It happened on this day, July 6th.
events:
1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.
1484 – Portuguese sailor Diogo Cao discovers the mouth of the Congo River.
1495 – The Battle of Fornovo breaks out between Charles VIII, King of France, and the “Holy League Alliance”. It is the last battle fought by Charles VIII in his campaign against Italy.
1560 – Signing of the “Convention of Edinburgh” between Scotland and England.
1573 – The Argentine city of Córdoba is founded by Spanish explorer Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
1609 – A law is passed in Bohemia guaranteeing the freedom to practice religions and beliefs within its territory.
1630 – 4,000 Swedish soldiers, led by Gustavus Adolphus, land on the eastern coast of Prussia as part of the Thirty Years' War.
1785 – The dollar is unanimously chosen as the currency of the United States.
1799 – Beginning of the march of 25,000 Sikh fighters led by Ranjit Singh towards Lahore.
1801 – The Battle of Algeciras begins between the French fleet and the British Royal Fleet.
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his rabies vaccine on a child infected with the disease.
1893 – A powerful hurricane hits Iowa, nearly destroying a small town in the state, killing 71 people and injuring 200 others.
1917 – Arab forces, led by British officer Thomas Edward Lawrence, capture the port of Aqaba after it came under Ottoman control.
1923 – The forces of Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din succeed in suppressing the movements of some separatist sheikhs. He orders his forces to move towards the Adenian reserves. In order to force Britain to lift the siege of the Red Sea, the Imam's forces seized the lands of the Al-Qaiti Sultanate and the Al-Bayda region east of Aden.
1939 – Closure of all Jewish institutions in Germany.
1940 – Assassination of Syrian politician Abdul Rahman Shahbandar.
1964 – Malawi gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1966 – The creation of the Republic of Malawi is announced, two years after its independence.
1967 – Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra, which secedes from the Nigerian Federation, declaring the start of the “Biafra War”, which lasts about three years.
1975 – Comoros declares independence from France.
1988 – Carlos Salinas wins the presidential election in Mexico.
2005 – The International Olympic Committee announces the selection of London to host the 2012 Summer Olympics.
2016 – The Chilcot Commission publishes a report criticising the UK's participation in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2017 – Libyan army commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar announces in a speech to the Libyan people the army's full control over the city of Benghazi, concluding a three-year campaign to retake the city.
✴️ The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribes the Old City of Hebron and the Ibrahimi Mosque on the List of World Heritage in Danger after obtaining the majority of votes from countries participating in the vote.
2018 – Japan executes Asahara Shoko, the mastermind of the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack and the leader and founder of the religious group Aum Shinrikyo.
✴️ Pakistan's Supreme Court sentences former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter (seven years) and son-in-law (one year) to ten years in prison after finding them guilty of political and administrative corruption.
✴️ China and the United States are imposing tariffs on each other's goods worth $34 billion.
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Births:
1736 – Daniel Morgan, American military leader.
1864 – Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.
1781 – Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.
1796 – Tsar Nicholas I, Emperor of the Russian Empire.
1818 – Adolf Andersen, German chess player.
1859 – Werner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1916.
1878 – Eino Leino, Finnish poet.
1903 – Hugo Tjorl, Swedish physician, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1955.
1907 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter.
1921 – Nancy Reagan, wife of Ronald Reagan, fortieth President of the United States of America.
1931 – Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer.
1932 – Nadia Seif Al-Nasr, Egyptian actress.
1935 – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1989.
1940 – Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan.
1944 – Hamad Nasser, Kuwaiti actor.
1946 – George W. Bush, President of the United States.
**Sylvester Stallone, American actor.
1948 – Wadih Saadeh, Lebanese-Australian poet and journalist.
1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor.
1952 – Adi Shamir, Israeli occultist.
1969 – Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer.
1970 – Ghada Abdel Razek, Egyptian actress.
1974 – Ze Roberto, Brazilian footballer.
1975 – 50 Cent, American rapper.
1983 – Anaheed Fayyad, Palestinian actress.
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Death:
1189 – King Henry II, King of England.
1415 – Jan Hus, Czech religious thinker, philosopher and reformer.
1535 – Thomas More, English writer and philosopher.
1553 – King Edward VI, King of England.
1762 – Tsar Peter III, Emperor of the Russian Empire.
1854 – Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist.
1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French novelist.
1901 – Prince Schlodwig, Chancellor of Germany.
1934 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist.
1962 – William Faulkner, American writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
1971 – Louis Armstrong, American musician.
1975 – Otto Skorzeny, German Nazi military commander.
1991 – Lawal, Nigerian footballer.
1995 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish novelist.
1999 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish musician.
2004 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria.
2005 – Claude Simon, French writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985.
2006 – Casey Rogers, American actress.
2009 – Mathieu Montcur, French tennis player.
2012 – Hani Al-Hassan, Palestinian politician.
2018 – Asahara Shoko, leader and founder of the group Aum Shinrikyo.
2020 – Muhammad Al-Assar, Egyptian soldier and Minister of Military Production.
2020 – Hisham Al-Hashimi, Iraqi political scientist and peace activist.
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Holidays and occasions 1560:
⬅️ Independence Day and Republic Day in Malawi.
⬅️ Independence Day in Comoros.
⬅️ Independence Day in Cameroon.
