Historical Events In June - 06

1933  On June - 06 uS Employment Service created   

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

1934  Securities & Exchange Commission established on this day in history.   

1934  On this day in history the Securities and Exchange Commission is established.   

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

1936  On June - 06 aviation gasoline first produced commercially Paulsboro NJ   

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

1937  On this day in history phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game   

1937  Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26 on June - 06.   

1938  Sigmund Freud arrives in London on this day in history.   

1939  On June - 06 nY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning   

1939  Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65 on June - 06.   

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

1940  E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56 on June - 06.   

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  On June - 06 japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway.   

1942  Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway on June - 06.   

1942  On this day in history nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich   

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

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

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  Invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces on June - 06.   

1944  On June - 06 theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor   

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

1944  On this day in history danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day   

1944  D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France on this day in history.   

1945  "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam on this day in history.   

1945  On June - 06 meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide   

1946  On June - 06 henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV   

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

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1236  Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283) was born on this day in history.   

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

1502  King John III of Portugal (d. 1557) was born on this day in history.   

1519  Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603) was born on June - 06.   

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  Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660) was born on this day in history.   

1606  On June - 06 birth of pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace)   

0840  On this day in history agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies   

1134  Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51 on this day in history.   

1393  Death of Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359) on this day in history.   

1480  On this day in history death of vecchietta, Italian artist and architect   

1548  Death of Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500) on this day in history.   

1563  On this day in history death of ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)   

1583  On this day in history death of nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)   

1671  Death of Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed on June - 06.