July 6
July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 178 days remaining.
Events
1253 - Mindaugas crowned king of Lithuania .
1483 - Richard III crowned king of England .
1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Căo 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 .
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 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 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 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 , poet, ornithologist, naturalist, painter (d. 1813 )
1796 - Nikolai Romanov , future tsar Nikolai I of Russia (d. 1855 )
1838 - Vatroslav Jagic Croatian slavist (d. 1923 )
1884 - Harold Vanderbilt , businessman
1887 - Walter Flex , writer (d. 1917 )
1898 - Hanns Eisler , composer (d. 1962 )
1907 - Frida Kahlo , painter (d. 1954 )
1915 - LaVerne Andrews , singer, the Andrews Sisters
1918 - Sebastian Cabot , actor (d. 1977 )
1919 - Ernst Haefliger , Swiss tenor
1921 - 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 (d. 1981 )
1927 - Janet Leigh , actress: Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, Touch of Evil
1927 - Hein Donner , chess player
1927 - Dolores Claman , musician, composer
1927 - Pat Paulsen , comedian, frequent Presidential candidate (d. 1997 )
1935 - Tenzin Gyatso , (Lhamo Dhondrup) fourteenth Dalai Lama
1936 - Dave Allen , comedian (d. 2005 )
1937 - Ned Beatty , actor: Deliverance , Nashville
1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy , pianist, conductor
1946 - Sylvester Stallone , actor: Rambo Copland Cliffhanger 1946 - George W. Bush , President of the United States
1951 - Geoffrey Rush , actor, Oscar winner
1953 - Nanci Griffith , singer-songwriter
1956 - Kenny G , American saxophonist
1958 - Jennifer Saunders , British actress-comedian
1960 - Babu Varghese , Malieckal, Kerala INDIA
1976 - 50 Cent , rapper
Deaths
1189 - Henry II of England (b. 1133 )
1249 - Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198 )
1415 - Jan Hus , reformer (burned for heresy )
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 - Edward VI , king of England (b. 1537 )
1583 - Edmund Grindal , Archbishop of Canterbury
1762 - Peter III , tsar 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
1960 - Aneurin Bevan , British politician
1962 - William Faulkner , American novelist
1966 - Sad Sam Jones , Major League Baseball player (b. 1892 )
1971 - Louis Armstrong , jazz musician
1973 - Otto Klemperer , German conductor
1982 - Bob Johnson ("Indian Bob"), Major League Baseball player (b. 1905 )
1989 - János Kádár , Hungarian political leader
1998 - Roy Rogers , American cowboy actor, singer
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo , Spanish composer
2002 - John Frankenheimer , film director
2003 - Buddy Ebsen , American actor
2004 - Thomas Klestil , politician, diplomat, Austrian president at time of death
Holidays and observances
External links
July 5 - July 7 - June 6 - August 6 -- listing of all days
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