How Many Days Until June 6?

This day in history: June 6

1. 1971

   Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a US Marine Corps jet near Duarte, California, killing 50 people.

2. 1971

   Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh.

3. 1976

   A plane crashed near Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia, killing politicians Fuad Stephens and Peter Joinud Mojuntin, along with nine others.

4. 1982

   Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire incident.

5. 1985

   The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.

6. 2017

   Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of the Raqqa campaign, capturing the de facto capital of the Islamic State four months later.

7. 2021

   A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing four members of the same family.

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