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Events on July 6

• 1415 The Bohemian reformer Jan Hus is burned as a heretic at the Council of Constance, although King Sigismund had granted him safe conduct.
• 1535 The English statesman and author Thomas More is executed on Tower Hill in London after a death sentence for refusing to swear allegiance. As a Catholic, he did not want to take the oath of supremacy.
• 1630 Gustavus Adolphus II lands in Germany with an army of 13,000 Swedish troops and enters the Thirty Years' War.
• 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• 1919 The Institute for Sexual Science, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, opens in Berlin.
• 1950 In the Görlitz Agreement between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland, the Oder-Neisse Line is established as Poland's new western border.
• 1957 John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) meet for the first time.
• 1986 By winning the final against Ivan Lendl, Boris Becker secures the title at the Wimbledon Championships in tennis for the second time.
• 1995 The SPD politician Johannes Rau is elected Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia for the fifth time.
• 2000 For the hosting of the 2006 World Cup, the world football governing body FIFA chooses Germany over the competing candidate South Africa.
• 2006 The border pass at Nathu La between India and the People's Republic of China is reopened to traffic after 44 years of closure.
• 2008 In the men's Wimbledon final, the Spaniard Rafael Nadal defeats the Swiss Roger Federer 6:4, 6:4, 6:7, 6:7, and 9:7.

Born on July 6

• 1898 Hanns Eisler, Austrian-German composer, music philosopher and music theorist
• 1912 Heinrich Harrer, Austrian naturalist, mountaineer and author
• 1923 Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish military officer and politician
• 1925 Bill Haley, American rock musician
• 1940 Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh politician
• 1951 Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
• 1970 Roger Cicero, German pop and jazz musician
• 1980 Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
• 1980 Eva Green, French actress
• 2001 Marie Wegener, German singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „6. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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