June 6
People born on this day are Gemini.
- 1971
Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June.
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British referendum results in continued membership of the European Economic Community, with 67% of votes in favour.
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Chief Minister of Sabah Faud Stephens, Peter Joinud Mojuntin, and several other politicians are killed in a plane crash near Kota Kinabalu International Airport in Malaysia.
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1982 Lebanon War: The war begins as forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
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The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
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Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard.
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Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia.
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China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board.
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Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
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Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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Russo-Ukrainian war: The Kakhovka Dam is destroyed.
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The launch of SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4)
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2001Rayan Aït-Nouri, French-Algerian footballer
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2000Haechan, South Korean singer
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1998Kenny Pickett, American football player
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1996Jack Hetherington, Australian rugby league player
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1995Julian Green, American soccer player
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1994Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer
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1993Vic Mensa, American rapper and singer
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1992DeAndre Hopkins, American football player
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1990Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago
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1990Anthony Rendon, American baseball player
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1990Pape Souaré, Senegalese footballer
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1988Anthony Pilkington, Irish footballer
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