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*[[1956]] - [[Bjorn Borg]], tennis player |
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Revision as of 00:47, 12 June 2002
June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining.
Events:
- 1944 - The D-Day landings in Normandy.
- 1976 - The Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end of apartheid.
Births:
- 1599 - Diego Velázquez, painter (+ 1660)
- 1606 - Pierre Corneille, dramatist (+ 1648)
- 1799 - Alexander Pushkin poet (+ 1837)
- 1850 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1909 (+ 1918)
- 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, explorer (+ 1912)
- 1875 - Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1929 (+ 1955)
- 1934 - Albert II of Belgium
- 1939 - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
- 1956 - Bjorn Borg, tennis player
Deaths:
- 1831 - Jeremy Bentham
- 1961 - Carl Gustav Jung, psychologist
- 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General and Senator from New York
Holidays and Observances:
See Also:
June 5 - June 7 - May 6 - July 6 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December