Events
July
6
371
BC – The Battle of Leuctra, where Epaminondas
defeats Cleombrotus I, takes place.
1044 – The Battle of Ménfő between troops
led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces
led by King Samuel takes place.
1189 – Richard I "the Lionheart"
is crowned King of England.
1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1348 – Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting
the Jews accused to have caused the Black
Death.
1415 – Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.
1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão
finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1495 – First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo
– Charles VIII defeats the Holy League,
but ultimately ends his attempted conquest
of Italy.
1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason
against King Henry VIII of England.
1557 – King Philip II of Spain, consort
of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from
Dover to war with France, which eventually
results in the loss of the City of Calais,
the last English possession on the continent,
and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
1560 – The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed
by Scotland and England.
1573 – Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by
Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
1609 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
1630 – Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops
under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania,
Germany.
1751 – Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the
Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes
from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine
and Gorizia.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Siege
of Fort Ticonderoga – After a bombardment
by British artillery under General John
Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort
Ticonderoga, New York.
1779 – Battle of Grenada: French victory
over British naval forces during the American
Revolutionary War.
1785 – The dollar is unanimously chosen
as the monetary unit for the United States.
1801 – Battle of Algeciras: the French navy
are defeated by the Royal Navy.
1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram
sees a French victory over the Austrian
army in the largest battle yet of the Napoleonic
Wars.
1854 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention
of the United States 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 the Americans, to sign the Bayonet
Constitution giving Americans more power
in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens
of their rights.
1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the
first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1892 – 3,800 striking steelworkers engage
in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents
during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10
dead and dozens wounded.
1893 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa,
is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills
71 people and injures 200.
1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister
of Australia for the second time.
1917 – World War I: Arabian troops led by
T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")
and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the
Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
1919 – The British dirigible R34 lands in
New York, completing the first crossing
of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star
Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park.
The American League defeats the National
League 4–2.
1936 – A major breach of the Manchester,
Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions
of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61
m) into the River Irwell.
1939 – Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish
enterprises in Germany are closed.
1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into
hiding in the "Secret Annexe"
above her father's office in an Amsterdam
warehouse.
1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to
the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.
1944 – The Hartford Circus Fire, one of
America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately
168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford,
Connecticut.
1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in
the Soviet Union.
1957 – Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon
championships, becoming the first black
athlete to do so.
1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney of
the Beatles are introduced to each other
when Lennon's band the Quarrymen performs
at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.
1962 – As a part of Operation Plowshare,
the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
1964 – Malawi declares its independence
from the United Kingdom.
1966 – Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings
Banda as its first President.
1967 – Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces
invade Biafra, beginning the war.
1975 – The Comoros declare independence
from France.
1978 – The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs
in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
1986 – Davis Phinney became the first American
cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour
de France.
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
in terms of direct loss of life.
1989 – The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in
which 14 bus passengers are killed when
an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the
bus is driving by the edge of a cliff.
1994 – Storm King Mountain, Glenwood Springs,
Colorado: South Canyon Fire: 14 firefighters
died in the fire.
1997 – The Troubles: Five days of fierce
riots and clashes in Irish nationalist districts
of Northern Ireland begin.
1998 – Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed
and the new Hong Kong International Airport
at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.
1999 – U.S. Army private Barry Winchell
dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted
in his sleep the previous day by a fellow
soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship
with transgender showgirl and former Navy
Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
2003 – The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary
Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call
2) to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri
(HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris
(HD 95128). The messages will arrive to
these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044 and 2049
respectively.
2006 – The Nathula Pass between India and
China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War,
re-opens for trade after 44 years.
Holidays
and observances
Birthday
of the 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan diaspora)
Christian Feast Day:
Maria Goretti
Romulus of Fiesole
July 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Cayman Islands)
Day of the Capital, established in 2008.
(Kazakhstan)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of the Comoros from France in 1975.
Independence Day/Republic Day, celebrates
the independence of Malawi from United Kingdom
in 1964.
Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)
Statehood Day (Lithuania)
The earliest date for summer solstice in
Julian calendar system, which corresponds
to June 23:
The first night of Ivan Kupala Day (Poland,
Russia, Belarus and Ukraine)
The first day of Ludi Apollinares, games
in honor of Apollo. (Roman Empire)
The first day of San Fermín, which lasts
until July 14. (Pamplona)
World Zoonoses Day
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