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Syrian soldiers in Raqqa
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Queensland Day in the Australian state of Queensland | refimprove section |
| 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. | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 1844 – The YMCA, today a worldwide movement of more than 45 million members from 124 national federations, was founded in London. | unreferenced section |
| 1859 – Queen Victoria signed letters patent separating the colony of Queensland from New South Wales. | refimprove section |
| 1982 – Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to root out members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, sparking a three-year-long war. | unreferenced section |
| 2005 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in Gonzales v. Raich, allowing Congress to ban medical marijuana even in states that approve its use. | multiple issues |
| * 2004 – During a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament, President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam announced that Tamil was to be made the first legally recognised classical language of India. | Uncited section |
| * 1984 – Alexey Pajitnov of the Soviet Academy of Sciences completed the first playable version of Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time. | Date not in article |
| * 1892 – The Chicago "L", the third-busiest rapid transit system in the United States, began operation. | Tagged for excessive images |
| Robert Stirling |d|1878 | lede too short |
| Diego Velázquez|baptized|1599| | multiple {cn} tags |
Eligible
- 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: Milanese forces with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara, forcing them to withdraw from the Duchy of Milan and Italy.
- 1822 – Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian voyageur, was accidentally shot in the stomach; medical investigations of his injury led to a greater understanding of the processes of digestion.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the First Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.
- 1882 – The Shewan army defeated Gojjame forces at the Battle of Embabo, an event that contributed to the supremacy of Shewa within the Ethiopian Empire.
- 1894 – Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.
- 1971 – Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a US Marine Corps jet near Duarte, California, killing 50 people.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh.
- 1982 – Falklands War: The 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 performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.
- 2017 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (soldiers pictured) opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of the Raqqa campaign, capturing the de facto capital of the Islamic State four months later.
- 2021 – A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing 4 members of the same family and injuring the family's nine year old son.
- Born/died this day: | Robert Passelewe |d|1252|Regiomontanus |b|1436| Jeremy Bentham |d|1832| Marcellin Champagnat |d|1840| Henry Allingham |b|1896| Frank Chee Willeto |b|1925| Lillian Russell |d|1922| Jean Pouliot |b|1923| Carl Jung |d|1961| Natalie Morales |b|1972| J. Paul Getty |d|1976| Angie Ballard |b|1982| Maria Alyokhina |b|1988
June 6: National Day of Sweden
- 1674 – Shivaji (pictured), who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Bijapur Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.
- 1749 – A plot by Muslim slaves in Malta to assassinate Manuel Pinto da Fonseca of the Knights Hospitaller was uncovered.
- 1813 – War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
- 1912 – The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century began, forming the volcano Novarupta in the Alaska Peninsula.
- 1944 – World War II: Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.
- Norbert of Xanten (d. 1134)
- Patrick Henry (d. 1799)
- John A. Macdonald (d. 1891)
- David Scott (b. 1932)