What happend on 7th June

06.06
08.06
2004

The Sikh leader Prem Singh Chandumajra launches the political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Longowal).

1993

Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".

1989

A Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.

1982

Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

1981

The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.

1977

500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II.

1965

The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectivly legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

1948

Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.

1945

King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.

1944

Nazi Panzer SS troops execute 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.