June 06 : Major Historical Events

Each day has its own significance. The importance of each day is signified by many happenings that took place on that particular day. The major events that happened in History on June 06 are listed below.

1674: Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, was crowned.

1882: More than 100,000 inhabitants of Mumbai were killed when a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.

1944: The allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. The term D-Day is used for this day.

1946: Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate, passed away (b. 1862).

1949: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four was published.

1984: Indian army stormed the Golden Temple under Operation Bluestar.

2004: Tamil was established as a classical language by the President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.

2013: Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate passed away (b. 1918).

June 03 : Major Historical Events

Each day has its own significance. The importance of each day is signified by many happenings that took place on that particular day. The major events that happened in History on June 03 are listed below.

1916: US President Woodrow Wilson signed National Defense Act into law, increasing the size of he United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
1936: Larry MCMurtry, the renowned Western author, was born.
1940: Gemans bombed Paris in World War II.
1965: Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission was launched by a NASA crew. ED White, a crew member, performed the firast American spacewalk.
1984: Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, was launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continued until June 6, with casulties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1989: The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after weeks of occupation.
1989: Natural gas explosion killed 500 in Russia.
1989: Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religius leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran passed awaw (b. 1902).
2016: Muhammad Ali, American boxer passed awaw (b. 1942) .

June 02 : Major Historical Events

Each day has its own significance. The importance of each day is signified by many happenings that took place on that particular day. The major events that happened in History on June 02 are listed below.

1840: Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet was born. (d. 1928)

1923: Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate was born (d. 2016)

1924: US President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

1931: Suspension bridge collapsed at its opening.

1935: Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, ends his major league playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs.

1943: Ilaiyaraja, the Indian singer-singwriter and producer, was born. 

1946: In a referendum, Itilians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto-II of Italy was exiled.

1953: Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New 

zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquesr Mount Everest.

1953: Queen Elizabeth II was formally crowned as The Queen in England.

1956: Mani Ratnam, the renowned Indian film director, was born.

1966: First US space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon.

1988: Raj Kapoor, the famous film actor, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, passed away.

1979: Pope John Paul II started his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
2003: Europe launched its first voyage to Mars.

2004: Dom Moraes, the Indian writer and poet, passed away.

2012: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

2014: Telengana officially became the 29th state of India.

2015: Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate passed away (b. 1926).