July 6
1483 - England's King Richard III was crowned.
1535 - Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join King 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.
1923 - The Soviet Union came into being as 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.
1988 - 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 - Soap opera actress Kelly Monaco won the first season of the reality TV series "Dancing With the Stars."
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 visit to New York 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.)
2012 - Former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was released from jail in Florida for a second time while he awaited his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. (Zimmerman was acquitted.)
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.
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.)
2021 - Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, defeating a large field in New York’s first major race to use ranked choice voting. (Adams would be elected mayor in November.)
Birthdays
22 - Zion Williamson (basketball player)
28 - Milly Rosso (actress)
30 - Manny Machado (baseball player)
32 - Jeremy Suarez (actor)
35 - Kate Nash (singer)
39 - Gregory Smith (actor)
42 - Eva Green (actress)
42 - Pau Gasol (basketball player)
43 - Kevin Hart (actor/comedian)
44 - Tia Mowry (actress)
44 - Tamara Mowry (actress)
47 - 50 Cent (rapper)
51 - Josh Elliott (TV host)
53 - Brian Van Holt (actor)
54 - John Dickerson (reporter)
55 - Robb Derringer (actor)
56 - Brian Posehn (actor)
64 - Jennifer Saunders (actress)
65 - Susan Ford Bales (daughter of President Gerald Ford)
66 - John Jorgenson (singer)
68 - Willie Randolph (baseball player)
70 - Grant Goodeve (actor)
71 - Allyce Beasley (actress)
71 - Geoffrey Rush (actor)
74 - Nathalie Baye (actress)
75 - Shelley Hack (actress)
76 - Fred Dryer (actor)
76 - Sylvester Stallone (actor)
76 - George W. Bush (43rd president of the United States)
77 - Burt Ward (actor)
82 - Jeannie Seely (singer)
82 - Gene Chandler (singer)
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Today in Sports History - July 6
1933 - The first MLB All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the National League, 4-2.
1935 - Helen Wills wins her seventh Wimbledon title.
1956 - MLB commissioner Ford Frick announces the Cy Young Award, to honor baseball's outstanding pitcher of the season.
1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women's singles title, becoming the first Black athlete to ever win the event.
1980 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies recorded his 2,836th career strikeout, the most ever for a left-handed pitcher in MLB history.
1985 - Martina Navratilova won her 4th consecutive Wimbledon singles title.
1986 - Bob Horner of the Atlanta Braves becomes the 11th player in MLB history to hit four home runs in one game in a loss to the Montreal Expos.
1989 - Ex-Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt becomes the first retired player to be named to start the All-Star Game. (He elects not to play.)
1996 - Steffi Graf won her seventh Wimbledon title.
1997 - Pete Sampras wins Wimbledon for his 10th Grand Slam 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 championship.
2003 - Roger Federer wins his first Wimbledon and Grand Slam title of his career.
2003 - Martina Navratilova claims her 20th all-time Wimbledon title as she wins the mixed doubles title.
2008 - Rafael Nadal defeats Roger Federer to snap his five-year championship streak at Wimbledon.
2015 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. is stripped of his WBO welterweight boxing title after failing to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee and vacate his two junior middleweight titles.
2019 - The Los Angeles Clippers acquire two NBA megastars in one day; reigning Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard from the Toronto Raptors in free agency, and Paul George from the Oklahoma City Thunder for an unprecedented trade bounty of players and picks.
2019 - Jorge Masvidal sets a UFC record by needing just five seconds to knockout Ben Askren during their welterweight bout at UFC 239 in Las Vegas.
2020 - Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes agrees to the largest contract for an athlete in sports history, signing a 12-year deal that could end up being worth $503 million.
1483 - England's King Richard III was crowned.
1535 - Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join King 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.
1923 - The Soviet Union came into being as 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.
1988 - 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 - Soap opera actress Kelly Monaco won the first season of the reality TV series "Dancing With the Stars."
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 visit to New York 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.)
2012 - Former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was released from jail in Florida for a second time while he awaited his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. (Zimmerman was acquitted.)
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.
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.)
2021 - Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, defeating a large field in New York’s first major race to use ranked choice voting. (Adams would be elected mayor in November.)
Birthdays
22 - Zion Williamson (basketball player)
28 - Milly Rosso (actress)
30 - Manny Machado (baseball player)
32 - Jeremy Suarez (actor)
35 - Kate Nash (singer)
39 - Gregory Smith (actor)
42 - Eva Green (actress)
42 - Pau Gasol (basketball player)
43 - Kevin Hart (actor/comedian)
44 - Tia Mowry (actress)
44 - Tamara Mowry (actress)
47 - 50 Cent (rapper)
51 - Josh Elliott (TV host)
53 - Brian Van Holt (actor)
54 - John Dickerson (reporter)
55 - Robb Derringer (actor)
56 - Brian Posehn (actor)
64 - Jennifer Saunders (actress)
65 - Susan Ford Bales (daughter of President Gerald Ford)
66 - John Jorgenson (singer)
68 - Willie Randolph (baseball player)
70 - Grant Goodeve (actor)
71 - Allyce Beasley (actress)
71 - Geoffrey Rush (actor)
74 - Nathalie Baye (actress)
75 - Shelley Hack (actress)
76 - Fred Dryer (actor)
76 - Sylvester Stallone (actor)
76 - George W. Bush (43rd president of the United States)
77 - Burt Ward (actor)
82 - Jeannie Seely (singer)
82 - Gene Chandler (singer)
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Today in Sports History - July 6
1933 - The first MLB All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the National League, 4-2.
1935 - Helen Wills wins her seventh Wimbledon title.
1956 - MLB commissioner Ford Frick announces the Cy Young Award, to honor baseball's outstanding pitcher of the season.
1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women's singles title, becoming the first Black athlete to ever win the event.
1980 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies recorded his 2,836th career strikeout, the most ever for a left-handed pitcher in MLB history.
1985 - Martina Navratilova won her 4th consecutive Wimbledon singles title.
1986 - Bob Horner of the Atlanta Braves becomes the 11th player in MLB history to hit four home runs in one game in a loss to the Montreal Expos.
1989 - Ex-Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt becomes the first retired player to be named to start the All-Star Game. (He elects not to play.)
1996 - Steffi Graf won her seventh Wimbledon title.
1997 - Pete Sampras wins Wimbledon for his 10th Grand Slam 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 championship.
2003 - Roger Federer wins his first Wimbledon and Grand Slam title of his career.
2003 - Martina Navratilova claims her 20th all-time Wimbledon title as she wins the mixed doubles title.
2008 - Rafael Nadal defeats Roger Federer to snap his five-year championship streak at Wimbledon.
2015 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. is stripped of his WBO welterweight boxing title after failing to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee and vacate his two junior middleweight titles.
2019 - The Los Angeles Clippers acquire two NBA megastars in one day; reigning Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard from the Toronto Raptors in free agency, and Paul George from the Oklahoma City Thunder for an unprecedented trade bounty of players and picks.
2019 - Jorge Masvidal sets a UFC record by needing just five seconds to knockout Ben Askren during their welterweight bout at UFC 239 in Las Vegas.
2020 - Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes agrees to the largest contract for an athlete in sports history, signing a 12-year deal that could end up being worth $503 million.
