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 this day in history securities & Exchange Commission established   

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

1935  Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68 on June - 06.   

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

1936  On June - 06 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ   

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

1937  On June - 06 jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26   

1938  On June - 06 sigmund Freud arrives in London   

1939  On this day in history nY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning   

1939  On this day in history ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65   

1940  HMS WRESTLER, damaged off Normandy beaches, northern France in English Channel by German mine on this day in history.   

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

1941  The first US navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched on June - 06.   

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

1942  On June - 06 japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway.   

1942  On this day in history japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway   

1942  On June - 06 nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich   

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

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

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  On this day in history d-Day 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France   

1944  On June - 06 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 this day in history.   

1944  Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion on this day in history.   

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  "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam on June - 06.   

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

1946  Henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV on this day in history.   

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

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1236  On this day in history birth of wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)   

1436  Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables was born on this day in history.   

1502  On this day in history birth of king John III of Portugal (d. 1557)   

1519  Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603) was born on June - 06.   

1576  On this day in history birth of giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)   

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

1599  On this day in history birth of diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)   

1606  On this day in history birth of pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace)   

0840  Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies on this day in history.   

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  On June - 06 death of vecchietta, Italian artist and architect   

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

1563  On June - 06 death of ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)   

1583  On June - 06 death of nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)   

1671  Death of Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed on this day in history.