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Events
June 6, 2024: The launch of SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4)
June 6, 2023: Russo-Ukrainian War: The Kakhovka Dam is destroyed.
June 6, 2017: Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
June 6, 2002: Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
June 6, 1994: China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board.
June 6, 1993: Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia.
June 6, 1992: Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard.
June 6, 1985: The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
June 6, 1982: 1982 Lebanon War: The war begins as forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
June 6, 1976: Chief Minister of Sabah Faud Stephens, Peter Joinud Mojuntin, and several other politicians are killed in a plane crash near Kota Kinabalu International Airport in Malaysia.
June 6, 2023: Russo-Ukrainian War: The Kakhovka Dam is destroyed.
June 6, 2017: Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
June 6, 2002: Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
June 6, 1994: China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board.
June 6, 1993: Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia.
June 6, 1992: Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard.
June 6, 1985: The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
June 6, 1982: 1982 Lebanon War: The war begins as forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
June 6, 1976: Chief Minister of Sabah Faud Stephens, Peter Joinud Mojuntin, and several other politicians are killed in a plane crash near Kota Kinabalu International Airport in Malaysia.
Birthdays
June 6, 2001: Rayan Aït-Nouri, French-Algerian footballer
June 6, 2000: Haechan, South Korean singer
June 6, 1998: Kenny Pickett, American football player
June 6, 1996: Jack Hetherington, Australian rugby league player
June 6, 1995: Julian Green, American soccer player
June 6, 1994: Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer
June 6, 1993: Vic Mensa, American rapper and singer
June 6, 1992: DeAndre Hopkins, American football player
June 6, 1990: Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago
June 6, 1990: Anthony Rendon, American baseball player
June 6, 2000: Haechan, South Korean singer
June 6, 1998: Kenny Pickett, American football player
June 6, 1996: Jack Hetherington, Australian rugby league player
June 6, 1995: Julian Green, American soccer player
June 6, 1994: Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer
June 6, 1993: Vic Mensa, American rapper and singer
June 6, 1992: DeAndre Hopkins, American football player
June 6, 1990: Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago
June 6, 1990: Anthony Rendon, American baseball player
Deaths
June 6, 2016: Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (born 1931)
June 6, 2016: Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (born 1926)
June 6, 2015: Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author; prosecuting attorney in the Tate-LaBianca murders case (born 1934)
June 6, 2015: Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand Words which inspired the Prague Spring (born 1926)
June 6, 2014: Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of autism (born 1928)
June 6, 2013: Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (born 1918)
June 6, 2013: Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (born 1921)
June 6, 2012: Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line. (born 1960)
June 6, 2009: Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (born 1916)
June 6, 2006: Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1946)
June 6, 2016: Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (born 1926)
June 6, 2015: Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author; prosecuting attorney in the Tate-LaBianca murders case (born 1934)
June 6, 2015: Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand Words which inspired the Prague Spring (born 1926)
June 6, 2014: Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of autism (born 1928)
June 6, 2013: Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (born 1918)
June 6, 2013: Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (born 1921)
June 6, 2012: Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line. (born 1960)
June 6, 2009: Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (born 1916)
June 6, 2006: Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1946)
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