Events on June 7 48
Year 421
Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding was celebrated at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
Year 879
Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under duke Branimir as an independent state.
Year 1420
Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
Year 1494
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
Year 1628
The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
Year 1692
Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
Year 1776
Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
Year 1788
French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
Year 1832
Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
Year 1862
The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons-Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
Year 1863
During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
Year 1866
One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Quebec.
Year 1880
War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
Year 1892
Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
Year 1899
American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
Year 1905
Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
Year 1906
Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
Year 1917
World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
Year 1919
Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
Year 1938
Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
Year 1940
King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later
Year 1942
World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
Year 1944
World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
Year 1944
World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
Year 1946
BBC One, the main channel of the United Kingdom's BBC returns to airing after being off air for 7 years due to the Second World War.
Year 1948
Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
Year 1955
Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
Year 1962
the Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
Year 1965
The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
Year 1971
The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Year 1971
The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
Year 1977
Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
Year 1981
The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
Year 1982
Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
Year 1989
Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
Year 2000
The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
Year 2013
A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.
Year 2013
A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.
Year 2014
At least 37 people are killed in an attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province.