June 6th, 1959

Born on June 6th, 1959

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What 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.

June 6th, 1944

World War II: The largest amphibious military operation in history began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.

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

Born on June 6th, 1959

64

Colin Quinn

American comedian and actor

*June 6th, 1959, Brooklyn

36

Dave Schultz

American wrestler and murder victim (1959-1996)

*June 6th, 1959, Palo Alto †January 26th, 1996, Newtown Township

64

Marie Richardson

Swedish actress

*June 6th, 1959, Ljusdal church parish

64

Amanda Pays

British actress

*June 6th, 1959, London

64

Marwan Barghouti

Palestinian politician

*June 6th, 1959, Kobar

64

Rainer Kaufmann

German film director and screenwriter

*June 6th, 1959, Frankfurt

64

Jürgen Bärsch

German priest

*June 6th, 1959, Oberhausen

64

Neal H. Moritz

American film producer

*June 6th, 1959, Los Angeles

63

Francisco Bozinovic

Chilean biologist and ecologist

*June 6th, 1959, Punta Arenas †January 1st, 2023, Santiago

64

John Wiggins

British musician

*June 6th, 1959, London

64

Paul Germain

American animator

*June 6th, 1959, Los Angeles

64

Josie Lawrence

British actor and comedian

*June 6th, 1959, Old Hill

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

67

Björn Borg

Swedish tennis player

*June 6th, 1956, Stockholm

69

Harvey Fierstein

American actor and playwright

*June 6th, 1954, Brooklyn

76

Robert Englund

American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director

*June 6th, 1947, Glendale

63

Steve Vai

American guitarist

*June 6th, 1960, Carle Place

62

Michel Dernies

Belgian cyclist

*June 6th, 1961, Nivelles

72

Dwight Twilley

American singer

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

62

Carole Baskin

American animal rights activist

*June 6th, 1961, Bexar County

65

Danny Webb

English actor born in 1958

*June 6th, 1958, London

56

Max Casella

American actor

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

79

Heinrich Rohrer

Swiss physicist (1933-2013)

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

63

Lola Forner

Spanish actress

*June 6th, 1960, Alicante

60

Jason Isaacs

British actor (born 1963)

*June 6th, 1963, Liverpool

33

Gavin Hoyte

English-Trinidadian footballer (born 1990)

*June 6th, 1990, Leytonstone

80

Thomas Mann

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

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

27

Alexander Rossipal

German association football player

*June 6th, 1996, Stuttgart

89

Albert II of Belgium

Sixth king of the Belgians

*June 6th, 1934, Laeken - Laken

59

Sam Simon

American television producer (1955–2015)

*June 6th, 1955, Los Angeles †March 8th, 2015, Pacific Palisades

64

Marc Goblet

Belgian syndicalist and politician (1957-2021)

*June 6th, 1957, Herve †June 16th, 2021, Herve

61

Hirokazu Koreeda

Japanese film director, producer, screenplay writer and film editor

*June 6th, 1962, Tokyo

69

Sukarno

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

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

Same year
Born in 1959

64

Jim Kerr

Scottish singer

*July 9th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

64

Wolfgang Rolff

German association football player and manager

*December 26th, 1959, Lamstedt

64

Mike Pence

Vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 7th, 1959, Columbus

64

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

64

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

64

Donna Strickland

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel laurate

*May 27th, 1959, Guelph

64

Dave Ball

English producer and electronic musician

*May 3rd, 1959, Blackpool

64

Charlie Burchill

Scottish musician and composer

*November 27th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Rolf Mützenich

German politician (SPD)

*June 25th, 1959, Cologne

64

Martin Atkins

English musician

*August 3rd, 1959, Coventry

64

Bryan Adams

Canadian guitarist

*November 5th, 1959, Kingston

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

64

Carla Antonelli

Spanish actress and activist

*July 12th, 1959, Güímar

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

64

Peter Enders

German politician (1959–)

*May 10th, 1959, Eichen

64

Allison Janney

American actress

*November 19th, 1959, Boston

65

Luc Besson

French film director, writer, and producer

*March 18th, 1959, Paris

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1959 is a normal year and no leap year.

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