Historical Events In June - 06

1933  On this day in history uS Employment Service created   

1933  1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ) on June - 06.   

1934  Securities & Exchange Commission established on this day in history.   

1934  The Securities and Exchange Commission is established on this day in history.   

1935  On June - 06 jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68   

1936  Aviation gasoline first produced commercially Paulsboro NJ on June - 06.   

1936  40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ on this day in history.   

1937  On June - 06 phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game   

1937  On this day in history jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26   

1938  On June - 06 sigmund Freud arrives in London   

1939  NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning on June - 06.   

1939  Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65 on June - 06.   

1940  HMS WRESTLER, damaged off Normandy beaches, northern France in English Channel by German mine on June - 06.   

1940  E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1941  The first US navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched on this day in history.   

1941  On this day in history 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched   

1942  On this day in history japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway.   

1942  Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway on June - 06.   

1942  Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich on June - 06.   

1942  On this day in history the first nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)   

1942  On June - 06 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)   

1943  Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1944  Allied forces storm the Normandy, France beaches during the "D-Day" invasion of Europe in World War II on June - 06.   

1944  D-Day 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France on this day in history.   

1944  On this day in history hanna Senesz, a Jewish girl originally from Hungary, who had immigrated to Palestine, parachutes behind German lines to connect with Hungarian and Slovak resistance fighters. Caught on the Hungarian border, she dies knowing that her mission has given strength to those suffering in the camps.   

1944  Invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces on June - 06.   

1944  Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor on June - 06.   

1944  On this day in history baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion   

1944  On June - 06 danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day   

1944  D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France on this day in history.   

1945  On June - 06 "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam   

1945  Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide on this day in history.   

1946  On June - 06 henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV   

1946  11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season on June - 06.   

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1236  Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283) was born on June - 06.   

1436  On June - 06 birth of regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables   

1502  On June - 06 birth of king John III of Portugal (d. 1557)   

1519  On this day in history birth of andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)   

1576  On June - 06 birth of giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)   

1580  Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667) was born on June - 06.   

1599  Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660) was born on June - 06.   

1606  Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace) was born on this day in history.   

0840  On this day in history agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies   

1134  On this day in history norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51   

1393  Death of Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359) on June - 06.   

1480  Death of Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect on this day in history.   

1548  Death of Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500) on this day in history.   

1563  Death of Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519) on June - 06.   

1583  Death of Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556) on June - 06.   

1671  Death of Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed on June - 06.