July 6 Historical Events

The following events took place on July 6. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 61 events. Showing 31 - 60.

• 1917
  World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
• 1919
  The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
• 1933
  The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
• 1936
  A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 ft into the River Irwell.
• 1937
  Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
• 1939
  Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
• 1940
  Story Bridge, a major landmark in Brisbane, as well as Australia’s longest cantilever bridge is formally opened.
• 1941
  Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
• 1942
  Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
• 1944
  Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial.
• 1944
  The Hartford circus fire, one of America’s worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1947
  The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
• 1957
  Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
• 1957
  John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
• 1962
  As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.

• 1962
  The Late Late Show, the world’s longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
• 1964
  Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1966
  Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
• 1967
  Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
• 1975
  The Comoros declares independence from France.
• 1986
  Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
• 1988
  The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world’s worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
• 1989
  The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Fourteen bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff.
• 1995
  In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and kills more than 8000 Bosniaks, in what then- UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called “the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War”.
• 1997
  The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
• 1999
  U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted on him in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
• 2003
  The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
• 2006
  The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
• 2013
  At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.
• 2013
  A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.