June 6

June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining.

Births:

• 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott
• 1875 - Thomas Mann (German novelist)
• 1939 - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer

Deaths:

• 1831 - Jeremy Bentham
• 1961 - Carl Gustav Jung

Events:

• 1944 - The D-Day landings in Normandy
• 1976 - The Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end of apartheid

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