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Events

• 1894 (132 years ago) Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
• 1912 (114 years ago) The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
• 1918 (108 years ago) World War I: U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties during the Battle of Belleau Wood while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry (the losses are exceeded at the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943).
• 1934 (92 years ago) New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
• 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū and Hiryū—are sunk, as is the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann are also sunk.
• 1975 (51 years ago) British referendum results in continued membership of the European Economic Community, with 67% of votes in favour.
• 1982 (44 years ago) 1982 Lebanon War: The war begins as forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
• 2002 (24 years ago) 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.

Births

• 1599 (427 years ago) Diego Velázquez (date of baptism), Spanish painter and educator (died 1660)
• 1606 (420 years ago) Pierre Corneille, French playwright and producer (died 1684)
• 1799 (227 years ago) Alexander Pushkin, Russian author and poet (died 1837)
• 1850 (176 years ago) Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1909 for physics (died 1918)
• 1868 (158 years ago) Robert Falcon Scott, English sailor and explorer (died 1912)
• 1875 (151 years ago) Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (died 1970)
• 1934 (92 years ago) Albert II, King of the Belgians from 9 August 1993 to 21 July 2013 (abdicated)

Deaths

• 1832 (194 years ago) Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and philosopher (born 1748)
• 1861 (165 years ago) Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (born 1810)
• 1891 (135 years ago) John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (born 1815)
• 1946 (80 years ago) Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
• 1948 (78 years ago) Louis Lumière, French film director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1864)
• 1961 (65 years ago) Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (born 1875)
• 1968 (58 years ago) Robert F. Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (born 1925)
• 2005 (21 years ago) Anne Bancroft, American film actress; winner of the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker (born 1931)

All 212 events, births and deaths of June 6