Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 6
This is a list of selected June 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Queensland Day in the Australian state of Queensland | refimprove section |
| 1523 – Gustav Vasa became King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union. | needs more footnotes |
| 1654 – Charles X Gustav succeeded his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 1844 – The YMCA, today a worldwide movement of more than 45 million members from 124 national federations, was founded in London. | unreferenced section |
| 1859 – Queen Victoria signed letters patent separating the colony of Queensland from New South Wales. | refimprove section |
| 1982 – Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to root out members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, sparking a three-year-long war. | unreferenced section |
| 1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, was first released. | some dispute about release date |
| 2005 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in Gonzales v. Raich, allowing Congress to ban medical marijuana even in states that approve its use. | unreferenced section |
| Robert Stirling |d|1878 | lede too short |
Eligible
- 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: A Milanese force with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara, forcing them to withdraw from Milan and Italy.
- 1749 – A plot by Muslim slaves in Malta to assassinate Manuel Pinto da Fonseca of the Knights Hospitaller was uncovered.
- 1813 – War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
- 1822 – Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian voyageur, was accidentally shot in the stomach; investigations of his injury led to a greater understanding of the processes of digestion.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the First Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.
- 1882 – The Shewan army defeated Gojjame forces at the Battle of Embabo, an event that contributed to the supremacy of Shewa within the Ethiopian Empire.
- 1894 – Colorado Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered his state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
- 1944 – World War II: The largest amphibious military operation in history began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.
- 1971 – Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a U.S. Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II near Duarte, California, killing 50 people, the radar intercept officer of the F-4B being the sole survivor.
- 1982 – Falklands War: the British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly fire incident.
- 2004 – During a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament, President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam announced that Tamil was to be made the first legally recognised classical language of India.
- Born/died this day: | Robert Passelewe |d|1252| Regiomontanus |b|1436| Jeremy Bentham |d|1832| Marcellin Champagnat |d|1840| John A. Macdonald |d|1891| Lillian Russell |d|1922| Frank Chee Willeto |b|1925| Natalie Morales |b|1972| J. Paul Getty |d|1976| Angie Ballard |b|1982| Maria Alyokhina |b|1988
June 6: National Day of Sweden
- 1674 – Shivaji, who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Bijapur Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.
- 1892 – The Chicago "L" (train pictured), the second-busiest rapid transit system in the United States, began operation.
- 1912 – The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century began, forming the volcano Novarupta in the Alaska Peninsula.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh.
- 1985 – The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.
- Norbert of Xanten (d. 1134)
- Henry Allingham (b. 1896)
- Jean Pouliot (b. 1923)