July 6

July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining.

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Events

• 1253 – Mindaugas crowned king of Lithuania.
• 1483 – Richard III crowned king of England.
• 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River
• 1609 – Bohemia is granted Freedom of religion.
• 1630 – Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Germany.
• 1785 – The dollar is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States. This is the first time a nation has adopted a decimal currency system.
• 1799 – Ranjit Singh's 25,000 men start march towards Lahore.Babu Varghese ,Kerala , India
• 1801 – Battle of Algeciras: The French fleet beats the British fleet.
• 1854 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held.
• 1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• 1887 – David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
• 1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian MP in Britain.
• 1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
• 1908 – Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.
• 1917 – Arabian troops led by T.E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.
• 1919 – The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
• 1923 – Treaty of Union signed between Russia, Transcaucasia, Ukraine and Belarus, establishing the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
• 1928 – The ten world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
• 1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League wins, 4 to 2.
• 1939 – Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
• 1944 – The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1957 – Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships becoming the first black athlete to do so.
• 1957  – John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first meet.
• 1964 – A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premieres.
• 1964  – Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1966 – Malawi becomes a republic.
• 1967 – Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
• 1974 – The radio program A Prairie Home Companion makes its first live broadcast.
• 1975 – The Comoros declare their independence from France.
• 1988 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires killing 167 oil workers.
• 1988 – Controversial presidential election held in Mexico.
• 1989 – At 01:23:45 AM the time and date by British reckoning was 01:23:45 6/7/89. This was also true 12 hours later excepting 24-hour time.
• 2003 – The Corsicans rejected a referendum for increased autonomy from France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against, and 49.02 percent for.
• 2004 – In an "exclusive" The New York Post erroneously reports that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has selected Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt as his running mate.
• 2005 – Games of the XXX Summer Olympiad to be held in 2012 are chosen and announced by the IOC See also: 2012 Summer Olympics

Births

• 1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (d. 1813)
• 1796 – Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
• 1818 – Adolf Anderssen (d. 1879)
• 1838 – Vatroslav Jagic Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
• 1884 – Harold Vanderbilt, businessman
• 1887 – Walter Flex, writer (d. 1917)
• 1898 – Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
• 1907 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
• 1915 – LaVerne Andrews, singer the Andrews Sisters
• 1918 – Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
• 1919 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor
• 1921 – Nancy Reagan, actress and First Lady of the United States
• 1923 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland
• 1925 – Merv Griffin, American game show developer and television show host
• 1925 – Bill Haley, American singer (Bill Haley and the Comets) (d. 1981)
• 1927 – Janet Leigh, American actress
• 1927 – Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
• 1927 – Dolores Claman, musician and composer
• 1927 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and Presidential candidate (d. 1997)
• 1935 – Tenzin Gyatso, fourteenth Dalai Lama
• 1936 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Ned Beatty, American actor
• 1937 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor
• 1946 – Sylvester Stallone, American actor
• 1946 – George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
• 1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor, Academy Award winner
• 1953 – Nanci Griffith, American singer and songwriter
• 1956 – Kenny G, American saxophonist
• 1958 – Jennifer Saunders, British actress and comedian
• 1959 – Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
• 1976 – 50 Cent, American rapper

Deaths

• 1189 – Henry II of England (b. 1133)
• 1249 – Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
• 1415 – Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (burned at the stake)
• 1476 – Regiomantus, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1436)
• 1533 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
• 1535 – Sir Thomas More, English writer and philosopher (executed) (b. 1478)
• 1553 – King Edward VI (b. 1537)
• 1583 – Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1762 – Tsar Peter III of Russia (murdered) (b. 1728)
• 1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
• 1916 – Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1932 – Kenneth Grahame, English children's author (b. 1859)
• 1960 – Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
• 1962 – William Faulkner, American novelist (b. 1897)
• 1966 – Sad Sam Jones, Major League Baseball player (b. 1892)
• 1971 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (b. 1901)
• 1973 – Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1885)
• 1982 – Bob Johnson, Major League Baseball player (b. 1905)
• 1989 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Roy Rogers, American cowboy actor and singer (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
• 2002 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

• Comoros – Independence Day (1975)
• Czech Republic – Jan Hus Day (1415)
• Feast day of St Maria Goretti
• Lithuania – Day of Statehood
• Malawi – Independence Day (1964)
• Malawi – Republic Day (1966)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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