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What happened on July 6
- July 6, 1044 "Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, invades Hungary and defeats a Magyar army at the Battle of Mnf."
- July 6, 1189 "Henry II King of England (1154-89), dies at 56"
- July 6, 1253 Mindaugas is crowned king of Lithuania.
- July 6, 1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death.
- July 6, 1415 "Jan Hus burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany"
- July 6, 1415 Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
- July 6, 1476 "Regiomontanus [Johannes M�ller of K?nigsberg], dies"
- July 6, 1483 England's King Richard III crowned
- July 6, 1483 Richard III is crowned king of England.
- July 6, 1484 Portuguese sea captain Diogo Co finds the mouth of Congo River.
- July 6, 1495 "First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo Charles VIII defeats the Holy League, but ultimately ends his attempted conquest of Italy."
- July 6, 1535 Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason
- July 6, 1535 "Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason by King Henry VIII after refusing to agree to Henry's decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church."
- July 6, 1560 The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
- July 6, 1573 "Crdoba, Argentina is founded by Jernimo Luis de Cabrera."
- July 6, 1609 Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
- July 6, 1630 "Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany."
- July 6, 1687 "Newton publishes ""Principia"""
- July 6, 1699 Capt William Kidd arrested in Boston
- July 6, 1747 "Birth of John Paul Jones at Arbigland, Scotland."
- July 6, 1757 "French troops sent to re-enforce Louisbourg; the Corps Royal, consisting of six officers, four hundred recruits from France, and twenty artillery men, plus two battalions of the Berry Regiment."
- July 6, 1776 "Dec of Ind announced on front page of the ""PA Evening Gazette"""
- July 6, 1777 British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
- July 6, 1785 "Congress resolves US currency named ""dollar"" & adopts decimal coinage"
- July 6, 1785 The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
- July 6, 1798 "US law makes aliens ""liable to be apprehended, restrained,... & removed as alien enemies"""
- July 6, 1799 "Ranjit Singh's 25,000 men start their march towards Lahore."
- July 6, 1801 Battle of Algeciras: The French navy are defeated by the British Royal Navy.
- July 6, 1847 "SS Sea King, this paddle steamer which was plying the ferry trade between Belfast and Liverpool when it ran aground on the eastern end of Mew Island, Belfast Lough. It proven impossible to refloat her and she rolled over filled with water and sank, but there was no loss of life."
- July 6, 1849 "Battle of Fredericia, Denmark, Danish Army under Generals Blow and Rye beat the Army of Schleswig-Holstein, thereby keeping the Prussians from any victory over Denmark until 1864."
- July 6, 1853 National Black convention meets (Rochester NY)
- July 6, 1854 "In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held."
- July 6, 1854 "The first Republican state convention, Ripon, Wisc"
- July 6, 1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
- July 6, 1869 "Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated"
- July 6, 1885 "Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog."
- July 6, 1885 "The first inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur"
- July 6, 1886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to public
- July 6, 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."
- July 6, 1892 "3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded."
- July 6, 1892 Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
- July 6, 1892 "Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7"
- July 6, 1892 Three day fire destroys most of St. John's Newfoundland
- July 6, 1893 "The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200."
- July 6, 1894 "Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike"
- July 6, 1898 "Armed Auxiliary Dixie captures Spanish Three Bells, Pilgrim, and Greeman Castle"
- July 6, 1903 George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF
- July 6, 1905 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
- July 6, 1906 "The Empress of Ireland arrives at Quebec at 05:30 on maiden voyage from Liverpool; with 215 1st-class passengers, 314 2nd-class passengers and 777 3rd-class passengers; best day's run was 460 knots, a record for the North Atlantic service."
- July 6, 1908 CDR Robert Peary sails in Roosevelt from New York to explore Arctic.
- July 6, 1908 Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.
- July 6, 1908 Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for the north pole
- July 6, 1911 "First naval aviation base established at Annapolis, MD."
- July 6, 1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens
- July 6, 1917 World War I: Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt.
- July 6, 1919 "British R-34 lands in NY, first airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)"
- July 6, 1919 "The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship."
- July 6, 1920 "Test and first use of radio compass in aircraft off Norfolk, VA"
- July 6, 1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed
- July 6, 1924 "The first photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England"
- July 6, 1928 "The first all-talking motion picture shown, in NY (Lights of NY)"
- July 6, 1928 "The world's ten largest hailstones fall in Potter, Nebraska."
- July 6, 1928 Worlds largest hailstone 1� lbs (17') falls in Potter Nebraska
- July 6, 1932 First class postage back up to 3. from 2.
- July 6, 1935 "First flight of Fairchild 82A bush plane, Canadian-designed successor to the FC-2W-2 and 71 models; phased out to produce Bristol Bolingbroke in wartime."
- July 6, 1935 Helen Wills Moody wins her 7th Wimbeldon championship
- July 6, 1936 "114? F (46? C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)"
- July 6, 1936 "121? F (49? C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)"
- July 6, 1938 "The ""Evian Conference& in France fails to provide a refuge for German Jews.
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- July 6, 1939 Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
- July 6, 1941 NY Yankees unviel a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
- July 6, 1942 "Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the ""Secret Annexe"" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse."
- July 6, 1943 Night Battle of Kula Gulf results in loss of 2 Japanese destroyers and USS Helena.
- July 6, 1944 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn
- July 6, 1944 "In Hartford, Connecticut, a fire broke out under the big top of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus, killing 167 people and injuring 682. Two-thirds of those who perished were children"
- July 6, 1944 "The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut."
- July 6, 1945 Nicaragua becomes first nation to formally accept UN Charter
- July 6, 1945 Pres Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
- July 6, 1945 "Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games"
- July 6, 1947 The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
- July 6, 1953 J Churms discovers asteroid #1701 Okavango
- July 6, 1955 "The Federal Air Pollution Control Act was implemented on this day in 1955, providing federally allocated funds for research into causal analysis and control of car-emission pollution"
- July 6, 1957 Althea Gibson became first black tennis player to win Wimbledon
- July 6, 1957 "Harry S Truman Library established in Independence, Missouri"
- July 6, 1959 Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
- July 6, 1960 "Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC"
- July 6, 1962 Sedan (nuclear test)
- July 6, 1962 "William Faulkner author, inventor of Yoknapatawpha Co, dies at 64"
- July 6, 1964 "Beatles' film ""Hard Day's Night"" premiers in London"
- July 6, 1964 Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
- July 6, 1964 Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
- July 6, 1965 "Rock group ""Jefferson Airplane"" forms"
- July 6, 1966 "Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as the first President."
- July 6, 1967 "Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war."
- July 6, 1968 "Marine Observation Squadron 2 (VMO-2) stationed at Da Nang, South Vietnam, received the first OV-1OA, Broncos, to arrive in South Vietnam"
- July 6, 1971 "Louis ""Satchmo"" Armstrong jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 70"
- July 6, 1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
- July 6, 1972 "Brandon De Wilde actor (Jamie), dies at 30 in a car crash"
- July 6, 1973 "Patrick McVey actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63"
- July 6, 1974 The radio program A Prairie Home Companion makes its first live broadcast.
- July 6, 1975 Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
- July 6, 1975 "Near Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada, a hailstone weighing 249 grams falls (almost 9 oz.)"
- July 6, 1975 The Comoros declare independence from France.
- July 6, 1976 First women enter Naval Academy.
- July 6, 1976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
- July 6, 1978 "The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people."
- July 6, 1978 Yana Mintoff hurled horse manure onto the floor of the British House of Commons.
- July 6, 1980 "Gail Patrick actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69"
- July 6, 1982 "Russell Thorson actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72"
- July 6, 1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
- July 6, 1983 Tony Blair gives his maiden speech in the British Parliament.
- July 6, 1986 Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
- July 6, 1987 The first of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
- July 6, 1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
- July 6, 1988 "Off Scotland, two Canadians among 167 crew members killed as gas leak leads to explosion and fire on the Occidental Petroleum drill rig Piper Alpha in the North Sea; 64 survivors rescued."
- July 6, 1988 "The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster."
- July 6, 1989 "After 9 years, WHOT (Bkln pirate radio station) is busted by the FCC"
- July 6, 1989 The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in which 14 bus passengers were killed as an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff.
- July 6, 1990 """Jetson's the Movie"" with Tiffany, premiers"
- July 6, 1990 "In Java a 5.8 quake injured at least 103 people and about 10,300 houses, mosques and public buildings damaged or destroyed"
- July 6, 1990 "In Ottawa Ontario, a burst pipe at National Archives damages 100 atlases dating between 1490 and 1600, 2,000 books; and a collection of 150 year old manuscripts."
- July 6, 1991 Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini for Wimbeldon championship
- July 6, 1994 "Gary Kildall, software pioneer, killed in bar brawl Gary Kildall, inventor of an early personal computer operating system, was killed in a brawl at a biker bar in Monterey, California, on this day in 1994"
- July 6, 1999 "US Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams."
- July 6, 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."
- July 6, 2006 "The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years."
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