Saturday, July 6, 2013

This will be 187th day of the year and 178 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 28 Tammuz 5773
Chinese calendar — the 29th day of the 5th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

July 6 Birthdays

John Paul Jones
1747–92, American naval hero, born near Kirkcudbright, Scotland.

Frida Kahlo
painter (1907)

George Walker Bush
43rd American president (1946)

Sylvester Stallone
actor (1946)

Valerie Brisco-Hooks
track & field (1960)

July 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

July 6 in History

1535

Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join Henry VIII's Church of England.

1885

Louis Pasteur successfully treated a patient with a rabies vaccine.

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, Conn., killed over 160 people.

1957

Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women's singles tennis title. She was the first black person to win the event.

1997

The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface.

1998

Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboys, died.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.