Notable Historical Events on July 6th
July 6th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1044 |
The Battle of Ménfő takes place. |
1189 |
Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England. |
1253 |
Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania. |
1348 |
Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection |
1415 |
Jan Hus is burned at the stake. |
1483 |
England's King Richard III crowned |
1484 |
Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River. |
1491 |
Opening ceremony of Daitokuji's Shinju at subtemple |
1495 |
Battle of Fornovo, near Parma: French King Charles VIII beats Holy League |
1560 |
England and Scotland sign Treaty of Edinburgh |
1573 |
Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots |
1573 |
Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera. |
1590 |
English admiral Francis Drake takes Portuguese Forts at Taag |
1609 |
Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion |
1621 |
Dutch gov-gen John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000 die |
1630 |
Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemunde |
1634 |
Johan van Walbeeck's ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curaçao |
1641 |
Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army |
1652 |
Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns) |
1669 |
LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River |
1673 |
French troops conquer Maastricht as part of the Franco-Dutch War |
1685 |
Battle at Sedgemoor: King James II beats duke of Monmouth |
1699 |
Pirate Capt William Kidd is captured in Boston |
1770 |
Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish |
1775 |
Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances but denying intent to be independent |
1776 |
American Declaration of Independence announced on front page of "PA Evening Gazette" |
1777 |
British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans |
1782 |
British-French sea battle at Negapatam (off India) |
1785 |
Congress unanimously resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage |
1787 |
French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax |
1787 |
Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede |
1798 |
US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... & removed as alien enemies" |
1801 |
Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British |
1840 |
Christian Hebbel's "Judith" premieres in Berlin |
1848 |
Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo |
1853 |
National Black convention meets in Rochester NY, ex-slave Frederick Douglass attends |
1853 |
William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel", 1st novel by an African American |
1854 |
1st Republican state convention (Jackson, Mich) |
1858 |
Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine |
1862 |
Skirmish at Devall's Bluff, Arkansas (106 casualties) |
1863 |
Battle of Williamsport, MD [-Jul 07] |
1863 |
Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia |
1864 |
Battle of Chattahoochee River, GA [->JUL 10] US730 CS600 |
1869 |
Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated |
1882 |
14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine |
1885 |
Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine |
1886 |
Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public |
1887 |
4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (6-2 6-0) |
1892 |
Dr Jose Rizal forms League Filipina |
1892 |
Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa, fire on scabs, killing 7 |
1892 |
Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. |
1893 |
The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200. |
1894 |
Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike |
1903 |
George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF |
1904 |
Two Russian cruisers move into the Red Sea and begin to stop ships of Britain, Germany, and other nations they believe friendly to Japan |
1904 |
The US Democratic Party nominates little known New York judge Alton B Parker for presidential nominee - virtually assuring the election of Theodore Roosevelt |
1905 |
Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time. |
1908 |
Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole |
1912 |
Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6) |
1917 |
T E Lawrence captures port of Aqaba from Turks |
1919 |
British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr) |
1919 |
William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president |
1920 |
Yankees score 14 in 5th inning & beat Washington Senators, 17-0 |
1922 |
Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy |
1923 |
36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (6-2 6-2) |
1923 |
Rail crash on New Zealand's main trunk line; 17 killed and 28 injured |
1924 |
1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England |
1928 |
1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY) |
1928 |
Worlds largest record hailstone 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter) at the time falls in Potter, Nebraska |
1928 |
48th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: René Lacoste beats Henri Cochet (6-1 4-6 6-4 6-2) |
1929 |
St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6 |
1929 |
49th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Jean Borotra (6-4 6-3 6-4) |
1931 |
35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio |
1932 |
1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents |
1932 |
Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli |
1933 |
1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Babe Ruth hits first All Star home run |
1934 |
47th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothy Little beats H Jacobs (6-2 5-7 6-3) |
1934 |
54th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Crawford (6-3 6-0 7-5) |
1935 |
48th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (6-3 3-6 7-5) |
1935 |
Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens |
1936 |
114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record) |
1936 |
121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record) |
1936 |
A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell. |
1938 |
6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati |
1939 |
German Nazis close last Jewish enterprises |
1941 |
NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield |
1942 |
10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York |
1942 |
Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam |
1942 |
Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj |
1943 |
2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed |
1943 |
US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched |
1944 |
170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn |
1944 |
French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC |
1944 |
US General Patton lands in France |
1945 |
Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter |
1945 |
US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom |
1945 |
Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games |
1945 |
Abbott and Costello's film "The Naughty Nineties" released featuring longest version their "Who's on First" routine. |
1946 |
"St Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 perfs |
1946 |
53rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (6-2 6-4) |
1946 |
60th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (6-2 6-4 7-9 5-7 6-4) |
1947 |
The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. |
1949 |
Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs |
1949 |
Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes |
1950 |
German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland |
1951 |
65th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (6-4 6-4 6-4) |
1952 |
Last tram ride in London |
1954 |
KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Tunisian government of M'zali, resigns |
1956 |
70th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (6-2 4-6 7-5 6-4) |
1956 |
85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England |
1956 |
Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher |
1956 |
Indians' Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive at bats |
1957 |
John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner |
1957 |
64th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (6-3 6-2) |
1957 |
Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri |
1958 |
Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico |
1958 |
Alaska becomes 49th state |
1959 |
5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
1959 |
Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic |
1959 |
WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC |
1961 |
Portuguese ship explodes near Mozambique, kills 300 |
1962 |
76th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61) |
1962 |
Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria |
1962 |
Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer |
1962 |
Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare. |
1963 |
70th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64) |
1963 |
77th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64) |
1963 |
South African workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested |
1964 |
Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London |
1964 |
Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from UK |
1965 |
Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms |
1966 |
Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president |
1967 |
Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade starting Nigerian Civil war |
1968 |
75th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75) |
1968 |
Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words" |
1969 |
Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger |
1969 |
Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao |
1970 |
California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law |
1970 |
Italian Rumor government resigns |
1970 |
Baseball player NY Met Tommie Agee hits for the cycle |
1970 |
Irish Minister for External Affairs Partick Hillery pays an unofficial visit to the Falls Road area of Belfast, an areas only just subject to a curfew by British Army |
1971 |
Barend Biesheuvel government forms in Netherlands |
1971 |
Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi |
1971 |
White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks |
1971 |
A member of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) is killed in a premature explosion in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland |
1974 |
88th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64) |
1975 |
Argentine government falls |
1975 |
Comoros declare independence from France (most of them) |
1975 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147 |
1975 |
Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic |
1976 |
Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station |
1977 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1978 |
Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut |
1978 |
The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people. |
1979 |
86th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (6-4 6-4) |
1979 |
IRA bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp |
1980 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
1980 |
France performs nuclear test |
1980 |
Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836) |
1983 |
54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago |
1983 |
Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less |
1983 |
Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3) |
1986 |
100th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75) |
1986 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship |
1986 |
Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game |
1986 |
Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines |
1986 |
Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election |
1987 |
1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India |
1987 |
Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds |
1987 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1988 |
Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico |
1988 |
North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die |
1988 |
Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery |
1989 |
Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game |
1989 |
US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn |
1990 |
"Jetson's the Movie" with Tiffany, premieres |
1990 |
After pitching a no-hitter lose, NY Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game & loses 2-0 |
1991 |
98th Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (6-4 3-6 8-6) |
1992 |
Fay Vincent institutes plans to realign NL |
1993 |
Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test Cricket debut, England v Australia |
1993 |
John F. Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan |
1994 |
Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77) |
1994 |
Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85) |
1994 |
Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL game (vs Ottawa) |
1994 |
"Forrest Gump", starring Tom Hanks, robin wright, and Gary Sinise, is released |
1995 |
Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon |
1995 |
Venezuela's Congress approves the country's first investment law allowing for foreign participation in oil exploration and production |
1996 |
103rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro (6-3, 7-5) |
1996 |
Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24 |
1997 |
"Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," closes at Royale NYC after 109 perfs |
1997 |
111th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats C Pioline (64 62 64) |
1997 |
Jamie Farr Kroger Classic |
1997 |
Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Classic |
1997 |
Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10 |
1997 |
Wimbledon Gigi Fernandez & Natasha Zvereva beat N Arendt & M Bollegraf |
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 fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams. |
2003 |
The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris that will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, 2044 and 2049 respectively. |
2003 |
110th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats Venus Williams (4-6 6-4 6-2) |
2003 |
117th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats M Philippoussis (7-6 6-2 7-6) |
2006 |
The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years. |
2008 |
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2008 |
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2009 |
Jadranka Kosor became first female Prime minister of Croatia. |
2012 |
Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan |
2013 |
42 people are killed in an attack on a boarding school in Mamudo, Nigeria |
2013 |
14 people are killed after a train runs over a rickshaw in Sheikhupura, Pakistan |
2013 |
42 people are killed and 5 missing after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and set of fires in Lac-Megantic, Quebec |
2013 |
3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport |
2013 |
Bob and Mike Bryan defeat Ivan Dogic and Marcelo Melo to win the men's doubles tennis final at Wimbledon |
2013 |
The British Lions defeat Australia 41-16 to win their first rugby Test series since 1997 |
2013 |
120th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Marion Bartoli beats Sabine Lisicki (6-1 6-4) |
2016 |
Clinton campaigns for first time with Obama hours after FBI announcement |
2016 |
Iraq sees worst bombing since invasion with 250 deaths |
2017 |
China urges calm after US says ready to use force against North Korea |
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