Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 7

June 7: Corpus Christi in Catholicism (2007).

• 1099 - Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city.

• 1494 - Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the newly discovered lands of the Americas and Africa between the two countries.

• 1905 - The Norwegian parliament dissolved the Union between Sweden and Norway.

• 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway (pictured), Crown Prince Olav, and the Norwegian government left Tromsø for exile in London, following the World War II German invasion.

• 1948 - Rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state, Edvard Beneš chose to resign as President of Czechoslovakia.

• 1981 - The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.

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