July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining.

• 1253 - Mindaugas is crowned king of Lithuania.
• 1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
• 1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River.
• 1495 - Charles VIII fights in the Battle of Fornovo against the Holy League, ending his attempted conquest of Italy.
• 1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
• 1573 - Córdoba, Argentina is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
• 1609 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
• 1630 - Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany.
• 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.
• 1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
• 1799 - Ranjit Singh's 25,000 men start march towards Lahore.
• 1801 - Battle of Algeciras: The French navy defeats the British Royal Navy.
• 1854 - In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held.
• 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.
• 1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
• 1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
• 1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
• 1908 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.
• 1917 - World War I: Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt.
• 1919 - The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
• 1928 - The ten world's largest hailstones fall in Potter, Nebraska.
• 1933 - The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeats the National League, 4 to 2.
• 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.
• 1957 - Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
• 1957 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles meet for the first time at the Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, Liverpool.
• 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.
• 1967 - Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
• 1974 - The radio program A Prairie Home Companion makes its first live broadcast.
• 1975 - The Comoros declare independence from France.
• 1977 - Pink Floyd's Roger Waters spits on a fan during the In The Flesh tour in Montreal.
• 1988 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 167 oil workers.
• 1988 - Carlos Salinas wins controversial Mexican presidential election.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2004 - The New York Post erroneously reports that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has selected Dick Gephardt as his running mate.
• 2005 - International Olympic Committee announces that London wins bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
• 2005 - Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper agrees to testify to a grand jury that Karl Rove revealed to him Valerie Plame's secret CIA identity.
• 2005 - Bob Geldof and Bono meet with the G8 in Gleneagles to discuss increasing aid to Africa. Afterwards, both make appearances at the Edinburgh 50,000 concert, a last concert in the Live 8 series.

• 1686 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
• 1747 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (d. 1792)
• 1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (d. 1813)
• 1785 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
• 1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
• 1817 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
• 1818 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879)
• 1838 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
• 1859 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
• 1884 - Harold Vanderbilt, American businessman (b. 1884)
• 1898 - Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
• 1903 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1982)
• 1904 - Erik Wickberg, the 9th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1996)
• 1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
• 1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and explorer (d. 2006)
• 1918 - Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
• 1919 - Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor
• 1921 - Nancy Reagan, actress and First Lady of the United States
• 1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland
• 1925 - Merv Griffin, American game show developer and television show host
• 1925 - Bill Haley, American singer (Bill Haley and the Comets) (d. 1981)
• 1927 - Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
• 1927 - Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1927 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian and Presidential candidate (d. 1997)
• 1931 - Della Reese, American singer and actress
• 1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, fourteenth Dalai Lama, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1936 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
• 1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor
• 1937 - Ned Beatty, American actor
• 1940 - Jeannie Seely, American singer
• 1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
• 1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
• 1948 - Brad Park, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
• 1953 - Nanci Griffith, American singer and songwriter
• 1955 - William Wall, Irish writer
• 1958 - Jennifer Saunders, British actress and comedian
• 1959 - Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
• 1967 - Heather Nova, West Indian-born guitarist and singer
• 1969 - Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
• 1970 - Inspectah Deck, American rapper
• 1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper
• 1977 - Craig Handley, British film director and writer
• 1978 - Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry, Twin German actresses
• 1983 - Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
• 1986 - Caroline Welz, Tallest woman in Germany and model
• 1987 - Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model

• 1189 - King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
• 1218 - Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
• 1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
• 1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (burned at the stake) (b. 1369)
• 1476 - Regiomantus, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1436)
• 1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
• 1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
• 1535 - Sir Thomas More, English writer and philosopher (executed) (b. 1478)
• 1553 - King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
• 1583 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1585 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
• 1684 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
• 1758 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (killed in battle)
• 1762 - Tsar Peter III of Russia (murdered) (b. 1728)
• 1768 - Conrad Beissel, German-born religious leader
• 1835 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755)
• 1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist
• 1868 - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
• 1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
• 1901 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
• 1902 - St. Maria Goretti, Italian saint (b. 1890)
• 1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1932 - Kenneth Grahame, English children's author (b. 1859)
• 1960 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
• 1961 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
• 1961 - Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1890)
• 1962 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
• 1966 - Sad Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1892)
• 1971 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901)
• 1972 - Brandon De Wilde, American actor (Shane, Hud) (b. 1942)
• 1973 - Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1885)
• 1982 - Bob Johnson, baseball player (b. 1905)
• 1986 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
• 1989 - János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
• 1998 - Roy Rogers, American cowboy actor and singer (b. 1911)
• 1999 - Carl Gunter Jr, La. State Political Figure (b. 1938)
• 1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
• 2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
• 2002 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
• 2003 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
• 2004 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
• 2005 - L. Patrick Gray III, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1916)
• 2005 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

• 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)
• Roman festivals: Ludi Apollinares, games in honour of Apollo (since 208 BC) began today

• BBC: On This Day

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