WHAT HAPPENED ON 6. JULY
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Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War. (6. July 1779)
The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States. (6. July 1785)
First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras. (6. July 1801)
The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars. (6. July 1809)
In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held. (6. July 1854)
Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. (6. July 1885)
David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint by Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights. (6. July 1887)
Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. (6. July 1892)
3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded. (6. July 1892)
The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that killed 71 people and injured 200. (6. July 1893)
World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt. (6. July 1917)
The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship. (6. July 1919)
The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2. (6. July 1933)
A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell. (6. July 1936)
Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed. (6. July 1939)
Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk. (6. July 1941)
Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. (6. July 1942)
Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial. (6. July 1944)
The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut. (6. July 1944)
The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. (6. July 1947)