 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City. *1956 - David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns. *1962 - The Beatles audition for EMI Records. *1964 - Under a temporary order, the Rocket experiments in the area of Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated, though they never resume. *1966 - James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi. *1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, dies *1971 - Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches. *1971 - ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' goes off the air. *1972 - David Bowie releases the classic album ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars''. *1974 - A new Instrument of Government (1974) is promulgated making Sweden a Parliamentarism monarchy. *1981 - 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 actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed. *1982 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut. *1984 - The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar in an effort to flush out terrorists, following an order from Indira Gandhi. Official casualities are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire. * 1985 - The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz concentration camp' "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979. *1990 - U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the rap album ''As Nasty As They Wanna Be'' by the 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind." *1991 - George and Barbara Loeb, members of the Church of the Creator, are arrested and charged with murder. *1991 - Former ''Diff'rent Strokes'' child star Dana Plato is given a six-year suspended sentence for robbing a Las Vegas, Nevada video store five weeks earlier. *1993 - Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections. *1996 - The sons of Darlie Routier, Damon and Devon, are stabbed to death in their Rowlett, Texas home. Their mother was later convicted of the murder. *1997 - New Jersey teenager Melissa Drexler gives birth to a healthy baby in a bathroom stall during her senior prom, then strangles the child with a plastic bag and stashes the corpse in the trash. *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 3-year old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed. *2002 - The United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee announces it is probing Martha Stewart's ImClone stock sales. *2002 - A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. *2005 - United States Supreme Court says no to medical marijuana. *2005 - , Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs announced in his keynote address at WWDC that Apple would be switching from its long-favored PowerPC Architecture to Intel CPUs. ==Births== *1436 - Regiomontanus (Johannes Mller), German astronomer *1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557) *1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617) *1599 - Diego Velzquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660) *1606 - Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684) *1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857) *1755 - Nathan Hale, American writer, patriot (d. 1776) *1756 - John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843) *1799 - Alexander Pushkin Russian poet (d. 1837) *1810 - Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856) *1829 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862) *1850 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918) *1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918) *1862 - Henry John Newbolt, English author (d. 1938) *1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912) *1872 - Alexandra of Hesse (d. 1918) *1875 - Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1955) *1890 - Ted Lewis (musician), American bandleader (d. 1971) *1892 - Donald Duncan, Sr., American marketer, modifier of yo-yo (d. 1971) *1898 - Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001) *1901 - Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970) *1903 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978) *1906 - Max August Zorn, mathematician (d. 1993) *1907 - Bill Dickey, baseball star, coach, manager, and scout (d. 1993) *1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972) *1926 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998) *1929 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician *1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (Nobel Prize 1986 for scanning tunneling microscope) *1934 - King Albert II of Belgium *1934 - Gilbert Cates, producer, director *1935 - Bobby Mitchel, American football player *1936 - Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops) *1939 - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer *1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds, musician *1940 - Larry Lujack, American disc jockey *1945 - David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000) *1947 - David Blunkett, politician *1949 - Robert Englund, American actor (aka. Freddy Krueger) *1953 - Jack Novak, American football player *1954 - Harvey Fierstein, American actor *1954 - Cynthia Rylant, author *1955 - Sandra Bernhard, American actress, comedian *1956 - Bjrn Borg, Swedish tennis player *1960 - Gary Graham, American actor *1960 - Steve Vai, American musician *1961 - Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer) *1963 - Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist *1967 - Max Casella, American actor *1970 - James \"Munky\" Shaffer, American musician (Korn guitarist) *1975 - Staci Keanan, American actress *1978 - Carl Barat, singer and guitarist (The Libertines) *1978 - Judith Barsi, actress (d. 1988) ==Deaths== *1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736) *1829 - Shanawdithit, last known Beothuks (b. 1801) *1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748) *1843 - Friedrich Hlderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist (b. 1770) *1865 - William Quantrill, Confederate States of America raider (b. 1837) *1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790) *1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820) *1891 - Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815) *1916 - Yuan Shikai, China military official and politician (b. 1859) *1922 - Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1861) *1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer, race car driver (b. 1878) *1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, Silesian dramatist (b. 1862) *1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (b. 1875) *1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, former United States Attorney General and United States Senate from New York (b. 1925) *1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892) * 1976 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891) *1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898) *1981 - Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904) *1984 - A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912) *1991 - Stan Getz, American musician, composer (b. 1927) *1996 - Damon Routier and Devon Routier, sons of Darlie Routier (b. 1989 and 1991) *1999 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930) *2002 - Hans Janmaat, controversial far-right politician in the Netherlands (b. 1934) *2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931) ==Holidays and observances== *Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) - Israel *National holiday of Sweden *Queensland Day *South Korean Memorial Day *Samantha Smith Day - Maine (first Monday of June) *Teacher's Day - America *National Yo-yo Day - America == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/6 BBC: On This Day] ---- June 5 - June 7 - May 6 - July 6 -- historical anniversaries ka:6 ივნისი ml:ജൂണ് 6 th:6 มิถุนายน
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--User:Maveric149 23:46, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:June 6 selected anniversaries - Template talk:June 6 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:June_6_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- ---- I decided to change the picture from the Swedish Coat of Arms to the D-Day picture as this year is the 60th anniversary of the landings. Also in the selected anniversaries deleted the entry for 1523 - Gustav Vasa was elected King of Sweden And added 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London Considering that there are already three entries about Sweden selected for June 6 ==Moved/removed== Moved to June 9: *1942 - World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich. From what I could tell, this was on June 9th (which is the date also given in the article). --User:Maveric149 Moved to June 8: *1949 - ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', by George Orwell, is published. My research indicates a June 8 date (which is also the date given in the article). --User:Maveric149 05:06, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC) Moved to June 16: *1976 - The Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. Nope - was on the 16th. --User:Maveric149 05:06, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC) Removed: *1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele located and exhumed. I could not confirm this outside of 'this day in history'-type websites and Wikipedia mirrors. --User:Maveric149 05:06, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)] Moved to June 1: *1918 - World War I: The Battle of Belleau Wood begins Nope - was on June 1. -- User:Maveric149 06:59, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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