Page 6: Historical Events In June - 06

1933  On June - 06 uS Employment Service created   

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

1934  Securities & Exchange Commission established on June - 06.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1942  Japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway on June - 06.   

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  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 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  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 on this day in history.   

1944  Invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces on this day in history.   

1944  On this day in history theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor   

1944  On June - 06 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  "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam on June - 06.   

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

1946  Henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV on June - 06.   

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

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

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

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

1580  On this day in history birth of godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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  On this day in history death of stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed