Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 7
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June 7: Queen's Official Birthday (New Zealand, 2010); Foundation Day (Western Australia, 2010); Union Dissolution Day in Norway; Sette Giugno in Malta
- 1494 – Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the newly discovered lands of the Americas and Africa between the two countries.
- 1692 – A 7.5 Mw earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica, killing about 2,000 people.
- 1776 – Virginia statesman Richard Henry Lee (pictured) presented a resolution to the Second Continental Congress, which called for the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1880 – War of the Pacific: Chilean forces captured Morro de Arica from Peru.
- 1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor, assuming it was producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program.
- 1982 – Graceland, Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, opened to the public.