July 6 is the 188th day of the year.
International Kissing Day
National Fried Chicken Day
1535 – Sir Thomas More was executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.
Birthday of John Paul Jones (July 6, 1747), American naval office of the Revolutionary period and founder of the American Navy.
1785 – The dollar was unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo on July 6, 1848
From: Today in Science
In 1885, French scientist Louis Pasteur and his colleagues injected the first of 14 daily doses of rabbit spinal cord suspensions containing progressively inactivated rabies virus into 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been severely bitten by a rabid dog 2 days before. The immunization was successful. This was the beginning of the modern era of immunization, which had been presaged by Edward Jenner nearly 100 years earlier. Pasteur’s rabies immunization procedure was rapidly adopted throughout the world. The boy grew up and became caretaker of the Pasteur Institute.
Horlick’s of Wisconsin offered the first malted milk to the public on July 6, 1886. It was patented as an artificial infant food.
In 1887 – David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, was forced at gunpoint by Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
Birthday of Nancy Reagan (July 6, 1921), wife of Ronald Reagan; first lady 1981-1989
The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park in 1933. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
Birthday of George W Bush (July 6, 1946), 43rd president of the United States.
The AK-47 went into production in the Soviet Union in 1947.