On this day in History - Jul 06

• 1189 - Henry II of England dies at Chinon Castle (b. 1133)
• 1249 - Alexander II of Scotland dies (b. 1198)
• 1253 - Mindaugas is crowned king of Lithuania.
• 1415 - Jan Hus dies, burned at the stake. Bohemian religious reformer.
• 1476 - Regiomantus dies (b. 1436). German astronomer and mathematician.
• 1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
• 1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River.
• 1533 - Ludovico Ariosto dies (b. 1474). Italian poet.
• 1535 - Sir Thomas More dies beheaded (b. 1478). Chancellor of England, writer and philosopher (Utopia) . He was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1935.
• 1553 - King Edward VI Tudor dies (15) (b. 1537). King of England (1547-53).
• 1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland,and Great Britain.
• 1583 - Edmund Grindal dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1609 - Bohemia is granted Freedom of religion.
• 1630 - Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Germany.
• 1726 - Humphry Wanley dies (b. 1672). Learned scholar. Antiquary Archivist Librarian
• 1755 - John Flaxman was born. Sculptor
• 1762 - Tsar Peter III Feodorovich dies murdered (b. 1728). Tsar of Russia (1761-62)
• 1766 - Alexander Wilson was born (d. 1813). Scottish-born poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.
• 1767 - Michael Bruce dies at Kinnsswood (b. 1746). Poet.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Ticonderoga, bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne forces American retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
• 1781 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was born. Governor of Java (1811—1816), author of a History of Java and founder of the Zoological Society.
• 1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States. This is the first time a nation has adopted a decimal currency system.
• 1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia was born (d. 1855)
• 1799 - Ranjit Singh's 25,000 men start march towards Lahore. Babu Varghese, Kerala, India
• 1801 - Battle of Algeciras: The French fleet beats the British fleet.
• 1809 - O exército francês, comandado por Napoleão Bonaparte, derrota o exército austríaco comandado pelo arquiduque Carlos, na Batalha de Wagram, a sul de Viena.
• 1813 - Granville Sharpe dies in Fulham (b. 10 Nov 1735) . English philanthropist
• 1818 - Adolf Anderssen was born (d. 1879)
• 1823 - Sir Henry Raeburn, dies in Edinburgh. Painter.
• 1824 - Erección del Estado de Chihuahua. De conformidad con el artículo quinto de la Constitución Federal de 1824, Chihuahua es erigido como Estado Libre y Soberano de la Federación.
• 1827 - Tratado de Londres entre a França, a Rússia e a Grã-Bretanha. As potências decidem intervir em defesa da autonomia grega em luta contra a Turquia otomana.
• 1832 - Maximiliano I - México was born.
• 1838 - Vatroslav Jagic was born (d. 1923). Croatian scholar.
• 1840 - Nace en Temascalcingo, Estado de México, José María Velasco, quien destacará como pintor de fama mundial. Ha de morir en la ciudad de México, el 26 de agosto de 1912.
• 1851 - D. M. Moir, dies in Musselburgh, Scotland. Poet and miscellaneous writer.
• 1854 - In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held.
• 1855 - Andrew Crosse dies. Electrician.
• 1859 - Verner von Heidenstam was born (d. 1940). Swedish writer. 1916 Nobel Prize for Literature laureated.
• 1861 - Sir Francis Palgrave, dies. Historian.
• 1863 - Nace Rómulo Figueroa Mata, quien se distinguirá como inquieto revolucionario maderista y sostenedor del Plan de Guadalupe en su Estado. Como constitucionalista hará carrera militar y llegará a general. Ha de morir en la ciudad de México, el 26 de noviembre de 1946.
• 1864 - Alberto Nepomuceno was born. Brazilian composer and conductor, Artemis
• 1871 - António Frederico de Castro Alves dies in Salvador, Bahia (b. 14 Mar 1847). Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes, O navio negreiro, etc.).
• 1876 - Emilio Recabarren Serrano was born. Founder of Comunist Party in Chile.
• 1882 - Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez dies. President of Costa Rica.
• 1884 - Harold Vanderbilt was born. Businessman.
• 1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• 1887 - David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
• 1887 - 4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (6-2 and 6-0)
• 1887 - Walter Flex was born (d. 1917). Writer.
• 1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian MP in Britain.
• 1893 - Guy de Maupassant dies (b. 1850). French author.
• 1898 - Hanns Eisler was born (d. 1962). German composer.
• 1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
• 1907 - Frida Kahlo was born (d. 1954). Mexican painter, wife of Diego Rivera
• 1908 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.
• 1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens
• 1913 - Agustín Rivera y San Román dies (b. 1824).
• 1914 - José García Nieto was born. Spanish writer and poet.
• 1914 - Delmira Agustini dies (b. 24 Out 1887). Uruguyan poetess.
• 1915 - LaVerne Andrews was born. Singer the Andrews Sisters
• 1916 - Odilon Redon dies (b. 1840). French painter.
• 1917 - Arabian troops led by T.E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.
• 1918 - Sebastian Cabot was born (d. 1977). English actor.
• 1919 - Ernst Haefliger was born. Swiss tenor
• 1919 - The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
• 1919 - Oswaldo Guayasamin was born. Ecuatorian sculptor and painter
• 1921 - Nancy Davis was born. American actress.
• 1921 - Nancy Reagan was born. Actress and First Lady of the United States
• 1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, was born. President of Poland
• 1923 - 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (6-2 and 6-2)
• 1923 - Treaty of Union signed between Russia, Transcaucasia, Ukraine and Belarus, establishing the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Lenin is designed President
• 1925 - Merv Griffin was born. American game show developer and television show host
• 1925 - Bill Haley was born (d. 1981). American singer (Bill Haley and the Comets). "Rock Around the Clock"
• 1927 - Janet Leigh [Jeanette Helen Morrison] was born in Merced, Ca. (d. 2004). American actress (Psycho) .
• 1927 - Hein Donner was born. Dutch chess player
• 1927 - Dolores Claman was born. Musician and composer
• 1927 - Pat Paulsen was born (d. 1997). American comedian and Presidential candidate.
• 1928 - The ten world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
• 1932 - Kenneth Grahame dies (b. 1859). English children's author.
• 1933 - The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League wins, 4 to 2.
• 1935 - Tenzin Gyatso was born. Fourteenth Dalai Lama Nobel Peace Prize winner for his efforts to end China's domination of Tibet.
• 1935 - 48th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (6-3, 3-6 and 7-5)
• 1935 - Dalai Lama was born. Tibetean spiritual leader.
• 1936 - Dave Allen was born (d. 2005). Irish comedian.
• 1937 - Ned Beatty was born. American actor
• 1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy was born in Gorki. Russian pianist and conductor
• 1939 - Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
• 1944 - The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1944 - Chuichi Nagumo dies. Japanese militar.
• 1945 - Burt Ward was born. American actor.
• 1946 - Sylvester Stallone was born. American actor
• 1946 - George W. Bush was born. 43rd President of the United States
• 1946 - 53rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (6-2 and 6-4) .
• 1946 - 60th Wimbledon Men Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (6-2, 6-4, 7-9, 5-7 and 6-4)
• 1948 - Nathalie Baye was born in Mainneville. French actress: Beau Pere, Honeymoon
• 1951 - 65th Wimbledon Men Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (6-4, 6-4 and 6-4)
• 1951 - Geoffrey Rush was born. Australian actor, Academy Award winner
• 1953 - Nanci Griffith was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1956 - Kenny G was born. American saxophonist.
• 1956 - 70th Wimbledon Men Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (6-2, 4-6, 7-5 and 6-4).
• 1957 - Althea Gibson wins the 64th Wimbledon championships defeating American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
• 1957 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first meet.
• 1958 - Jennifer Saunders, was born. British actress and comedian
• 1958 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico
• 1959 - Richard Dacoury was born. French basketball player
• 1959 - Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
• 1960 - Aneurin Bevan dies (b. 1897). British politician.
• 1961 - Enrique Larreta dies. Argentine writer.
• 1961 - Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
• 1962 - William (Harrison) Faulkner dies in Oxford, Mississipi (b. 1897). American novelist (Nobel 1949).
• 1962 - 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (6-2, 6-2 and 6-1)
• 1963 - 70th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (6-3 and 6-4)
• 1963 - 77th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (9-7 6-1 and 6-4)
• 1964 - A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premieres.
• 1964 - Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1966 - Malawi becomes a republic. Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes pres
• 1967 - Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
• 1966 - Sad Sam Jones dies (b. 1892). Major League Baseball player.
• 1967 - Heather Nova was born. British/Bermudan guitarist/singer
• 1968 - 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (9-7 and 7-5)
• 1968 - Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"
• 1970 - Inspectah Deck was born. American rapper
• 1971 - Louis Armstrong dies (b. 1901). American jazz musician.
• 1973 - Otto Klemperer dies (b. 1885). German conductor.
• 1974 - The radio program A Prairie Home Companion makes its first live broadcast.
• 1974 88th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64)
• 1975 - The Comoros declare their independence from France.
• 1976 - 50 Cent was born. American rapper.
• 1979 - 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (6-4; 6-4).
• 1980 - Morte da poetisa brasileira Isolina Alves Alvelino Waldwogel
• 1981 - As a result of a biological terrorist attack, 11,400 people fell ill of dengue hemorrhagic fever in this single day in Cuba.
• 1982 - Bob Johnson, dies (b. 1905). Major League Baseball player.
• 1986 - 100th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (6-4 6-3 7-5)
• 1988 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires killing 167 oil workers.
• 1988 - Controversial presidential election held in Mexico. the PRI declared itself the early winner without an official vote count. The true results of the election were never made public. Carlos Salinas de Gortari candidate for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, was losing badly to opposition candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas.
• 1989 - At 01:23:45 AM, the time and date by British reckoning was 01:23:45 6/7/89. This was also true 12 hours later excepting 24-hour time.
• 1989 - János Kádár, dies (b. 1912). Hungarian politician.
• 1991 - Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (6-4; 3-6; 8-6) in 98th Wimbledon Womens Tennis
• 1992 - The Group of Seven industrial nations opened their 18th annual economic summit in Munich, Germany.
• 1993 - John Bolton dies. English astronomer.
• 1996 - 103rd Wimbledon Women Tennis : Steffi Graf wins her seventh Wimbledon title, defeating Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6-3, 7-5.
• 1997 - 111 th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras wins his fourth Wimbledon title as he defeated Cedric Pioline of France (6-4; 6-2; 6-4) .
• 1997 - Wimbledon Women's Doubles: Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva beat Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf
• 1997 - In Mexico City, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano, leader of the opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution, declared victory in the race for mayor. The PRI lost its majority in the lower house of Congress. The four opposition parties banded together in a coalition to inaugurate the new Congress on Aug 30.
• 1998 - Roy Rogers dies (b. 1911). American cowboy actor and singer.
• 1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo dies (b. 1901). Spanish composer.
• 2000 - Venus Williams beat her younger sister Serena 6-2, 7-6 (3) to reach the Wimbledon final; their singles match was the first between sisters in a Grand Slam semifinal.
• 2002 - John Frankenheimer, dies (b. 1930). American film director.
• 2002 - Serena Williams beat older sister Venus 7-6 (4), 6-3 to win her first Wimbledon title and second straight Grand Slam tournament.
• 2003 - Buddy Ebsen, dies (b. 1908). American actor.
• 2003 - The Corsicans rejected a referendum for increased autonomy from France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against, and 49.02 percent for.
• 2003 - Roger Federer became the first Swiss man to win a Grand Slam title, defeating Mark Philippoussis 7-6 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (3) in the Wimbledon final.
• 2003 Kathleen Raine dies in London at 95. Poet and scholar whose verse explored the realms of nature and the spirit. "Stone and Flower" (1943), illustrated by Barbara Hepworth, was her first published collection, followed by "Living in Time" (1946) and "The Pythoness" (1949).
• 2004 - In an "exclusive" The New York Post erroneously reports that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has selected Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt as his running mate.
• 2004 - Thomas Klestil dies (b. 1932). President of Austria.
• 2004 - President Hugo Chavez announced that Venezuela has granted citizenship to 216,000 immigrants since May under a fast-track nationalization plan.
• 2005 - Games of the XXX Summer Olympiad to be held in 2012 are chosen and announced by the IOC See also: 2012 Summer Olympics
• Comoros - Independence Day (1975)
• Czech Republic - Jan Hus Day (1415)
• Feast day of St Maria Goretti
• Lithuania - Day of Statehood
• Malawi - Independence Day (1964)
• Malawi - Republic Day (1966)