On this day ......

[unloadonme]

31 May 1279 BC – Ramesses II (The Great) becomes pharaoh of Egypt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II

 

[MassRuss]

May 31, 1857 - Birth of Pius XI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XI

 

[unloadonme]

1 June 1563 – Birth of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cecil,_1st_Earl_of_Salisbury

 

[MassRuss]

June 1, 1946 - Ion Antonescue, Fascist dictator of Romania, is executed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu

 

[unloadonme]

1 June 1879 – Death of Napoléon, Prince Imperial French son of Napoleon III

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoléon,_Prince_Imperial

 

[MassRuss]

June 2, 1740 - Birth of the Marquis de Sade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade

 

[unloadonme]

2 June 1962 – Death of Vita Sackville-West

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West

 

[unloadonme]

3 June 1963 – Death of Pope John XXIII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XXIII

 

[unloadonme]

4 June 1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies a few days later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davison

 

[MassRuss]

June 4, 1989 - Tiananmen Square Massacre - 241 killed as Army puts down pro democracy protests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

 

[unloadonme]

5 June 1771 – Birth of King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Augustus_I_of_Hanover

 

[MassRuss]

June 5, 1900 - 2nd Boer War - British Troops take Pretoria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

 

[MassRuss]

June 6, 1944 - D Day (Operation Overlord) Allied troops invade Nazi occupied France through Normandy. The largest amphibious landing in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_day

 

[unloadonme]

7 June 1840 – Death of King Frederick William III of Prussia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_III_of_Prussia

 

[MassRuss]

June 7, 1837 - Birth of Alois Schicklgruber, later Hitler, Adolf's father

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler

 

[unloadonme]

8 June 1376 – Death of Edward, the Black Prince

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward,_the_Black_Prince

 

[BillyT]

The USS Liberty was attacked by Israel in the six day war. June 8, 1967



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

 

[MassRuss]

June 8, 1847 - Birth of Ida Saxton McKinley - 25th First Lady of the US

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Saxton_McKinley

 

[unloadonme]

9 June 68 – The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero

 

[MassRuss]

June 9.1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte - American politician, lawyer, Secretary of the Navy & Attorney General under Teddy Roosevelt. Grand nephew of Napoleon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonaparte_(Attorney_General)