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Events on the 6th of July in history

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06 Jul 0371 The Battle of Leuctra, where Epaminondas defeated Cleombrotus I, takes place
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06 Jul 0640 Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt).
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06 Jul 1044 The Battle of Ménfő between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by King Samuel takes place.
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06 Jul 1189 Richard I "the Lionheart" accedes to the English throne.
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06 Jul 1253 Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
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06 Jul 1348 Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.
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06 Jul 1411 Ming China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
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06 Jul 1415 Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake.
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06 Jul 1483 Richard III is crowned King of England.
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06 Jul 1484 Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
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06 Jul 1495 Battle at Fornovo: French King Charles VIII beats St. League
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06 Jul 1495 First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo – Charles VIII defeats the Holy League.
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06 Jul 1535 Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.
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06 Jul 1557 King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
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06 Jul 1560 England / Scotland signs Treaty of Edinburgh
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06 Jul 1560 The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
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06 Jul 1573 Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots
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06 Jul 1573 Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
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06 Jul 1590 English Admiral Francis Drake takess Portuguese Forts at Taag
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06 Jul 1609 Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion
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06 Jul 1609 Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
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06 Jul 1614 Żejtun and the surrounding villages suffer a raid from Ottoman forces. This was the last unsuccessful attempt by the Ottomans to conquer the island of Malta.
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06 Jul 1621 Dutch Governor-General John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000 die
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06 Jul 1630 Thirty Years' War: Four thousand Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany.
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06 Jul 1634 Johan van Walbeecks ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curacao
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06 Jul 1669 LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
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06 Jul 1673 French troops conquer Maastricht
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06 Jul 1685 Battle at Sedgemoor: King James II beats Duke of Monmouth
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06 Jul 1685 Battle of Sedgemoor: Last battle of the Monmouth Rebellion. troops of King James II defeat troops of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.
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06 Jul 1687 Newton publishes "Principia"
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06 Jul 1699 Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston
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06 Jul 1751 Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia.
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06 Jul 1770 Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
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06 Jul 1775 Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms, " listing grievances but denying intent to be independent
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06 Jul 1776 Dec of Ind announced on front page of "PA Evening Gazette"
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06 Jul 1777 British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
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06 Jul 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.
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06 Jul 1779 Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
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06 Jul 1782 British-French sea battle at Negapatam (South-Indies)
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06 Jul 1785 Congress resolves US currency named "dollar" andadopts decimal coinage
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06 Jul 1785 The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
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06 Jul 1787 French government proclaims end to stamp / land tax
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06 Jul 1787 Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede
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06 Jul 1798 US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... & removed as alien enemies"
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06 Jul 1801 Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British
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06 Jul 1801 First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
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06 Jul 1809 The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
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06 Jul 1848 Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
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06 Jul 1853 National Black convention meets (Rochester NY)
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06 Jul 1853 William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel, " 1st novel by black American
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06 Jul 1854 1st Republican state convention (Ripon Wisc)
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06 Jul 1854 In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
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06 Jul 1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
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06 Jul 1863 Battle of Williamsport, MD [-Jul 07]
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06 Jul 1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
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06 Jul 1865 The first issue of The Nation magazine is published.
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06 Jul 1869 Black candidate for lt Governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated
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06 Jul 1882 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine
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06 Jul 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
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06 Jul 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
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06 Jul 1887 4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (62 60)
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06 Jul 1887 David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint by Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
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06 Jul 1892 Dr Jose Rizal forms League Filipina
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06 Jul 1892 Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7
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06 Jul 1892 Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
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06 Jul 1892 Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
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06 Jul 1893 British King George V marries Princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary)
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06 Jul 1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
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06 Jul 1903 George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco
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06 Jul 1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens
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06 Jul 1912 Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
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06 Jul 1917 T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey
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06 Jul 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.
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06 Jul 1919 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
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06 Jul 1919 William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs President
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06 Jul 1919 The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
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06 Jul 1920 Yankees score 14 in 5th inning and beat Washington Senators, 17-0
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06 Jul 1922 Dutch auto / airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy
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06 Jul 1923 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)
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06 Jul 1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
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06 Jul 1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
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06 Jul 1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown in New York (Lights of NY)
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06 Jul 1929 St. Louis has 2, 10 run innings and beats Phillies 28-6
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06 Jul 1931 35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio
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06 Jul 1932 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
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06 Jul 1932 Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli
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06 Jul 1933 The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
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06 Jul 1935 48th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (63 36 75)
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06 Jul 1935 Rotterdam Architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
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06 Jul 1936 A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell.
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06 Jul 1937 Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
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06 Jul 1938 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
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06 Jul 1939 Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
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06 Jul 1940 Story Bridge, a major landmark in Brisbane, as well as Australia's longest cantilever bridge is formally opened.
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06 Jul 1941 New York Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
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06 Jul 1941 Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
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06 Jul 1942 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
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06 Jul 1942 Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
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06 Jul 1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
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06 Jul 1943 US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched
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06 Jul 1944 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn
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06 Jul 1944 French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC
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06 Jul 1944 US General Patton lands in France
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06 Jul 1944 Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.
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06 Jul 1944 The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
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06 Jul 1945 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter
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06 Jul 1945 President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
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06 Jul 1945 Washingston Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games
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06 Jul 1946 "St. Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 performances
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06 Jul 1946 53rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (62 64)
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06 Jul 1946 60th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (62 64 79 57 64)
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06 Jul 1947 The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
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06 Jul 1949 Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs
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06 Jul 1950 German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
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06 Jul 1951 65th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (64 64 64)
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06 Jul 1952 Last tram ride in London
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06 Jul 1954 KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Jul 1956 70th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64)
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06 Jul 1956 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England
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06 Jul 1956 Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher
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06 Jul 1957 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62)
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06 Jul 1957 Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney
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06 Jul 1957 Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
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06 Jul 1957 Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
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06 Jul 1957 John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
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06 Jul 1958 Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico
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06 Jul 1958 Alaska becomes 49th state
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06 Jul 1959 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
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06 Jul 1959 Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
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06 Jul 1959 WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Jul 1960 Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to New York City
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06 Jul 1961 Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
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06 Jul 1962 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)
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06 Jul 1962 Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria
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06 Jul 1962 Mantle hits his 3rd and 4th consecutive homer
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06 Jul 1962 As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
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06 Jul 1962 The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
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06 Jul 1963 70th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64)
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06 Jul 1963 77th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64)
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06 Jul 1964 Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from the UK
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06 Jul 1964 Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
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06 Jul 1965 Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms
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06 Jul 1966 Malawi becomes a Republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes President
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06 Jul 1966 Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
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06 Jul 1967 Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
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06 Jul 1967 Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
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06 Jul 1968 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75)
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06 Jul 1968 Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"
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06 Jul 1969 Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger
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06 Jul 1969 Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
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06 Jul 1970 California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law
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06 Jul 1970 Italian Rumor government resigns
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06 Jul 1971 Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi
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06 Jul 1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
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06 Jul 1974 88th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64)
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06 Jul 1975 Argentine government falls
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06 Jul 1975 Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
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06 Jul 1975 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147
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06 Jul 1975 Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
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06 Jul 1975 The Comoros declares independence from France.
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06 Jul 1976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 Cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
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06 Jul 1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
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06 Jul 1979 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)
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06 Jul 1979 IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
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06 Jul 1980 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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06 Jul 1980 Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836)
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06 Jul 1983 54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
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06 Jul 1983 Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3)
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06 Jul 1986 100th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75)
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06 Jul 1986 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
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06 Jul 1986 Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game
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06 Jul 1986 Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines
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06 Jul 1986 Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
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06 Jul 1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
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06 Jul 1987 Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds
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06 Jul 1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected President of Mexico
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06 Jul 1988 North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die
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06 Jul 1988 Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery
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06 Jul 1988 The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
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06 Jul 1989 Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game
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06 Jul 1989 US marshals and FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
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06 Jul 1990 After pitching a no-hitter lose, New York Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game and loses 2-0
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06 Jul 1991 98th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (64 36 86)
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06 Jul 1992 Fay Vincent realigns NL, putting Cubs, Cards and Rockies in West and Cards, Braves and Marlins in East
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06 Jul 1993 John F Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
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06 Jul 1994 Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)
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06 Jul 1994 Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85)
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06 Jul 1994 Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL game (vs. Ottawa)
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06 Jul 1995 Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon
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06 Jul 1995 In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and kills more than 8000 Bosniaks, in what then- UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called "the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War".
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06 Jul 1996 103rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro (63, 75)
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06 Jul 1996 Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24
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06 Jul 1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical, " closes at Royale NYC after 109 performances
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06 Jul 1997 111th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats C Pioline (64 62 64)
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06 Jul 1997 Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
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06 Jul 1997 Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
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06 Jul 1997 Wimbledon Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva beat N Arendt and M Bollegraf
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06 Jul 1997 The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
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06 Jul 1999 U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted on him in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
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06 Jul 2003 The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five 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.
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06 Jul 2006 The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-openes for trade after 44 years.
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