📜 This Day in History

June 7

• 421Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia, who later helped to protect Greek pagans and Jews from persecution.
• 1810Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres.
• 1917First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under German lines, killing perhaps 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history during the Battle of Messines.
• 1948In Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., a New York trial court declined to issue a permanent injunction in favor of several Soviet composers against the distribution of The Iron Curtain, the first anti-Soviet Hollywood film of the Cold War era.
• 1975The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.
• 2017A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashed into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, killing all 122 people on board.

Born on this day

• 1848Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903)
• 1952Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1958Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016)
• 1959Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana