TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JULY 6
1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
1415 Jan Hus, a Czech who spoke out against Church corruption, is burned at the stake as a heretic.
1483 King Richard III of England was crowned.
1535 Sir Thomas More is beheaded in England for refusing to swear allegiance to King Henry VIII as head of the Church.
1685 James II defeats James, the Duke of Monmouth, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last major battle to be fought on English soil.
1699 Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in Boston, MA, and deported back to England.
1770 The entire Ottoman fleet is destroyed by the Russians at the Battle of Chesma.
1785 US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the “dollar” and adopts decimal coinage
1788 10,000 troops are called out in Paris as unrest mounts in the poorer districts over poverty and lack of food.
1854 In Jackson, MI, the Republican Party held its first convention.
1885 Louis Pasteur gives the first successful anti-rabies inoculation.
1905 Fingerprints were exchanged for the first time between officials in Europe and the U.S. The person in question was John Walker.
1917 During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.
1923 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established.
1942 Anne Frank and her family take refuge in a secret sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse to escape being sent to Nazi concentration camps. In 1944 the Nazi Gestapo discovered the hiding place and the family was shipped off to a concentration camp
1944 Lieutenant Jackie Robinson of the U.S. Army, while riding a civilian bus from Camp Hoo, Texas, refuses to give up his seat to a white man.
1944 A fire breaks out under the big top of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, killing 167 people and injuring 682 in Hartford, Connecticut.
1972 The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland where it educates and commissions officers admits women for the first time in its history with the induction of 81 female midshipmen (officer cadets).
1981 The Dupont Company announced an agreement to purchase Conoco, Inc. (Continental Oil Co.) for $7 billion. At the time it was the largest merger in corporate history.
1982 President Ronald Reagan agrees to contribute U.S. troops to the peacekeeping unit in Beirut.
1983 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that retirement plans could not pay women smaller monthly payments solely because of their gender.
1989 The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, TX. The dismantling was under the terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
1997 The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface.
2005 Following the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame by Judith Miller earlier Judith Miller has been jailed For Refusing To Reveal Sources of the story.
2006 An historic trade route between India and China was reopened after 44 years of being closed. The Nathu La pass through the Himalayas was part of the ancient trade route called the Silk Road and had been closed after disputes between India and China over the region of Sikkim occurred in the 1960s.
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