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.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| National Day of Sweden | unreferenced |
| Queensland Day in the Australian state of Queensland | unreferenced 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. | needs more footnotes |
| 1683 – Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened. | Need to verify date |
| 1844 – The YMCA, today a worldwide movement of more than 45 million members from 124 national federations, was founded in London. | unreferenced section, primary sources |
| 1944 – Second World War: The Invasion of Normandy, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France. | Into the Jaws of Death is POTD for 2015 |
| 1984 – Tetris was released and became one of the best-selling video games of all time. | refimprove sections |
| 2005 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in Gonzales v. Raich, allowing the U.S. Congress to ban medical marijuana even in states that approve its use. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1813 – War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
- 1859 – Queen Victoria signed letters patent separating the colony of Queensland from New South Wales.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.
- 1892 – The "L" train of Chicago, the second longest rapid transit system in total track mileage in the United States, began operations.
- 1912 – The largest eruption of the 20th century created the Novarupta volcano in the Alaska Peninsula, US.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: The Australian Army attacked a heavily fortified Vietnamese communist forces base camp in the Battle of Long Khanh.
- 1982 – Falklands War: the British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly fire incident.
- 1982 – A war in Lebanon began when Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to root out members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 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.
- 1674 – Shivaji (pictured), who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Sultanate of Bijapur and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.
- 1882 – The Shewa kingdom made big strides towards gaining supremacy over the Ethiopian Empire by defeating the Gojjam and gaining control of territories south of the Gibe River.
- 1894 – Colorado Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered his state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
- 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.
- 1985 – The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for human experiments performed on Auschwitz inmates, were discovered in Embu das Artes, Brazil.