Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 6
This is a list of selected June 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Gustav Vasa
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1508 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, was defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces. | Need to verify date |
| 1523 – Gustav Vasa became King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union. | needs more footnotes |
| 1654 – Charles X Gustav succeeded his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. | needs more footnotes |
| 1683 – Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened. | Need to verify date, refimprove section |
| 1844 – The YMCA, today a worldwide movement of more than 45 million members from 124 national federations, was founded in London. | {{prose}} |
| 2005 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in Gonzales v. Raich, allowing the U.S. Congress to ban medical marijuana even in states that approve its use. | POV, unreferenced |
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- 1813 – War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.
- 1894 – Colorado Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered his state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
- 1918 – World War I: During the Battle of Belleau Wood, when ordered to retreat, United States Marine Corps Captain Lloyd W. Williams retorted, "Hell, we just got here."
- 1939 – Nearly nine years after his disappearance, Judge Joseph Force Crater, the "Missingest Man in New York", was declared to be dead in absentia.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: The Australian Army attacked a heavily fortified Vietnamese communist forces base camp in [[Long Khánh Province].
- 1982 – A war in Lebanon began when Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to root out members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1982 – Falklands War: the British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly fire incident.
- 1985 – The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for human experiments done on Auschwitz inmates, were discovered in Embu das Artes, Brazil.
June 6: National Day of Sweden; Queen's Official Birthday (New Zealand, 2011); Foundation Day (Western Australia, 2011); Queensland Day in the Australian state of Queensland; Duanwu/Dragon Boat Festival (2011)
- 1882 – The Shewa kingdom made big strides towards gaining supremacy over the Ethiopian Empire by defeating the Gojjam and gaining control of territories south of the Gibe River.
- 1892 – The 'L' train of Chicago, the second longest rapid transit system in total track mileage in the United States, began operations.
- 1944 – World War II: The Invasion of Normandy, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France (pictured).
- 1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, was released.
- 2004 – During a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament, President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam announced that Tamil was to be made the first legally recognised classical language of India.