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 159^th 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, 477,144 hours 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.

June 7 Historical Events

• 1494 –
  Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
• 1832 –
  Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
• 1862 –
  The United States and the United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
• 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.
• 1905 –
  Norway’s parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
• 1940 –
  King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
• 1944 –
  World War II: The steamer Danae carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
• 1981 –
  The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
• 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?

• 1757 –
  Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
• 1896 –
  Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
• 1896 –
  Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
• 1917 –
  Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995)
• 1937 –
  Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
• 1965 –
  Billy Reeves, English songwriter and BBC radio presenter
• 1969 –
  Kim Rhodes, American actress
• 1978 –
  Mini Anden, Swedish model
• 1981 –
  Larisa Oleynik, American actress
• 1981 –
  Stephen Bywater, British footballer

Who died on June 7?

• 1394 –
  Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (b. 1367)
• 1821 –
  Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion leader (b. c. 1780)
• 1854 –
  Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
• 1911 –
  Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
• 1937 –
  Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1988 –
  Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1993 –
  Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
• 2001 –
  Betty Neels, English novelist (b. 1910)
• 2002 –
  Basappa Danappa Jatti, former Vice-President of India and Acting President (b. 1912)
• 2010 –
  Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)