On this day: 6 July
Events, births and deaths on 6 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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Events · 31
- 371 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Leuctra — battle between Thebes and Sparta, 371 BCE
- 640(Julian date)Battle of Heliopolis — 640 AD decisive battle during the Muslim conquest of Egypt
- 1439(Julian date)Laetentur Caeli — 1439 papal bull reuniting the Cahtolic and Eastern Orthodox Churches
- 1495Battle of Fornovo — 1495 battle
- 1560(Julian date)Treaty of Edinburgh — treaty to formally conclude the Siege of Leith and forge a new Anglo-Scottish accord
- 1614Raid on Żejtun — Last Attack of Ottomans' on Malta in 1614
- 1685(Julian date)Battle of Sedgemoor — 1685 final battle of the Monmouth Rebellion
- 1779Battle of Grenada — naval battle of the Anglo-French War and of the War of American Independence
- 1801First Battle of Algeciras — 1801 naval battle during the War of the Second Coalition
- 1892Homestead Strike — 1892 labor strike
- 1915Calais Conference (July 1915) — Anglo-French conference on matters of war
- 1917Battle of Aqaba — 1917 battle in the Arab Revolt of World War I
- 1918Left SR Uprising — 1918 anti-Bolshevik uprising by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party
- 1937Battle of Brunete — 1937 battle of the Spanish Civil War
- 1940Story Bridge — heritage-listed bridge in Brisbane, Australia
- 1944Hartford circus fire — 1944 fire disaster in Hartford, Connecticut
- 1947Sylhet referendum, 1947 — referendum held in Sylhet to decide whether Sylhet would remain in Assam and join the new country of India
- 1962Sedan — 1962 U.S. nuclear test
- 1964Malawi — sovereign state in Africa
- 1966President of Malawi — position
- 1967Nigerian Civil War — violent conflict within Nigeria
- 1975Comoros — sovereign state situated on an archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa
- 1982Aeroflot Flight 411 — aviation accident
- 1989Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack — Suicide attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad
- 1996Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 — aviation accident
- 19971997 nationalist riots in Northern Ireland — mass protests and riots in Northern Ireland in 1997
- 2013Asiana Airlines Flight 214 — transpacific flight that crashed on July 6, 2013
- 2013Lac-Mégantic derailment — 2013 train crash disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Québec, Canada
- 2013Yobe State school shooting — 2013 terrorist attack by Boko Haram
- 2018China–United States trade war — economic conflict since 2018
- 2021Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2021) — aviation accident in Russia on July 6, 2021
Births · 60
- 1387(Julian date)Blanche I of Navarre — Queen regnant of Navarre and queen consort of Sicily
- 1747John Paul Jones — American naval officer (1747–1792)
- 1781Thomas Stamford Raffles — British statesman who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
- 1785William Jackson Hooker — English botanist and botanical illustrator (1785-1865)
- 1789Maria Isabella of Spain — Spanish infanta, Queen of the Two Sicilies
- 1796Nicholas I of Russia — The 11th Emperor of Russia, 1825–1855 (lived 1796-1855)
- 1817Albert von Kölliker — Swiss anatomist, physiologist (1817–1905)
- 1818Adolf Anderssen — German chess champion, after Paul Morphy (1858-1860), second unofficial world chess champion (1851-1858, 1860-1865, 1867-1871), chess publicist
- 1823Sophie Adlersparre — Publisher, editor, writer an a women's rights activist (1823–1895)
- 1832Maximilian I of Mexico — emperor of Mexico (1832-1867)
- 1859Verner von Heidenstam — Swedish writer (1859–1940)
- 1865Émile Jaques-Dalcroze — Swiss composer, musician and music educator (1865-1950)
- 1868Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom — fourth child and second daughter of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark (1868-1935)
- 1878Eino Leino — Finnish poet and journalist (1878–1926)
- 1885Ernst Busch — German field marshal (1885-1945)
- 1886
- 1886Annette Kellermann — Australian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writer (1887–1975)
- 1898Hanns Eisler — Austrian and German composer (1898–1962)
- 1903Hugo Theorell — biochemist (1903-1982)
- 1907Frida Kahlo — Mexican painter (1907–1954)
- 1912Heinrich Harrer — Austrian mountaineer and author (1912–2006)
- 1921Nancy Reagan — First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989
- 1922William Schallert — actor from the United States (1922–2016)
- 1923Wojciech Jaruzelski — Polish military and political official, leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 to 1989
- 1925Bill Haley — American rock and roll music pioneer (1925–1981)
Deaths · 60
- 918(Julian date)William I, Duke of Aquitaine — Duke of Aquitaine
- 1189(Julian date)Henry II of England — King of England from 1154 to 1189
- 1218Odo III, Duke of Burgundy — Duke of Burgundy
- 1249(Julian date)Alexander — King of Alba from 1214 to 1249
- 1415(Julian date)Jan Hus — Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
- 1476(Julian date)Regiomontanus — German mathematician and astronomer (1436–1476)
- 1533(Julian date)Ludovico Ariosto — Italian poet (1474–1533)
- 1535(Julian date)Thomas More — English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
- 1553(Julian date)Edward VI of England — king of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553
- 1571(Julian date)Mōri Motonari — a prominent daimyō in the west Chūgoku region of Japan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century
- 1762(Julian date)Peter III of Russia — The seventh Emperor of Russia, 1762 (lived 1728-1762)
- 1802Daniel Morgan — American pioneer, soldier, and politician (1736-1802)
- 1809Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle — French general (1775–1809)
- 1819Sophie Blanchard — French aeronaut
- 1835John Marshall — chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835, (1755-1835)
- 1854Georg Simon Ohm — German physicist and mathematician
- 1871Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves — Brazilian poet (1847-1871)
- 1893Guy de Maupassant — French writer (1850-1893)
- 1901Chlodwig, 3rd Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst — German chancellor (1819–1901)
- 1902Maria Goretti — Italian saint
- 1904Abay Kunanbaiuly — Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer (1845-1904)
- 1914Delmira Agustini — Uruguayan modernist poet
- 1916Odilon Redon — French painter (1840–1916)
- 1918Wilhelm von Mirbach — German diplomat (1871-1918)
- 1932Kenneth Grahame — British novelist
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