Portal:United States/Anniversaries/June/June 7
- 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the Declaration of Independence.
- 1862 – The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
- 1942 – Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands chain off of Alaska as part of an effort by the Axis powers to expand their defensive perimeter.
- 1965 – The Supreme Court rules in Griswold v. Connecticut that laws prohibiting the use of contraception by married couples are unconstitutional.
- 1971 – The Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
- 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland (interior pictured), Elvis Presley's estate in Memphis, Tennessee, to the public.
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Events
- 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1862 – The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
- 1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint–Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
- 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
- 1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
- 1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
- 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
- 1942 – Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter.
- 1955 – Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
- 1965 – The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
- 1966 – Former movie star Ronald Reagan becomes the 33rd governor of the state of California.
- 1968 – The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
- 1971 – The US Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
- 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
- 1987 – Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are transferred to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
- 1995 – The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
- 1998 – James Byrd Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer and John William King in Jasper, Texas, in a racially motivated hate crime.