Daily Calendar for Sunday, June 7, 2026

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Beau Brummel (fashion leader) – 1778
Sir James Young Simpson (one of the founders of modern gynecology) – 1811
Jessica Tandy (actress) – 1909
Gwendolyn Brooks (poet and first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize) – 1917
Dean Martin (singer & actor) – 1917
Rocky Graziano (boxer) – 1922
Tom Jones (singer) – 1940
Liam Neeson (actor) – 1952
Prince (musician) – 1958
Anna Kournikova (tennis player) – 1981
Jordan Fry (actor) – 1993

Louis XIV crowned King of France – 1654
In the Continental Congress, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence – 1776
William Bruce Mumford became the first U.S. citizen hung for treason – 1862
Two men left NYC for a 55-day row across the Atlantic Ocean – 1896
Hudson Stuck’s expedition reached summit of Mt. McKinley, Alaska – 1913
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain became the first reigning British monarchs to visit the U.S. – 1939
The $64,000 Question made its television debut – 1955
The first solar power plant in the U.S. is dedicated at Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah. – 1980
Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the public – 1982
Patent for chain saw cleaning brush granted to an 11-year-old – 1988
Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. – 2010

The Year without summer hit Danville, Vermont, with drifts of snow and sleet up to 20” – 1816
42-tornado outbreak began in Upper Midwest – 1984