Page 6: Historical Events In June - 06

1933  US Employment Service created on June - 06.   

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

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

1934  The Securities and Exchange Commission is established on June - 06.   

1935  On this day in history jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68   

1936  On this day in history 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  Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game on June - 06.   

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

1938  On this day in history sigmund Freud arrives in London   

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 this day in history.   

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  The first US navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched on this day in history.   

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

1942  On this day in history japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway.   

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

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  On June - 06 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)   

1943  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1944  On June - 06 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.   

1944  Invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces on June - 06.   

1944  Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor on June - 06.   

1944  On this day in history 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 June - 06.   

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

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

1946  Henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV on June - 06.   

1946  On June - 06 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season   

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

1436  On this day in history birth of regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables   

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 this day in history.   

1576  On June - 06 birth of giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)   

1580  On this day in history birth of godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)   

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

1606  Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace) was born on June - 06.   

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

1134  On June - 06 norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51   

1393  On this day in history death of emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)   

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

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

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