Today In History [6th June, 2015]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

Today in History
June 6

1523           Gustav Vasa becomes king of Sweden.
1641           Spain loses Portugal.
1674           Sivaji crowns himself King of India.
1813           The United States invasion of Canada is halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.
1862           The city of Memphis surrenders to the Union navy after an intense naval engagement on the Mississippi River.
1865           Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill dies from a wound received while escaping a Union patrol near Taylorsville, Kentucky.
1918           U.S. Marines enter combat at the Battle of Belleau Wood.
1924           The German Reichstag accepts the Dawes Plan, an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.
1930           Frozen foods are sold commercially for the first time.
1934           President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
1941           The U.S. government authorizes the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports.
1944           D-Day: Operation Overlord lands 400,000 Allied American, British, and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France.
1961           Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, dies.
1966           African American James Meridith is shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks.
1982           Israel invades southern Lebanon.
1985           The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele is located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Born on June 6
1606           Pierre Corneille, French author.
1755           Nathan Hale, American revolutionary.
1756           John Trumball, American painter.
1799           Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer (Boris Godunov, The Queen of Spades).
1868           Robert F. Scott, British explorer.
1872           Alexandra, the last Russian Czarina.
1875           Thomas Mann, German novelist and essayist, forced into exile by the Nazis.
1902           Jimmie Lunceford, bandleader.
1907           Bill Dickey, professional baseball player.
1925           Maxine Kumin, poet novelist and children’s author.
1934           Bill Moyers, American broadcast journalist, press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson.
1939           Marian Wright Edelman, first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund.