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
- 421 –Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding is celebrated at Constantinople (Turkey).
- 1420 –Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli.
- 1692 –Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
- 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.
- 1906 –Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
- 1944 –World War II: The steamer Danae carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
- 1975 –The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.
- 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.
- 2006 –Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in an airstrike by the United States Air Force.
Who were born on June 7?
- 1883 –Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
- 1897 –George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)
- 1902 –Herman B Wells, American college president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)
- 1928 –Dave Bowen, Welsh international football manager (d. 1995)
- 1955 –Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
- 1955 –William Forsythe, American actor
- 1957 –Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican musician
- 1966 –Stéphane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 –Mike Modano, American ice hockey player
- 1974 –Bear Grylls, British adventurer and former soldier, now Chief Scout
Who died on June 7?
- 1618 –Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
- 1821 –Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion leader (b. c. 1780)
- 1826 –Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
- 1896 –Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
- 1933 –Dragutin Domjanić, Kajkavian poet (b. 1875)
- 1942 –Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
- 1945 –Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
- 1980 –Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
- 1999 –Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)
- 2001 –Carole Fredericks, American singer (b. 1952)
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