Page 6: Historical Events In June - 06

1933  On June - 06 uS Employment Service created   

1933  On June - 06 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)   

1934  On this day in history securities & Exchange Commission established   

1934  The Securities and Exchange Commission is established on this day in history.   

1935  On June - 06 jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68   

1936  Aviation gasoline first produced commercially Paulsboro NJ on June - 06.   

1936  On June - 06 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ   

1937  On June - 06 phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game   

1937  Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26 on this day in history.   

1938  On June - 06 sigmund Freud arrives in London   

1939  On this day in history nY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning   

1939  Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1940  HMS WRESTLER, damaged off Normandy beaches, northern France in English Channel by German mine on this day in history.   

1940  On this day in history e E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56   

1941  On this day in history the first US navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched   

1941  On this day in history 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched   

1942  Japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway on June - 06.   

1942  Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway on this day in history.   

1942  Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich on June - 06.   

1942  The first nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray) on June - 06.   

1942  1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray) on this day in history.   

1943  On June - 06 karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74   

1944  On June - 06 allied forces storm the Normandy, France beaches during the "D-Day" invasion of Europe in World War II.   

1944  D-Day 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France on June - 06.   

1944  Hanna Senesz, a Jewish girl originally from Hungary, who had immigrated to Palestine, parachutes behind German lines to connect with Hungarian and Slovak resistance fighters. Caught on the Hungarian border, she dies knowing that her mission has given strength to those suffering in the camps on this day in history.   

1944  On this day in history invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces   

1944  Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor on this day in history.   

1944  On June - 06 baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion   

1944  On June - 06 danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day   

1944  On June - 06 d-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France   

1945  On June - 06 "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam   

1945  Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide on this day in history.   

1946  Henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV on this day in history.   

1946  11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season on this day in history.   

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1236  On this day in history birth of wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)   

1436  Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables was born on June - 06.   

1502  On this day in history birth of king John III of Portugal (d. 1557)   

1519  On June - 06 birth of andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)   

1576  Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649) was born on June - 06.   

1580  Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667) was born on this day in history.   

1599  On June - 06 birth of diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)   

1606  On this day in history birth of pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace)   

0840  Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies on this day in history.   

1134  On this day in history norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51   

1393  Death of Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359) on June - 06.   

1480  Death of Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect on this day in history.   

1548  Death of Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500) on June - 06.   

1563  Death of Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519) on this day in history.   

1583  Death of Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556) on this day in history.   

1671  On June - 06 death of stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed