SomeFacts | July 6

On this day - July 6

The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military ...

640 — Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn ...

1253 — Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.

1348 — Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews ...

1411 — Ming China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after ...

1415 — Jan Hus is condemned by the assembly of the council in the ...

1438 — A temporary compromise between the rebellious Transylvanian ...

1483 — Richard III and Anne Neville are crowned King and Queen of ...

1484 — Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo ...

1495 — First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo: Charles VIII defeats the ...

1536 — The explorer Jacques Cartier lands at St. Malo at the end of ...

1557 — King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, ...

1560 — The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.

1573 — French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle ends.

1573 — Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.

1614 — Raid on Żejtun: The south east of Malta, and the town of ...

1630 — Thirty Years' War: Four thousand Swedish troops under ...

1685 — Battle of Sedgemoor: Last battle of the Monmouth Rebellion. ...

1751 — Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and ...

1777 — American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a ...

1779 — Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces in ...

1791 — At Padua, the Emperor Leopold II calls on the monarchs of ...

1801 — First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships ...

1809 — The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the ...

1854 — The Republican Party of the United States held its first ...

1885 — Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on ...

1887 — David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to ...

1892 — Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a ...

1917 — World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ...

1918 — The Left SR uprising in Russia starts with the assassination ...

1919 — The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the ...

1933 — The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in ...

1936 — A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in ...

1937 — Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with ...

1939 — Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany closes the last ...

1940 — Story Bridge, a major landmark in Brisbane, as well as ...

1941 — World War II: The German army launches its offensive to ...

1942 — Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret ...

1944 — The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire ...

1944 — Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading ...

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

1947 — Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition ...

1957 — John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as ...

1957 — Althea Gibson wins at the Wimbledon Championships, becoming ...

1962 — The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show ...

1962 — As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes ...

1964 — Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.

1966 — Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first ...

1967 — Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning ...

1975 — The Comoros declares independence from France.

1982 — While attempting to return to Sheremetyevo International ...

1988 — The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is ...

1989 — The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus ...

1995 — In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, ...

1996 — A McDonnell Douglas MD-88 operating as Delta Air Lines Flight ...

1997 — The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days ...

1998 — Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, Hong ...

2003 — The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message ...

2006 — The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the ...

2013 — A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec ...

2013 — A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes ...

2013 — At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in ...

2021 — An Antonov An-26 operating as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air ...

2022 — The Georgia Guidestones, a monument in the United States, are ...