July
6
Independence
Day
Comoros : July 6 1975
Malawi : July 6 1964
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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