This day in history

[melm00se]

(July 6)

Events:
1189 Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England
1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
1483 England's King Richard III crowned
1785 US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage
1853 National Black convention meets in Rochester NY
1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
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
1967 Nigerian Civil War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the secessionist state of Biafra
1970 California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law

Births
1747 John Paul Jones, naval hero
1781 Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore
1868 Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom
1884 Harold Vanderbilt, NY, America Cup (1930,34,37)/inv contract bridge
1887 Marc Chagall, Russian-French artist
1925 Bill Haley, American rock vocalist
1927 Janet Leigh [Jeanetta Morrison], American actress
1946 Sylvester Stallone, American actor and director

Deaths:
1415 Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (b. 1369), burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany
1835 John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States
1962 William Faulkner, American author (Nobel 1949)
1971 Louis Armstrong Jazz trumpter
1973 Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor
1992 Marsha P. Johnson African-American gay liberation and AIDS activist, drag queen, and transgender pioneer
1998 Roy Rogers, American actor

[Floyd R. Turbo]

1. If I may, it was on July 6, 1957 that John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time.

Lennon’s group The Quarrymen were playing at St. Peter’s Woolton, Liverpool.

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2. Please feel free to add

any verifiable event to the list

[The King of Prussia]

3. And exactly 7 years later

"A Hard Day's Night" premiered. Meteoric.

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4. July 7

1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1534 European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick
1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1753 British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament (opens in 1759)
1754 Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
1798 Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war'
1863 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay
1928 Sliced bread sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder.
1930 Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War
1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
1953 Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador
1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released
1976 119 women joined the Corps of Cadets, establishing the first class of women in the US Military Academy at West Point