1900<\/strong> – Boxer rebels cut the rail links between Peking and Tientsin in China.<\/p>\n 1903<\/strong> – Professor Pierre Curie revealed the discovery of Polonium.<\/p>\n 1909<\/strong> – Mary Pickford made her motion picture debut in “The Violin Maker of Cremona.”<\/p>\n 1929<\/strong> – The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – Over 7,000 war veterans marched on Washington,\u00a0DC, demanding their bonuses.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – Pierre Laval received emergency powers to save the franc.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – The cover of “LIFE” magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the times, which included saddle shoes.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0It was the first visit to the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0by a reigning British monarch.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – Japan landed troops on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians. The U.S. invaded and recaptured the Aleutians one year later.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the\u00a0Susan B. Anthony<\/i>\u00a0sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – “The $64,000 Question” premiered.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – In the U.S., the\u00a0Gemini 4<\/i>\u00a0mission was completed. The mission featured the first spacewalk by an American.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – In Operation Swift Saber,\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines swept an area 10 miles northwest of Danang in South Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – Legoland Billund opened in Billund, Denmark. It was the original Legoland park.<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong> – “The NBC Nightly News”, with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, aired for the first time.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed Iraq\u2019s only nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The U.S. ordered Nicaragua to close all six of its consulates and informed 21 Nicaraguan consular officials that they could no longer remain in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia declared the RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST) salvor-in-possession of the wreck and the wreck site of the RMS\u00a0Titanic<\/i>.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A bus\u00a0catches fire\u00a0in the Chinese city of\u00a0Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A gunman\u00a0opens fire\u00a0at\u00a0Santa Monica College\u00a0in\u00a0Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 At least 37 people are killed in an\u00a0attack\u00a0in the\u00a0Democratic Republic of the Congo’s\u00a0South Kivu\u00a0province.<\/p>\n History of 7 June 1900 – Boxer rebels cut the rail links between Peking and Tientsin in China. 1903 – Professor Pierre Curie revealed the discovery of Polonium. 1909 – Mary Pickford made her motion picture debut in “The Violin Maker of Cremona.” 1929 – The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[686,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-6538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-7-june","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-1Hs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6542,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions\/6542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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