June 06

Monday 06, 2005:

2005 - Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs announced in his keynote address at WWDC that Apple would be switching from its long-favored PowerPC Architecture to Intel CPUs.

Thursday 06, 2002:

A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

Sunday 06, 1999:

At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.

Sunday 06, 1993:

Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.

Thursday 06, 1991:

Former Diff'rent Strokes child star Dana Plato is given a six-year suspended sentence for robbing a Las Vegas video store five weeks earlier.

Wednesday 06, 1990:

U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be by the 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind."

Thursday 06, 1985:

The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.

Wednesday 06, 1984:

The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar in an effort to flush out terrorists, following an order from Indira Gandhi. Official casualities are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire.

Sunday 06, 1982:

1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

Saturday 06, 1981:

A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.

Thursday 06, 1974:

A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.

Tuesday 06, 1972:

David Bowie releases the classic album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Sunday 06, 1971:

The Ed Sullivan Show goes off the air.

Thursday 06, 1968:

Robert F. Kennedy dies.

Monday 06, 1966:

James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.

Saturday 06, 1964:

Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume.

Wednesday 06, 1962:

The Beatles audition for EMI Records.

Wednesday 06, 1956:

David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns.

Tuesday 06, 1950:

Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.

Thursday 06, 1946:

The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.

Tuesday 06, 1944:

World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.

Wednesday 06, 1934:

New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Tuesday 06, 1933:

The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.

Monday 06, 1932:

The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (26 ¢/L) sold.

Saturday 06, 1925:

The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

Thursday 06, 1912:

Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.

Tuesday 06, 1882:

More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.

Friday 06, 1862:

Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.

Monday 06, 1859:

Queen Victoria signs Letters Patent making Queensland into a separate colony.

Saturday 06, 1857:

Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.

Thursday 06, 1844:

The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.

Thursday 06, 1833:

U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.

Sunday 06, 1813:

A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.

Tuesday 06, 1809:

Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.

Tuesday 06, 1752:

A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.

Sunday 06, 1683:

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.

Saturday 06, 1654:

Christina, reigning queen of the Protestant nation Sweden, abdicates the throne and secretly converts to Catholicism. Charles X succeedes his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.

Wednesday 06, 1523:

Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.

Friday 06, 1513:

Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.

Saturday 06, 1508:

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice

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