June 6th Calendar By Years in History

• Calendar Day of Week for June 6th. It's the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days left to the end of the year.

Historical Events for June 6th

• Year 754 Calendar » Pepin the Short Pepin III (the Short) is re-consecrated by Pope Stephen II as List of Frankish kings Kings of the Franks King of the Franks at the Basilica of St Denis Basilica of Saint-Denis outside Paris.
• Year 1066 Calendar » Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) is crowned King of England.
• Year 1118 Calendar » Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
• Year 1205 Calendar » Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
• Year 1322 Calendar » Stephen Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia called Stephen Uroš III is crowned Kingdom of Serbia (medieval) named King of Serbia.
• Year 1355 Calendar » Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor called Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
• Year 1449 Calendar » Constantine XI Palaiologos e.g Constantine XI is crowned List of Byzantine emperors named Byzantine Emperor at Mystras.
• Year 1492 Calendar » Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
• Year 1540 Calendar » King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
• Year 1579 Calendar » The Union of Arras is signed.
• Year 1661 Calendar » Restoration (England) called English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London or London, England.
• Year 1690 Calendar » Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor e.g Joseph, son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor or Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
• Year 1721 Calendar » The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Company called South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
• Year 1781 Calendar » In the Battle of Jersey, the Great Britain or British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
• Year 1809 Calendar » Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne (1809) called Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.
• Year 1838 Calendar » Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraphy known as telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
• Year 1839 Calendar » The Night of the Big Wind named most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
• Year 1870 Calendar » The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna or Vienna, Austria.
• Year 1893 Calendar » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by United States Congress or Congress. The charter is signed by President of the United States or President Benjamin Harrison.
• Year 1900 Calendar » Second Boer War: Having already Siege of Ladysmith sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British defenders.
• Year 1907 Calendar » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome called Rome, Italy.
• Year 1912 Calendar » Germany called German Geophysics known as geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
• Year 1912 » New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
• Year 1921 Calendar » Formation of the Iraqi Army.
• Year 1930 Calendar » The first Diesel engine diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City New York, New York.
• Year 1931 Calendar » Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
• Year 1941 Calendar » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
• Year 1947 Calendar » Pan American World Airways or Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
• Year 1951 Calendar » Ganghwa massacre: Korean War.
• Year 1953 Calendar » The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Yangon known as Rangoon, Burma.
• Year 1960 Calendar » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami called Miami, Florida.
• Year 1960 » The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
• Year 1967 Calendar » Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam or ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• Year 1974 Calendar » In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• Year 1978 Calendar » The Holy Crown of Hungary e.g Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
• Year 1993 Calendar » Indian Border Security Force units Sopore massacre called kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
• Year 1994 Calendar » Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the United States Figure Skating Championships e.g U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit e.g Detroit, Michigan.
• Year 1995 Calendar » A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila called Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Bojinka plot known as Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• Year 2000 Calendar » Celia, the last Pyrenean Ibex was found dead after a treehad landed on her.
• Year 2005 Calendar » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) known as American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 Mississippi civil rights workers murders called murders of three civil rights workers.
• Year 2005 » A Graniteville train disaster known as train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
• Year 2009 Calendar » Israel conducts an assault on Gaza. Operation Cast Lead