Ray’s Today In History – July 6
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Jaques Cartier returns to France after discovering the St. Lawrence River in Canada. |
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On this day in 1775, one day after restating their fidelity to King George III and wishing him “a long and prosperous reign” in the Olive Branch Petition, Congress sets “forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms” against British authority in the American colonies. The declaration also proclaimed their preference “to die free men rather than live as slaves.”
10,000 troops are called out in Paris as unrest mounts in the poorer districts over poverty and lack of food. |
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1835
John Marshall, the third chief justice of the Supreme Court, dies at the age of 79. Two days later, while tolling in his honor in Philadelphia,the Liberty Bell cracks. |
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The Republican Party is officially organized in Jackson, Michigan. |
1927
“Let’s rock around the clock tonight”
Bill Haley, rock ‘n’ roll musician was born. |
1944
In Hartford, Connecticut, a fire breaks out under the big top of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, killing 167 people and injuring 682. Two-thirds of those who perished were children. The cause of the fire was inept fire-eaters
July 6, 1944
Lieutenant Jackie Robinson of the U.S. Army, while riding a civilian bus from Camp Hoo, Texas, refuses to give up his seat to a white man. |
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1945
Operation Overcast begins in Europe–moving Austrian and German scientists and their equipment to the United States.
Dr. Werner von Braun was amongst them. |
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This is Ray Mossholder with today’s historical date of July 6. Let’s look and discover what happened on our planet that day in history.
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Sir Thomas More is beheaded in England for refusing to swear allegiance to King Henry VIII, a divorced man, as head of the Church.
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Jaques Cartier returns to France after discovering the St. Lawrence River in Canada.
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On this day in 1775, one day after restating their fidelity to King George III and wishing him “a long and prosperous reign” in the Olive Branch Petition, Congress sets “forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms” against British authority in the American colonies. The declaration also proclaimed their preference “to die free men rather than live as slaves.”
10,000 troops are called out in Paris as unrest mounts in the poorer districts over poverty and lack of food.
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1835
John Marshall, the third chief justice of the Supreme Court, dies at the age of 79. Two days later, while tolling in his honor in Philadelphia,the Liberty Bell cracks.
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The Republican Party is officially organized in Jackson, Michigan.
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1864 – On this day, Confederate General Jubal Early’s troops cross the Potomac River and capture Hagerstown, Maryland
July 6, 1921, Actress Nancy Reagan was born. She is 94. Nancy was a popular movie actress when she married a popular actor – Ronald Reagan. She followed him into the White House and their love was powerful throughout their 52 years together.
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Between 1930 and 1933, attendance at major league baseball games, which had skyrocketed during the 1920s, plummeted 40 percent, while the average player’s salary fell by 25 percent. These were early days of the Great Depression. Fans who could still afford tickets migrated from the more expensive box seats to the bleachers, which cost a whole 50 cents. But baseball itself, many believed, was about to strike out.
So on this day in 1933, something new was tried – Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game took place at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The brainchild of a determined sports editor, the event was designed to bolster the sport and improve its reputation during those dark years. It was originally billed as a one-time “Game of the Century.
It has now become a permanent and much-loved fixture of the baseball season. Wouldn’t you love to have a set of baseball cards of the players who played on that day?
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1927
“Let’s rock around the clock tonight”
Bill Haley, rock ‘n’ roll musician was born.
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1944
In Hartford, Connecticut, a fire breaks out under the big top of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, killing 167 people and injuring 682. Two-thirds of those who perished were children. The cause of the fire was inept fire-eaters
July 6, 1944
Lieutenant Jackie Robinson of the U.S. Army, while riding a civilian bus from Camp Hood, Texas, refuses to give up his seat to a white man.
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1945
Operation Overcast begins in Europe–moving Austrian and German scientists and their equipment to the United States.
Dr. Werner von Braun was amongst them.
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July 6, 1946 – FBI agents arrest George “Bugs” Moran, along with fellow crooks Virgil Summers and Albert Fouts, in Kentucky. Once one of the biggest organized crime figures in America, Moran had been reduced to small bank robberies by this time. He died in prison 11 years later.
Bugs Moran’s criminal career took an abrupt downturn after the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929, in which his top gunmen were slaughtered by rival Al Capone’s henchmen.
This day in 1946 actor/director Sylvester Stallone who makes millions of dollars playing gangsters without going to prison, was born in New York City. Whether he is Rocky Balboa or Rambo, moviegoers flock to see him flex his muscles or say “Yo, Adrienne”.
On this day in 1946, another baby was born. In New Haven, Connecticut George Walker Bush, the son of future President George Herbert Walker Bush. With little Herbie it was “Like father, like son”. Both became presidents of the United States.
The front-page headline of the Liverpool Evening Express on July 6, 1957, read “MERSEYSIDE SIZZLES,” in reference to the heat wave then gripping not just northern England, but all of Europe. But weather comes and goes. The same headline could well have been used over a story that received no coverage at all that day: The story of the first day two Liverpool teenagers met – John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
On that very same day – July 6, 1957 –
Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis title. She was the first black person to win the event.
After winning Wimbledon and the U.S. Open again in 1958, Gibson retired from amateur tennis. the Associated Press named her Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 and 1958.
During the 1950s, Gibson won 56 singles and doubles titles, including 11 major titles.In 1960, she toured with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, playing exhibition tennis matches before their games.
In 1964, Gibson joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, the first black woman to do so. The trailblazing athlete played pro golf until 1971, the same year in which she was voted into the National Lawn Tennis Association Hall of Fame.
After serving as New Jersey’s commissioner of athletics from 1975 to 1985 she retired.
July 6, 1964 – Nam Dong in the northern highlands of South Vietnam, an estimated 500-man Viet Cong battalion attacks an American Special Forces outpost. During a bitter battle, Capt. Roger C. Donlon, commander of the Special Forces A-Team, rallied his troops, treated the wounded, and directed defenses although he himself was wounded several times. After five hours of fighting, the Viet Cong withdrew. The battle resulted in an estimated 40 Viet Cong killed; two Americans, 1 Australian military adviser, and 57 South Vietnamese defenders also lost their lives. At a White House ceremony in December 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Captain Donlon with the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War.
On July 6, space 1976, at Annapolis, Maryland, the United States Naval Academy admits women for the first time in its history with the induction of 81 female midshipmen.
July 6, 1977 – Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, dies in New York City at the age of 69. A world-renowned jazz trumpeter and vocalist, and one of the most loved people of the twentieth century,he pioneered jazz improvisation and the style known as swing.
On this day in 1988, an explosion rips through an Occidental Oil rig in the North Sea, killing 167 workers. It was the worst offshore oil-rig disaster in history.
If I say “Life is like a box of chocolates.” nearly all moviegoers will immediately recognize what movie carried that thought and what actor said that line. It was It was on this day in 1994 the Hollywood blockbuster Forrest Gump was released into America’s theaters. A gigantic box-office success, the film starred Tom Hanks in the title role of Forrest, a good-hearted man with a low I.Q. who winds up at the center of key cultural and historical events of the second half of the 20th century. The movie won Hanks his second Oscar.
July 6, 1998
Leonard Frank Sly died, but you probably know him better as Roy Rogers.
Cowboy star and singer, Roy Rogers starred in more than 80 Westerns, well earning his title from his moviegoing fans – “King of the Cowboys.”
Leonard Sly signed with Republic Pictures in 1938 and they quickly changed his name to Roy Rogers. Only one other Western star who, like Roy, starred in a multitude of cowboy movies as a singing cowboy, Gene Autry, was equally famous among the capgun and popcorn crowd.
Roy was married to actress Dale Evans. They did many films together, were both outspoken Christians, and were well known to have had one of the greatest marriages of the twentieth century.
Today – July 6, 2015 –
France and Germany have called for an emergency summit of euro zone leaders to discuss Greeks’ stunning referendum vote on Sunday to reject bailout terms, as calls mounted in Berlin to cut Greece loose from Europe’s common currency.
Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, leader of Merkel’s centre-left Social Democratic junior coalition partner, said it was hard to conceive of fresh negotiations on lending more billions to Athens after Greeks voted against more austerity.
But my focus for this day happened on July 6, 1941 –
In Nazi-occupied Holland, 13-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family are forced to take refuge in a secret sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse. The day before, Anne’s older sister, Margot, had received a call-up notice to be deported to a Nazi “work camp.”
Born in Germany on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank fled to Amsterdam with her family in 1933 to escape Nazi persecution. In the summer of 1942, with the German occupation of Holland underway, 12-year-old Anne began a diary relating her everyday experiences, her relationship with her family and friends, and observations about the increasingly dangerous world around her. On July 6, fearing deportation to a Nazi concentration camp, the Frank family took shelter in a factory run by Christian friends. During the next two years, under the threat of murder by the Nazi officers patrolling just outside the warehouse, Anne kept a diary that is marked by poignancy, humor, and insight.
On August 4, 1944, just two months after the successful Allied landing at Normandy, the Nazi Gestapo discovered the Frank’s “Secret Annex.” The Franks were sent to the Nazi death camps along with two of the Christians who had helped shelter them, and another Jewish family and a single Jewish man with whom they had shared the hiding place. Anne and most of the others ended up at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Anne’s diary was left behind, undiscovered by the Nazis.
In early 1945, with the Soviet liberation of Poland underway, Anne was moved with her sister, Margot, to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Suffering under the deplorable conditions of the camp, the two sisters caught typhus and died in early March. After the war, Anne’s diary was discovered undisturbed in the Amsterdam hiding place and in 1947 was translated into English and published. An instant best-seller and eventually translated into more than 30 languages, The Diary of Anne Frank has served as a literary testament to the six million Jews, including Anne herself, who were silenced in the Holocaust.
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Ray"s Today In History – July 6