July 6<\/p>\n
640 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
1415 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
1535 \u2013 Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.<\/p>\n
1536 \u2013 The explorer Jacques Cartier lands at St. Malo in France at the end of his second expedition to North America.<\/p>\n
1614 \u2013\u00a0 The southeast of Malta, around the town of \u017bejtun, are unsuccessfully raided by moslem Ottoman forces, ending their attempt to conquer the island.<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
1779 \u2013\u00a0 The French defeat British naval forces off the island of Grenada during the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n
1854 \u2013 The first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held in Jackson, Michigan<\/p>\n
1885 \u2013 Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies<\/p>\n
1887 \u2013 David Kal\u0101kaua, 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.<\/p>\n
1892 \u2013 3800 striking steelworkers engage in a day long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Pennsylvania Steelworks Strike, leaving 10 dead and 47 wounded.<\/p>\n
1917 \u2013 Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during World War I.<\/p>\n
1919 \u2013 The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.<\/p>\n
1933 \u2013 The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park, The American League defeating the National League 4\u20132.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.<\/p>\n
1944 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
1947 \u2013 The \u0410\u0432\u0442\u043e\u043c\u0430\u0442 \u041a\u0430\u043b\u0430\u0448\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u043e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0437\u0446\u0430 1947 – the AK-47<\/em> – goes into production in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 Occidental Petroleum’s Piper Alpha<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 The Georgia Guidestones, a monument in the United States, are heavily damaged in a bombing, and are dismantled later the same day.[12]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 6 640 \u2013 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 \u2013 Jan Hus is condemned by the assembly of the council in the Konstanz … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56687"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94138,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56687\/revisions\/94138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}