Articles by May, 2020

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 6 July.

1. Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller of Konigsberg) dies.
2. Newton publishes 'Principia'
3. Capt. William Kidd arrested in Boston.
4. 1st Republican state convention
5. 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being by Louis Pasteur
6. Striking steelworkers in Homestead Pa. fire on scabs killing 7.
7. R-34 lands in NY 1st airship to cross Atlantic
8. Yanks score team record 14 runs in 1 inning vs Senators
9. 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY).
10. 1st class postage back up to 3› from 2›.
11. 1st All-Star baseball game AL wins 5-2
12. Soviets launch Titov in Vostok 2; 17 orbits; 25hr/18 min.
13. Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer
14. Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
15. Comoros gain independence from France (most of them).
16. Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.

These famous people were born on 6 July.

1. 1747 - John Paul Jones, naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight").
2. 1796 - Nicholas I, tsar of Russia (1825-55).
3. 1818 - Adolf Anderssen, of Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66).
4. 1859 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet, novelist (Nobel 1916).
5. 1903 - Axel Theorell, Swedish biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955).
6. 1923 - Nancy Davis Reagan, in NY, 1st Lady (1981-89).
7. 1924 - Robert M. White, X-15 pilot.
8. 1925 - Merv Griffin
9. 1927 - Janet Leigh, in Calif, Maybe I won't take a shower with her
10. 1932 - Della Reese, singer in Detroit
11. 1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, concert pianist.
12. 1937 - Ned Beatty, Actor.
13. 1946 - Sylvester Stallone, (Rocky, Rambo)
14. 1952 - Shelly Hack, Charlie's Angel