June 6th in History
June 6th
The first modern census for the U.K was taken on the night of 6th June 1841.
Regular national censuses had taken place every ten years since 1801, but were mainly headcounts by the local authorities, to ascertain the number of men able to fight in the Napoleonic Wars and virtually no personal information was recorded.
Forms for the 1841 census were delivered to every house and recorded people's names, age, sex, occupation, and if they were born 'in county'.
1844The Factory Act in Britain restricted female workers to a 12-hour day; children between eight and 13 years were limited to six-and-a-half hours.
1944: The D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allied Forces during World War II.
Race riots broke out in Newport on 6th June 1919.
The riots started in the docklands where a majority of Caribbean and some African people worked as sailors, sea merchants and manual labourers. A black man allegedly accosted a white girl and a soldier intervened knocking the black man to the ground. During the ensuing disturbances, which involved revolvers, pokers and sticks, a Chinese laundry, refreshment houses, and lodging houses were wrecked. It was reported by the South Wales Argus that "White mobs wrecked so many properties that the town looked as if it had suffered an air raid".
1944: Iceland declares its independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
2002
A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya, with the resulting explosion estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
1970: Syd Barrett plays his first gig since leaving Pink Floyd at London's Olympia Hall backed by his old friend guitarist David Gilmour and Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley. However during the fourth number Barrett, possibly frustrated by poor PA mixing, abruptly took off his guitar and walked off stage never to return.
The first modern census for the U.K was taken on the night of 6th June 1841.
Regular national censuses had taken place every ten years since 1801, but were mainly headcounts by the local authorities, to ascertain the number of men able to fight in the Napoleonic Wars and virtually no personal information was recorded.
Forms for the 1841 census were delivered to every house and recorded people's names, age, sex, occupation, and if they were born 'in county'.
1844The Factory Act in Britain restricted female workers to a 12-hour day; children between eight and 13 years were limited to six-and-a-half hours.
1944: The D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allied Forces during World War II.
Race riots broke out in Newport on 6th June 1919.
The riots started in the docklands where a majority of Caribbean and some African people worked as sailors, sea merchants and manual labourers. A black man allegedly accosted a white girl and a soldier intervened knocking the black man to the ground. During the ensuing disturbances, which involved revolvers, pokers and sticks, a Chinese laundry, refreshment houses, and lodging houses were wrecked. It was reported by the South Wales Argus that "White mobs wrecked so many properties that the town looked as if it had suffered an air raid".
1944: Iceland declares its independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
2002
A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya, with the resulting explosion estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
1970: Syd Barrett plays his first gig since leaving Pink Floyd at London's Olympia Hall backed by his old friend guitarist David Gilmour and Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley. However during the fourth number Barrett, possibly frustrated by poor PA mixing, abruptly took off his guitar and walked off stage never to return.
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