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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_7" title="June 7">June 7</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/421" title="421">421</a> – Roman emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_II" title="Theodosius II">Theodosius II</a> married <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelia_Eudocia" title="Aelia Eudocia">Aelia Eudocia</a></b>, who later helped to protect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_religion" title="Ancient Greek religion">Greek pagans</a> and Jews from persecution.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1832" title="1832">1832</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Act_1832" title="Reform Act 1832">Reform Act</a></b>, which is widely credited with launching modern democracy in the United Kingdom, received <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">royal assent</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892" title="1892">1892</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Plessy" title="Homer Plessy">Homer Plessy</a></b>, a mixed-race man from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson" title="Plessy v. Ferguson">Plessy v. Ferguson</a></i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981" title="1981">1981</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force" title="Israeli Air Force">Israeli Air Force</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera" title="Operation Opera">attacked a nuclear reactor</a></b> under the assumption that it was about to start producing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium" title="Plutonium">plutonium</a> to further an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Iraq and weapons of mass destruction">Iraqi nuclear-weapons program</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998" title="1998">1998</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">White supremacists</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr." title="Murder of James Byrd Jr.">murdered James Byrd Jr.</a></b>, an African American, by chaining him behind a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_truck" title="Pickup truck">pickup truck</a> and dragging him along an asphalt road in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper,_Texas" title="Jasper, Texas">Jasper, Texas</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr" title="Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr">Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1618); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle" title="Chief Seattle">Chief Seattle</a></b>   (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1866); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_Rasmussen" title="Knud Rasmussen">Knud Rasmussen</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1879); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Gray" title="Alice Gray">Alice Gray</a></b>   (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1914)</p>