Page 6: 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 June - 06.   

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

1935  On this day in history 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  Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game on this day in history.   

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

1938  On June - 06 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 June - 06.   

1940  HMS WRESTLER, damaged off Normandy beaches, northern France in English Channel by German mine on June - 06.   

1940  On June - 06 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  1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched on June - 06.   

1942  On June - 06 japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway.   

1942  On June - 06 japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway   

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

1942  On this day in history the first nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)   

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

1943  Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74 on June - 06.   

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

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

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 June - 06.   

1944  On June - 06 invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces   

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

1944  Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion on this day in history.   

1944  On June - 06 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 this day in history "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam   

1945  On this day in history 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 June - 06 birth of wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)   

1436  On June - 06 birth of regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables   

1502  On June - 06 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 this day in history.   

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

1599  On this day in history birth of diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)   

1606  On June - 06 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  On this day in history death of emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)   

1480  Death of Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect on June - 06.   

1548  On June - 06 death of juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)   

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

1583  On June - 06 death of nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)   

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