July 6
1483 - England's King Richard III was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1535 - Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join Henry VIII's Church of England.
1777 - During the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga.
1854 - The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully treated a patient with a rabies vaccine.
1942 - Anne Frank, her parents and sister entered a "secret annex" in an Amsterdam building where they were later joined by four other people; they hid from Nazi occupiers for two years before being discovered and arrested.
1944 - A fire caused by inept fire-eaters swept through the main tent of the Ringling Brothers Circus in Hartford, Connecticut, killing 168 people.
1945 - President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.
1988 - Explosions and fires aboard an oil drilling platform in the North Sea killed 167 workers.
1997 - The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface.
1998 - Roy Rogers, the "King of the Cowboys," died.
2013 - A runaway train carrying crude oil derailed in eastern Quebec, igniting fires and explosions that destroyed much of the town of Lac-Megantic and killed 47 people.
2015 - Pope Francis received a hero's welcome in Guayaquil, Ecuador's biggest city, as he celebrated the first public Mass of his South American tour.
2018 - The United States and China imposed tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's goods in what Beijing called the "biggest trade war in economic history."
2020 - The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization; President Donald Trump had criticized the WHO's response to the coronavirus pandemic. (The pullout was later halted by President Joe Biden's administration.)
Birthdays
23 - Zion Williamson (basketball player)
31 - Manny Machado (baseball player)
33 - Jeremy Suarez (actor)
36 - Kate Nash (singer)
40 - Gregory Smith (actor)
43 - Eva Green (actress)
44 - Kevin Hart (actor/comedian)
45 - Tia Mowry (actress)
45 - Tamara Mowry (actress)
48 - 50 Cent (rapper)
49 - Larsa Pippen (reality star)
52 - Josh Elliott (TV host)
54 - Brian Van Holt (actor)
56 - Robb Derringer (actor)
57 - Brian Posehn (actor)
65 - Jennifer Saunders (actress)
69 - Willie Randolph (baseball player)
71 - Grant Goodeve (actor)
72 - Allyce Beasley (actress)
72 - Geoffrey Rush (actor)
75 - Nathalie Baye (actress)
76 - Shelley Hack (actress)
77 - Fred Dryer (actor)
77 - George W. Bush (43rd president of the United States)
77 - Sylvester Stallone (actor)
78 - Burt Ward (actor)
83 - Gene Chandler (singer)
88 - Tenzin Gyatso (the 14th Dalai Lama)
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Today in Sports History - July 6
1929 - The St. Louis Cardinals set MLB run record with 28 runs on 28 hits in a 28-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
1933 - The first MLB All-Star Game was played at Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American League won the inaugural event 4-2 over the National League.
1956 - MLB Commissioner Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honour baseball's outstanding pitcher of the season.
1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women's singles title, the first Black tennis player to win the event.
1980 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies sets a MLB record for career strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher with 2,836.
1985 - Martina Navratilova won her 4th consecutive Wimbledon singles title.
1996 - Steffi Graf won her seventh Wimbledon title.
1997 - The Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's #10.
1997 - Pete Sampras wins Wimbledon and his 10th career Grand Slam singles title.
2000 - A jury awarded former NHL player Tony Twist $24 million for the unconsented use of his name in the comic book Spawn and the HBO cartoon series. Co-defendant HBO settled with Twist out of court for an undisclosed amount.
2003 - Martina Navratilova claims her 20th all-time Wimbledon title as she and Leander Paes beat Andy Ram & Anastassia Rodionova 6-3, 6-3 in the mixed doubles final.
2015 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. is stripped of his WBO welterweight boxing title after failing to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee and vacates his two junior middleweight titles.
2020 - Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes agrees to the largest contract for an athlete in professional sports history, signing a 12-year deal worth $503 million.
1483 - England's King Richard III was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1535 - Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join Henry VIII's Church of England.
1777 - During the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga.
1854 - The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully treated a patient with a rabies vaccine.
1942 - Anne Frank, her parents and sister entered a "secret annex" in an Amsterdam building where they were later joined by four other people; they hid from Nazi occupiers for two years before being discovered and arrested.
1944 - A fire caused by inept fire-eaters swept through the main tent of the Ringling Brothers Circus in Hartford, Connecticut, killing 168 people.
1945 - President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.
1988 - Explosions and fires aboard an oil drilling platform in the North Sea killed 167 workers.
1997 - The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface.
1998 - Roy Rogers, the "King of the Cowboys," died.
2013 - A runaway train carrying crude oil derailed in eastern Quebec, igniting fires and explosions that destroyed much of the town of Lac-Megantic and killed 47 people.
2015 - Pope Francis received a hero's welcome in Guayaquil, Ecuador's biggest city, as he celebrated the first public Mass of his South American tour.
2018 - The United States and China imposed tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's goods in what Beijing called the "biggest trade war in economic history."
2020 - The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization; President Donald Trump had criticized the WHO's response to the coronavirus pandemic. (The pullout was later halted by President Joe Biden's administration.)
Birthdays
23 - Zion Williamson (basketball player)
31 - Manny Machado (baseball player)
33 - Jeremy Suarez (actor)
36 - Kate Nash (singer)
40 - Gregory Smith (actor)
43 - Eva Green (actress)
44 - Kevin Hart (actor/comedian)
45 - Tia Mowry (actress)
45 - Tamara Mowry (actress)
48 - 50 Cent (rapper)
49 - Larsa Pippen (reality star)
52 - Josh Elliott (TV host)
54 - Brian Van Holt (actor)
56 - Robb Derringer (actor)
57 - Brian Posehn (actor)
65 - Jennifer Saunders (actress)
69 - Willie Randolph (baseball player)
71 - Grant Goodeve (actor)
72 - Allyce Beasley (actress)
72 - Geoffrey Rush (actor)
75 - Nathalie Baye (actress)
76 - Shelley Hack (actress)
77 - Fred Dryer (actor)
77 - George W. Bush (43rd president of the United States)
77 - Sylvester Stallone (actor)
78 - Burt Ward (actor)
83 - Gene Chandler (singer)
88 - Tenzin Gyatso (the 14th Dalai Lama)
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Today in Sports History - July 6
1929 - The St. Louis Cardinals set MLB run record with 28 runs on 28 hits in a 28-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
1933 - The first MLB All-Star Game was played at Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American League won the inaugural event 4-2 over the National League.
1956 - MLB Commissioner Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honour baseball's outstanding pitcher of the season.
1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women's singles title, the first Black tennis player to win the event.
1980 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies sets a MLB record for career strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher with 2,836.
1985 - Martina Navratilova won her 4th consecutive Wimbledon singles title.
1996 - Steffi Graf won her seventh Wimbledon title.
1997 - The Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's #10.
1997 - Pete Sampras wins Wimbledon and his 10th career Grand Slam singles title.
2000 - A jury awarded former NHL player Tony Twist $24 million for the unconsented use of his name in the comic book Spawn and the HBO cartoon series. Co-defendant HBO settled with Twist out of court for an undisclosed amount.
2003 - Martina Navratilova claims her 20th all-time Wimbledon title as she and Leander Paes beat Andy Ram & Anastassia Rodionova 6-3, 6-3 in the mixed doubles final.
2015 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. is stripped of his WBO welterweight boxing title after failing to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee and vacates his two junior middleweight titles.
2020 - Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes agrees to the largest contract for an athlete in professional sports history, signing a 12-year deal worth $503 million.
