Page 6: Historical Events In June - 06

1933  US Employment Service created on June - 06.   

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

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

1934  On June - 06 the Securities and Exchange Commission is established.   

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

1936  On this day in history aviation gasoline first produced commercially Paulsboro NJ   

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

1937  Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game on this day in history.   

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

1938  Sigmund Freud arrives in London on this day in history.   

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

1941  On this day in history the first US navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched   

1941  On June - 06 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  On this day in history japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway   

1942  On this day in history nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich   

1942  On June - 06 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 June - 06.   

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 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 this day in history.   

1944  On this day in history d-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France   

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

1945  On June - 06 meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide   

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  Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283) was born on this day in history.   

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

1502  King John III of Portugal (d. 1557) was born on June - 06.   

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

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  On June - 06 birth of diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)   

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

0840  On June - 06 agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies   

1134  Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51 on this day in history.   

1393  On this day in history death of emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)   

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

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

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

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

1671  On June - 06 death of stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed