Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 6
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This is a list of selected June 6 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.June 6: National holiday of Sweden observed
- 1523 – Gustav Vasa became King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.
- 1683 – Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened.
- 1933 – The first ever drive-in theater opened in Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States.
- 1944 – World War II: The Invasion of Normandy, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France (pictured).
- 1982 – A war in Lebanon began when Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to root out members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 2005 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in Gonzales v. Raich, allowing the U.S. Congress to ban medical marijuana even in states that approve its use.
