June 7
1494:Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries.
1654:Louis XIV was crowned king of France.
1776:Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence.
1892:Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
1929:Vatican City became a sovereign state.
1967:Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died.
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