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  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  On this day in history 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  Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26 on June - 06.   

1938  On this day in history sigmund Freud arrives in London   

1939  On June - 06 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  HMS WRESTLER, damaged off Normandy beaches, northern France in English Channel by German mine on June - 06.   

1940  On June - 06 e E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1943  Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74 on June - 06.   

1944  On this day in history allied forces storm the Normandy, France beaches during the "D-Day" invasion of Europe in World War II.   

1944  On June - 06 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 June - 06.   

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

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 June - 06.   

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 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 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  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 this day in history.   

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

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

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 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  On this day in history death of ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)   

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

1671  On this day in history death of stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed