July 6 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for July 6
In the headlines today:

2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, second movie in the Disney trilogy, starring Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, premieres in England and Australia.
1998	Cowboy actor and singer Roy Rogers dies in Apple Valley, California, at age 86.
1981	E.I. Dupont announces they are purchasing Conoco for $7%20 billion.
1971	Trumpeter and singer Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong dies at age 69.
1957	Althea Gibson becomes the first Native American woman to win the Wimbledon singles tennis title.
1932	The cost of a US first class letter jumps an astonishing 50% (to 3 cents).
1919	A British dirigible makes the first airship crossing of the Atlantic, landing at Roosevelt Field in New York.
1885	Scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tests his rabies vaccine on a boy bitten by a rabid dog.
1777	British troops capture Fort Ticonderoga, New York, during the American Revolution.
1483	Richard III is crowned king of England, succeeding his nephew, Edward V. *Did you know?* Richard would be the last English king to die in battle (Battle of Bosworth Field [1485]).
1266	Norway cedes Man and Hebrides Islands to Scotland.

Born today:

1978 Tamara Mowry - actress

1978 Tia Mowry - actress

1976 50 cent (Curtis Jackson) - rapper

1959 Jon Keeble - drummer (Spandau Ballet)

1953 Nanci Griffith - singer

1952 Shelley Hack - actress

1952 Grant Goodeve - actor, TV host

1946 Sylvester Stallone - actor, screenwriter

1946 Fred Dryer - football player, actor

1945 Burt Ward - actor

1945 James Naughton - actor

1945 Rik Elswit - guitarist (Dr. Hook)

1937 Ned Beatty - actor

1931 Della Reese - actress

1927 Pat Paulsen - comedian

1927 Janet Leigh - actress; mother of actress Jamie Lee Curtis

1927 Bill Haley - singer (Bill Haley and His Comets)

1925 Merv Griffin - entertainer, TV host, producer

1924 Darrell Royal - football player, coach

1921 Nancy Reagan - actress, wife of 40th US president Ronald Reagan

1918 Sebastian Cabot - actor

1915 LaVerne Andrews - singer (The Andrews Sisters)

1909 Andrei Gromyko - Russian president

1832 Maximilian - Emperor of Mexico

1747 John Paul Jones - US naval hero

Born today? Your sign of the Zodiac is:

Cancer

(The Crab)