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UPI Almanac for Monday, July 6, 2015

First women admitted to U.S. Naval Academy, PyeongChang chosen for 2018 Winter Games ... on this date in history.

By United Press International
Midshipmen celebrate during the Graduation and Commissioning Ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., May 22, 2015. The graduating class consisted of 866 men and 204 women. (The academy first admitted women on July 6, 1976.) File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
1 of 9 | Midshipmen celebrate during the Graduation and Commissioning Ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., May 22, 2015. The graduating class consisted of 866 men and 204 women. (The academy first admitted women on July 6, 1976.) File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

Today is Monday, July 6, the 187th day of 2015 with 178 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Nepune and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Venus.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include John Paul Jones, founder of the U.S. Navy, in 1747; Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in 1907; singer LaVerne Andrews of the Andrews Sisters in 1911; British actor Sebastian Cabot in 1918; former U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan in 1921 (age 94); TV entertainer/producer Merv Griffin in 1925; rock 'n' roll pioneer Bill Haley ("Rock Around The Clock") in 1925; actor Janet Leigh in 1927; singer/actor Della Reese in 1931 (age 84); the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader/Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in 1935 (age 80); actor Ned Beatty in 1937 (age 78); actor Burt Ward in 1945 (age 70); actor Sylvester Stallone in 1946 (age 69); former U.S. President George W. Bush in 1946 (age 69); actor Shelley Hack in 1947 (age 68); actor Geoffrey Rush in 1951 (age 64); singer Nanci Griffith in 1953 (age 62); actor Allyce Beasley in 1954 (age 61); rapper 50 Cent, born Curtis James Jackson III, in 1975, (age 40).

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On this date in history:

In 1854, the Republican Party was formally established at a meeting in New York City.

In 1885, French bacteriologist Louis Pasteur inoculated a human being for the first time -- a boy, who had been bitten by a rabid dog. (The youngster didn't develop rabies.)

In 1919, a British dirigible landed at New York's Roosevelt Field to complete the first airship crossing of the Atlantic.

In 1923, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.

In 1933, the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The American League beat the National League 4-2.

In 1942, diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge in a secret section of an Amsterdam warehouse where they hid from the Nazis for two years. (Finally discovered, they were sent to concentration camps. Anne died in a camp.)

In 1944, fire in the big top of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., killed 167 people, two-thirds of them children, and injured 682 others.

In 1957, Althea Gibson became the first African-American competitor to win a Wimbledon championship.

In 1958, Alaska became the 49th U.S. state.

In 1971, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, one of the 20th century's most influential American musicians, died at age 69.

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In 1976, women were first admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy. (The other military academies soon followed suit.)

In 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in a TV interview, said it was a "probability" that many young people now paying into Social Security "will never be able to receive as much as they're paying."

In 1997, the Mars Pathfinder deployed the remote-controlled Sojourner to explore the surface of the planet.

In 2006, Felipe Calderon of Mexico's ruling National Action Party won a tight race for president over Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama met in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, and announced an agreement to reduce nuclear arsenals.

In 2011, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2018 Winter Olympic Games to PyeongChang, set in the mountains of South Korea, 110 miles east of Seoul. (PyeongChang was host of the 2013 Special Olympics.)

In 2012, Hong Kong customs officials who had been tipped by U.S. drug agents announced a record seizure of more than 1,400 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of $98 million. The cocaine was in a shipment from Ecuador.

In 2013, an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 carrying more than 300 people hit a sea wall in front of a runway on approach at San Francisco International Airport -- a crash that resulted in three fatalities and scores of injuries.

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In 2014, Novak Djokovic won his second Wimbledon title, defeating Roger Federer in five sets.


A thought for the day: "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." -- John Lennon

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