Page 6: Historical Events In June - 06

1933  On this day in history uS Employment Service created   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26   

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

1939  On June - 06 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 June - 06.   

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  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 June - 06 the first nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1944  Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor on June - 06.   

1944  On June - 06 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  On this day in history "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam   

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

1946  On this day in history 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  Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283) was born on this day in history.   

1436  On this day in history birth of regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables   

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

1519  On this day in history birth of andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)   

1576  Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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

1393  On June - 06 death of emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)   

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

1548  Death of Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500) on this day in history.   

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