THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Today is Friday, July 6, the 187th day of 2018. There are 178 days left in the year.

IN THE NATION

1933: The first all-star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the National League, 4-2.

IN THE WORLD

1885: French scientist Louis Pasteur tested an anti-rabies vaccine on 9year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies.

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 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.

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is 83. Actor Ned Beatty is 81. Actor Burt Ward is 73. Former President George W. Bush is 72. Actor-director Sylvester Stallone is 72. Actor Fred Dryer is 72. Actress Shelley Hack is 71. Actor Geoffrey Rush is 67. Actor Grant Goodeve is 66. Retired MLB All-Star Willie Randolph is 64. Hockey player and coach Ron Duguay is 61. Actor Brian Posehn is 52. Rapper 50 Cent is 43. Comedian-actor Kevin Hart is 39. Actress Eva Green is 38.