Page 6: Historical Events In June - 06

1933  US Employment Service created on this day in history.   

1933  On this day in history 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)   

1934  On June - 06 securities & Exchange Commission established   

1934  The Securities and Exchange Commission is established on June - 06.   

1935  On this day in history 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 June - 06.   

1937  Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game on June - 06.   

1937  Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26 on this day in history.   

1938  On this day in history sigmund Freud arrives in London   

1939  NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning on this day in history.   

1939  Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

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

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 June - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

1942  The first nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray) on this day in history.   

1942  On this day in history 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)   

1943  On June - 06 karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74   

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 June - 06.   

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  On this day in history invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces   

1944  On June - 06 theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor   

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

1944  Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day on June - 06.   

1944  On June - 06 d-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France   

1945  "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam on this day in history.   

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

1946  On this day in history henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV   

1946  On this day in history 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season   

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1236  On June - 06 birth of wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)   

1436  Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables was born on June - 06.   

1502  King John III of Portugal (d. 1557) was born on this day in history.   

1519  On June - 06 birth of andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)   

1576  Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649) was born on June - 06.   

1580  Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667) was born on this day in history.   

1599  Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660) was born on this day in history.   

1606  Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace) was born on June - 06.   

0840  Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies on June - 06.   

1134  Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51 on June - 06.   

1393  Death of Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359) on this day in history.   

1480  Death of Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect on June - 06.   

1548  On June - 06 death of juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)   

1563  Death of Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519) on this day in history.   

1583  On this day in history death of nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)   

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