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On This Day: July 6

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On July 6, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.

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On July 6, 1907, Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter famous for her surrealist and expressionist work, was born. Following her death on July 13, 1954, her obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1483	England's King Richard III was crowned.
1535	Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason.
1777	British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.
1854	The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Mich.
1923	The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.
1933	Baseball's first All-Star game was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park, with the American League's best beating the National Leauge squad 4-2.
1944	Fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., killing 169 people.
1957	Althea Gibson became the first African-American tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.
1974	Garrison Keillor's radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," debuted in a live broadcast from St. Paul, Minn.
2003	Former ambassador Joseph Wilson, in a New York Times op-ed, disputed President George W. Bush's statement that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa, saying he had found no evidence to support the claim when the CIA asked him to investigate.
2004	Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina to be his running mate.
2005	Soap opera actress Kelly Monaco won the first season of "Dancing With the Stars."
2005	New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name.
2010	Queen Elizabeth II addressed the United Nations for the first time since 1957 during her first New York visit in more than 30 years.
2010	Actress Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 90 days in a residential substance-abuse program for violating her probation stemming from two separate 2007 cases of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. (She served 14 days behind bars.) .

Current Birthdays

Actor Geoffrey Rush ("The King's Speech") turns 60 years old today.

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Rapper 50 Cent turns 36 years old today.

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1921	Nancy Reagan, Former first lady, turns 90
1922	William Schallert, Actor ("The Patty Duke Show"), turns 89
1931	Della Reese, Singer, actress ("Touched by an Angel"), turns 80
1937	Ned Beatty, Actor, turns 74
1945	Burt Ward, Actor ("Batman"), turns 66
1946	George W. Bush, Former president of the United States, turns 65
1946	Sylvester Stallone, Actor, turns 65
1951	Allyce Beasley, Actress ("Moonlighting"), turns 60
1952	Grant Goodeve, Actor ("Eight is Enough"), turns 59
1953	Nanci Griffith, Country singer, turns 58
1954	Willie Randolph, Baseball player, manager, turns 57
1982	Brandon Jacobs, Football player, turns 29

Historic Birthdays

Frida Kahlo7/6/1907 - 7/13/1954Mexican painter.Go to obituary »

45	John Paul Jones 7/6/1747 - 7/18/1792 American Revolutionary War naval hero
80	Sir William Hooker 7/6/1785 - 8/12/1865 English botanist
34	Maximilian 7/6/1832 - 6/19/1867 Austrian archduke and emperor of Mexico (1864-7)
80	Vernor von Heidenstam 7/6/1859 - 5/20/1940 Swedish author; awarded Nobel Prize (1916)
87	Godfrey Malvern 7/6/1883 - 5/8/1971 English-born prime minister of Southern Rhodesia (1933-53)
57	Marc Bloch 7/6/1886 - 6/16/1944 French historian and educator; leader in Resistance
79	Axel Theorell 7/6/1903 - 8/15/1982 Swedish biochemist; awarded Nobel Prize (1955)
82	Dorothy Kirsten 7/6/1910 - 11/18/1992 American opera singer
55	Bill Haley 7/6/1925 - 2/9/1981 American singer and songwriter