Today in History
6 June
113 births · 53 deaths · 39 events recorded
Notable Births
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Rayan Aït-Nouri
b. 2001
Footballer (born 2001)
Haechan
b. 2000
South Korean singer (born 2000)
Kenny Pickett
b. 1998
American football player (born 1998)
Jack Hetherington
b. 1996
Australian rugby league footballer
Julian Green
b. 1995
American soccer player (born 1995)
Sebastian Larsson
b. 1985
Swedish footballer (born 1985)
Colin Quinn
b. 1959
American comedian and actor (born 1959)
James Barnor
b. 1929
Ghanaian photographer (born 1929)
Notable Deaths
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Viktor Korchnoi
d. 2016
Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster (1931–2016)
Peter Shaffer
d. 2016
English playwright and screenwriter (1926–2016)
Vincent Bugliosi
d. 2015
American lawyer and true crime writer (1934–2015)
Ludvík Vaculík
d. 2015
Czech writer and journalist (1926–2015)
Lorna Wing
d. 2014
British psychiatrist and autism researcher (1928–2014)
Esther Williams
d. 2013
American swimmer and actress (1921–2013)
Jerome Karle
d. 2013
American physical chemist (1918–2013)
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
d. 1861
First Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861
On This Day in History
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2024
The launch of SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4)
Starship flight test 4
2023
Russo-Ukrainian War: The Kakhovka Dam is destroyed.
Russo-Ukrainian war
2017
Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Syrian civil war
2002
Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2002 Eastern Mediterranean event
1994
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board.
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303
1993
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia.
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
1992
Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard.
Copa Airlines Flight 201
1985
The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
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