Today in History

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Events
1099 - Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries
1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France
1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica is hit by a catastrophic earthquake at 11:43am; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured
1776 - American invaders skirmish with British at Trois-Rivières, Quebec
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba
1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade
1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops
1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around St-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec
1905 - Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved
1914 - The first vessel passes through the locks of the Panama Canal
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France
1938 - The Douglas DC-4 makes its first test flight
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends
1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state
1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor
1989 - At 01:23:45 AM the time and date by US reckoning was 01:23:45 6/7/89. This was also true 12 hours later excepting 24-hour time

Births
1761 - John Rennie, engineer (d. 1821)
1811 - James Simpson, obstetrician (d. 1870)
1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
1879 - Knut Rasmussen, explorer (d. 1933)
1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1897 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)
1909 - Virginia Apgar, childbirth specialist (d. 1974)
1952 - Liam Neeson, Irish actor

Deaths
1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1954 - Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist (b. 1912)