June 6th, 2017

Born on June 6th, 2017

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What happened on June 6th, 2017?

June 6th, 2017

Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

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, 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

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

27

Alexander Rossipal

German association football player

*June 6th, 1996, Stuttgart

33

Gavin Hoyte

English-Trinidadian footballer (born 1990)

*June 6th, 1990, Leytonstone

76

Robert Englund

American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director

*June 6th, 1947, Glendale

72

Dwight Twilley

American singer

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

79

Heinrich Rohrer

Swiss physicist (1933-2013)

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

64

Colin Quinn

American comedian and actor

*June 6th, 1959, Brooklyn

80

Thomas Mann

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

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

69

Harvey Fierstein

American actor and playwright

*June 6th, 1954, Brooklyn

61

Diego Velázquez

Spanish painter (1599-1660)

*June 6th, 1599, Seville †August 6th, 1660, Madrid

67

Björn Borg

Swedish tennis player

*June 6th, 1956, Stockholm

69

Sukarno

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

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

56

Max Casella

American actor

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

89

Albert II of Belgium

Sixth king of the Belgians

*June 6th, 1934, Laeken - Laken

46

Frédéric Chau

French actor and humorist

*June 6th, 1977, Ho Chi Minh City

31

Hyuna

South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper and model

*June 6th, 1992, Seoul

89

George Deukmejian

Governor of California from 1983 to 1991

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

62

Michel Dernies

Belgian cyclist

*June 6th, 1961, Nivelles

71

Klaus Tennstedt

German conductor (1926-1998)

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

25

Jan Cincibuch

Czech rower

*June 6th, 1998, Prague

35

Daniel Rodríguez Vázquez

Spanish footballer

*June 6th, 1988, Betanzos

Same year
Born in 2017

6

Prince Gabriel, Duke of Dalarna

Younger son of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of Sweden

*August 31st, 2017, Danderyd Hospital

6

Alana Martina dos Santos Aveiro

Daughter of Cristiano Ronaldo

*November 12th, 2017, Madrid

6

Tunku Iskandar Abdul Jalil Abu Bakar Ibrahim

His Highness Raja Muda of Johor

*October 14th, 2017, Sultanah Aminah Hospital

6

Sir Carter

Son of Beyoncé and Jay-Z

*June 13th, 2017, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

6

Rumi Carter

Daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z

*June 13th, 2017, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

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No: With 365 days 2017 is a normal year and no leap year.

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