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1893: Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience. In an event that would have dramatic repercussions for the people of India, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refuses to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg.
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1913: First successful ascent of Denali. On June 7, 1913, Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, leads the first successful ascent of Denali (formerly known as Mt. McKinley), the highest point on the North American continent at 20,320 feet. Stuck, an accomplished amateur mountaineer, was born in London in 1863. After moving to the United States, in 1905 he became archdeacon of the Episcopal Church in Yukon, Alaska. Stuck traveled Alaska’s difficult terrain to preach to villagers and establish schools.
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1917: Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, whose work depicted the everyday life of urban African Americans and who was the first African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1949), was born.
1929: Vatican City becomes an independent state
The Lateran Treaty, which was signed on February 11 of the same year, was ratified by Italy’s fascist government on this day. It guarantees the political and territorial sovereignty of Vatican City.
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1939: King George VI becomes the first British monarch to visit the U.S. King George VI becomes the first reigning British monarch to visit the United States when he and his wife, Elizabeth, cross the Canadian-U.S. border to Niagara Falls, New York. The royal couple subsequently visited New York City and Washington, D.C., where they called for a greater U.S. role in resolving the crisis in Europe. On June 12, they returned to Canada, where they embarked on their voyage home.
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1965: U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Connecticut law banning contraception.
1968: The world’s first Legoland resort opens.
The Legoland in Billund, Denmark was the first of six theme parks based around the Lego interlocking plastic bricks. Billund is the home of The Lego Group.
1975: The first Cricket World Cup begins
England hosted the first edition of the event, which today has become one of the world’s most important sporting events. The West Indies entered the history books as the first Cricket World Champions.
1981: One of South African writer and anti-apartheid activist Nadine Gordimer’s most celebrated novels, July’s People, is published to positive international reviews. The novel envisions a white family taking refuge in their former servant’s rural homestead during a violent civil war against apartheid.
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1981: Israel destroys Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactors
The attack, triggered by fears of a potential Iraqi atom bomb, prompted international criticism and is considered a political disaster as it caused the quarreling Arab states to unite against their common enemy, Israel
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2006: Abū Muṣʿab al-Zarqāwī
Jordanian-born Iraqi militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi—the self-styled leader in Iraq of the Islamic militant group al-Qaeda, thought by many to have been the mastermind behind numerous terrorist acts—was killed in a U.S. military air strike.
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2015: Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ was an English actor, singer, and military officer died at the age of 93. In a career spanning more than sixty years, Lee became known as an actor with a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed villains in horror and franchise films.
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BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: June 07
Tom Jones 84 years
Sir Thomas Jones Woodward OBE is a Welsh singer was born on June 7, 1940. His career began with a string of top 10 hits in the 1960s and he has since toured regularly, with appearances in Las Vegas from 1967 to 2011. His voice has been described by AllMusic as a “full-throated, robust baritone”.
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Johnny Clegg (7 June 1953 – 16 July 2019)
South African musician and musicologist of indigenous South African music, in Bacup, UK. His Zulu dance foot-stomping performances and multi-racial band Juluka were a rebuke to apartheid’s separation of the race. An anti-apartheid campaigner, he earned international fame with his 1982 album Scatterlings of Africa. He died at the age of 66.
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Muammar Gaddafi (7 June 1942 – 20 October 2011)
President of Libya (1969-2011), in Qasr Abu Hadi, Libya. An Arab nationalist who pursued the goal of a united Arab republic in the years following his coming to power in a coup d’état, “Brother Leader” evolved into a Pan-Africanist before he died in the Libyan revolution against his domestic dictatorship.
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Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips, who will become renowned as “The Father of Nigerian Church Music,” is made organist and Master of the Music at the Cathedral Church of Christ in Lagos. He has just returned from London where he received a baccalaureate degree at Trinity College. He will compose two solo works based on local folk songs, and his 1953 book Yoruba Music will be the first study of African music written by a university-traded African musicologist. (pic: playing Cathedral organ in 1932)
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Prince (7 June 1958 – 21 April 2016)
Prince Rogers Nelson was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and actor. The recipient of numerous awards and nominations, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation. He died at the age of 57.
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