July 6

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

Events:

1483: Richard III crowned king of England.
1609: Bohemia is granted Freedom of religion.
1630: Swedish troups under Gustav II Adolf land in Germany.
1687: Principia of Newton published.
1785: The name dollar chosen for the US coin.
1801: Battle of Algeciras. The French fleet beats the British fleet.
1848: Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo: End of the Mexican-American War.
1854: First convention of the Republican Party.
1885: Louis Pasteur succesfully tests his vaccin against rabies.
1908: Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.
1912: Beginning of the Olympic Games in Stockholm.
1917: Arabian troops led by T.E. Lawrence capture Aqaba on the Turks.
1919: A British dirigible lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
1923: The Soviet Union is officially established.
1928: The world's largest hail stone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
1932: US postage stamps are raised in price from 2 to 3 cents.
1939: Last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
1942: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding.
1945: Nicaragua is the first country to formally accept the charter of the United Nations.
1950: East Germany officially recognizes the Oder-Neisse border with Poland.
1954: Elvis Presley records his first hit, That's All Right.
1957: Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon. She is the first black athlete to do so.
1957: John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first meet.
1958: Alaska becomes a state.
1964: A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film premieres.
1964: Malawi declares its independence from Great Britain.
1965: The Jefferson Airplane is formed.
1966: Malawi becomes a republic.
1967: Nigerian forces invade Biafra. Beginning of the Biafran War.
1968: Andrei Sacharov publishes his Manifest of 10,000 Words.
1975: The Comoros declare their independence from France.
1983: The Supreme Court decides that retirement plans are not allowed to pay women less solely based on their gender.
1988: The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers die.

Births:

1796: Nicholas I Pavlovitch (czar of Russia)
1866: Beatrix Potter (graphical artist)
1884: Harold Vanderbilt (businessman)
1915: LaVerne Andrews (singer: Andrews Sisters)
1923: Nancy Reagan (actress, former First Lady)
1923: Wojciech Jaruzelski (president of Poland)
1925: Merv Griffin (game show developer, TV show host)
1925: Bill Haley (singer: Bill Haley and the Comets)
1927: Janet Leigh (actress: Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, Touch of Evil)
1927: Hein Donner (chess player)
1935: Tenzin Gyatso (fourteenth Dalai Lama)
1937: Ned Beatty (actor: Deliverance, Nashville)
1946: Sylvester Stallone (actor: Rambo, Copland, Cliffhange)
1946: George W. Bush (president of the United States)
1953: Nanci Griffith (singer-songwriter)
1958: Jennifer Saunders (British actress-comedian)

Deaths:

1189: Henry II (king of England)
1415: Jan Hus (reformer) (burned for heresy)
1476: Regiomantus (astronomer and mathematician)
1535: Sir Thomas More (writer and philosopher) (executed for treason)
1553: Edward VI (king of England)
1762: Peter III (czar of Russia) (murdered)
1962: William Faulkner (novelist)
1971: Louis Armstrong (jazz musician)

Holidays:

Comoros: Independence Day (1975)
Czech Republic: Jan Hus Day (1415)
Lithuania: Day of Statehood
Malawi: Independence Day (1964)
Malawi: Republic Day (1966)

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