On This Day

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Historical Events on July 6



1699  Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston

Pirate Legend
William Kidd

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"

Engrossed copy of the United States
Declaration of Independence

1777  British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans

1785  US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage

1798  US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... & removed as alien enemies"

1854  1st Republican state convention (Jackson, Michigan)

1862  Skirmish at Devall's Bluff, Arkansas (106 casualties)

1869  Black candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia, Dr J. H. Harris defeated

1885  Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine

Bacteriologist
Louis Pasteur

1886  Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public

1892  Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, fire on scabs, killing 7

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

1898  US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii

1904  The US Democratic Party nominates little known New York judge Alton B. Parker for presidential nominee - virtually assuring the election of Theodore Roosevelt

26th US President
Theodore Roosevelt

1908  Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole

1916  2nd of 4 fatal Jersey Shore shark attacks occur at Spring Lake when Charles Bruder (27) bled to death, 5 days after the 1st

1923  The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1924  1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England

1928  1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)

1928  Largest recorded hailstone at the time 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter) falls in Potter, Nebraska

1932  1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents

1933  "Nertsery Rhymes" short film starring Ted Healy and His Stooges premieres, one of the first film appearance of The Three Stooges

Moe Howard

1936  114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)

1936  121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)

1939  German Nazis close last Jewish enterprises

1942  Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam

Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust
Anne Frank

1943  2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 Germans killed

1944  French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C.

French President
Charles de Gaulle

1944  US General Patton lands in France

US WWII General
George S. Patton

1944  World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford, Connecticut)

1945  Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to ratify the Charter of the United Nations

1945  US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom

1945  Abbott and Costello's film "The Naughty Nineties" released featuring longest version of their "Who's on First" routine

Comedian and Actor
Lou Costello

1947  The Ak-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union

Inventor
Mikhail Kalashnikov

1949  Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes

1957  John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner

Musician and Beatle
John Lennon


Musician and Beatle
Paul McCartney

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1964  Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London

1965  Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms

1969  Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger

Rock Star
Mick Jagger

1983  Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less

1989  US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn

1990  "Jetsons the Movie" by Hanna-Barbera with Tiffany, premieres

Animator
William Hanna


Animator
Joseph Barbera

1993  John F. Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan

Publisher and Lawyer
John F. Kennedy Jr.

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

2015  Floyd Mayweather Jr. is stripped of his WBO welterweight boxing title after failing to pay $200k sanctioning fee and vacate his 2 junior middleweight titles

Boxer
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

2016  South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to 6 years in jail for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013

2017  France announces it will ban petrol and diesel cars by 2040

2018  Iranian instagram star Maedeh Hojabri confesses on state TV for posting videos of her dancing