It happened on this day, June 6
events:
1664 – The name of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, on the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean, is changed to New York.
1809 – Sweden's modern constitution is enacted, making it a constitutional monarchy. This constitution comes after Sweden's defeat in the war against the Russian Empire, which ended with the cession of Finland to Russia.
1913 – The first issue of the magazine “Rosy Cord” was published in Istanbul.
1919 – The Finns decide to end more than two centuries of Russian sovereignty over their country by gaining complete independence after the partial independence achieved at the beginning of the 20th century.
1925 – Creation of the automobile giant Chrysler Corporation.
1933 – King Fouad inaugurates the Khedive Ismail Bridge – later the Nile Palace. New Jersey's first drive-in theater opens.
1944 – Allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy, France, during World War II.
1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem and the Israeli Defense Minister announces that they have taken Jerusalem and are en route to Babylon, on the second day of the Six-Day War.
1976 – Start of the Soweto unrest in the Republic of South Africa.
1982 – The Israeli army, led by Ariel Sharon, enters Lebanon and penetrates its territory until reaching the capital, Beirut.
1984 – The Indian army storms the Golden Temple in the town of Armitsar, the holiest site of the Sikhs, to purge it of rebels who fled there in an operation known as the name Blue Star, which led the Sikhs to retaliate four months later with murder. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
2004 – An Israeli court sentenced Marwan Barghouti to five life terms plus 40 years.
✴️ A BBC cameraman was killed in Riyadh by gunmen speeding in a car while filming the house of an al-Qaeda member.
2011 – Syrian authorities announce a massacre in the town of Jisr al-Shughur, killing 120 members of the security forces at the hands of armed opponents. Opposition sources denied the existence of a massacre, but eyewitness accounts confirmed the occurrence of clashes between armed opposition members and members of the military intelligence services, as well as the assassination and the execution of a large number of them.
2015 – Spanish club Barcelona wins the Champions League of the year
2015 after beating Italian Juventus 3-1 in the final in Berlin.
✴️ Egypt's Urgent Matters Court overturns an earlier ruling deeming Hamas a terrorist organization, and the movement considers this a correction of an earlier error.
2018 – 18 people were killed and more than 90 people were injured in the explosion of a pile of equipment stored in a Husseiniya in Sadr City in Baghdad.
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Births:
1599 – Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter.
1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet.
1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1909.
1857 – Alexander Lyapunov, Russian mathematician.
1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, British explorer.
1875 – Thomas Mann, German writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
1901 – Ahmad Sukarno, President of Indonesia.
1903 – Aram Khachaturian, American musician of Armenian origin.
1911 – Amin Talieh, Lebanese lawyer, university professor, judge and writer.
1929 – Aziza Helmy, Egyptian actress.
** Sunil Dutt, Indian actor.
1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.
1934 – King Albert II, king of Belgium.
1938 – Ahlam Wehbe, Iraqi singer and actress.
1943 – Amal Ramzy, Egyptian actress.
** Richard Smalley, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996.
**In my opinion, Al-Wahidi, a Palestinian doctor, was Minister of Health in Ahmed Qurei's third government.
1944 – Hani Al-Saadi, Palestinian writer and actor.
1951 – Naima Elias, Moroccan actress.
1952 – Yusuke Honma, Japanese composer.
1958 – Marwan Barghouti, Palestinian politician.
1962 – Mustafa Al-Agha, Palestinian journalist.
1965 – Megumi Ogata, Japanese actress.
1966 – Anthony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer.
1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor.
1969 – Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer.
1973 – Ahmed Al-Shugairi, Saudi Islamic preacher.
1979 – Osama Halal, Syrian actor.
1986 – Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress.
1987 – Mubarak Al-Balushi, Kuwaiti footballer.
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Death:
1451 – Ibn Tay al-Faqaani, Jaafari jurist and Levantine writer.
1829 – Henry Dearborn, physician and major general of the United States Army and fifth Secretary of War (currently Secretary of Defense) of the United States of America.
1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet.
1861 – Camillo Benso, Italian Prime Minister.
1891 – John Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada.
1941 – Louis Chevrolet, engineer and founder of Chevrolet.
1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912.
1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.
1968 – Robert Kennedy, US senator.
1971 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz singer and musician.
1983 – Mahmoud El-Meligy, Egyptian actor.
1996 – George Snell, American geneticist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1980.
2012 – Manuel Preciado, Spanish footballer and manager.
2015 – Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer and songwriter.
** Firas Al-Sayed, a Syrian bodybuilder.
2016 – Kimbo Slice, American boxer and actor.
** Mutaa Safadi, Syrian thinker.
2020 – Ramadan Shallah, Palestinian politician.
2021 – Muhammad Firdous Atassi, Syrian director.
** Jihad Khazer Al-Majali, Jordanian military judge.
**Mansour Ojja, Franco-Saudi businessman.
**Camila Amado, Brazilian actress.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ National holiday in Sweden.
⬅️ International Russian Language Day.
⬅️ Memorial Day in South Korea.
