Milestones for June 6

1683 Oxford, England

Opening of the world's first public museum, The Ashmolean, at Oxford.

1844 London, England

George Williams founds the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in London, by organizing some of his fellow clerks for religious worship and Bible study, and to avoid the evils of gambling and drinking; by 1848 the YMCA had a library and rest rooms in London, and in 1851 branches in Boston, Montreal and New York; by 1910 there were 2,017 associations in the US and Canada, with 496,591 members. In World War I, YMCA canteens were established in every camp, with food, music and recreation, and the Y went to Flanders with the army, going, in many cases, into the front line trenches with the troops. In 1941 the YMCA joined with five other organisations to form the United Service Organizations (USO), which supplied entertainment, social services, and spiritual guidance for the US armed services in World War II. The sport of basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, and volleyball was invented in 1895 as a recreational pastime by William G. Morgan, physical education director of the YMCA in Holyoke. By the 1950s most barriers to membership for girls and women were dropped and YMCAs expanded into suburban areas. The World Alliance of YMCAs, with its HQ in Geneva, Switzerland, has 30 million members in 110 countries.

1872 Rochester, New York

Susan B. Anthony leads a group of women to the polls to vote in defiance of the law; at her trial she quoted the preamble of the US Constitution, then said, "It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people who formed the Union. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of the enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this government - the ballot." The 19th Amendment giving women the ballot won't be passed until 1920.

1933 Camden, New Jersey

Opening of the world's first drive-in cinema, on Crescent Boulevard, in Camden; the film playing was Wife Beware; the park had room for 400 cars; the screen measured 40x50 feet and the sound came from speakers mounted next to the screen. Admission was 25 cents per person plus 25 cents for the car, maximum; $1.00.

1944 Normandy, France

Allied forces begin Operation Overlord under US General under Dwight D. Eisenhower; the largest sea-borne invasion in history is better known as D Day; over a million soldiers will cross the English Channel to make a final push into Nazi Germany; landings started before midnight as gliders flew in to knock out Nazi communication posts; at dawn, 5,000 ships landed on beaches code-named Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword; also on this day German submarines U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 are sunk in the Bay of Biscay.

1949 London, England

George Orwell publishes his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the story of Winston Smith, a man looking for truth and decency in Oceania, a strict one-party state supposedly ruled by a great leader named Big Brother, where most freedoms are denied and posters warn that Big Brother is Watching You; Winston becomes a rebel, but even the underground is a fabrication of the Party, and he and his woman Julia are captured. Quote: "Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."

1984 Amritsar, India

Indian Army troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine, killing an estimated 1,000 people; the Golden Temple itself, which enshrines the Holy Book of the Sikhs, the Granth Sahib, is partially damaged by the military intervention against Sikh rebels; in November of that year, two Sikh policemen, posted at President Indira Gandhi's residence in New Delhi, will kill her, provoking a ferocious Hindu backlash.

1978 California

Voters led by Senator Howard Jarvis approve Proposition 13, a primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts of about 57% in California property taxes; birth of a US taxpayer's revolt against high taxes and excessive government spending.

Other Events

1002 06 06 German king Henry II the Saint crowned
1242 06 06 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
1391 06 06 Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews
1513 06 06 Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois
1520 06 06 France & England sign treaty of Scotland
1523 06 06 Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day)
1536 06 06 Mexico begins it's inquisition
1639 06 06 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1654 06 06 Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to Catholicism
1660 06 06 Denmark & Sweden signs peace treaty
1664 06 06 New Amsterdam renamed NYC
1665 06 06 Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
1673 06 06 France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty
1716 06 06 First slaves arrive in Louisiana
1744 06 06 France & Prussia sign peace treaty
1752 06 06 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
1772 06 06 Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago
1795 06 06 Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
1797 06 06 Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic
1801 06 06 Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal
1809 06 06 Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established
1813 06 06 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
1816 06 06 10 snowfall in New England, year without a summer (Krakatoa)
1831 06 06 2nd national black convention (Phila)
1844 06 06 Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London
1850 06 06 Levi Strauss made his first blue jeans
1861 06 06 Lincoln's cabinet declares Union govt will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers
1862 06 06 Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered
1862 06 06 Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 06 06 Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA
1863 06 06 Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD
1864 06 06 Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou)
1872 06 06 Susan B Anthony is fined for trying to vote
1875 06 06 Netherlands goes on the gold standard
1882 06 06 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
1882 06 06 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
1885 06 06 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43
1885 06 06 Opera Lakmé is produced (Paris)
1889 06 06 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1890 06 06 United States Polo Association forms, NYC
1896 06 06 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51
1896 06 06 George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across Atlantic
1904 06 06 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ
1905 06 06 French Foreign minister Delcassé resigns on German request
1911 06 06 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1913 06 06 Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1914 06 06 First air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1916 06 06 Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage
1918 06 06 Battle of Belleau Wood, first US victory of WW I
1919 06 06 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
1919 06 06 Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1920 06 06 Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
1921 06 06 Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the first no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0
1924 06 06 28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1925 06 06 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old)
1926 06 06 Egyptian govt of Adly Pasha forms
1931 06 06 There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time by Guy Lombardo hits #1
1931 06 06 Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians
1932 06 06 Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile
1932 06 06 Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg
1932 06 06 US Federal gas tax enacted
1933 06 06 First drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)
1933 06 06 US Employment Service created
1934 06 06 Securities & Exchange Commission established
1934 06 06 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
1936 06 06 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1936 06 06 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30
1936 06 06 Aviation gasoline first produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1937 06 06 Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
1938 06 06 Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1939 06 06 NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
1939 06 06 NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead
1941 06 06 First navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1941 06 06 Giants use plastic batting helmets for first time
1942 06 06 First nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1942 06 06 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2
1942 06 06 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 06 06 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1944 06 06 Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
1944 06 06 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1944 06 06 Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
1944 06 06 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1944 06 06 U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
1945 06 06 Free People premieres in Amsterdam
1946 06 06 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule first season
1946 06 06 Henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV
1946 06 06 Martin Kresses begins publishing Eric the Viking comic strip
1947 06 06 Treaty drawn for establishment of Intl Patent Institute
1949 06 06 It Pays To Be Ignorant, game Show, debut on CBS-TV
1949 06 06 WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) first broadcast
1950 06 06 German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
1954 06 06 Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1955 06 06 Bill Haley & Comets, Rock Around the Clock hits #1
1958 06 06 Ozzie Virgil is first black to play as a Tiger
1958 06 06 Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1960 06 06 Roy Orbison releases Only the Lonely
1960 06 06 South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill
1960 06 06 Steve Allen Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1962 06 06 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for first time, they record Besame Mucho with Peter Best on drums
1963 06 06 Gasunie established
1964 06 06 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6
1964 06 06 Beatles arrive in netherlands
1965 06 06 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational
1965 06 06 Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating White Sox 12-0
1966 06 06 Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
1966 06 06 Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
1966 06 06 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with angry alligator
1966 06 06 NFL & AFL announce their merger
1966 06 06 Stokely Carmichael launches Black Power movement
1967 06 06 Israeli troops occupy Gaza
1968 06 06 WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 06 06 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
1970 06 06 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
1971 06 06 Ed Sullivan Show last broadcasts on CBS-TV
1971 06 06 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
1971 06 06 John Lennon & Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in NYC
1971 06 06 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1971 06 06 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1971 06 06 WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, GA (CBN) begins broadcasting
1971 06 06 Willie Mays hits record 22nd & last extra inning HR
1972 06 06 David Bowie releases Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust
1972 06 06 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia)
1972 06 06 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1972 06 06 US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
1974 06 06 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1975 06 06 British voters decide to remain in Common Market
1975 06 06 Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning
1975 06 06 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1976 06 06 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1976 06 06 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1977 06 06 Washington Post reports US has developed neutron bomb
1977 06 06 Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert for United Way
1977 06 06 Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
1977 06 06 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
1978 06 06 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1979 06 06 200th running of horse's Derby in England
1979 06 06 Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil
1979 06 06 Royal Air force receives first F-16
1979 06 06 Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors
1980 06 06 Bj�rn B�rg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title
1981 06 06 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
1981 06 06 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64)
1981 06 06 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
1982 06 06 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
1982 06 06 36th Tony Awards: Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby & Nine win
1982 06 06 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64)
1982 06 06 Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY
1982 06 06 Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic
1983 06 06 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins & Roy Acuff
1983 06 06 Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
1983 06 06 Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time
1983 06 06 Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR
1983 06 06 Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats
1983 06 06 Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1
1984 06 06 1,200 die in Sikh Golden Temple uprising India
1985 06 06 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
1985 06 06 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
1985 06 06 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
1985 06 06 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts status of Aruba
1985 06 06 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1986 06 06 J�rgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m)
1986 06 06 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself
1987 06 06 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2
1987 06 06 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86)
1987 06 06 NY Yankees play their 13,000th game
1988 06 06 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis & Statler Brothers
1988 06 06 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
1988 06 06 George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II
1988 06 06 Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
1989 06 06 Mets turn their first triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1990 06 06 2nd International Rock Awards
1990 06 06 For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game
1990 06 06 Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager
1991 06 06 Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
1991 06 06 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store
1991 06 06 NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992
1991 06 06 Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley
1992 06 06 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26
1992 06 06 62nd French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8)
1992 06 06 Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car
1992 06 06 David Bowie & model Iman marry in Switzerland
1992 06 06 NY Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter
1992 06 06 WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17 (Montreal)
1993 06 06 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America & Kiss of the Spider Woman win
1993 06 06 63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63)
1993 06 06 6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1993 06 06 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1993 06 06 Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia
1993 06 06 Ramiro de Léon Carpio elected pres of Guatemala
1994 06 06 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Ray Stevens
1994 06 06 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia (about 1000 killed)
1994 06 06 Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham
1994 06 06 CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
1994 06 06 Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day
1994 06 06 Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
1994 06 06 Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham
1995 06 06 First Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1998 06 06 130th Belmont
1998 06 06 68th French Womens Tennis:
2012 06 06 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs

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