7th June

Events

• 1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries
• 1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France
• 1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. See United States Declaration of Independence
• 1776 - American invaders skirmish with British at Trois Rivières, Quebec.
• 1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
• 1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
• 1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
• 1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops
• 1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around St-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
• 1905 - Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved
• 1914 - The first vessel passes through the locks of the Panama Canal
• 1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
• 1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
• 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends
• 1942 - Japanese troops land on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands
• 1944 - Nazi Panzer SS troops execute 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.
• 1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
• 1948 - Edvard Benes resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state
• 1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor
• 1989 - A Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname killing 168
• 1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
• 1997 - A computer user known as "_eci" published his Microsoft C source code on a Windows 95 and Windows NT exploit, which would later become WinNuke. The source code gets wide distribution across the internet, and Microsoft is forced to release a security patch.

Births

• 1491 - Jacques Cartier, explorer (+ 1557)
• 1761 - John Rennie, engineer (+ 1821)
• 1778 - Beau Brummel, fashion leader
• 1811 - James Simpson, obstetrician (used chloroform) (+ 1870)
• 1848 - Paul Gauguin, painter (+ 1903)
• 1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and illustrator (+ 1928)
• 1879 - Knut Rasmussen, explorer (+ 1933)
• 1886 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer (+ 1972)
• 1896 - Imre Nagy, politician (+ 1958)
• 1909 - Jessica Tandy, actress (+ 1994)
• 1917 - Dean Martin, actor (+ 1995)
• 1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, poet
• 1920 - Georges Marchais, politician (+ 1997)
• 1928 - James Ivory, producer
• 1929 - John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1931 - Malcolm Morley, painter
• 1937 - Claus Peymann, theater director
• 1940 - Tom Jones, singer
• 1943 - Nikki Giovanni, poet
• 1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian Bundeskanzler since 2000
• 1946 - Bill Kreutzmann of The Grateful Dead
• 1946 - Jenny Jones, comedienne, talk show host
• 1952 - Liam Neeson, actor
• 1954 - Louise Erdrich, author
• 1960 - Prince, musician
• 1965 - Mick Foley, professional wrestler and author
• 1981 - Anna Kournikova, tennis player

Deaths

• 1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland
• 1859 - David Cox, English artist
• 1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
• 1936 - Stjepan Seljan, explorer from Croatia
• 1937 - Jean Harlow, actress
• 1954 - Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist
• 1963 - Zasu Pitts, actress
• 1965 - Judy Holliday, actress
• 1966 - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet
• 1967 - Dorothy Parker, writer
• 1970 - E. M. Forster, author
• 1980 - Henry Miller, writer
• 1996 - Max Factor, cosmetics pioneer
• 2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium
• 2003 - Trevor Goddard, actor

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta

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