7 June
Notable Births
Ōnosato Daiki
b. 2000
Japanese sumo wrestler (born 2000)
David Montgomery (American football)
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Christian McCaffrey
b. 1996
American football player (born 1996)
George Ezra
b. 1993
English singer-songwriter
Swae Lee
b. 1993
American rapper and singer (born 1993)
Jordan Clarkson
b. 1992
American-Filipino basketball player (born 1992)
Emily Ratajkowski
b. 1991
American model and actress (born 1991)
Fetty Wap
b. 1991
American rapper (born 1991)
Iggy Azalea
b. 1990
Australian former rapper and songwriter (born 1990)
Michael Cera
b. 1988
Canadian actor (born 1988)
Bill Hader
b. 1978
American actor and comedian (born 1978)
Allen Iverson
b. 1975
American former basketball player (born 1975)
Bear Grylls
b. 1974
British adventurer and television presenter (born 1974)
Cafu
b. 1970
Brazilian football player (born 1970)
Dave Navarro
b. 1967
American guitarist (born 1967)
Damien Hirst
b. 1965
British artist (born 1965)
Mick Foley
b. 1965
American professional wrestler and author (born 1965)
Lance Reddick
b. 1962
American actor (1962–2023)
Mike Pence
b. 1959
Vice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Prince (musician)
b. 1958
American musician and actor (1958–2016)
Notable Deaths
Uriah Rennie
d. 2025
English football referee (1959–2025)
William Anders
d. 2024
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–2024)
The Iron Sheik
d. 2023
Iranian-American professional wrestler and actor (1942–2023)
Christopher Lee
d. 2015
English actor and singer (1922–2015)
Pierre Mauroy
d. 2013
Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984
Richard Ramirez
d. 2013
American serial killer and sex offender (1960–2013)
Phillip Tobias
d. 2012
South African palaeoanthropologist (1925–2012)
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
d. 2006
Jordanian jihadist (1966–2006)
Signe Hasso
d. 2002
Swedish actress (1915–2002)
Víctor Paz Estenssoro
d. 2001
President of Bolivia variously in the 20th century
Hsuan Hua
d. 1995
Chinese Chan Buddhist monk
Bill France Sr.
d. 1992
American racecar driver and NASCAR founder (1909–1992)
Cahit Zarifoğlu
d. 1987
Turkish poet and writer (1940–1987)
Elizabeth Craig (writer)
d. 1980
Scottish writer and home economist (1883–1980)
Philip Guston
d. 1980
Canadian-American painter and printmaker (1913–1980)
Henry Miller
d. 1980
American novelist (1891–1980)
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
d. 1978
British chemist (1897–1978)
E. M. Forster
d. 1970
English novelist and writer (1879–1970)
Dan Duryea
d. 1968
American actor (1907–1968)
Anatoly Maltsev
d. 1967
On This Day in History
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2017
A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.
Myanmar Air Force
2000
The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
United Nations
1991
Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
Mount Pinatubo
1989
Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
Surinam Airways Flight 764
1982
Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
Priscilla Presley
1981
The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
Israeli Air Force
1977
Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II
1975
Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
Sony
1971
The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Cohen v. California
1971
The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
1971
Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 crashes on approach to Tweed New Haven Airport in New Haven, Connecticut, killing 28 of 31 aboard.
Allegheny Airlines Flight 485
1967
Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
Six-Day War
1965
The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
Supreme Court of the United States
1962
The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
Organisation armée secrète
1955
Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
Lux Radio Theatre
1948
Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
1948 anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada
1948
Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
Edvard Beneš
1946
The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II.
BBC
1945
King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
Haakon VII
1944
World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
Operation Overlord