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 158^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 207 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 25, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,749,254,400 seconds 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 ‘hectapentacontaoctagon’ 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 255 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 4,551 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 7 Historical Events

• 1892 –
  Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the “whites-only” car of a train; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
• 1893 –
  Mohandas Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience.
• 1936 –
  The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
• 1940 –
  King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
• 1942 –
  World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
• 1945 –
  King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
• 1948 –
  Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a constitution making his nation a Communist state.
• 1955 –
  Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
• 1971 –
  The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades, which all turn out to be inert or dummies.
• 1995 –
  The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.

Who were born on June 7?

• 1900 –
  Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (d. 1963)
• 1942 –
  Muammar Gaddafi, Ruler of Libya (d. 2011)
• 1947 –
  Don Money, American baseball player and manager
• 1950 –
  Gary Graham American actor
• 1958 –
  Prince, American musician
• 1965 –
  Christine Roque, French singer
• 1977 –
  Preston Campbell, Australian Rugby League Player
• 1978 –
  Bill Hader, American comedian
• 1979 –
  Evelina Papantoniou, Greek fashion model and actress
• 1993 –
  Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer and actress (T-ara)

Who died on June 7?

• 1618 –
  Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
• 1779 –
  William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
• 1810 –
  Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
• 1859 –
  David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
• 1980 –
  Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
• 1988 –
  Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1993 –
  Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
• 2009 –
  Hugh Hopper, British musician (b. 1945)
• 2010 –
  Adriana Xenides, Australian TV personality (b. 1956)
• 2010 –
  Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)