6 July

Notable Births

Zion Williamson

b. 2000

American basketball player (born 2000)

Comethazine

b. 1998

American rapper (born 1998)

Ludwig Ahgren

b. 1995

American YouTuber and streamer (born 1995)

Andrew Benintendi

b. 1994

American baseball player (born 1994)

Han Na-lae

b. 1992

South Korean tennis player

Manny Machado

b. 1992

American baseball player (born 1992)

Jae Crowder

b. 1990

American basketball player (born 1990)

Magaye Gueye

b. 1990

Senegalese-French footballer (born 1990)

Jamal Idris

b. 1990

Australian rugby league footballer

Justin Schultz

b. 1990

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)

Sophie Auster

b. 1987

American singer/songwriter and actress

Manteo Mitchell

b. 1987

American sprinter

Kate Nash

b. 1987

British musician (born 1987)

Caroline Trentini

b. 1987

Brazilian supermodel (born 1987)

David Karp

b. 1986

American web developer and entrepreneur

Ranveer Singh

b. 1985

Indian actor (born 1985)

Zhang Hao (figure skater)

b. 1984

Chinese pair skater (born 1984)

Gregory Smith (actor)

b. 1983

Canadian actor and director

Heinrich Harrer

b. 1912

Austrian mountaineer and author (1912–2006)

Frida Kahlo

b. 1907

Mexican painter (1907–1954)

Notable Deaths

Khyree Jackson

d. 2024

American football player (1999–2024)

James Caan

d. 2022

American actor (1940–2022)

Arnaldo Pambianco

d. 2022

Italian cyclist (1935–2022)

Charlie Daniels

d. 2020

American musician (1936–2020)

Mary Kay Letourneau

d. 2020

American sex offender (1962–2020)

Ennio Morricone

d. 2020

Italian composer and conductor (1928–2020)

Cameron Boyce

d. 2019

American actor (1999–2019)

João Gilberto

d. 2019

Brazilian musician, pioneer of bossa nova (1931–2019)

Shoko Asahara

d. 2018

Founder of Aum Shinrikyo (1955–2018)

Jerry Weintraub

d. 2015

American film producer (1937–2015)

Alan J. Dixon

d. 2014

American politician (1927–2014)

Carly Hibberd

d. 2011

Australian cyclist

Harvey Fuqua

d. 2010

American R&B singer and record producer (1929–2010)

Vasily Aksyonov

d. 2009

Soviet and Russian novelist (1932–2009)

Robert McNamara

d. 2009

American businessman and government official (1916–2009)

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

d. 2007

American novelist

Kasey Rogers

d. 2006

American actress (1925–2006)

Evan Hunter

d. 2005

American author and screenwriter

Claude Simon

d. 2005

French novelist (1913–2005)

Cornelia Sorabji

d. 1954

Indian barrister, writer, and social reformer (1866–1954)

On This Day in History

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2022

The Georgia Guidestones, a monument in the United States, are heavily damaged in a bombing, and are dismantled later the same day.

Georgia Guidestones

2021

An Antonov An-26 operating as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing all 28 aboard.

Antonov An-26

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2013

At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.

Mamudo school massacre

2013

A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.

Boeing 777

2013

A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town's central area.

Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

2006

The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.

Nathu La

2003

The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.

Yevpatoria

1998

Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.

Hong Kong International Airport

1997

The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.

The Troubles

1996

A McDonnell Douglas MD-88 operating as Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 experiences a turbine engine failure during takeoff from Pensacola International Airport, killing two and injuring five of the 147 people on board.

McDonnell Douglas MD-80

1995

In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

Bosnian War

1989

The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.

1989 Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus attack

1988

The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.

Piper Alpha

1982

While attempting to return to Sheremetyevo International Airport, Aeroflot Flight 411, an Ilyushin Il-62, crashes near Mendeleyevo, Moscow Oblast, killing all 90 people on board.

Sheremetyevo International Airport