History Of Today - 6th July

1903 - George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF

1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.

1908 - Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole

1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens

1912 - Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)

1917 - T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey

1919 - British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)

1919 - William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president

1920 - Yankees score 14 in 5th inning & beat Washington Senators, 17-0

1922 - Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy

1923 - 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)

1923 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form

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 record hailstone 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter)) at the time falls in Potter Nebraska

1929 - St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6

1931 - 35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio

1932 - 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents

1932 - Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli

1933 - 1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago

1935 - 48th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (63 36 75)

1935 - Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens

1936 - 114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)

1936 - 121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)

1936 - A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell.

1938 - 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati

1939 - German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises

1941 - NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield

1942 - 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York

1942 - Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam

1942 - Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj

1943 - 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed

1943 - US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched

1944 - 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn

1944 - French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC

1944 - US General Patton lands in France

1945 - Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter

1945 - Pres Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom

1945 - Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games

1946 - "St Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 perfs

1946 - 53rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (62 64)

1946 - 60th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (62 64 79 57 64)

1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.

1949 - Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs

1949 - Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes

1950 - German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland

1951 - 65th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (64 64 64)

1952 - Last tram ride in London

1954 - Elvis Presley records his 1st hit, "That's All Right"

1954 - KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting

1954 - Tunisian govt of M'zali, resigns

1956 - 70th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64)

1956 - 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England

1956 - Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher

1956 - Indians' Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive at bats

1957 - 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62)

1957 - Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney

1957 - Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri

1958 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico

1958 - Alaska becomes 49th state

1959 - 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls

1959 - Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic

1959 - WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting

1960 - Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC

1961 - Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300

1962 - 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)

1962 - Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria

1962 - Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer

1962 - Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare.

1963 - 70th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64)

1963 - 77th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64)

1963 - South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested

1964 - Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London

1964 - Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from UK

1965 - Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms

1966 - Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes pres

1967 - Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade

1968 - 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75)

1968 - Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"

1969 - Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger

1969 - Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao

1970 - California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law

1970 - Italian Rumor govt resigns

1971 - Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi

1971 - White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks

1974 - 88th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64)

1975 - Argentine government falls

1975 - Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)

1975 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147

1975 - Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic

1976 - Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station

1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1978 - Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut

1978 - The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.

1979 - 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)

1979 - IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp

1980 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic

1980 - France performs nuclear test

1980 - Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836)

1983 - 54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago

1983 - Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less

1983 - Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3)

1986 - 100th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75)

1986 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship

1986 - Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game

1986 - Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines

1986 - Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election

1987 - 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India

1987 - Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds

1987 - USSR performs nuclear test

1988 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico

1988 - North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die

1988 - Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery

1989 - Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game

1989 - US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn

1990 - "Jetson's the Movie" with Tiffany, premieres

1990 - After pitching a no-hitter lose, NY Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game & loses 2-0

1991 - 98th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (64 36 86)

1992 - Fay Vincent realigns NL, putting Cubs, Cards & Rockies in West & Cards, Braves & Marlins in East

1993 - Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test Cricket debut, England v Australia

1993 - John F Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan

1994 - Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)

1994 - Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85)

1994 - Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL game (vs Ottawa)

1995 - Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon

1996 - 103rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro (63, 75)

1996 - Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24

1997 - "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," closes at Royale NYC after 109 perfs

1997 - 111th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats C Pioline (64 62 64)

1997 - Jamie Farr Kroger Classic

1997 - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Classic

1997 - Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10

1997 - Wimbledon Gigi Fernandez & Natasha Zvereva beat N Arendt & M Bollegraf

1998 - Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.

1999 - U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.

2003 - The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris that will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, 2044 and 2049 respectively.

2006 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.