Page 6: Historical Events In June - 06

1933  US Employment Service created on June - 06.   

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

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

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

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

1936  Aviation gasoline first produced commercially Paulsboro NJ on this day in history.   

1936  40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ on this day in history.   

1937  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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  E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56 on June - 06.   

1941  The first US navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched on this day in history.   

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

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 June - 06 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  1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray) on this day in history.   

1943  On June - 06 karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74   

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

1944  Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion on June - 06.   

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 June - 06.   

1945  On June - 06 "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  On this day in history 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season   

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1236  Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283) was born on June - 06.   

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

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

1480  On this day in history death of vecchietta, Italian artist and architect   

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 this day in history.   

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

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