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06 Jul 1189
Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England
06 Jul 1348
Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
06 Jul 1484
Portuguese sea captain Diogo Co finds the mouth of the Congo River
06 Jul 1491
Opening ceremony of Daitokujis Shinju at subtemple
06 Jul 1495
Battle of Fornovo near Parma French King Charles VIII beats Holy League
06 Jul 1573
Pacificatie of Boulogne new peace treaty with huguenots
06 Jul 1573
Crdoba Argentina is founded by Jernimo Luis de Cabrera
06 Jul 1609
Majesteitsbrief Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion
06 Jul 1621
Dutch governor general John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda islands 15000 die
06 Jul 1630
Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemunde
06 Jul 1634
Johan van Walbeecks ships bypass St-Anna Bay Curaao
06 Jul 1641
Battle at La Marfe Sedan Earl Soisson beats French government army
06 Jul 1652
Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdams city hall burns)
06 Jul 1673
French troops conquer Maastricht as part of the Franco-Dutch War
06 Jul 1685
Battle at Sedgemoor King James II beats Duke of Monmouth
06 Jul 1775
Congress issues Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms listing grievances but denying intent to be independent
06 Jul 1777
British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
06 Jul 1782
British-French sea battle at Negapatam (off India)
06 Jul 1785
US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the dollar and adopts decimal coinage
06 Jul 1787
French government proclaims end to stampland tax
06 Jul 1789
French Revolution the National Assembly forms a committee of thirty members to write a new constitution
06 Jul 1798
US law makes aliens liable to be apprehended restrained ... & removed as alien enemies
06 Jul 1801
Battle at Algeciras French fleet beats British
06 Jul 1840
Christian Hebbels Judith premieres in Berlin
06 Jul 1853
William Wells Brown publishes Clotel 1st novel by an African American
06 Jul 1854
1st Republican state convention (Jackson Michigan)
06 Jul 1858
Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
06 Jul 1862
Skirmish at Devalls Bluff Arkansas (106 casualties)
06 Jul 1863
Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
06 Jul 1869
Black candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia Dr J. H. Harris defeated
06 Jul 1882
14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa Palestine
06 Jul 1886
Horlicks of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
06 Jul 1887
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Lottie Dod becomes youngest ever Wimbledon champion (15 years 285 days) defending champion beats Blanche Bingley 6-2 6-0
06 Jul 1889
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Blanche Bingley-Hillyard beats Lena Rice 4-6 8-6 6-4
06 Jul 1892
Striking steel workers in Homestead Pennsylvania fire on scabs killing 7
06 Jul 1892
Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain
06 Jul 1893
The small town of Pomeroy Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200
06 Jul 1894
Cleveland sends 2000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
06 Jul 1903
George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 1905
Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time
06 Jul 1907
Tom Reece takes 5 weeks to compile the highest recorded billiards break in a match (499135) in London his cradle cannon method is soon banned
06 Jul 1908
Robert Pearys expedition sails from NYC for north pole
06 Jul 1912
V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games officially open Stockholm Sweden events conducted prior to the ceremony dating back to 5 May
06 Jul 1912
Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 1919
British R-34 lands in NY 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
06 Jul 1920
New York Yankees score MLB record 14 runs in 5th inning of a 17-0 rout of Washington Senators
06 Jul 1922
Dutch autoairplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy
06 Jul 1923
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Suzanne Lenglen of France beats Kitty McKane 6-2 6-2 for her 5th straight Wimbledon singles title
06 Jul 1923
Rail crash on New Zealands main trunk line 17 killed and 28 injured
06 Jul 1923
The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union signed in Moscow in December 1922 and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
06 Jul 1924
1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio US-England
06 Jul 1928
1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
06 Jul 1928
Largest recorded hailstone at the time 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter) falls in Potter Nebraska
06 Jul 1928
Wimbledon Mens Tennis In an all-French final Ren Lacoste beats defending champion Henri Cochet 6-1 4-6 6-4 6-2
06 Jul 1929
Wimbledon Mens Tennis Henri Cochet beats fellow Frenchman Jean Borotra 6-4 6-3 6-4 for his 2nd Wimbledon singles crown
06 Jul 1929
St. Louis Cardinals set MLB run record with 28 runs on 28 hits (28-6 v Phillies)
06 Jul 1931
US Open Golf Inverness Club Ohio Billy Burke wins by 1 stroke from George Von Elm in a second 36-hole playoff longest playoff in tournament history
06 Jul 1932
1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 1934
Wimbledon Mens Tennis Home favourite Fred Perry beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-3 6-0 7-5 for the first of 3 straight Wimbledon titles
06 Jul 1935
Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
06 Jul 1936
114F (46C) Moorhead Minnesota (state record)
06 Jul 1936
121F (49C) Steele North Dakota (state record)
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 1938
6th MLB All Star Game NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field Cincinnati on 4 AL errors
06 Jul 1942
10th MLB All Star Game AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds New York AL runs are homers
06 Jul 1942
Von Hoth IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj
06 Jul 1943
2nd day of battle at Kursk 25000 Germans killed
06 Jul 1943
US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched
06 Jul 1944
Worlds largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brothers - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance 168 die (Hartford Connecticut)
06 Jul 1945
US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
06 Jul 1945
Washington Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1722 games
06 Jul 1946
St Louis Woman closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 performances
06 Jul 1946
Wimbledon Womens Tennis In an all-American matchup Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough 6-2 6-4 for her only Wimbledon crown
06 Jul 1949
Cincinnati Reds catcher Walker Cooper goes 6 for 7 (3 HRs 3 singles 5 runs scored 10 RBI) in 23-4 win v Cubs
06 Jul 1949
Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158F for 2 minutes
06 Jul 1950
German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
06 Jul 1951
Wimbledon Mens Tennis American Dick Savitt wins his only Wimbledon title beating Ken McGregor of Australia 6-4 6-4 6-4
06 Jul 1951
British Open Golf Royal Portrush GC Englishman Max Faulkner wins by 2 strokes from Antonio Cerd of Argentina
06 Jul 1954
KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
06 Jul 1956
Wimbledon Mens Tennis In an all-Australian matchup Lew Hoad wins his first of 2 Wimbledon singles crowns beating Ken Rosewall 6-2 4-6 7-5 6-4
06 Jul 1956
British Open Golf Royal Liverpool Australian Peter Thomson wins by 3 shots from Flory Van Donck of Belgium for his 3rd consecutive Open victory
06 Jul 1956
MLB Commissioner Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award to honour baseballs outstanding pitcher of the season
06 Jul 1956
Cleveland outfielder Jim Busby hits a second grand slam on consecutive days during Indians 4-2 win v Kansas City As
06 Jul 1957
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Althea Gibson becomes the first black female athlete to win Wimbledon beating Darlene Hard 6-3 6-2
06 Jul 1958
Adolfo Lpez Mateos elected President of Mexico
06 Jul 1959
WENH TV channel 11 in Durham NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
06 Jul 1960
Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3207 mile walk from LA to NYC
06 Jul 1961
Portuguese ship explodes near Mozambique kills 300
06 Jul 1962
Wimbledon Mens Tennis Rod Laver beats fellow Australian Martin Mulligan 6-2 6-2 6-1 for the 3rd leg of his first Grand Slam
06 Jul 1962
Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria
06 Jul 1962
Nuclear test shot Sedan part of Operation Plowshare
06 Jul 1963
South African workers union leader Billy Nair arrested
06 Jul 1964
Beatles film Hard Days Night premieres in London
06 Jul 1964
Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from UK
06 Jul 1966
Malawi becomes a republic Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president
06 Jul 1967
Nigerian Civil War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the secessionist state of Biafra
06 Jul 1968
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Billie Jean King beats Judy Tegart 9-7 7-5 to earn first ever prize money (750) offered at Wimbledon
06 Jul 1969
Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 1971
Barend Biesheuvel government forms in Netherlands
06 Jul 1971
Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi
06 Jul 1971
White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
06 Jul 1971
A member of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) is killed in a premature explosion in County Tipperary Republic of Ireland
06 Jul 1974
Wimbledon Mens Tennis Jimmy Connors wins his first of 2 Wimbledon singles titles beating Ken Rosewall of Australia 6-1 6-1 6-4
06 Jul 1975
Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
06 Jul 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)
06 Jul 1976
Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
06 Jul 1978
Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Muslim West Beirut
06 Jul 1978
A sleeping car catches fire in Taunton Somerset killing twelve people
06 Jul 1979
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Martina Navratilova successfully defends her title beating Chris Evert Lloyd 6-4 6-4
06 Jul 1979
IRA bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
06 Jul 1980
Phillies starter Steve Carlton fans 7 Cardinals to reach 2836 strikeouts the most by a left-handed pitcher in MLB history
06 Jul 1983
50th MLB All Star Game Comiskey Park Chicago Angels outfielder Fred Lynn hits first AS grand slam AL wins 13-3
06 Jul 1983
Supreme Court rules retirement plans cant pay women less
06 Jul 1984
New Zealand sisters Liz and Rose Signal become the first twins to play in the same cricket Test match v England at Headingley
06 Jul 1985
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 4-6 6-3 6-2 for her 6th Wimbledon singles title
06 Jul 1985
Moms Command wins the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont to clinch American thoroughbred racings Triple Tiara for fillies
06 Jul 1986
100th Wimbledon Mens Tennis Germanys Boris Becker successfully defends his title beating Ivan Lendl 6-4 6-3 7-5
06 Jul 1986
Atlanta infielder Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a MLB game during Braves 11-8 loss v Montreal
06 Jul 1986
Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines
06 Jul 1986
Premier Nakasones Liberal Democratic Party wins Japans election
06 Jul 1987
1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
06 Jul 1988
Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected President of Mexico
06 Jul 1988
North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes 166 die
06 Jul 1989
US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
06 Jul 1991
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Open Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina 6-4 3-6 8-6 for her 3rd Wimbledon crown
06 Jul 1993
England cricket batsman Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test debut in drawn 3rd Test v Australia at Trent Bridge
06 Jul 1994
Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)
06 Jul 1994
CFL American expansion Shreveport Pirates lose game 40-10 at the Ottawa Rough Riders fold 1995
06 Jul 1995
Venezuelan Congress approves the countrys first investment law allowing for foreign participation in oil exploration and production
06 Jul 1996
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Snchez Vicario 6-3 7-5 for her 20th Grand Slam title & 7th Wimbledon crown
06 Jul 1996
In a 2-0 win v Brewers New York Yankees closer John Wetteland sets MLB record 20 consecutive saves en route to 24
06 Jul 1997
Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical closes at Royale NYC after 109 performances
06 Jul 1997
Wimbledon Mens Tennis Pete Sampras beats Cdric Pioline of France 6-4 6-2 6-4 for his 10th Grand Slam title
06 Jul 1997
Australian cricket batsman Steve Waugh completes twin centuries (108 & 116) in 268 run 3rd Test win v England at Old Trafford
06 Jul 1998
US Open Womens Golf Blackwolf Run Se Ri Pak of South Korea wins a 20-hole Monday playoff over American amateur Jenny Chuasiriporn
06 Jul 1998
Hong Kongs Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 2000
West Ham United FC pays a record 1.8 million for the late Bobby Moores collection of memorabilia 79 items including his 1966 World Cup winners medal
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 2002
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Serena Williams beats older sister Venus 7-6 6-3 for her first Wimbledon singles title
06 Jul 1044
The Battle of Mnf takes place in Hungary won by a German force led by Peter Orseolo over Hungarians
06 Jul 1415
Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus is burned at the stake in Constance Germany
06 Jul 1854
1st Republican state convention held in Jackson Michigan
06 Jul 1885
William T. Steads 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
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 1951
British Open Mens Golf Royal Portrush GC Englishman Max Faulkner wins by 2 strokes from Antonio Cerd of Argentina
06 Jul 1956
British Open Mens Golf Royal Liverpool Australian Peter Thomson wins by 3 shots from Flory Van Donck of Belgium for his 3rd consecutive Open victory
06 Jul 1964
The Beatles film Hard Days Night premieres in London
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 1928
Largest recorded hailstone at the time 1.5 lbs (7 inches in diameter) falls in Potter Nebraska
06 Jul 1942
10th MLB All Star Game AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds NYC AL runs are homers
06 Jul 1986
Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in the Philippines
06 Jul 1943
2nd day of Battle of Kursk USSR Operation Citadel 25000 Germans killed
06 Jul 1946
St Louis Woman closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 performances
06 Jul 1964
The Beatles film A Hard Days Night premieres at The Pavilion in London England
06 Jul 1965
Psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane forms in San Francisco California
06 Jul 1997
Musical revue Dream based on songs of Johnny Mercer closes at Royale Theatre NYC after 109 performances
06 Jul 1590
English admiral Francis Drake takes Portuguese Forts at Taag
06 Jul 1885
William T. Steads 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
06 Jul 1964
Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from the United Kingdom
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 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.
06 Jul 2006
The Nathula Pass between India and China sealed during the Sino-Indian War re-opens for trade after 44 years
06 Jul 2009
Jadranka Kosor becomes the first female prime minister of Croatia
06 Jul 2013
14 people are killed after a train runs over a rickshaw in Sheikhupura Pakistan
06 Jul 2013
3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 2013
42 people are killed in an attack on a boarding school in Mamudo Nigeria
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 2014
Israeli Air Force strike kills 7 Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip
06 Jul 2016
African American Alton Sterling is shot by Louisiana police in Baton Rouge while being restrained on the ground the killing is filmed
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 2016
Pokmon Go the real-world mobile game by Niantic is first released
06 Jul 2016
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to 6 years in jail for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013
06 Jul 2017
France announces it will ban petrol and diesel cars by 2040
06 Jul 2017
Illinois State Senate votes to override Governor Bruce Rauners veto to approve 1st budget in more than two years longest-lasting such dispute of any state
06 Jul 2017
Sri Lankan government confirms outbreak of dengue fever has killed at least 227
06 Jul 2018
Floods and landslides begin in south-western Japan killing at least 200 people with more missing. Evacuation orders for nearly 2 million.
06 Jul 2018
Iranian instagram star Maedeh Hojabri confesses on state TV for posting videos of her dancing
06 Jul 2018
Paraguay has eliminated malaria in announcement by the World Health organization
06 Jul 2018
Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosrio of Mozambique sacks the board of Lam Airlines after he is left stranded when a plane runs out of fuel
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 1016
Battle of Pontlevoy one of largest battles of early Medieval France won by Fulk the Black and Hebert I of Maine against Odo II of Blois in the Loire Valley
06 Jul 1491
Opening ceremony of Kyotos Daitokuji Shinju at the sub-temple
06 Jul 1573
Pacificatie of Boulogne King Charles IX signs edict ending the French War of Religion peace treaty with Huguenots
06 Jul 1785
US Congress unanimously resolves to name the US currency the dollar and adopts decimal coinage
06 Jul 1853
William Wells Brown publishes Clotel the first novel by an African American
06 Jul 1858
Lyman Blake patents a shoe manufacturing machine
06 Jul 1916
The second of four fatal Jersey Shore shark attacks occurs at Spring Lake when Charles Bruder (27) bleeds to death five days after the first
06 Jul 1924
First photo is sent experimentally across the Atlantic by radio from the US to England
06 Jul 1928
First all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of New York)
06 Jul 1928
Largest recorded hailstone at the time weighing 1.5 lbs and measuring 7 inches in diameter falls in Potter Nebraska
06 Jul 1930
Fred Newton (27) commences attempt to swim entire length of the Mississippi River from Ford Dam Minnesota to New Orleans Louisiana he covers 1826 miles over 176 days almost twice the 90 days he estimates
06 Jul 1932
First-class postage increases to 3 cents from 2 cents
06 Jul 1935
Dutch architect Adriaan van de Steurs Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen opens in Rotterdam
06 Jul 1942
WWII German commander Von Hoths 4th Panzer Army captures the western part of Russian city of Voronezh
06 Jul 1944
Worlds largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford Connecticut killing at least 167 people and injuring 700 in one of the worst fire disasters in US history
06 Jul 1963
South African workers union leader Billy Nair (33) arrested and charged with sabotage and attempting to overthrow the government
06 Jul 1970
California passes the first no-fault divorce law in the United States
06 Jul 1976
Soyuz 21 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
06 Jul 1978
A sleeping car catches fire in Taunton Somerset killing twelve people
06 Jul 1978
Israeli jet fighters swoop over predominantly Muslim West Beirut
06 Jul 1987
First of three massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
06 Jul 1994
21.1 inches (51.6 cm) rainfall at Americus Georgia (state record)
06 Jul 2009
Jadranka Kosor becomes the first female Prime Minister of Croatia
06 Jul 2019
Super Rugby Final Christchurch Canterbury Crusaders win their 10th title with a 19-3 win over Argentinas Jaguares
06 Jul 2020
America officially begins withdrawing from the World Health Organization
06 Jul 2020
Zoonotic diseases which jump from animals to humans are increasing due to unsustainable farming and climate change according to new report by the UN
06 Jul 2022
First ever joint appearance by MI5 head Ken McCallum and the FBI Director Christopher A. Wray warning China is the biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security [1]
06 Jul 2022
Rocco Morabito Italian second-most wanted and one of the worlds most power drug brokers extradited from Brazil to Italy after being on the run for 28 years [1]
06 Jul 2024
Black woman Sonya Massey shot and killed in her home in Springfield Illinois by sheriff deputy Sean Grayson who is later charged with first-degree murder [1]
06 Jul 1573
Crdoba in Argentina is founded by Jernimo Luis de Cabrera
06 Jul 1986
Atlanta infielder Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a MLB game during Braves 11-8 loss to Montreal Expos
06 Jul 2000
West Ham United FC pays a record 1.8 million for the late Bobby Moores collection of memorabilia 79 items including his 1966 World Cup winners medal
06 Jul 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
06 Jul 2025
Suriname parliament elects Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as the countrys first female president [1]