Treaty of Tordesillas dividing overseas territories
Concluded the Treaty of Tordesillas with Portugal, dividing non-European territories between the Spanish and Portuguese crowns.
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Concluded the Treaty of Tordesillas with Portugal, dividing non-European territories between the Spanish and Portuguese crowns.
View detailsEngland declared war on France, supporting Philip II, leading to the loss of Calais.
View detailsAmelia Edwards was born on June 7, 1831, in London, England.
View detailsElizabeth Bowen was born on June 7, 1899, in Dublin, Ireland.
View detailsFlorence Parpart received U.S. Patent No. 760,289 for an improved mechanical street-sweeping machine, automating urban street cleaning.
View detailsVirginia Apgar was born in Westfield, New Jersey, United States.
View detailsMarion Post was born on June 7, 1910, in Bloomfield, New Jersey, into a middle-class family that would shape her progressive, independent outlook.
View detailsGwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks is born in Topeka, Kansas.
View detailsPorter married Ernest Stock in Denver, Colorado; the brief marriage was annulled within a year.
View detailsWisconsin’s Equal Rights Law, drafted by Zona Gale, granted women equal legal rights in suffrage, contracts, and more.
View detailsAppointed Minister of Labour, marking her as Britain's first female Cabinet minister.
View detailsBirth of Tsuneko Okazaki in Nagoya, Japan, later a pioneering molecular biologist known for Okazaki fragments.
View detailsOn 7 June 1942 Simone Weil arrives in New York as a refugee from Nazi‑occupied France, beginning a brief U.S. exile before moving to London.
View detailsSzenes was captured by Hungarian gendarmes on 7 June 1944 while attempting to cross from Yugoslavia into occupied Hungary to aid Jews and downed Allied airmen.
View detailsThe Supreme Court struck down bans on contraceptives for married couples, recognizing a constitutional right to marital privacy.
View detailsElizabeth Craig passed away on June 7, 1980, leaving behind a legacy in culinary literature.
View detailsDeath of Mary Katherine Campbell, the only person ever to win Miss America twice.
View detailsJulie Taymor became the first woman to win the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, for The Lion King.
View detailsReceived the Praemium Imperiale in sculpture, 2000.
View detailsAwarded the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis for *Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel)*.
View detailsHerta Müller received Germany's Grand Cross with Star of the Order of Merit.
View detailsSejima was appointed to the international jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, helping select future laureates.
View detailsSullivan descended nearly 11 km to Challenger Deep aboard Limiting Factor, becoming the first woman there and first person to reach both space and the ocean's deepest point.
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