• On June 8, 632, in Medina, located in present-day Saudi Arabia, Muhammad, one of the most influential religious and political leaders in history, died in the arms of Aishah, his third and favorite wife. Today, Islam is the world’s second-largest religion.
• On June 6, 1683, The Ashmolean, the world’s first museum of science, opened in Oxford, England. Today, the collection at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology ranges in time from the…