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  On June - 06 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  Aviation gasoline first produced commercially Paulsboro NJ on this day in history.   

1936  40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ on this day in history.   

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

1937  On June - 06 jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26   

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  On June - 06 hMS WRESTLER, damaged off Normandy beaches, northern France in English Channel by German mine.   

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

1941  On June - 06 the first US navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched   

1941  On June - 06 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched   

1942  On this day in history 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 June - 06 the first nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)   

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

1943  Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

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

1944  On this day in history 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  On June - 06 invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces   

1944  On this day in history theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor   

1944  On this day in history baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion   

1944  Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day on June - 06.   

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

1945  On this day in history "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 this day in history.   

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

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 June - 06.   

1580  Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667) was born on June - 06.   

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

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

0840  On June - 06 agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies   

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

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

1480  On June - 06 death of vecchietta, Italian artist and architect   

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

1563  Death of Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519) on June - 06.   

1583  Death of Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556) on June - 06.   

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