This Day in History – July 6, 2011

1535 Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason 1699 Capt William Kidd arrested in Boston 1776 Declaration of Independence announced on front page of the “PA Evening Gazette” 1785 Congress resolves US currency named “dollar” & adopts decimal coinage 1798 US law makes aliens “liable to be apprehended, restrained and removed as alien enemies” 1853 National Black convention meets (Rochester NY) 1853 William Wells Brown publishes “Clotel,” 1st novel by black American 1854 1st Republican state convention, Ripon, Wisconsin 1869 Black candidate for Lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated 1885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur 1886 Horlick’s of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public 1892 Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7 1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike 1903 George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF 1908 Robert Peary’s expedition sails from NYC for the north pole 1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed 1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England 1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown, in NY (Lights of NY) 1945 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter 1945 Pres Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom 1945 Washington Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games 1957 Althea Gibson became 1st black tennis player to win Wimbledon 1957 Harry S Truman Library established in Independence, Missouri 1958 Alaska becomes the 49th state 1960 Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC 1964 Beatles’ film “Hard Day’s Night” premiers in London 1965 Rock group “Jefferson Airplane” forms 1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks 1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can’t pay women less 1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India 1989 After 9 years, WHOT (Brooklyn pirate radio station) is busted by the FCC]]]]> ]]>