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On This Day In History

1690 - Battle of the Boyne: in Ireland, Protestant King William III defeats English Catholic King James II
1928 - First televised tennis match
1960 - USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs aboard
1962 - The Rolling Stones' debut performance at the Marquee Club, London
1969 - The Open, Royal Lytham & St Annes: Tony Jacklin wins the first of his 2 majors, 2 strokes ahead of Bob Charles of New Zealand; he becomes the first Briton to win The Open since 1951
1975 - The Open, Carnoustie: Tom Watson wins an 18-hole playoff by 1 stroke, the first of 8 major titles and the first of 5 Open Championships
1998 - FIFA World Cup Final, Stade de France: Zinedine Zidane scores twice as France wins its first World Cup, beating Brazil 3-0
 
1774 - Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state.
1793 - France becomes the first country to use the metric system.
1798 - Battle of the Nile: the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt.
1834 - Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect.
1936 - XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolf Hitler in Berlin.
1944 - Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later, she is arrested.
1972 - The first article exposing Watergate scandal by Bernstein and Woodward is published in The Washington Post.
1976 - Reigning world F1 champion Niki Lauda of Austria suffers a near-fatal crash during the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim.
1992 - Linford Christie (32) becomes the oldest man to win an Olympic 100m gold medal, edging out Frankie Fredericks in Barcelona.
1994 - The Rolling Stones begin their Voodoo Lounge world tour.
2012 - Bradley Wiggins' win in the London Olympics cycling time trial gives him the most aggregate medals (7) of any British Olympian (4 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze).
 
1819 - Stamford Raffles founds Singapore as a British trading port.
1836 - HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin arrive in Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania).
1894 - Bottle opener patented by William Painter.
1911 - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople (Istanbul).
1921 - The Kid, a silent film starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, is released.
1935 - Monopoly board game goes on sale for the first time.
1952 - Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne.
1958 - 21 people are killed in the Munich air disaster. 8 players and 3 staff are from the Manchester United football club.
1971 - The Irish Republican Army shoots and kills Gunner Robert Curtis, the first British soldier to die during the 'Troubles'.
1974 - US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
1983 - Trial of former Gestapo commandant Klaus Barbie begins in France for war crimes during World War II.
1993 - Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title.
2003 - 50 Cent releases his album Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
 
600 - Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze.
1659 - First known cheque made out for £400 (on display at Westminster Abbey).
1909 - First subway car with side doors goes into service in New York.
1923 - Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus.
1959 - Fidel Castro becomes the 16th Prime Minister of Cuba after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista.
1963 - The Beatles top the British charts with Please, Please Me.
1985 - The founding of Hezbollah.
2005 - The UK version of The Apprentice with British business magnate Alan Sugar premieres on the BBC.
 
1626 - Dutch colonist Peter Minuit organizes the purchase of Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods.
1840 - World's first adhesive postage stamp, the "Penny Black", is first used in Great Britain.
1937 - German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 onboard and 1 on the ground.
1941 - Joseph Stalin becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1954 - Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run a sub-4-minute mile, recording 3:59:4 at Iffley Road, Oxford.
1966 - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders.
1966 - The Rolling Stones release Paint it Black.
1988 - Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs v Somerset including 35 fours and 11 sixes.
1994 - Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for the heavyweight boxing title.
1994 - Nelson Mandela and the ANC are finally confirmed as the winners in South Africa's first post-apartheid election.
 
1915 - RMS Lusitania sunk by a German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.
1939 - Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1941 - The House of Commons votes for Winston Churchill as Prime Minister (477-3).
1945 - World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Reims.
1952 - The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
 
For the history buffs on the forum... today, 6th July:

1483 - Richard III is crowned King of England after deposing Edward V
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully gives an anti-rabies vaccine to 9-year-old Joseph Meister, saving his life
1942 - Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam
1957 - John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for the first time, as Lennon's band Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1988 - North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes - 166 die as a result
1994 - Forrest Gump released
2003 - Wimbledon: Roger Federer beats Mark Philippoussis 7-6, 6-2, 7-6 for his first (!) Grand Slam
2013 - British & Irish Lions thrash Australia, 41-16 in Sydney for a 2-1 series win, their first against the Wallabies since 1997
2016 - Chilcot Report released - it concludes Tony Blair “overstated” case for war
 
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