TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 7
1099 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the new world along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa
1546 The Peace of Ardes ends the war between France and England
1654 Louis XIV is crowned king of France.
1665 Great Plague of London: Samuel Pepys writes in his diary of houses marked with a red cross in London’s Drury Lane, meaning somebody inside is infected with the plague and must be locked in for 40 days or until death
1712 The Pennsylvania Assembly banned the importation of slaves.
1767 Daniel Boone sights present-day Kentucky.
1775 The United Colonies change their name to the United States
1832 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
1862 General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed US flag on display over New Orleans Mint
1866 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec
1903 Professor Pierre Curie reveals the discovery of Polonium.
1916 Theodore Roosevelt declines nomination of the Progressive Party and throws his support behind Republican Charles Evans Hughes
1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1939 King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in the U.S. It was the first visit to the U.S. by a reigning British monarch.
1942 The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.
1946 US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
1948 President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples
1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem
1968 The world’s first Legoland resort opens
1981 Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroy Iraq’s only nuclear reactor.
1983 The U.S. ordered Nicaragua to close all six of its consulates and informed 21 Nicaraguan consular officials that they could not longer remain in the U.S.
1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
1990 South African President F. W. de Klerk lifts 4 year state of emergency
1998 James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime
2000 U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation.
2017 Suicide bombers attack Iranian parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini killing 12, 1st Islamic State attacks in Iran
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
