Today in History: July 6, Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon
In current times is Sunday July the th day of There are days left in the year In the present day in history On July Althea Gibson became the first Black tennis participant to win a Wimbledon singles title as she defeated fellow American Darlene Hard - - Also on this date In England s King Richard III was crowned in Westminster Abbey Related Articles Currently in History July Dolly the sheep born in cloning breakthrough Texas floods leave at least dead girls missing as rescuers search devastated landscape dead in Texas floods and more than children missing from a girls summer camp At present in History July Declaration of Independence adopted in Philadelphia Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation In during the American Revolution British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga ty-kahn-dur-OH -gah In French scientist Louis Pasteur tested an anti-rabies vaccine on -year-old Joseph Meister who had been bitten by an infected dog the boy did not develop rabies In the first All-Star baseball contest was played at Chicago s Comiskey Park the American League defeated the National League - behind winning pitcher Lefty Gomez of the New York Yankees In Anne Frank her parents and sister entered a secret annex in an Amsterdam building where they were later joined by four other people they hid from Nazi occupiers for two years before being discovered and arrested In an estimated people died in a fire that broke out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey Circus in Hartford Connecticut In President Harry S Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom In Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra sparking the Nigerian Civil War In North Sea oil workers were killed when explosions and fires destroyed a drilling platform In an Asiana Airlines Boeing from Seoul South Korea crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport killing three passengers and injuring In Philando Castile a Black elementary school cafeteria worker was killed during a traffic stop in a suburb of St Paul Minnesota by Officer Jeronimo Yanez Yanez was later acquitted on a charge of second-degree manslaughter In six followers of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult were hanged along with its leader Shoko Asahara they had been convicted of crimes including a sarin gas attack that killed people and made thousands of others sick on the Tokyo subway system In the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the World Strength Organization President Donald Trump had criticized the WHO s response to the coronavirus pandemic The pullout was later halted by President Joseph Biden s administration In current times s Birthdays The th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso is Singer Gene Chandler Duke of Earl is Country singer Jeannie Seely is Actor Burt Ward TV Batman is Former President George W Bush is Actor-director Sylvester Stallone is Actor Geoffrey Rush is Retired MLB All-Star Willie Randolph is Former first daughter Susan Ford Bales is Actor-writer Jennifer Saunders Absolutely Fabulous is Actor Brian Posehn is Political reporter moderator John Dickerson is Rapper Inspectah Deck Wu-Tang Clan is Rapper Cent is Actors Tia and Tamera Mowry MOHR -ee are Comedian-actor Kevin Hart is Actor Eva Green is San Diego Padres infielder Manny Machado is NBA power forward Zion Williamson is
