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. Date: June 6, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 6 📅 Events on…
Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard. Date: June 6, 1992 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 6 📅 Events on this day in 1992 📅 On This Day (Today)
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia. Date: June 6, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 6 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board. Date: June 6, 1994 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 6 📅 Events on this day in 1994 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: June 6, 2002 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 6…
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). Date: June 6, 2017 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 6 📅 Events on this day in 2017 📅 On…
Russo-Ukrainian War: The Kakhovka Dam is destroyed. Date: June 6, 2023 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 6 📅 Events on this day in 2023 📅 On This Day (Today)
The launch of SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4) Date: June 6, 2024 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 6 📅 Events on this day in 2024 📅 On This Day (Today)
Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria. Date: June 5, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 5 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)
Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage. Date: June 5, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 5 📅 Events on this day in 1915 📅 On This Day (Today)