July 6 1483 Englands King Richard III was crowned. 1535 Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join Henry VIIIs Church of England. 1747 John Paul Jones was born. 1785 Sir William Hooker was born. 1854 The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan. 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully treated a patient with a rabies vaccine. 1923 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed. 1942 Anne Frank and her family sought refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam. 1944 A fire caused by inept fire-eaters in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers Circus in Hartford, Connecticut, killed over 160 people. 1946 George Walker Bush was born. 1946 Sylvester Stallone was born. 1951 Geoffrey Rush was born. 1957 Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon womens singles tennis title. She was the first black person to win the event. 1974 Garrison Keillors radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, debuted in a live broadcast from St. Paul, Minnesota. 1997 The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface. 1998 Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboys, died.
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