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Daily Calendar for Thursday, July 6, 2023

Died

  • Henry II of England –
  • Alexander II of Scotland –
  • Sir Thomas More (author, martyr) –
  • Edward VI, King of England –
  • Louis Armstrong (musician) –
  • Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys –
  • John Frankenheimer (director) –
  • William Ruger (founder of Sturm, Ruger) –
  • Buddy Ebsen (actor) –
  • Kasey Rogers (actress) –
  • James Caan (actor ) –

Born

  • John Flaxman (sculptor) –
  • Verner Von Heidenstam (poet) –
  • LaVerne Andrews (singer) –
  • Nancy Davis Reagan (U.S. First Lady) –
  • Bill Haley (musician) –
  • Merv Griffin (entertainer) –
  • Della Reese (singer and actress) –
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy (pianist) –
  • George W. Bush (43rd U.S. president) –
  • Geoffrey Rush (actor) –
  • Sylvester Stallone (actor) –
  • Ronald Duguay (hockey player) –
  • Jennifer Saunders (actress) –
  • 50 Cent (rapper) –

Events

  • Notorious pirate Captain William Kidd (β€œCaptain Kidd”) seized in Boston–
  • Pennsylvania Evening Post first newspaper to publish Declaration of Independence–
  • French scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tested a vaccine against rabies on a boy bitten by an infected dog–
  • First east-to-west Atlantic crossing by a dirigible (R34) completed, Scotland to N.Y.–
  • First major league All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park–
  • The main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus went up in flames during a performance in Hartford, Connecticut; over 165 people died and many more were injured–
  • Candid Microphone made its radio debut–
  • Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon championship becoming the first African American athlete to do so–
  • A nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site caused the largest manmade crater in the United States (Sedan Crater).–
  • The first Beatles film, A Hard Day’s Night, premiered–
  • Fires in Quebec brought smoke to northeastern U.S.–
  • Queen Elizabeth II dedicated and formally opened a $6.5 million oval granite water fountain in honor of Princess Diana in Hyde Park–

Weather

  • A hailstone measuring 5.5 inches in diameter and weighing 1.5 pounds fell from the sky in Potter, Nebraska–
  • Steele, North Dakota, was 121 degrees F–
  • Moorhead, Minnesota, was 114 degrees F–
  • Skies over Greater Vancouver and southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, were lit up by over 7,000 lightning strikes.–

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