June 7

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June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining.

Events

1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries
1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France
1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. See United States Declaration of Independence
1776 - American invaders skirmish with British at [[Trois Rivi�res, Quebec]].
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops
1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around St-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1905 - Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved
1914 - The first vessel passes through the locks of the Panama Canal
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France
1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave [[Troms�]] and go into exile in London.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends
1942 - Japanese troops land on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands
1944 - Nazi Panzer SS troops execute 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.
1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
1948 - Edvard Benes resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state
1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor
1989 - A Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname killing 168
1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
1997 - A computer user known as "_eci" published his Microsoft C source code on a Windows 95 and Windows NT exploit, which would later become WinNuke. The source code gets wide distribution across the internet, and Microsoft is forced to release a security patch.