What are the important events that happened on June 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 7: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 7 is the 159th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 207 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 25, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,628,640 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontaenneagon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 236 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,186 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 7 Historical Events
- 1494 –Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
- 1776 –Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1810 –The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
- 1893 –Mohandas Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience.
- 1917 –World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
- 1936 –The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
- 1977 –500 million people watch on television as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins.
- 1991 –Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km high.
Who were born on June 7?
- 1862 –Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1947)
- 1880 –Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956)
- 1937 –Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
- 1940 –Tom Jones, Welsh singer
- 1943 –Michael Pennington, English actor
- 1943 –Nikki Giovanni, American poet
- 1947 –Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
- 1967 –Dave Navarro, American musician
- 1970 –Cafu, Brazilian footballer
- 1993 –Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer and actress (T-ara)
Who died on June 7?
- 1859 –David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
- 1866 –Chief Seattle, Native American leader
- 1896 –Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
- 1916 –Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
- 1951 –Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
- 1954 –Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
- 1993 –Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
- 2001 –Betty Neels, English novelist (b. 1910)
- 2009 –Kenny Rankin, American singer (b. 1940)
- 2011 –Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
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