1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica is hit by a catastrophic earthquake at 11:43am; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured.
1989 - A Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.
1989 - At 01:23:45 AM the time and date by US reckoning was 01:23:45 6/7/89. This was also true 12 hours later excepting 24-hour time.
1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
1997 - A computer user known as "_eci" publishes his Microsoft C source code on a Windows 95 and Windows NT exploit, which would later become WinNuke. The source code gets wide distribution across the internet, and Microsoft is forced to release a security patch.
June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with a length of 30 days The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera.
However, due to the precession of the equinoxes, June begins with the sun in the astrological sign of Gemini, and ends with the sun in the astrological sign of Cancer.
June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.
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