Today is Saturday, July 6th, the 188th day of 2024. There are 178 days left this year.
Today’s History Highlights:
On July 6, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win the Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hurd 6-3, 6-2.
This day too:
In 1483, King Richard III of England was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
In 1777, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga (ty-kahn-dur-OH’-gah) during the American Revolutionary War.
In 1885, French scientist Louis Pasteur tested a rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog, but the boy did not develop rabies.
In 1933, the first All-Star baseball game was played at Comiskey Park in Chicago, with the American League defeating the National League, 4-2, behind winning pitcher Lefty Gomez of the New York Yankees.
In 1942, Anne Frank went with her parents and sister to a “secret hiding place” in a building in Amsterdam, later joining four others. They hid from the Nazi occupying forces for two years before being discovered and arrested.
In 1944, an estimated 168 people died when a fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut during a performance.
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In 1967, Nigerian troops invaded the Republic of Biafra, sparking the Nigerian Civil War.
In 1988, an explosion and fire destroyed a drilling platform, killing 167 North Sea oil workers.
In 2013, an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 from Seoul, South Korea, crashed upon landing at San Francisco International Airport, killing three passengers and injuring 181.
In 2016, Philando Castile, a black elementary school cafeteria worker, was killed by Officer Jeronimo Yanez during a traffic stop in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights. (Yanez was later acquitted of second-degree manslaughter.)
Six members of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo were hanged in 2018 along with its leader, Shoko Asahara. They had been convicted of crimes including a 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people and sickened thousands.
In 2020, the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that it would withdraw from the WHO. President Donald Trump had criticized the WHO’s response to COVID-19. (The withdrawal was later called off by the administration of President Joseph Biden.)
Today’s birthdays: 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso is 89; singer Gene Chandler (Duke of Earl) is 87; country singer Jeannie Seely is 84; actor Burt Ward (TV: Batman) is 79; former President George W. Bush is 78; actor and director Sylvester Stallone is 78; actor Geoffrey Rush is 73; retired MLB All-Star Willie Randolph is 70; former First Daughter Susan Ford Bales is 67; actor and screenwriter Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous) is 66; actor Brian Posehn is 58; political reporter/host John Dickerson is 56; rapper Inspector Deck (Wu-Tang Clan) is 54; rapper 50 Cent is 49. Actors Tia and Tamera Mowry are 46. Comedian and actor Kevin Hart is 45. Actress Eva Green is 44. San Diego Padres infielder Manny Machado is 32. NBA power forward Zion Williamson is 24.
