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June 7

4 sourced moments from June 7 in history: Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal moved the Pope's line (1494); Gandhi was thrown off a train at Pietermaritzburg in 1893; Vatican City Became an Independent State (1929), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on June 7

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1965 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

The Supreme Court found a right to privacy in birth control

On June 7, 1965, the justices struck down a contraceptive ban and located a constitutional right to privacy in the Bill of Rights' shadows.

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1929 Geography · Countries

Vatican City Became an Independent State

When the Lateran Treaty took effect, a 44-hectare patch of Rome became the world's smallest sovereign country.

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1893 History · Modern

Gandhi was thrown off a train at Pietermaritzburg in 1893

On 7 June 1893 a 23-year-old lawyer with a first-class ticket was pushed onto a freezing Natal platform. His own account is less heroic than the legend.

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1494 History · Empires & Civilizations

Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal moved the Pope's line

In 1494 two crowns overrode a papal decree, shifting their dividing meridian to 370 leagues west of Cape Verde — a line no one could actually measure.

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