è successo un 06 Luglio

1809 : French victory at Wagram


On July 6, 1809, French forces won a decisive victory over the Austrian army at Wagram, north of Vienna. French troops had more than 200,000 men and Austrian forces near 160,000. 70,000 soldiers were killed in battle, in just two days.

1885 : Pasteur administered his vaccine against rabies


On July 6, 1885, Pasteur administered his first vaccine against rabies in a human, a 9-year old boy, Joseph Meister, bitten by a rabid dog two days earlier. The boy did not develop the disease.

1942 : The Frank family took refuge in a warehouse


On July 6, 1942, the Frank family took refuge in the company of the father with other people. The younger daughter, Anne, kept a diary of that period which lasted two years until their arrest and the arrest of some of those who hid them. Anne Frank died in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . Her diary was published after the war and is still today a major work, read in many countries around the world.

1967 : Biafra attacked by Nigeria


On July 6, 1967, Nigeria attacked the Biafra province which had declared its independence five weeks earlier. Nigerian forces quickly took advantage and Biafra lost its oil fields. Biafra no longer being able to import food, 1 million of its people died of malnutrition.

2005 : London won the Olympic Games


On July 6, 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 Olympic Games to London.

Novità del giorno : 06 Luglio

Independance Day in the Comoros
July 6 is the Independence Day in the Comoros commemorating the independence of the country gained against France in 1975.
Independance Day in Malawi
July 6 is Independence Day in Malawi, which commemorates the independence of the country gained against the UK in 1964.
Start the festival of San Fermin
July 6, marks the beginning of the festival of San Fermín in Pamplona (Iruña) in Navarre. This festival runs until 14 July and 3 million people attend.
The festivities are immutable and begin on July 6 at the City Hall by a sentence of opening and the launch of the first firecracker. At this point, everyone attaches a red scarf and prepares to celebrate : processions, bull running, bullfight...

Citazione del giorno : 06 Luglio

Anne Frank
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Compleanni : 06 Luglio

Nicholas I, Imperatore di Tutte le Russie (1796)
Marc Bloch, Storico francese (1886)
Marc Chagall, Pittore russo-francese (1887)
Hugo Theorell, Biochimico svedese, Premio Nobel per la Fisiologia e Medicina (1903)
Frida Kahlo, Pittore messicana (1907)
Heinrich Harrer, Alpinista austriaco (1912)
Wojciech Jaruzelski, Uomo politico polacco (1923)
Bill Haley, Cantante americano (1925)
Janet Leigh, Attrice americana (1927)
Tenzin Gyatso, 14° Dalai Lama (1935)
Ned Beatty, Attore americano (1937)
Nursultan Nazarbayev, Primo presidente del Kazakistan (1940)
George W. Bush, 43 ° Presidente degli Stati Uniti (1946)
Fred Dryer, Giocatore di football e attore americano (1946)
Sylvester Stallone, Attore e regista americano (1946)
Nathalie Baye, Attrice francese (1948)
Jennifer Saunders, Attrice inglese (1958)
Isabelle Boulay, Cantante canadese (1972)
Curtis James Jackson III (50 Cent), Rapper americano (1975)
Caroline Trentini, Top Model brasiliana (1987)

Ci hanno lasciato un 06 Luglio

Thomas More, Uomo politico, filosofo e umanista inglese (1535)
Antoine Lasalle, Generale francese (1809)
Guy de Maupassant, Scrittore francese (1893)
Odilon Redon, Pittore francese (1916)
William Faulkner, Scrittore americano, Premio Nobel per la letteratura (1962)
Louis Armstrong, Trompetista de jazz estadounidense (1971)
Otto Klemperer, Direttore d'orchestra tedesco (1973)
Jagjivan Ram, Politico indiano (1986)
János Kádár, Politico ungherese (1989)
Roy Rogers, Attore americano (1998)
John Frankenheimer, Regista americano (2002)
Claude Simon, Scrittore francese, premio Nobel per la letteratura (2005)
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, Romanziere americana (2007)
Vue mer : crédit photo Aseed