6 Julie

The **6t o Julie** is the 187t day o the year (188t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 178 days ti come.

## Events

* 1253 - Mindaugas becomes the first King o Lithuanie.
* 1483 - Richard III o Ingland is crouned.
* 1535 - Thomas More is executit on the orders o King Henry VIII o Ingland.
* 1553 - Edward VI o Ingland dees agit 15, stairtin a brief succession creesis.
* 1560 - The Treaty o Edinburgh is signed atween Scotland an Ingland.
* 1808 - Joseph Bonaparte is proclaimed King o Spain.
* 1854 - The US Republican Pairty meets for the first time.
* 1885 - Louis Pasteur tests the rabies vaccine.
* 1942 - Anne Frank an her faimily go intae hidin in the secret annex in Amsterdam.
* 1944 - A circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut, kills 168 fowk.
* 1950 - The Oder-Neisse Line is determined as the border atween East Germany an Poland.
* 1957 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black woman tae win a Wimbledon Championships singles tennis teetle.
* 1957 - Paul McCartney an John Lennon meet for the first time.
* 1964 - Malawi is granted unthirldom by the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1966 - Malawi became a republic.
* 1967 - Biafra declares unthirldom frae Nigerie.
* 1967 - A train crash near Magdeburg in then-East Germany kills 94 fowk.
* 1975 - The Comoros are granted unthirldom by Fraunce.
* 1988 - Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea: The Piper Alpha ile rig burns off the east coast o Scotland, killin 167 ile wirkers.
* 1998 - Viktor Orban becomes Prime meenister o Hungary for the first time, succeedin Gyula Horn.
* 2000 - Germany gets the richt tae host the 2006 FIFA Warld Cup.
* 2003 - Roger Federer wins his first singles teetle at the Wimbledon Championships.
* 2004 - A memorial funtain tae Diana, Princess o Wales is unveiled in Hyde Pairk, Lunnon.
* 2004 - Austrick preses Thomas Klestil dees twa days afore the scheduled end o his term in affice.
* 2005 - The 2012 Simmer Olympics are gien tae Lunnon.
* 2005 - The G8 summit stairts at Gleneagles Hottle in Scotland.
* 2006 - The Nathu La mairch crossin atween the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae an Indie opens for the first time in 44 year.
* 2008 - Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title at the Wimbledon Championships, endin Roger Federer's run o five consecutive teetles there.
* 2011 - Pyeongchang, Sooth Korea, gets the richt tae host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
* 2013 - A 73-car ile train derails in Lac Megantic, Quebec, Canadae, an splodes intae flames, killin at least 47 fowk an destroyin much o the toun centre.
* 2017 - The European Union an Japan sign a new trade deal.
* 2018 - Perpetrators o the 1995 Tokyo Sarin gas attack are executit.

## Births

* 1796 - Nicholas I o Roushie (d. 1855)
* 1832 - Emperor Maximilian I o Mexico (d. 1867)
* 1887 - Marc Chagall, Roushie-born penter (d. 1985)
* 1921 - Nancy Reagan, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 2016)
* 1922 - William Schallert, American actor (d. 2016)
* 1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, Preses o Poland (d. 2014)
* 1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14t Dalai Lama
* 1940 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, umwhile Preses o Kazakhstan
* 1945 - Della Purves, Scots botanical airtist (d. 2008)
* 1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd Preses o the Unitit States
* 1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
* 1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper
* 1979 - Kevin Hart, American actor, comedian, writer an producer

## Daiths

* 1249 - Alexander II o Scotland (b. 1198)
* 1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemie Christian martyr (b. 1369)
* 1535 - Thomas More, Inglis philosopher an martyr (b. 1478)
* 1553 - Edward VI o Ingland (b. 1537)
* 1762 - Peter III o Roushie (b. 1728)
* 1854 - Georg Ohm, German pheesicist (b. 1789)
* 1962 - William Faulkner, American writer (b. 1897)
* 2004 - Thomas Klestil, Preses o Austrick (b. 1932)
* 2020 - Ennio Morricone, Italian film score componer (b. 1928)

## Halidays
* Independence Day (Comoros, Malawi)
* Statehood Day (Lithuanie)
* Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)