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What happened in history on this day: July 6?
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- 1189 - Henry II King of England (1154-89), dies at age 56.
- 1415 - Jan Hus is burned for heresy in Constance, Germany.
- 1476 - Regiomontanus [Johannes Müller of Königsberg], dies.
- 1483 - England's King Richard III crowned.
- 1535 - Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason.
- 1553 - King Edward VI dies, weakened by measles and tuberculosis. By his will, Lady Jane Grey and her heirs are made successors to the crown of England.
- 1687 - Newton publishes "Principia".
- 1699 - Captain William Kidd arrested in Boston.
- 1747 - Birth of John Paul Jones; naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight").
- 1776 - Declaration of Independence announced on front page of the Pennsylvania Evening Gazette.
- 1777 - British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans.
- 1785 - The dollar (and decimal coinage) is unanimously chosen by the Continental Congress as the monetary unit for the United States. The US is the first nation to adopt a decimal money system.
- 1796 - Birth of Nicholas Pavlovich Romanov in Russia; Tsar Nicolas I (1825-55).
- 1818 - Birth of Adolf Anderssen in Prussia; world chess champion (1851-66).
- 1835 - In Vicksburg, Mississippi, local militia hangs five gamblers following months of trouble, culminating in the murder of a doctor and armed resistance to the law.
- 1854 - First US Republican state convention, in Ripon, Wisconsin.
- 1859 - Birth of Verner von Heidenstam in Sweden; poet/novelist (Nobel Prize 1916).
- 1863 - Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia.
- 1869 - Black candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia, Dr J H Harris, is defeated.
- 1878 - Birth of Eino Leino in Finland; poet/playwright/novelist (Elámän Koreus).
- 1884 - Birth of Harold Vanderbilt in New York, USA; America's Cup (1930, 1934, 1937), invented contract bridge.
- 1885 - First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur.
- 1886 - Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to public.
- 1892 - Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA fire on scabs, killing 7.
- 1903 - Birth of Axel Theorell in Sweden; biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel Prize 1955).
- 1903 - George Wyman arrives in New York City by motorcycle after leaving San Francisco, California, 51 days earlier.
- 1904 - Birth of Robert Whitney in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England; conductor (Sospiro do Roma).
- 1907 - British Central Africa Protectorate name change to Nyasaland Protectorate.
- 1911 - Birth of LaVerne Andrews in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; singer (Andrew Sisters, 19 gold records, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree", "Rum and Coca Cola").
- 1912 - Opening ceremonies of Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden.
- 1912 - Donald Lippincott runs the 100m race in a world record 10.6 seconds.
- 1917 - Birth of Dorothy Kirsten in Montclair, New Jersey, USA; lyric soprano ("A Time to Sing", 30 years at Metropolitan Opera, co-star on Lucky Strike Hit Parade, guest on Ed Sullivan Show, Colgate Comedy Hour, Dinah Shore Chevy Show).
- 1918 - Birth of Eugene List in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; pianist/professor (Eastman School of Music).
- 1918 - Birth of Sebastian Cabot in London, England; actor (Mr. French - Family Affair TV show, regular panelist on game show Stump the Stars, host of TV show Suspense).
- 1919 - The British dirigible R34 land in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship (108 hours).
- 1920 - New York Yankees score team record 14 runs in one inning versus Washington Senators.
- 1921 - Birth of Anne Frances "Nancy" Robbins in New York City, New York; wife of US President Ronald Reagan.
- 1922 - Birth of William Schallert in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Martin - Patty Duke Show, Many Loves of Dobie Gillis).
- 1923 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics forms.
- 1924 - Inventor and radio pioneer William Stevenson sends the first photo across the Atlantic by radio, from New York to England.
- 1924 - Birth of Robert M White; pilot (X-15).
- 1924 - In Johnstown, Colorado, USA, a meteorite falls harmlessly to the ground.
- 1925 - Birth of William John Clifton Haley Junior AKA Bill Haley in Highland Park, Detroit, Michigan, USA; rock and roll music pioneer (Bill Haley and His Comets, "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock").
- 1925 - Birth of Merv Griffin in San Mateo, California, USA; singer (Freddy Martin's Orchestra, "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts"), TV host (Tonight Show, Merv Griffin Show), TV game show creator (Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune).
- 1927 - Birth of Janet Leigh in Merced, California, USA; actress (Psycho, Harper).
- 1927 - Birth of Nicky Hilton; heir to his father Conrad Hilton's vast international hotel chain.
- 1927 - Birth of Pat Paulsen in South Bend, Washington, USA; comedian (Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour), US Presidential candidate (1968).
- 1927 - Birth of Susan Cabot in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Carnival Rock).
- 1928 - First all-talking motion picture shown, in New York (Lights of New York).
- 1928 - World's largest hailstones 1.5 pounds (17 inch diameter) fall in Potter, Nebraska, USA.
- 1929 - Saint Louis has two 10-run innings and beats Philadelphia Phillies 28-6.
- 1931 - Birth of Della Reese; American singer and actress (Touched By An Angel).
- 1932 - Birth of Della Reese in Detroit, Michigan, USA; singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family).
- 1933 - First All-Star baseball game, American League wins 5-2 (Chicago's Comiskey Park).
- 1935 - Helen Wills Moody wins her 7th Wimbeldon championship.
- 1936 - 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record hot).
- 1936 - 121 degrees F (49 degrees C), Steele, North Dakota (state record hot).
- 1937 - Birth of Gene Chandler AKA Eugene Dixon in Chicago, Illinois, USA; rocker (Duke of Earl).
- 1937 - Birth of Ned Beatty in Lexington, Kentucky, USA; actor (Homicide: Life on the Street, Roseanne, Deliverance, Repossed, Network).
- 1937 - Birth of Vladimir Ashkenazy in Gorkey, Russia; pianist/conductor (Tchakowsky-1961).
- 1938 - National League beats American League 4-1 in 6th All Star Game (Crosley Field, Cincinnati, Ohio).
- 1939 - Birth of Helena Dupont; American equestrian 3-day event (Olympic-33rd place-1964).
- 1939 - Birth of Mary Peters in England; pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1972).
- 1940 - Birth of Viktor Kuzkin in USSR; ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 1968, 1972).
- 1941 - New York Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield.
- 1942 - In Amsterdam, Holland, 13-year-old Anne Frank and her family take refuge in a secret sealed-off area of a warehouse.
- 1942 - American League beats National League 3-1 in 10th All Star Game (New York Giants host).
- 1944 - In Hartford, Connecticut, USA, the world's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's Barnum and Bailey Circus, killing 167 people and injuring 682.
- 1945 - Birth of Burt Ward in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Robin - Batman).
- 1945 - Nicaragua becomes first nation to formally accept United Nations Charter.
- 1945 - Washington Senators' Rick Ferrell catches for a record 1,722 games.
- 1946 - Birth of Fred Dryer in Hawthone, California, USA; NFL player (New York Giants, Los Angeles Rams), actor (Hunter).
- 1946 - Birth of Jamie Wyeth in Pennsylvania, USA; artist (An American Vision-Boston).
- 1946 - Birth of Sylvester Stallone in New York City, New York, USA; actor / director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra).
- 1946 - Birth of George W. Bush; US President (2000-2008).
- 1947 - ABC radio show Candid Microphone debuts, hosted by Allen Funt.
- 1948 - Birth of Brad Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; NHL defenseman (New York Rangers, Boston Bruins).
- 1948 - Birth of Peter Mansbridge; news host (CBC TV's The National).
- 1949 - Birth of Shelly Hack in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA; actress (Tiffany - Charlie's Angel).
- 1950 - Birth of Sultan Rakhmanov; super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1980).
- 1952 - Birth of Grant Goodeve; actor (Eight is Enough, Northern Exposure).
- 1952 - Birth of Shelley Hack; actress (Charlie's Angels).
- 1953 - J Churms discovers asteroid #1701 Okavango.
- 1954 - Birth of Allyce Beasley in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Agnes Dipesto - Moonlighting).
- 1956 - Birth of Matt Bahr; NFL kicker (New York Giants).
- 1957 - Birth of Ron Duguay in Canada; hockey player (New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings).
- 1959 - Birth of John Keeble; rocker (Spandau Ballet - "True").
- 1959 - Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic.
- 1960 - Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207-mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City.
- 1962 - Mickey Mantle hits his third and fourth consecutive homers.
- 1962 - William Faulkner, author, inventor of Yoknapatawpha Co, dies at age 64.
- 1964 - The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night premieres in London, England.
- 1964 - Nyasaland, renamed Malawi, gains independence from Britain.
- 1965 - Birth of Glenn Scarpelli in Staten Island, New York, USA; actor (Alex - One Day At a Time, Fantasy).
- 1966 - Malawi becomes a republic.
- 1967 - Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade Biafra, which seceeded May 30.
- 1969 - Birth of Michael Grant; vocalist (Musical Youth).
- 1970 - Birth of Inspectah Deck; rapper (Wu-Tang Clan).
- 1971 - Birth of Kari Kupcinet in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Julie Sanderson - The Young and the Restless).
- 1971 - Death of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong after a heart attack at age 69; trumpeter and vocalist (Grammy 1965 Best Male Vocal Performance for "Hello Dolly", Lifetime Achievement Grammy 1972, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1990).
- 1971 - NBC-TV debuts Make Your Own Kind of Music TV show, with hosts Karen and Richard Carpenter.
- 1971 - White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks.
- 1972 - Brandon De Wilde, actor (Jamie), dies at age 30 in a car crash.
- 1973 - Death of Patrick McVey at age 63; actor (Manhunt, Steve Wilson - Big Town).
- 1973 - Death of Otto Klemperer in Zürich, Switzerland (born in Breslau, Germany); conductor (operas of Hamburg, Barmen, Strassburg, Cologne Wiesbaden, Berlin, Los Angeles, Budapest).
- 1975 - Comoros declare independence from France.
- 1976 - Soyuz 21 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.
- 1978 - Birth of Tia and Tamera Mowry; twin actors (Sister, Sister).
- 1978 - Israeli jet fighters swoop over mostly Muslim West Beirut.
- 1979 - Death of Van McCoy of a heart attack at age 39 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA; soul singer, songwriter ("The Hustle" (1975)), producer (Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda and The Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches and Herb, Jackie Wilson).
- 1980 - Death of Gail Patrick at age 69 of leukemia; actress (My Man Godfrey), producer (Perry Mason TV show (1957-66)).
- 1982 - Lunar Eclipse - Umbral duration 236 minutes and total duration 106 minutes, the longest of the 20th century.
- 1982 - Death of Russell Thorson at age 75; actor (One Man's Family radio show, I Love A Mystery radio show, One Man's Family TV show, guest spots in series TV from 1949-78).
- 1983 - Birth of Gregory Smith in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (Everwood, Rookie Blue).
- 1983 - Fred Lynn of California Angels hits All-Star game first grand slam (American League wins 13-3).
- 1983 - US Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less than men.
- 1984 - Warner Communications sells off the home video game and computer systems business of Atari to Jack Tramiel for US$240 million in long-term loans. Warner has the option to purchase up to 32 percent interest in the new company for US$2 per share.
- 1987 - Explosion at Canadian Forces Base outside Lahr, Federal Republic of Germany, destroys 62,000 litres of fuel and 4 military cargo vehicles, $4 million damage.
- 1987 - First of three massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India.
- 1988 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea 100 miles NorthEast of Aberdeen, Scotland, is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 (of 226) oil workers and two rescue mariners.
- 1988 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico.
- 1989 - After nine years, WHOT (Brooklyn pirate radio station) is busted by the US Federal Communications Commission.
- 1989 - Death of János Kádár, Hungarian dictator (born 1912).
- 1990 - Paul Wynne, KGO-TV San Francisco reporter, dies of AIDS at age 46.
- 1990 - Birth of Jeremy Suarez; actor (Bernie Mac Show).
- 1990 - Fox releases the film Die Hard 2: Die Harder to theaters.
- 1990 - In Java, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake occurs. At least 103 people injured and about 10,300 houses, mosques and public buildings damaged or destroyed.
- 1992 - (to July 29) Iraq refuses a United Nations inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.
- 1994 - Fourteen firefighters die in the South Canyon wildfire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado.
- 1994 - Death of Cameron Mitchell at age 75 of lung cancer; actor (Buck Cannon - High Chaparral TV show, Black Beauty, Dream West, How the West Was Won).
- 1994 - Paramount releases the film Forrest Gump to theaters.
- 1995 - IBM completes its US$3.5 billion acquisition of Lotus Development, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary.
- 1997 - A major wildfire burns approximately 40 percent of Seich Sou, a forest just north of Thessaloniki, also posing a significant threat to several areas in the city.
- 1998 - The new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opens.
- 2000 - The American Sportscasters Association vote Vin Scully the Number 1 sportscaster of the 20th century.
- 2000 - A barge and a tug towing it collide off Middletown, Rhode Island, USA, spilling 53,000 litres of oil in Narragansett Bay.
- 2003 - Death of Buddy Ebsen AKA Christian Rudolph Ebsen at age 95 of complications from pneumonia; dancer (with Shirley Temple, 1930s films), actor (Northwest Passage TV show, Jed Clampett - Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones).
- 2003 - Death of Skip Battin of Alzheimer's disease; bassist and songwriter (The Byrds, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, The Flying Burrito Brothers).
- 2004 - Death of Austrian President, Thomas Kleistl (born 1932). Kleistl died in office two days before the end of his term of office. He had been president since 1992. He had been the Austrian ambasador to the United Nations (1978) and the Ambasador to the USA (1982).
- 2004 - Death of Syreeta Wright of bone cancer at age 58; soul singer-songwriter, secretary at Motown Records, spouse of Stevie Wonder.
- 2005 - The European Parliament rejects the Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading in the codecision procedure.
- 2005 - The International Olympic Committee awards the 2012 Summer Olympics to London.
- 2006 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
- 2007 - A meteor breaks apart in the lower atmosphere with a trio of fericious explosions, and rains stones on Cali, Colombia.
- 2007 - Death of Lois Wyse, American advertising executive, author, and columnist (born 1926).
- 2008 - Rafael Nadal beats Roger Federer 6-4 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-7 (8-10) 9-7 in men's singles tennis to win his first Wimbledon title.
- 2008 - The United Arab Emirates cancels the entire debt owed to it by Iraq, almost US$7 billion.
- 2009 - Death of Robert Strange McNamara at age 93; Ford Motor Co (1946-), Air Force Office of Statistical Control (1943-45), U.S. Secretary of Defence (1961-68) during the Vietnam War, President of the World Bank (1968-81), author (In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam).
- 2010 - A truck carrying 2.5 million euros in coins overturns on a highway in southern Italy; the truck's rear door pops open, allowing motorists to make off with about 10,000 euros in one and two euro coins being transported from the Italian mint to local banks.
- 2018 - Former Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara and six other main members of Aum Shinrikyo, who led the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, are executed by hanging.
- 2018 - U.S. tariffs on US$34 billion of Chinese goods come into effect, as President Donald Trump suggests the final total could reach $550 billion. China accuses the U.S. of starting the "largest trade war in economic history" and announces immediate retaliatory tariffs.
- 2019 - Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fires Murat Cetinkaya, head of the central bank.
- 2019 - Death of João Gilberto at age 88 (born 1931); Brazilian bossa nova singer-songwriter and guitarist ("The Girl from Ipanema" song, "Chega de Saudade" ("No More Blues") song).
- 2020 - Death of Ennio Morricone at age 91 (born 1928); Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (A Fistful of Dollars film, Battle of Algiers film, Once Upon a Time in the West film, The Mission film).
- 2021 - Death of Patrick John, 1st Prime Minister of Dominica (born 1938).
- 2022 - Opening game of 2022 European Women's Football Championship. England beats Austria by score 1-0.
- 2022 - Death of James Caan at age 82 in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (El Dorado movie (1966), The Rain People movie (1969), Brian Piccolo - Brian's Song movie (1971), Santino "Sonny" Corleone - The Godfather movie (1972), Funny Lady movie (1975), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas movie (1992), Elf movie (2003)).
- 2022 - Death of Kazuki Takahashi at age 60; Japanese artist (Yu-Gi-Oh! manga comic series).
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