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Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation |
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Sette Giugno |
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Flag Day |
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Dissolution of union with Sweden (1905) |
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National Boone Day |
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National Chocolate Ice Cream Day |
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National VCR Day |
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National Black Bear Day |
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National Bubbly Day |
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National Prairie Day |
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National Trails Day |
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Wear BLUE Day |
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Eid al Adha Public Sector Holiday |
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Eid ul Adha |
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Eid al-Adha |
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Eid al-Qurban |
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Eid-e-Ghorban (Feast of Sacrifice) |
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Eid al-Adha holiday |
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Kurban Bairam |
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Kurman Ait |
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The Yang di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday |
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Hari Raya Haji |
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Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) |
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Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) |
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Special working day |
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Sacrifice Feast |
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Feast of the Sacrifice |
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Eid al Addha |
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Pentecost Eve |
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Tabaski |
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Aid el-Kebir |
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Id el Kabir |
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Eid-al-Adha |
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Historical Events on June 7
- 1654: Louis XIV becomes the King of France on this day.
- 1692: Port Royal in Jamaica is stuck by an earthquake. Over three thousand people are seriously hurt and over sixteen hundred are killed.
- 1776: Richard Henry Lee gives the Continental Congress his Lee Resolution. This resolution would eventually lead to the U.S declaring independence from Great Britain.
- 1832: Quebec is hit with Asian cholera that kills approximately six thousand people in Lower Canada.
- 1862: The U.S and the U.K formally sign the Lyons-Seward Treaty, an act that is an agreement that the two countries will do their part to suppress the African slave trade.
- 1863: French forces capture Mexico City in Mexico on this day.
- 1899: Carrie Nation – an American temperance crusader – begins vandalizing bars, taverns, saloons and pubs that serve alcohol. She starts with a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
- 1917: A series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge is detonated by Allied troops at the Battle of Messines during World War I. Approximately ten thousand German forces are killed.
- 1929: The “Roman Question” is settled when the Lateran Treaty is officially ratified and Vatican City comes into existence.
- 1942: The Battle of Midway ends during World War II. It’s a decisive American victory.
- 1942: Japanese forces begin occupying the island of Attu and Kiska in the American Aleutian Islands located off of Alaska.
- 1944: Twenty-three Canadian POWs are murdered at Ardenne Abbey by German soldiers belonging to the SS Division Hitlerjugend during World War 2.
Famous Birthdays on June 7
- French painter and sculptor, Paul Gauguin is born in 1848.
- Slovak-German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, Philipp Lenard is born in 1862.
- English-American actress, Jessica Tandy is born in 1909.
- Welsh singer Tom Jones is born in 1940.
- Irish-American actor Liam Neeson is born in 1952.
- American politician and 48th Vice President of the U.S., Mike Pence is born in 1960.
- American singer-songwriter and actor, Prince is born in 1958.
- Canadian actor Michael Cera is born in 1988.
- Canadian NHL player Milan Lucic is born in 1988.