Results: This Week in History - June 1 to June 7
Published on 06/04/2024
The week of June 1-June 7 was a week in which Queen Elizabeth II is crowned, pro-democracy protests are crushed in Tiananmen Square, 130 perish in an Air France Boeing 707 crash, Senator Robert Kennedy is shot and killed, and the Allied invasion of the beaches at Normandy is executed.
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June 2, 1953. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
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June 2, 1997. Timothy McVeigh found guilty of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168.
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June 3, 1989. The Chinese government called in the military to put down a pro democracy demonstration carried out by more than 100,000 people in Tiananmen Square in Beijing resulting in hundreds of deaths and thousands of arrests.
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June 4, 1961. US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet at the Vienna Summit in Austria.
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June 3, 1981. Pope John Paul II is released from hospital after assassination attempt.
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June 4, 1940. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers his famous speech "We shall fight on the beaches", to the UK House of Commons.
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June 4, 1990. Dr. Jack Kevorkian assists an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die.
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June 5, 196. British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler scandal.
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June 5, 1968. US Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot three times while on the campaign trail at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. He dies the next day.
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June 1, 1927. The Peace Bridge between US and Canada opens, crossing the Niagara river from Buffalo, New York to Fort Erie, Ontario.
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June 7, 1982. Graceland, Elvis Presley's home, is opened to the public.
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June 4, 1944. General Dwight D. Eisenhower cancels planned D-Day invasion after receiving unfavourable weather reports.
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June 6, 1944. After receiving favourable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion. D-Day: Operation Overlord lands more than 156,000 Allied American, British, and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France.
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June 6, 1892. Chicago's elevated loop train line, commonly known as the "L" began operating. It became one of the longest and busiest mass transit systems in the United States.
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