Today In History

Today is Saturday, July 6, the 187th day of 2019. There are 178 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 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.

ON THIS DATE

› 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.

› 1945: President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.

› 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-year-old 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.

› 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

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is 84. Actor Ned Beatty is 82. Actor-director Sylvester Stallone is 73. Actor Fred Dryer is 73. Actress Shelley Hack is 72. Actress Nathalie Baye is 71. Actor Geoffrey Rush is 68. Actress Allyce Beasley is

68. Rock musician John Bazz (The Blasters) is 67. Actor Grant Goodeve is

67. Actor Casey Sander is 64. Country musician John Jorgenson is 63. Former first daughter Susan Ford Bales is

62. Hockey player and coach Ron Duguay is 62. Actress-writer Jennifer Saunders is 61. Rock musician John Keeble (Spandau Ballet) is 60. Actor Pip Torrens is 59. Actor Brian Posehn is 53. Actor Robb Derringer is

52. TV host Josh Elliott is

48. Rapper 50 Cent is 44. Actress Tia Mowry is 41. Comedian-actor Kevin Hart is 40. Rock musician Chris “Woody” Wood (Bastille) is 34. Rock singer Kate Nash is 32. Baseball star Manny Machado is 27.