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Events on June 7

• 1002 Four and a half months after the death of Otto III, the Bavarian duke Henry IV is crowned as his successor as King of the East Frankish kingdom; he later enters the annals as Emperor Henry II.
• 1494 In the Treaty of Tordesillas, the two maritime powers Portugal and Spain divide the New World into spheres of interest.
• 1742 In a letter to Leonhard Euler, the mathematician Christian Goldbach expresses the conjecture later named after him, which remains unproven to this day, that every even number greater than 2 can be represented as the sum of two prime numbers.
• 1905 In Dresden, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff found Die Brücke, an expressionist artists' group.
• 1934 Germany finishes third in its first-ever FIFA World Cup participation. The match for 3rd place is decided 3:2 against the neighboring country of Austria.
• 1951 The West German Coal and Steel Co-Determination Act, a milestone in the history of co-determination, enters into force.
• 1958 The first SOS Children's Village in Germany is built in Dießen.
• 1968 The first Legoland is opened in Billund, Denmark.
• 1973 Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel as the first head of government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 2002 Cargolifter AG, which sought to design a transport airship and thereby usher in the renaissance of large-scale airship travel, files for insolvency.
• 2006 The Central Council of Jews in Germany elects Charlotte Knobloch as its first female president.
• 2008 The UEFA European Championship 2008 in Austria and Switzerland begins.

Born on June 7

• 1862 Philipp Lenard, German physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1891 Willy Haas, German publicist, film critic and screenwriter
• 1910 Monika Mann, German writer
• 1940 Tom Jones, Welsh singer
• 1941 Herbert Herrmann, German-Swiss actor
• 1952 Liam Neeson, British actor
• 1952 Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer and Nobel laureate
• 1970 Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
• 1981 Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
• 1991 Cenk Tosun, German-Turkish footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „7. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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