📜 This Day in History

June 6

• 1513War of the League of Cambrai: Milanese forces with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara, forcing them to withdraw from the Duchy of Milan and Italy.
• 1813War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
• 1894Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.
• 1971Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a US Marine Corps jet near Duarte, California, killing 50 people.
• 1982Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire incident.
• 2021A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing four members of the same family.

Born on this day

• 1599Diego Velázquez (date of baptism), Spanish painter and educator (died 1660)
• 1799Alexander Pushkin, Russian author and poet (died 1837)
• 1875Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
• 1901Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (died 1970)