Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
June 6
| 1523 | Gustav Vasa becomes king of Sweden. | |
| 1641 | Spain loses Portugal. | |
| 1674 | Sivaji crowns himself King of India. | |
| 1813 | The United States invasion of Canada is halted at Stony Creek, Ontario. | |
| 1862 | The city of Memphis surrenders to the Union navy after an intense naval engagement on the Mississippi River. | |
| 1865 | Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill dies from a wound received while escaping a Union patrol near Taylorsville, Kentucky. | |
| 1918 | U.S. Marines enter combat at the Battle of Belleau Wood. | |
| 1924 | The German Reichstag accepts the Dawes Plan, an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts. | |
| 1930 | Frozen foods are sold commercially for the first time. | |
| 1934 | President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission. | |
| 1941 | The U.S. government authorizes the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports. | |
| 1944 | D-Day: Operation Overlord lands 400,000 Allied American, British, and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France. | |
| 1961 | Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, dies. | |
| 1966 | African American James Meridith is shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks. | |
| 1982 | Israel invades southern Lebanon. | |
| 1985 | 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 |
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| 1606 | Pierre Corneille, French author. | |
| 1755 | Nathan Hale, American revolutionary. | |
| 1756 | John Trumball, American painter. | |
| 1799 | Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer (Boris Godunov, The Queen of Spades). | |
| 1868 | Robert F. Scott, British explorer. | |
| 1872 | Alexandra, the last Russian Czarina. | |
| 1875 | Thomas Mann, German novelist and essayist, forced into exile by the Nazis. | |
| 1902 | Jimmie Lunceford, bandleader. | |
| 1907 | Bill Dickey, professional baseball player. | |
| 1925 | Maxine Kumin, poet novelist and children's author. | |
| 1934 | Bill Moyers, American broadcast journalist, press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson. | |
| 1939 | 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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