July 6: In 1189 Richard I the Lionheart accedes to the English throne; in 1415 Czech priest Jan Hus, one of the first Christian reformers, is burned at the stake; in 1483 Richard III is crowned King of England; in 1535 Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England; in 1557 King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France and Mary I never sees her husband again; in 1560 the Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England during the reign of Elizabeth I (Tudors X 3!); in 1777, after heavy bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York; in 1785 the dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States; in 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog; in 1887 David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint by Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights; in 1892 three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike (Homestead Steel Works in Pennsylvania); in 1917 Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt; in 1919 the British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship; in 1933 the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicagos Comiskey Park; in 1939 the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed; in 1942 Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the Secret Annexe above her fathers office in an Amsterdam warehouse; in 1944 Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus and will be court martialed; in 1957 Althea Gibson becomes the first black athlete to win the Wimbledon championships; in 1988 167 oil workers are killed when the Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. Birthdays: Navy Captain John Paul Jones (1747); Scottish ornithologist Alexander Wilson (1766); designer of the Canadian Flag George Stanley (1907); actor Sebastian Cabot (1918); 42nd First Lady Nancy Reagan (1921); actor/producer Merv Griffin (1925) singer/guitarist Bill Haley (1925); actress Janet Leigh (1927); actor/comedian Pat Paulsen (1927); singer/actress Della Reese (1931); 14th Dalai Lama (1935); actor Ned Beatty (1937); singer Gene Chandler (1937); actor Burt Ward (1945); actor Sylvester Stallone (1946); actress Shelley Hack (1947); Santana drummer Michael Shrieve (1949). Music: In 1972 Emerson, Lake & Palmer release their third studio album Trilogy; in 1957, before a gig by John Lennons Liverpool skiffle group The Quarrymen, Johns friend (and Quarrymen bassist) Ivan Vaughan introduces Lennon to a schoolmate named Paul McCartney; in 1961 the first issue of the highly influential Liverpool fanzine Mersey Beat is published; in 1967 Pink Floyd make their television debut on BBCs Top Of The Pops to promote their second single See Emily Play; in 1968 Simon and Garfunkel albums occupy three spots in the Top 10: Bookends and The Graduate soundtrack at #1 and #2, and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme at #10; in 1984 Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley officially declares today Tina Turner Day; in 1964 The Supremes release Where Did Our Love Go?, in 1970 Edwin Starr releases War, in 1973 Queen release Keep Yourself Alive.
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