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07 June, 2006

British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.

07 June, 2001

Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.

07 June, 2000

Blair 'handbagged' by the WI - The UK prime minister is heckled and criticised by Women's Institute members as he gives a speech at their conference.

07 June, 1998

James Byrd, Jr is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.

07 June, 1991

Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.

07 June, 1990

Three countries lift beef export ban - France, West Germany and Italy lift a ban on British beef-on-the-bone after reaching a deal in Brussels.

07 June, 1989

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

07 June, 1982

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

07 June, 1981

Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor - Israel shocks the world by destroying the Osirak nuclear plant near the Iraqi capital for fear it would be used to make atom bombs.

07 June, 1977

Queen celebrates Silver Jubilee - More than one million people line the streets of London as the Queen marks the start of her silver jubilee. 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II.

07 June, 1975

Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.

07 June, 1968

The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.

07 June, 1967

The Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.

07 June, 1966

Former movie star, Ronald Reagan, becomes the 33rd governor of the state of California.

07 June, 1965

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

07 June, 1948

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

07 June, 1945

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

07 June, 1944

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

07 June, 1942

Japanese beaten in Battle of Midway. Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter.

07 June, 1940

King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.

07 June, 1917

World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.

07 June, 1906

Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow(Clydebank), Scotland.

07 June, 1905

Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814).

07 June, 1893

Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.

07 June, 1880

War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign) .

07 June, 1863

Mexico City is captured by French troops.

07 June, 1862

The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.

07 June, 1832

Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

07 June, 1494

Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

07 June, 1099

The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.

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