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Morning luv.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1483 England's King Richard III was crowned.
1535 Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason.
1777 British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.
1835 John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died at age 79.
1854 The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Mich.
1885 French scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tested an anti-rabies vaccine on a boy bitten by an infected dog.
1917 Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks during World War I.
1923 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.
1928 The first all-talking movie feature, ''The Lights of New York,'' was shown in New York.
1933 Baseball's first All-Star game was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League beat the National League 4-2.
1944 Fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., killing 169 people.
On July 6, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. Also on this day in 1957 Teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at a church in Liverpool, England, following a performance by Lennon's band, the Quarrymen.
1989 The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, Texas.
1997 The rover Sojourner rolled down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting soil and rocks.
1998 Protestants rioted in many parts of Northern Ireland after British authorities blocked an Orange Order march in Portadown.
1998 Singing cowboy star Roy Rogers died at age 86.
2001 Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 criminal counts and agreed to give a full accounting of his spying activities for Moscow.
2003 Liberian leader Charles Taylor accepted an offer of asylum in Nigeria.
2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose former rival John Edwards, a North Carolina senator, to be his running mate.
George W. Bush turns 59 today
Nancy Reagan turns 84 today
Burt Ward (Robin, of Batman original series) is 60 today
Actors Sylvester Stallone and Fred Dryer are both 59 today
Have a great day all :D
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