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Maine Fast Fact: In the 1820’s, cotton textile mills moved up to Maine from Massachusetts and the major sites for cotton textile manufacturing became Lewiston on the Androscoggin River, Biddeford, Saco, Augusta, Waterville and Brunswick.
Births:
- 1747: John Paul Jones, American naval commander, known to have yelled “I have not yet begun to fight!”
- 1868: Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom
- 1907: Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter; George Stanley, Canadian politician and designer of the Canadian flag
- 1921: Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, wife of President Ronald Reagan
- 1925: Merv Griffin, American media mogul, hosted The Merv Griffin Show and created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!; Bill Haley, American musician, part of the group Bill Haley & His Comets, had the hit “Rock Around the Clock” and known as the “Father of Rock and Roll”
- 1927: Janet Leigh, American actress
- 1946: George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
- 1946: Sylvester Stallone, American actor
- 1966: Brian Posehn, American actor and comedian
- 1975: 50 Cent, American rapper
- 1978: Tamera Mowry, American actress and Tia Mowry, American actress
- 1979: Nic Cester, Australian musician, part of the group Jet
- 1983: Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
Deaths:
- 1553: King Edward VI of England
- 1835: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States
- 1950: Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player
- 1962: William Faulkner, American writer
- 1971: Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpet player and singer, also known as Satchmo or Pops
- 2003: Buddy Ebsen, American actor, known for his role as Jed Clampett in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies
History:
- 1777: American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga in New York after an attack by the British under General John Burgoyne.
- 1785: The dollar is chosen as the monetary unit for United States.
- 1854: The first U.S. Republican Party convention is held in Jackson, Michigan.
- 1885: Louis Pasteur’s vaccine against rabies is first used on Joseph Meister, a boy bitten by a rabid dog.
- 1908: Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic which eventually leads him and his expedition to the North Pole.
- 1928: The Lights of New York, the first all-talking movie, is shown in New York.
- 1933: The first MLB All-Star Game is played in Comiskey Park, Chicago and the American League defeats the National League, 4-2.
- 1939: The last of the Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
- 1942: Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the “Secret Annex” above her father’s office in Amsterdam.
- 1944: Fire breaks out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut, killing 169 people.
- 1947: The Soviet Union starts producing the AK-47.
- 1957: Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, the first black athlete to win it; John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time at St. Peter’s Church in Liverpool, England.
- 1964: Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1975: The Comoros, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, declares its independence from France.
- 1986: Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win the Tour de France.
- 1988: The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fire, killing 167 oil workers and making it the world’s worst offshore oil disaster.
- 1989: A bus driver is assaulted by an Arab man, forcing the bus over the edge of a cliff and killing 14 passengers in the Israeli 405 Bus Slaughter.
- 1997: The Mars Pathfinder releases the rover Sojourner onto Mars to begin inspecting the soil and rocks.
- 2004: Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chooses Senator John Edwards to be his running mate.
July 6 is Independence Day in Malawi to celebrate the day it declared its independence from the United Kingdom in 1964. It is also Independence Day in the Comoros Islands to celebrate its gained independence from France in 1975.
[photo: Frida Kahlo self portrait, www.linesandcolors,com]
For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_6 , http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090706.html
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