Today In History
Today is Thursday, July 6, the 187th day of 2017. There are 178 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1957: Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title as she defeated fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2 . ... Sixteen-yearold John Lennon first met 15-year-old Paul McCartney when Lennon’s band, the Quarrymen skiffle group, performed a gig at St. Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool.
ON THIS DATE
› 1777: During the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga.
› 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.
› 1933: The first All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the National League, 4-2.
› 1964: The movie “A Hard Day’s Night,” starring the Beatles, had its world premiere in London.
› 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
Singer-actress Della Reese is 86. The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is 82. Actor Burt Ward is 72. Former President George W. Bush is 71. Actor-director Sylvester Stallone is 71. Actor Fred Dryer is 71. Actress Shelley Hack is 70. Actress Nathalie Baye is 69. Actor Geoffrey Rush is 66. Actress Allyce Beasley is 66. Retired MLB AllStar Willie Randolph is
63. Jazz musician Rick Braun is 62. Actor Casey Sander is 62. Country musician John Jorgenson is 61. Former first daughter Susan Ford Bales is
60. Hockey player and coach Ron Duguay is 60. Actress-writer Jennifer Saunders is 59. Political reporter/moderator John Dickerson (TV: “Face the Nation”) is 49. Actor Brian Van Holt is 48. Rapper Inspectah Deck (Wu-Tang Clan) is 47. TV host Josh Elliott is
46. Rapper 50 Cent is 42. Actress Tia Mowry is 39. Actress Tamera Mowry is
39. Comedian-actor Kevin Hart is 38. Rock musician Chris “Woody” Wood (Bastille) is 32. Rock singer Kate Nash is 30. Actor Jeremy Suarez is 27.