TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, JULY 6, the 187th day of 2019. There are 178 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY: On this date in 1885, French scientist Louis Pasteur tested an anti-rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies.

In 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England for high treason.

In 1777, during the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga.

In 1942, Anne Frank, her parents and sister entered a “secret annex” in an Amsterdam building where they were later joined by four other people; they hid from Nazi occupiers for two years before being discovered and arrested.

In 1944, an estimated 168 people died in a fire that broke out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title when she defeated fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.

In 1962, Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner died in Byhalia, Mississippi, at age 64.

In 1964, the movie “A Hard Day’s Night,” starring The Beatles, had its world premiere in London.

In 1971, jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong died in New York at age 69.

In 1988, 167 North Sea oil workers were killed when explosions and fires destroyed a drilling platform.

In 1997, the rover Sojourner rolled down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting the soil and rocks of the red planet.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is 84. Actor Ned Beatty is 82. Actor Burt Ward is 74. Former President George W. Bush, actor-director Sylvester Stallone and actor Fred Dryer are 73. Actress Shelley Hack is 72. Actor Geoffrey Rush and actress Allyce Beasley are 68. Rock musician John Bazz (The Blasters) and actor Grant Goodeve are 67. Country singer Nanci Griffith is 66. Retired MLB All-Star Willie Randolph is 65. Jazz musician Rick Braun and actor Casey Sander are 64. Country musician John Jorgenson is 63. Actress-writer Jennifer Saunders is 61. Rock musician John Keeble (Spandau Ballet) is 60. Actor Pip Torrens is 59. Actor Brian Van Holt is 50. TV host Josh Elliott is 48. Actress Tia Mowry is 41. Comedian-actor Kevin Hart is 40. Actress Eva Green is 39. Rock musician Chris “Woody” Wood (Bastille) is 34. Rock singer Kate Nash is 32. Baseball star Manny Machado is 27.