June 6

Mob violence against the Jewish community broke out in Seville and over the following months spread to more than seventy towns across the Iberian Peninsula.

Norbert of Xanten, founder of the Premonstratensian canons and archbishop of Magdeburg, died in Magdeburg.

The British Assyriologist Theophilus Goldridge Pinches, a British Museum cuneiform specialist, died on this day in 1934 in London.

The American Egyptologist George Andrew Reisner, who developed rigorous excavation methods and found the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I at Giza, died at Harvard Camp.