12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 6 Deaths for July 6, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1415 – Jan Hus is burned at the stake for heresy during the Council of Constance.
- 1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed in London for refusing to recognize King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.
- 1785 – The U.S. officially adopts the dollar as its monetary unit.
- 1885 – Louis Pasteur administers the first successful rabies vaccination.
- 1917 – T.E. Lawrence helps lead Arab forces to capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park.
- 1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the secret annex in Amsterdam.
- 1947 – The AK-47 assault rifle enters production in the Soviet Union.
- 1957 – Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon, becoming the first African American to do so.
- 1964 – Malawi declares independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1975 – The Comoros declare independence from France.
- 1997 – NASA’s Pathfinder rover, Sojourner, rolls onto the Martian surface.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1946 – Sylvester Stallone, actor and filmmaker (Rocky, Rambo) (79)
- 1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor and Oscar winner (Shine) (74)
- 1959 – Richie Sambora, guitarist for Bon Jovi (66)
- 1975 – 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson), rapper, actor, and entrepreneur (50)
- 1978 – Tia Mowry, actress (Sister, Sister) (47)
- 1979 – Kevin Hart, comedian and actor (Ride Along, Jumanji) (46)
- 1994 – Jozy Altidore, American soccer player (31)
Today’s Deaths:
- 1535 – Thomas More, English statesman and philosopher (Utopia) (57)
- 1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (The Necklace) (42)
- 1962 – William Faulkner, American author and Nobel laureate (The Sound and the Fury) (64)
- 1971 – Louis Armstrong, iconic jazz trumpeter and vocalist (What a Wonderful World) (69)
- 2004 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (71)
- 2020 – Ennio Morricone, legendary Italian composer (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) (91)
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