July 6
1483 - England's King Richard III was crowned.
1535 - Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join Henry VIII's Church of England.
1777 - British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.
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.
1917 - During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi captured the port of Aqaba from the Ottoman Turks.
1923 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.
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 in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. Circus in Hartford, Connecticut, killed more than 160 people.
1945 - President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.
1957 - The Harry S. Truman Library, the nation’s first presidential library, was dedicated in Independence, Missouri.
1971 - Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong died in New York at age 69.
1974 - Garrison Keillor's radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," debuted in a live broadcast from St. Paul, Minnesota.
1988 - An estimated 167 North Sea oil workers were killed when explosions and fires destroyed a drilling platform.
1997 - The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface.
1998 - Roy Rogers, the "King of the Cowboys", died.
2003 - Former ambassador Joseph Wilson, in a New York Times op-ed, disputed President George W. Bush's statement that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa, saying he had found no evidence to support the claim when the CIA asked him to investigate.
2004 - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina to be his running mate.
2005 - New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name.
2010 - Queen Elizabeth II addressed the United Nations for the first time since 1957 during her first New York visit in more than 30 years.
2010 - Actress Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 90 days in a residential substance-abuse program for violating her probation stemming from two separate 2007 cases of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. (She served 14 days behind bars.).
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.
2016 - President Barack Obama scrapped plans to cut American forces in Afghanistan by half before leaving office.
2016 - Former Fox News Channel anchor Gretchen Carlson sued network chief executive Roger Ailes, claiming she was cut loose after she had refused his sexual advances and complained about harassment in the workplace, allegations denied by Ailes. (Carlson later settled her lawsuit for a reported $20 million.)
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 halted by President Joe Biden’s administration.)
2020 - Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Daniels, a singer, guitarist and fiddler who had a hit with “Devil Went Down to Georgia,” died in Tennessee at the age of 83.
Birthdays
21 - Zion Williamson (basketball player)
29 - Manny Machado (baseball player)
31 - Jeremy Suarez (actor)
34 - Kate Nash (singer)
38 - Gregory Smith (actor)
41 - Eva Green (actress)
42 - Kevin Hart (actor/comedian)
43 - Tia Mowry (actress)
43 - Tamara Mowry (actress)
46 - 50 Cent (rapper)
50 - Josh Elliott (TV host)
52 - Brian Van Holt (actor)
54 - Robb Derringer (actor)
55 - Brian Posehn (actor)
61 - Pip Torrens (actor)
63 - Jennifer Saunders (actress)
64 - Susan Ford Bales (daughter of President Gerald R. Ford)
67 - Willie Randolph (baseball player)
68 - Nanci Griffith (country singer)
69 - Grant Goodeve (actor)
70 - Allyce Beasley (actress)
70 - Geoffrey Rush (actor)
73 - Nathalie Baye (actress)
74 - Shelley Hack (actress)
75 - Fred Dryer (actor)
75 - Sylvester Stallone (actor)
75 - George W. Bush (43rd president of the United States)
76 - Burt Ward (actor)
81 - Jeannie Seely (singer)
81 - Gene Chandler (singer)
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Today in Sports History - July 6
1929 - The St. Louis Cardinals establish a major league record with 28 runs on 28 hits in a 28-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
1933 - Baseball's first All-Star game was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park, with the American League's best beating the National Leauge squad 4-2.
1956 - MLB Commissioner Ford Frick announces the Cy Young Award, to honor baseball's most outstanding pitcher of the season.
1957 - Althea Gibson became the first African American player to win a Wimbledon championship after taking the women's singles crown.
1983 - Fred Lynn of the California Angels hit the first grand slam in an All-Star game. The American League defeated the National League 13-3.
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.
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.
2002 - Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus to win her first Wimbledon title.
2003 - Roger Federer defeats Mark Philippoussis to win his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon.
2003 - Martina Navratilova claims her 20th all-time Wimbledon championship after pairing with Leander Paes to win the mixed doubles event.
2008 - Rafael Nadal breaks Roger Federer's five-year win streak at Wimbledon.
2011 - Jury selection began in the perjury trial of former baseball pitcher Roger Clemens, who was accused of lying under oath to Congress when he denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs during his career (the proceedings ended abruptly in a mistrial; Clemens was later acquitted in a retrial).
2015 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. is stripped of his WBO welterweight championship after failing to pay $200,000 sanctioning fee and vacate his two junior middleweight titles.
2016 - Double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to six years in a South African prison for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (An appeals court would increase that sentence to 13 years.)
2019 - The Los Angeles Clippers acquire reigning NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard from the Toronto Raptors and Paul George from the Oklahoma City Thunder for an unprecedented trade bounty of players and draft picks.
2020 - Quarterback Patrick Mahomes agreed to a 10-year contract extension with the Kansas City Chiefs worth a reported $503 million, giving the Super Bowl MVP the richest-ever sports contract.
1483 - England's King Richard III was crowned.
1535 - Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join Henry VIII's Church of England.
1777 - British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.
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.
1917 - During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi captured the port of Aqaba from the Ottoman Turks.
1923 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.
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 in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. Circus in Hartford, Connecticut, killed more than 160 people.
1945 - President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.
1957 - The Harry S. Truman Library, the nation’s first presidential library, was dedicated in Independence, Missouri.
1971 - Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong died in New York at age 69.
1974 - Garrison Keillor's radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," debuted in a live broadcast from St. Paul, Minnesota.
1988 - An estimated 167 North Sea oil workers were killed when explosions and fires destroyed a drilling platform.
1997 - The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface.
1998 - Roy Rogers, the "King of the Cowboys", died.
2003 - Former ambassador Joseph Wilson, in a New York Times op-ed, disputed President George W. Bush's statement that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa, saying he had found no evidence to support the claim when the CIA asked him to investigate.
2004 - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina to be his running mate.
2005 - New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name.
2010 - Queen Elizabeth II addressed the United Nations for the first time since 1957 during her first New York visit in more than 30 years.
2010 - Actress Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 90 days in a residential substance-abuse program for violating her probation stemming from two separate 2007 cases of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. (She served 14 days behind bars.).
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.
2016 - President Barack Obama scrapped plans to cut American forces in Afghanistan by half before leaving office.
2016 - Former Fox News Channel anchor Gretchen Carlson sued network chief executive Roger Ailes, claiming she was cut loose after she had refused his sexual advances and complained about harassment in the workplace, allegations denied by Ailes. (Carlson later settled her lawsuit for a reported $20 million.)
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 halted by President Joe Biden’s administration.)
2020 - Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Daniels, a singer, guitarist and fiddler who had a hit with “Devil Went Down to Georgia,” died in Tennessee at the age of 83.
Birthdays
21 - Zion Williamson (basketball player)
29 - Manny Machado (baseball player)
31 - Jeremy Suarez (actor)
34 - Kate Nash (singer)
38 - Gregory Smith (actor)
41 - Eva Green (actress)
42 - Kevin Hart (actor/comedian)
43 - Tia Mowry (actress)
43 - Tamara Mowry (actress)
46 - 50 Cent (rapper)
50 - Josh Elliott (TV host)
52 - Brian Van Holt (actor)
54 - Robb Derringer (actor)
55 - Brian Posehn (actor)
61 - Pip Torrens (actor)
63 - Jennifer Saunders (actress)
64 - Susan Ford Bales (daughter of President Gerald R. Ford)
67 - Willie Randolph (baseball player)
68 - Nanci Griffith (country singer)
69 - Grant Goodeve (actor)
70 - Allyce Beasley (actress)
70 - Geoffrey Rush (actor)
73 - Nathalie Baye (actress)
74 - Shelley Hack (actress)
75 - Fred Dryer (actor)
75 - Sylvester Stallone (actor)
75 - George W. Bush (43rd president of the United States)
76 - Burt Ward (actor)
81 - Jeannie Seely (singer)
81 - Gene Chandler (singer)
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Today in Sports History - July 6
1929 - The St. Louis Cardinals establish a major league record with 28 runs on 28 hits in a 28-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
1933 - Baseball's first All-Star game was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park, with the American League's best beating the National Leauge squad 4-2.
1956 - MLB Commissioner Ford Frick announces the Cy Young Award, to honor baseball's most outstanding pitcher of the season.
1957 - Althea Gibson became the first African American player to win a Wimbledon championship after taking the women's singles crown.
1983 - Fred Lynn of the California Angels hit the first grand slam in an All-Star game. The American League defeated the National League 13-3.
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.
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.
2002 - Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus to win her first Wimbledon title.
2003 - Roger Federer defeats Mark Philippoussis to win his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon.
2003 - Martina Navratilova claims her 20th all-time Wimbledon championship after pairing with Leander Paes to win the mixed doubles event.
2008 - Rafael Nadal breaks Roger Federer's five-year win streak at Wimbledon.
2011 - Jury selection began in the perjury trial of former baseball pitcher Roger Clemens, who was accused of lying under oath to Congress when he denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs during his career (the proceedings ended abruptly in a mistrial; Clemens was later acquitted in a retrial).
2015 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. is stripped of his WBO welterweight championship after failing to pay $200,000 sanctioning fee and vacate his two junior middleweight titles.
2016 - Double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to six years in a South African prison for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (An appeals court would increase that sentence to 13 years.)
2019 - The Los Angeles Clippers acquire reigning NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard from the Toronto Raptors and Paul George from the Oklahoma City Thunder for an unprecedented trade bounty of players and draft picks.
2020 - Quarterback Patrick Mahomes agreed to a 10-year contract extension with the Kansas City Chiefs worth a reported $503 million, giving the Super Bowl MVP the richest-ever sports contract.
