On this day: June 7

Events on June 7

• 421 Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia, who later helped to protect Greek pagans and Jews from persecution. Wikipedia
• 879 Pope John VIII officially recognised Croatia as an independent state, and Branimir as its duke. Wikipedia
• 1099 First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. Wikipedia
• 1494 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. Wikipedia
• 1628 The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document that set out specific liberties of individuals, received royal assent from King Charles I. Wikipedia
• 1654 Louis XIV is crowned King of France. Wikipedia
• 1692 An earthquake registering approximately 7.5 Mw caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people. Wikipedia
• 1810 Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres. Wikipedia
• 1832 The Reform Act, which is widely credited with launching modern democracy in the United Kingdom, received royal assent. Wikipedia
• 1892 Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man from New Orleans, was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. Wikipedia
• 1900 American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks. Wikipedia
• 1917 First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under German lines, killing perhaps 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history during the Battle of Messines. Wikipedia
• 1929 The Lateran Treaty was ratified to bring Vatican City into existence, thus ending the "Roman question". Wikipedia
• 1940 King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later. Wikipedia
• 1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory. Wikipedia
• 1946 The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II. Wikipedia
• 1948 Anti-Jewish riots broke out in the French protectorate in Morocco, during which 44 people were killed and 150 injured. Wikipedia
• 1948 In Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., a New York trial court declined to issue a permanent injunction in favor of several Soviet composers against the distribution of The Iron Curtain, the first anti-Soviet Hollywood film of the Cold War era. Wikipedia
• 1965 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraceptives violated the "right to marital privacy". Wikipedia
• 1967 Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem. Wikipedia
• 1969 In their only UK concert, the rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, debuted in London's Hyde Park in front of 100,000 fans. Wikipedia
• 1975 The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England. Wikipedia
• 1981 The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear-weapons program. Wikipedia
• 1989 Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashed while approaching Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, in Zanderij, killing 178 people, including members of the football team known as the Colourful 11. Wikipedia
• 1998 White supremacists murdered James Byrd Jr., an African American, by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas. Wikipedia
• 2017 A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashed into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, killing all 122 people on board. Wikipedia

Born on June 7

• 1502 John III of Portugal (died 1557) Wikipedia
• 1837 Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (died 1903) Wikipedia
• 1848 Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903) Wikipedia
• 1862 Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947) Wikipedia
• 1868 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (died 1928) Wikipedia
• 1896 Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1958) Wikipedia
• 1896 Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986) Wikipedia
• 1909 Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (died 1994) Wikipedia
• 1909 Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (died 1974) Wikipedia
• 1917 Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (died 1995) Wikipedia
• 1940 Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor Wikipedia
• 1952 Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Wikipedia
• 1952 Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor Wikipedia
• 1958 Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016) Wikipedia
• 1959 Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana Wikipedia
• 1970 Cafu, Brazilian footballer Wikipedia
• 1972 Karl Urban, New Zealand actor Wikipedia
• 1974 Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host Wikipedia
• 1975 Allen Iverson, American basketball player Wikipedia
• 1988 Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician Wikipedia
• 1990 Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model Wikipedia
• 1991 Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress Wikipedia

Died on June 7

• 555 Vigilius, first pope of the Byzantine Papacy (born 500) Wikipedia
• 1329 Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (born 1274) Wikipedia
• 1826 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1787) Wikipedia
• 1840 Frederick William III of Prussia (born 1770) Wikipedia
• 1843 Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (born 1770) Wikipedia
• 1937 Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911) Wikipedia
• 1954 Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912) Wikipedia
• 1966 Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (born 1886) Wikipedia
• 1967 Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (born 1893) Wikipedia
• 1970 E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879) Wikipedia
• 1980 Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891) Wikipedia
• 2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (born 1966) Wikipedia
• 2013 Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1928) Wikipedia
• 2015 Christopher Lee, English actor (born 1922) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Antonio Maria Gianelli Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Colmán of Dromore Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Gottschalk Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Landulf of Yariglia (Asti) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Meriasek Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Paul I of Constantinople Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Robert of Newminster Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA)) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Battle of Arica Day (Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile) Wikipedia
• Flag Day (Peru) Wikipedia
• Journalist Day (Argentina) Wikipedia
• Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia) Wikipedia
• Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark) Wikipedia
• Sette Giugno (Malta) Wikipedia
• Union Dissolution Day (Independence Day of Norway) Wikipedia
• Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day Wikipedia

Sources

• Wikipedia — “June 7” — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/June 7” — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikidata — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “June 7” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for June 7 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.