07-06-2006, 05:20 AM
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Location: Maryland
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July 6th
1946 ~ Birthday of George W. Bush, 43rd President of the U.S.
1957 ~ Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title.
1962 ~ Death of William Faulkner, American Novelist.
1964 ~ A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premiered.
1971 ~ Death of Louis Armstrong, Jazz Musician.
1973 ~ Death of Otto Klemperer, German Conductor.
1974 ~ The radio program A Prairie Home Companion was first broadcast.
1989 ~ The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea was destroyed by explosions and fires killing 167 oil workers.
1997 ~ The rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting soil and rocks.
1998 ~ Death of Roy Rogers, Cowboy Actor & Singer.
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