Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 6
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June 6: National Day of Sweden; Queensland Day in the Australian state of Queensland
- 1523 – Gustav Vasa became King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.
- 1894 – Colorado Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered his state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
- 1944 – World War II: The Invasion of Normandy, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France (pictured).
- 1982 – A war in Lebanon began when Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to root out members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1982 – During the Falklands War, the British Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed British Army Gazelle XX377 in a friendly fire incident.
- 2004 – During a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament, President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam announced that Tamil was to be made the first legally recognised classical language of India.