On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 06:
1747 John Paul Jones naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight")
1796 Nicholas I Russia, Tsar (1825-55)
1818 Adolf Anderssen Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
1814 Justus McKinstry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1821 Edward Winston Pettus, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1884 Harold Vanderbilt NY, America Cup (1930,34,37)/inv contract bridge
1903 Axel Theorell Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955)
1915 LaVerne Andrews singer The Andrews Sisters
1918 Sebastian Cabot London, actor (Mr French-Family Affair)
1922 William Schallert LA Calif, actor (Martin-Patty Duke Show)
1923 Nancy Davis Reagan NY, 1st Lady (1981-89)
1925 Bill Haley Mich, (& the Comets-Rock Around the Clock)
1925 Merv Griffin San Mateo Calif, TV host (Merv Griffin Show)
1927 Janet Leigh Merced Cal, actress, She's in the shower (Psycho, Harper)
1927 Pat Paulsen comedian, presidential candidate (Smothers Bros Show)
1932 Della Reese Detroit, singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Touched by an Angel)
1937 Gene Chandler [Eugene Dixon], Chicago, rocker (Duke of Earl)
1937 Ned Beatty Lexington Ky, actor (Deliverance, Repossed, Network)
1945 Burt Ward LA Calif, actor (Robin-Batman)
1946 Fred Dryer Hawthone Calif, NFLer (NY Giants, LA Rams)/actor (Hunter)
1946 Jamie Wyeth Penn, artist (An American Vision-Boston)
1946 Sylvester Stallone NYC, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra)
1946 George Walker Bush President United States of America
Deaths which occurred on July 06:
1189 Henry II King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
1415 Jan Hus burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany
1535 Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason
1762 Peter III Feodorovich, tsar of Russia (1761-62), murdered at 34
1835 John Marshall, the third chief justice of the Supreme Court, dies (79) Two days later, while tolling in his honor in Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell cracked
1863 Strong Vincent, US Union brig-general, dies
1864 Samuel Allen Rice, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries at 36
1962 William Faulkner author, inventor of Yoknapatawpha Co, dies at 64
1971 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 70
1971 Thomas C Heart, US admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies
1972 Brandon De Wilde actor (Jamie), dies at 30 in a car crash
1973 Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88
1975 Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS (Mussolini/Ardennen), dies
1993 Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Princess Diane, dies at 84
1994 Cameron Mitchell, actor (High Chapparral), dies of lung cancer at 75
1998 Roy Rogers (b.1911), singing cowboy, dies (Happy Trails to you)
2003 Buddy Ebsen (95), Actor/Dancer "The Beverly Hillbillies" & "Barnaby Jones," dies.
GWOT
Iraq
06-Jul-2003 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Jeffrey M. Wershow Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant David B. Parson Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
06-Jul-2004 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Justin T. Hunt Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Corporal Jeffrey D. Lawrence Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Lance Corporal Scott Eugene Dougherty Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Private 1st Class Rodricka Antwan Youmans Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Afghanistan
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On this day...
1483 England's King Richard III crowned
1535 Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason
1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion
1685 James II defeats James, the Duke of Monmouth, at the Battle of Sedgemoor. (last major battle fought on English soil)
1699 Capt William Kidd arrested in Boston
1775 Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances but denying intent to be independent
1776 Dec of Ind announced on front page of the "PA Evening Gazette"
1777 British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1785 Congress resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage
1798 US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained,... & removed as alien enemies"
1854 1st Republican state convention, Ripon, Wisc
1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
1864 Battle of Chattahoochee River,
1869 Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated
1882 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine
1885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
1886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
1892 Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7
1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1908 Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for the north pole
1917 Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.
1919 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
1920 Democrats end convention in S F select James Cox of Ohio and running mate Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed
1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown, in NY (Lights of NY)
1928 Worlds largest hailstone 1lbs (17') falls in Potter Nebraska
1936 114ø F, Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)
1936 121ø F, Steele, North Dakota (state record)
1939 German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises
1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
1944 US General Patton lands in France
1944 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn
1945 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter
1945 Pres Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
1945 B-29 Superfortress bombers attacked Honshu, Japan, using new fire-bombing techniques
1945 Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games
1957 Althea Gibson became 1st black tennis player to win Wimbledon
1957 Harry S Truman Library established in Independence, Missouri
1958 Alaska becomes the 49th state
1959 Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
1960 Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
1964 Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premiers in London
1964 Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1965 Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms
1967 Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1974 Garrison "The Jerk" Keillor makes his 1st live broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion" from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.
1976 United States Naval Academy admittes women (81 inducted)
1976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
1989 US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
1994 A firestorm killed 14 firefighters near Glenwood Springs, Co., while fighting a forest fire.
1995 Bosnian Serbs under Radislav Krstic attack UN safe area at Srebrenica 7,500 Muslim men and boys killed.
1996 The Libertarians nominated financial counseling author Harry Browne for president.
1997 Martian rover Sojourner rolls down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander and begins mankind’s first mobile exploration of Mars. The first rock targeted for examination was named "Barnacle Bill."
2001 Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen pleads guilty to 15 criminal counts and agrees to give a full accounting of his spying activities for Moscow.
2003 Dennis Schmitt and 5 companions stepped on a 120-foot-long pile of dirt at 83°42’ latitude, Earth’s farthest north piece of known land. In 2004 Danish authorities discount the find in favor of a larger island called Kaffklubben.
2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (who served in Viet-Nam) selects John "pretty boy" Edwards to be his running mate
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Malawi : Independence Day (1964)/Republic Day (1966)
National Canned Luncheon Meat Week (Day 4)
Nude Recreation Week (Day 3)
National Fried Chicken Day
Freedom Week (Day 3)
Old Milwaukee Day in Wisconsin.
Louisville Kentucky : Storytelling Festival
National Anti-Boredom Month
Religious Observances
Luth : Commemoration of Jan Hus, martyr
Old Catholic : Commemoration of St Thomas More, humanist/martyr
RC : Memorial of St Maria Goretti, virgin/martyr (opt)
Religious History
1415 Martyrdom of Jan Hus, Czech reformer, who was condemned for heresy and burned atthe stake because of his outspoken appeals for church reform and for political and religiousrights for the common people.
1535 English Catholic theologian Thomas More was beheaded for refusing to recognizeHenry VIII as supreme head of the Church of England, which had just broken with the RomanCatholic Church.
1757 Birth of William McKendree, colonial American church leader. In 1808 he was ordained the first American-born bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
1846 Birth of John H. Sammis, American Presbyterian clergyman and author of the hymn,'Trust and Obey.'
1941 English Bible expositor Arthur W. Pink observed in a letter: 'It is those who walk the closest with God who are most conscious of their sins.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Root Canals, Emus Honored In Wis.
MADISON, Wis. -- Root canals and amateur radio operators were honored with special days in Wisconsin this year. Emus got a whole week.
Gov. Jim Doyle has issued about 1,000 proclamations since taking office in 2003, according to a review by The Post-Crescent of Appleton. Some honor people or raise awareness about serious issues, while others simply note the offbeat.
Family storytelling had its own day last October, a month that also promoted pornography awareness. March promoted caffeine awareness and recognized certified government financial managers.
But Doyle isn't the only Wisconsin governor to issue scores of proclamations - his predecessors issued thousands of their own over the decades.
"It's a way to acknowledge and honor the contributions that individuals and organizations have made to the state of Wisconsin, and in some cases it's a way to highlight or get information out to people," said Doyle spokeswoman Melanie Fonder.
The Wisconsin Emu Association received proclamations for the past five or six years, president Joylene Reavis said.
This year's declared the week of May 7 as Emu Week and reads, "Whereas the emu's hide is soft and supple enough to be popularly used in the fashion industry..."
Thought for the day :
"This way of life is worth defending."
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