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.
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.
1777 British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
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.
1885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
1892 Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7
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 caused by inept fire-eaters in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers Circus in Hartford, Conn., killed over 160 people.
1945 Operation Overcast begins in Europe–moving Austrian and German scientists and their equipment to the United States.
1955 The Federal Air Pollution Control Act was implemented for research into causal analysis and control of car-emission pollution.
1964 Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain
1967 Nigerian Civil War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the secessionist state of Biafra
1970 California passes 1st “no fault” divorce law
1972 The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland admits women for the first time in its history with the induction of 81 female midshipmen (officer cadets).
1982 President Ronald Reagan agrees to contribute U.S. troops to the peacekeeping unit in Beirut.
1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can’t pay women less
1988 An explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig 120 miles off the north east coast of Scotland in the North Sea caused a fireball 350 feet high and engulfed the platform killing 167 workers.
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 Nathula Pass, a trading post between India and China opens for business. The trading post had been closed since the Sino-Indian war of 1962.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
