Historical Events on July 6

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• 690 Maya ruler of Palenque K'inich Kan Bahlam dedicates the Temple of the Inscriptions to Pakal, his recently deceased father and the city's greatest ruler
• 1016 Battle of Pontlevoy: one of largest battles of early Medieval France won by Fulk the Black and Hebert I of Maine again Odo II of Blois in the Loire Valley
• 1044 The Battle of Ménfő takes place in Hungary, won by a German force led by Peter Orseolo over Hungarians

• 1253 Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania

• 1415 Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus is burned at the stake in Constance, Germany

• 1484 Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River
• 1491 Opening ceremony of Daitokuji's Shinju at subtemple

• 1560 England and Scotland sign Treaty of Edinburgh
• 1573 Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera
• 1573 Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots
• 1590 English admiral Francis Drake takes Portuguese Forts at Taag
• 1609 Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion
• 1621 Dutch governor general 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

• 1777 British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
• 1782 British-French sea battle at Negapatam (off India)
• 1785 US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage
• 1787 French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax
• 1787 Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede
• 1789 French Revolution: the National Assembly forms a committee of thirty members to write a new constitution
• 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

• 1853 William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel", 1st novel by an African American
• 1854 1st Republican state convention held in Jackson, Michigan
• 1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
• 1862 Skirmish at Devall's Bluff, Arkansas (106 casualties)
• 1863 Battle of Williamsport, Maryland [-Jul 07]
• 1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
• 1869 Black candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Dr J. H. Harris defeated
• 1882 14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine

• 1885 William T. Stead's "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" 1st published, describes how he was able to buy a 13-year-old girl in "The Pall Mall Gazette"
• 1886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
• 1892 Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain

• 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
• 1903 George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco

• 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

• 1907 Tom Reece takes 5 weeks to compile the highest recorded billiards break in a match (499,135) in London, his 'cradle' cannon method is soon banned

• 1912 Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
• 1912 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games officially open Stockholm, Sweden; events conducted prior to the ceremony dating back to 5 May
• 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

• 1919 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)

• 1920 New York Yankees score MLB record 14 runs in 5th inning of a 17-0 rout of Washington Senators
• 1922 Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy
• 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 Largest recorded hailstone at the time 1.5 lbs (7 inches in diameter) falls in Potter, Nebraska
• 1929 St. Louis Cardinals set MLB run record with 28 runs on 28 hits (28-6 v Phillies)
• 1932 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
• 1932 Cubs' future All Star shortstop Billy Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli; no charges laid

• 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
• 1939 German Nazis close last Jewish enterprises

• 1942 Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj
• 1943 2nd day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: 25,000 Germans killed
• 1943 US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched

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

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

• 1949 Cincinnati Reds catcher Walker Cooper goes 6 for 7, (3 HRs, 3 singles, 5 runs scored, 10 RBI) in 23-4 win v Chicago Cubs
• 1949 Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes
• 1950 German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
• 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 Cleveland outfielder Jim Busby hits a second grand slam on consecutive days during Indians 4-2 win v Kansas City A's
• 1956 MLB Commissioner Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honour baseball's outstanding pitcher of the season

• 1958 Adolfo López Mateos elected President of Mexico
• 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 Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria
• 1962 Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare

• 1963 South African workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested
• 1964 Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from the United Kingdom
• 1964 The Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night" premieres at The Pavilion in London, England
• 1965 Psychedelic rock band "Jefferson Airplane" forms in San Francisco, California
• 1966 Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president
• 1967 Nigerian Civil War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the secessionist state of Biafra
• 1968 Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"

• 1969 Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
• 1970 California passes the first no-fault divorce law in the United States
• 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 A member of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) is killed in a premature explosion in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland
• 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
• 1975 Argentine government falls
• 1975 Art Wall Jr. at 51 years, 7 months, 10 days becomes the second oldest to win a PGA Tour event, beating Gary McCord by 1 at the Greater Milwaukee Open (oldest Sam Snead)
• 1975 Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)

• 1976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
• 1977 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1978 A sleeping car catches fire in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people
• 1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Muslim West Beirut
• 1979 IRA bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
• 1980 France performs nuclear test

• 1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
• 1984 New Zealand sisters Liz and Rose Signal become the first twins to play in the same cricket Test match, v England at Headingley
• 1986 Atlanta infielder Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a MLB game during Braves 11-8 loss v Montreal
• 1986 Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in the Philippines
• 1986 Premier Nakasone's Liberal Democratic Party wins Japan's election
• 1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India

• 1987 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1988 "Piper Alpha" oil drilling platform explosion kills 167 in the North Sea about 190 km (120 miles) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland; rig operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited, explodes, 167 die
• 1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected President of Mexico

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

• 1992 Fay Vincent institutes plans to realign NL
• 1993 England cricket batsman Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test debut, in drawn 3rd Test v Australia at Trent Bridge

• 1994 CFL American expansion Shreveport Pirates lose game, 40-10 at the Ottawa Rough Riders; fold 1995
• 1994 Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)
• 1994 Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85)
• 1995 Venezuelan Congress approves the country's first investment law allowing for foreign participation in oil exploration and production
• 1996 In a 2-0 win v Brewers, New York Yankees closer John Wetteland sets MLB record 20 consecutive saves en route to 24
• 1997 Australian cricket batsman Steve Waugh completes twin centuries (108 & 116) in 268 run 3rd Test win v England at Old Trafford

• 1998 England cricket spin bowler Robert Croft saves England from defeat with a famous unbeaten 37 in 190 minutes on day 5 of 2nd Test v South Africa at Old Trafford, Manchester
• 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
• 2000 Real estate developer Stan Kroenke announces the acquisition of the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and the Pepsi Centre for $450m from the Ascent Entertainment Group
• 2000 West Ham United FC pays a record £1.8 million for the late Bobby Moore's collection of memorabilia; 79 items including his 1966 World Cup winner's medal
• 2002 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats older sister Venus 7-6, 6-3 for her first Wimbledon singles title
• 2003 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 in 2036, 2040, May 2044, September 2044 and 2049 respectively

• 2005 IOC awards London the right to host the Games of the XXX Olympiad in 2012 with a vote of 54 to 50 over Paris on the fourth and final ballot.

• 2006 The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years
• 2009 Jadranka Kosor becomes the first female prime minister of Croatia

• 2012 Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan
• 2013 14 people are killed after a train runs over a rickshaw in Sheikhupura, Pakistan
• 2013 3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport
• 2013 42 people are killed and 5 missing after a freight train carrying crude oil rolls unmanned for 12km before derailing at Lac-Megantic, Quebec igniting fires and explosions
• 2013 42 people are killed in an attack on a boarding school in Mamudo, Nigeria
• 2013 British & Irish Lions Rugby Union team thrash Australia, 41-16 in Sydney for a 2-1 series win, their first against the Wallabies since 1997
• 2014 Israeli Air Force strike kills 7 Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip

• 2016 African American Alton Sterling is shot by Louisiana police in Baton Rouge, while being restrained on the ground, the killing is filmed
• 2016 African American Philando Castile is shot by police in St Paul, Minnesota after being pulled over for a broken rear light, killing is filmed

• 2016 Pokémon Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is first released
• 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
• 2017 Illinois State Senate votes to override Governor Bruce Rauner's veto to approve 1st budget in more than two years, longest-lasting such dispute of any state
• 2017 Sri Lankan government confirms outbreak of dengue fever has killed at least 227
• 2018 Floods and landslides begin in south-western Japan, killing at least 200 people with more missing. Evacuation orders for nearly 2 million.
• 2018 Iranian instagram star Maedeh Hojabri confesses on state TV for posting videos of her dancing
• 2018 Paraguay has eliminated malaria in announcement by the World Health organization
• 2018 Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário of Mozambique sacks the board of Lam Airlines after he is left stranded when a plane runs out of fuel
• 2019 Jorge Masvidal (34-13) sets a UFC record by needing just 5 seconds to KO Ben Askren (19-1, 1 NC) during their welterweight bout at UFC 239 in Las Vegas, Nevada

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