| 1523 |
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Gustav Vasa becomes king of Sweden. |
| 1641 |
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Spain loses Portugal. |
| 1674 |
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Sivaji crowns himself King of India. |
| 1813 |
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The United States invasion of Canada is halted at Stony Creek, Ontario. |
| 1862 |
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The city of Memphis surrenders to the Union navy after an intense naval engagement on the Mississippi River. |
| 1865 |
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Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill dies from a wound received while escaping a Union patrol near Taylorsville, Kentucky. |
| 1918 |
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U.S. Marines enter combat at the Battle of Belleau Wood. |
| 1924 |
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The German Reichstag accepts the Dawes Plan, an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts. |
| 1930 |
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Frozen foods are sold commercially for the first time. |
| 1934 |
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President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
| 1941 |
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The U.S. government authorizes the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports. |
| 1944 |
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D-Day: Operation Overlord lands 400,000 Allied American, British, and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France. |
| 1961 |
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Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, dies. |
| 1966 |
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African American James Meridith is shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks. |
| 1982 |
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Israel invades southern Lebanon. |
| 1985 |
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The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele is located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil. |
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Born on June 6 |
| 1606 |
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Pierre Corneille, French author. |
| 1755 |
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Nathan Hale, American revolutionary. |
| 1756 |
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John Trumball, American painter. |
| 1799 |
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Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer (Boris Godunov, The Queen of Spades). |
| 1868 |
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Robert F. Scott, British explorer. |
| 1872 |
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Alexandra, the last Russian Czarina. |
| 1875 |
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Thomas Mann, German novelist and essayist, forced into exile by the Nazis. |
| 1902 |
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Jimmie Lunceford, bandleader. |
| 1907 |
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Bill Dickey, professional baseball player. |
| 1925 |
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Maxine Kumin, poet novelist and children’s author. |
| 1934 |
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Bill Moyers, American broadcast journalist, press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson. |
| 1939 |
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Marian Wright Edelman, first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund. |
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