June 6th, 1966
James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi. event on June 06, 1966. Read about how to open files in Open File Database.
Events around June 06, 1966
| June 8th, 1966 | Event | Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.[1] |
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