July 6: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

July 6th marks the 187th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 188th in case of leap years). There are 178 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include 14th Dalai Lama (1935), Sylvester Stallone (1946) and George W Bush (1946).
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Holidays

Comoros - Independence Day (1975).
Feast day of St Maria Goretti.
Lithuania - Statehood Day.
Malawi - Independence Day (1964).
Malawi - Republic Day (1966).
Roman festivals: Ludi Apollinares, games in honour of Apollo (since 208 BC) began today.
San Fermin a Spanish Catholic festival centered in Pamplona begins today.
Music festival EXIT begins today in Serbian town of Novi Sad.
Czech Republic - Jan Hus Day (1415).
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2019 Islamist insurgency: ISIL claims responsibility in Wednesday's attack in Nangade District, Mozambique. Seven people were killed.
2018 Off the coast of Galicia in Spain, was found the wreckage of U-966, a Nazi German submarine. It was lost to enemy fire in November 1943.
2017 World heritage sites: UNESCO meets in Krakow, Poland to discuss concerns regarding the state of Machu Picchu.
2016 CPP-NPA/NDF rebellion: Twenty soldiers from the Philippine Army are being investigated for allegedly mutilating a New People's Army soldier. The eyes of the communist militant were gouged, his tongue was removed and his throat was slit.
2015 Iraqi Civil War (2014-2017: A Sukhoi Su-25 Su-25 aircraft of the Iraqi Air Force accidentally dropped a bomb on Baghdad after returning from a bombing raid in which ISIL militants were killed. According to American officials, as high as 65% of Iraqi Air Force bombers don't drop their bombs because they lack targets.
2014 Six Israeli nationals have been arrested for the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir. Meanwhile, Palestinians continue to clash with police in East Jerusalem. (Jerusalem Post). The IAF launches airstrikes against 6 Hamas militants in response to more than 25 rockets being fired from Gaza into Israel Sunday. In the last three weeks, more than 150 mortars and rockets were fired on civilian areas in Israel.
2013 Muse, an English rock band, held a concert at Rome's Olympic Stadium. This concert was the first recorded live in 4K resolution.
2012 Syrian uprising (2011-present). Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister, states that Manaf Tlass, a commander in Syria's National Guard, fled to Turkey a few days ago and is now on his way to Paris.
2011 Arab Spring
2010 Australia celebrates its indigenous culture during NAIDOC Week 2010. The 2010 theme is 'Unsung Heroes: Closing the Gap through Leading Their Way'.
2009 2009 Honduran coup d'etat
2008 Gunmen shoot and kill a United Nations official from Mogadishu, as he is leaving a mosque.
2007 The 6th United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio rejected a lawsuit against George W. Bush’s domestic wiretapping programme. It ruled that the plaintiffs were not entitled to sue.
2006 After 44 years, the Nathula Pass, which connects India and China and was sealed in the Sino-Indian War of 1962, is now reopened. (Zee News),
2005 The European Parliament has declared that there will not be a directive on software patents. It rejected the Directive on patentability of computer-implemented inventions with a 648-14 vote and 18 abstentions. This was the end of four years of intensive lobbying and debate. (BBC), (Forbes), (Bloomberg), (BusinessWeek) (Link dead at 04:20 on 16 January 2007 (UTC).
2004 Major Harry Schmidt, United States Air Force, is found guilty in an "friendly fire" attack that killed four Canadian soldiers and severely wounded eight others in Afghanistan in 2002. He was given an official reprimand. The US Air Force will pay US$2,836 monthly.
2003 The Eupatoria Planetary Radar 70 meters tall sends a METI (Cosmic Call 2) message to 5 stars: Hip 4872 (HD 245409), 55 Cancri (HD 757732), HD 10303, HD 10307, HD 10307, and 47 Ursae Minoris (HD 95128). These messages will reach these stars in 2036 to 2040, 2044, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
2001 Release of the film Kiss of the Dragon
2000 A tug and a barge towing it collide in Middletown, Rhode Island USA. 53,000 litres of oil were spilled into Narragansett bay.
1999 U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
1998 Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.
1997 Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical, closes at Royale NYC after 109 performances
1996 103rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro
1995 Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon
1994 Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record
1993 John F Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
1992 Fay Vincent realigns NL, putting Cubs, Cards and Rockies in West and Cards, Braves and Marlins in East
1991 98th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini
1990 After pitching a no-hitter lose, New York Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game and loses 2-0
1989 Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game
1988 North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die
1987 Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds
1986 100th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl
1984 Warner Communications sells off the home video game and computer systems business of Atari to Jack Tramiel for US$240 million in long-term loans. Warner has the option to purchase up to 32 percent interest in the new company for US$2 per share.
1983 54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1982 A lunar eclipse (umbral duration 236 min and total duration 106 min, the longest of the 20th century) occurs.
1980 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1979 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)
1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
1976 Soyuz 21 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.
1975 Argentine government falls
1974 88th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall
1973 St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore is gazetted as a national monument.
1971 Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi
1970 California passes 1st no fault divorce law
1969 Filming begins on Ned Kelly starring Mick Jagger
1968 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart
1967 Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
1966 Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
1965 Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms.
1964 Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from the UK
1963 70th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King
1962 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)
1961 Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
1960 Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207-mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City.
1959 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1958 Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico
1957 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard
1956 70th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64)
1954 KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1952 Last tram ride in London
1951 65th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor
1950 German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
1949 Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs
1948 The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways from Lympne to Le Touquet.
1947 The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1946 St. Louis Woman closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 performances
1945 Nicaragua becomes first nation to formally accept United Nations Charter.
1944 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn
1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
1942 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
1941 New York Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield.
1940 British submarine is sunk.
1939 Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
1938 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1936 121 degrees F (49 degrees C), Steele, North Dakota (state record hot).
1935 48th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs
1933 1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1932 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
1931 35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio
1928 World's largest hailstones 1.5 pounds (17 inch diameter) fall in Potter, Nebraska, USA.
1924 First photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, USA to England.
1923 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)
1922 Dutch auto / airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy
1921 Anne Frances Robbins is born in New York City, New York; wife of US President Ronald Reagan.
1920 Yankees score 14 in 5th inning and beat Washington Senators, 17-0
1919 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic
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.
1914 The German Kaiser leaves Kiel for a cruise in northern German waters.
1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens
1906 The Second Geneva Convention meets.
1905 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
1903 George Wyman arrives in New York City by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco.
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