June 7 in history — What Happened Today in History

The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.

Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.

Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.

Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.

The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II.

King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.

World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.

World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.

World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.

King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.

The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.

The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.

Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.

World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.

Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.

Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.

American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.

Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.

War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).

One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.

The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.

The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.

Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.

David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.

French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.

Anna Torv, Australian actress

Adrienne Frantz, American actress

Bill Hader, American actor and comedian

Eric D. Johnson, American musician

Allen Iverson, American basketball player

Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host

Karl Urban, New Zealand actor

Helen Baxendale, English actress

Cafu, Brazilian footballer

Dave Navarro, American musician and television personality

Muhsin Hendricks, South African imam, Islamic scholar and LGBT activist

Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector

Mick Foley, American wrestler

Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (born 1909)

Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (born 1940)

Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (born 1906)

Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (born 1883)

Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (born 1913)

Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891)

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)

E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879)

Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (born 1907)

Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1909)

Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (born 1893)

Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (born 1886)

Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (born 1921)