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Events

• 1494 (532 years ago) Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
• 1810 (216 years ago) The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
• 1862 (164 years ago) The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
• 1919 (107 years ago) Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
• 1929 (97 years ago) The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
• 1967 (59 years ago) Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
• 1981 (45 years ago) The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
• 2000 (26 years ago) The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.

Births

• 1848 (178 years ago) Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903)
• 1862 (164 years ago) Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947)
• 1896 (130 years ago) Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1958)
• 1917 (109 years ago) Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (died 1995)
• 1952 (74 years ago) Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1952 (74 years ago) Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
• 1958 (68 years ago) Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016)
• 1959 (67 years ago) Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana

Deaths

• 555 (1471 years ago) Vigilius, first pope of the Byzantine Papacy (born 500)
• 1329 (697 years ago) Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (born 1274)
• 1843 (183 years ago) Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (born 1770)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911)
• 1954 (72 years ago) Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912)
• 1970 (56 years ago) E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879)
• 1980 (46 years ago) Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891)
• 2015 (11 years ago) Christopher Lee, English actor (born 1922)

All 237 events, births and deaths of June 7