June 6th, 1942

Born on June 6th, 1942

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What happened on June 6th, 1942?

June 6th, 1942

The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū and Hiryū—are sunk, as is the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann are also sunk.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy

What else happened on June 6th?

June 6th, 1912

The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century began, forming the volcano Novarupta in the Alaska Peninsula.

June 6th, 1894

Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.

June 6th, 1882

The Shewan army defeated Gojjame forces at the Battle of Embabo, an event that contributed to the supremacy of Shewa within the Ethiopian Empire.

June 6th, 1862

American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the First Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.

June 6th, 1822

Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian voyageur, was accidentally shot in the stomach; medical investigations of his injury led to a greater understanding of the processes of digestion.

June 6th, 1813

War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.

June 6th, 1749

A plot by Muslim slaves in Malta to assassinate Manuel Pinto da Fonseca of the Knights Hospitaller was uncovered.

June 6th, 1674

Shivaji (pictured), who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Bijapur Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.

June 6th, 1513

War of the League of Cambrai: Milanese forces with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara, forcing them to withdraw from the Duchy of Milan and Italy.

June 6th, 2021

A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing 4 members of the same family and injuring the family's nine year old son.

June 6th, 2017

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (soldiers pictured) opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of the Raqqa campaign, capturing the de facto capital of the Islamic State four months later.

June 6th, 1985

The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.

June 6th, 1982

Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire incident.

June 6th, 1971

Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a US Marine Corps jet near Duarte, California, killing 50 people.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 6th

Born on June 6th, 1942

72

Klaus Bednarz

German journalist and author

*June 6th, 1942, Falkensee †April 14th, 2015, Schwerin

81

Ulrike Ottinger

German filmmaker and photographer

*June 6th, 1942, Constance

81

Norberto Rivera Carrera

Catholic cardinal

*June 6th, 1942, Durango

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 6th?

76

Robert Englund

American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director

*June 6th, 1947, Glendale

79

Heinrich Rohrer

Swiss physicist (1933-2013)

*June 6th, 1933, Buchs †May 16th, 2013, Wollerau

62

Richard Smalley

American chemist

*June 6th, 1943, Akron †October 28th, 2005, Houston

72

Dwight Twilley

American singer

*June 6th, 1951, Tulsa †October 18th, 2023, Tulsa

79

Tommie Smith

American track and field athlete

*June 6th, 1944, Clarksville

69

Harvey Fierstein

American actor and playwright

*June 6th, 1954, Brooklyn

89

Albert II of Belgium

Sixth king of the Belgians

*June 6th, 1934, Laeken - Laken

64

Colin Quinn

American comedian and actor

*June 6th, 1959, Brooklyn

67

Björn Borg

Swedish tennis player

*June 6th, 1956, Stockholm

55

David Dukes

American character actor (1945–2000)

*June 6th, 1945, San Francisco †October 9th, 2000, Lakewood

89

George Deukmejian

Governor of California from 1983 to 1991

*June 6th, 1928, Menands †May 8th, 2018, Long Beach

80

Thomas Mann

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

*June 6th, 1875, Lübeck †August 12th, 1955, Zürich

71

Klaus Tennstedt

German conductor (1926-1998)

*June 6th, 1926, Merseburg †January 11th, 1998, Heikendorf

91

David Scott

American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut

*June 6th, 1932, San Antonio

69

Sukarno

1st President of the Republic of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967

*June 6th, 1901, Surabaya †June 21st, 1970, Jakarta

63

Arthur Shawcross

American serial killer

*June 6th, 1945, Kittery †November 10th, 2008, Albany

83

Matthew Guinness

British actor

*June 6th, 1940, London

33

Gavin Hoyte

English-Trinidadian footballer (born 1990)

*June 6th, 1990, Leytonstone

27

Alexander Rossipal

German association football player

*June 6th, 1996, Stuttgart

56

Max Casella

American actor

*June 6th, 1967, Washington, D.C.

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Born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

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