July 6

640 – The moslem Arab army under ‘Amr ibn al-‘As defeats the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis, Egypt, effectively completing control of both sides of the Nile river delta region and of the Red Sea down to the Sudan.

1415 – Jan Hus is condemned by the assembly of the council in the Konstanz Cathedral, in modern day Germany, as a heretic, sentenced and burned at the stake.

1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.

1536 – The explorer Jacques Cartier lands at St. Malo in France at the end of his second expedition to North America.

1614 –  The southeast of Malta, around the town of Żejtun, are unsuccessfully raided by moslem Ottoman forces, ending their attempt to conquer the island.

1777 – After a 4 day long siege, a final bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne forces American troops to retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York during the Revolutionary War.

1779 –  The French defeat British naval forces off the island of Grenada during the Revolutionary War.

1854 – The first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held in Jackson, Michigan

1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies

1887 – David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the ‘Bayonet Constitution’ (so called because of the force implied), which transfered much of the king’s authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

1892 – 3800 striking steelworkers engage in a day long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Pennsylvania Steelworks Strike, leaving 10 dead and 47 wounded.

1917 – Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

1919 – The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.

1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park, The American League defeating the National League 4–2.

1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

1944 – A fire of unknown origin at an afternoon performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at Hartford, Connecticut kills 168 people and injures over 700 more.

1947 – The Автомат Калашникова образца 1947 – the AK-47 – goes into production in the Soviet Union.

1988 – Occidental Petroleum’s Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 workers are killed, the world’s worst offshore oil disaster in loss of life.

1996 – The pilots of Delta Air Lines Flight 1288, a McDonnell Douglas MD-88 abort takeoff due to engine failure at Pensacola International Airport, with the engine explosion killing 2 and injuring 5 of the 137 passengers on board.

2013 – Asiana Airlines Flight 214, a Boeing 777, crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing 3 and injuring 181 of the 307 passengers on board. San Francisco television station KTVU news anchor Tori Campbell mistakenly reports faked out names of the flight crew; Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow.

2022 – The Georgia Guidestones, a monument in the United States, are heavily damaged in a bombing, and are dismantled later the same day.[12]