June 06

1938 – Star trek producer Jeri Taylor is born.
1971 – Soyuz 11 launches, carrying Cosmonauts G.T. Dobrovolsky, V.N. Volkov, and V.I. Patsayev to Salyut 1, the first manned occupancy of an orbital station.

• Tragically, on June 29, the Cosmonauts died upon reentry.
  

2002 – "Eastern Mediterranean event": An object with an estimated diameter of 10 meters impacts with Earth's atmosphere over the Mediterranean Sea and detonates in mid-air.