June 7: Journalist Day in Argentina
Mosaic of Aelia Eudocia
- 421 – Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia (pictured), who later helped protected Greek pagans and Jews from persecution.
- 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document that set out specific liberties of the subject, was granted royal assent by Charles I.
- 1917 – First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under the German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history.
- 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government destroyed dikes holding the Yellow River in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces, causing a flood that killed at least 400,000 people.
- 1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor, assuming it was producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program.
Roderigo Lopez (d. 1594) · Paul Gauguin (b. 1848) · Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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