Today is Monday, July 6, the 187th day of 2015. There are 178 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, July 6, the 187th day of 2015. There are 178 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1415: Czech church reformer Jan Hus, condemned for heresy, is burned at the stake in Konstanz in present-day Germany.

1535: Sir Thomas More is executed in England for high treason.

1777: During the American Revolution, British forces capture Fort Ticonderoga.

1865: The weekly publication, The Nation, the self-described “flagship of the left,” made its debut.

1933: The first All-Star baseball game is played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the American League defeats the National League, 4-2.

1944: An estimated 168 people die in a fire that breaks out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn.

1945: President Harry S. Truman signs an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.

Nicaragua became the first nation to ratify the United Nations Charter.

1957: Althea Gibson becomes the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title as she defeats fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.

1964: The movie “A Hard Day’s Night,” starring The Beatles, has its world premiere in London.

1971: Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong dies in New York at age 69.

1988: Some 167 North Sea oil workers are killed when explosions and fires destroy a drilling platform.

1994: Fourteen firefighters are killed while battling a several-days-old blaze on Storm King Mountain in Colorado.

2005: New York Times reporter Judith Miller is jailed after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity (Miller was jailed for 85 days before agreeing to testify).

London was selected to host the 2012 Olympics.

The Group of Eight summit opened in Gleneagles, Scotland.

L. Patrick Gray, the acting FBI director during Watergate, died in Atlantic Beach, Fla., at age 88.

Author Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain) died in Weston, Conn., at age 78.

2010: Queen Elizabeth II addresses the United Nations for the first time since 1957 during her first New York visit in more than 30 years; she then lays a wreath at ground zero.

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1990: Mayor Patrick Ungaro appoints Atty. Richard Dobbins of Fairlawn to oversee an investigation into financial irregularities in the Youngstown Municipal Court’s bailiff’s office.

The Confederate Air Force of Harlingen, Texas, brings its restored B-29 bomber to Youngstown Municipal Airport, along with other World War II era planes in its fleet of 145.

Playing at Cinema South and Eastwood Cinema 2, “Days of Thunder” starring Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid and Nicole Kidman.

1975: The Mahoning Valley Polo Club is in its 45th season, playing a 30-game schedule, including four tournaments. Home games are played at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

Scientists at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center at Wooster are experimenting with a solar grain dryer.

Bernard Keeder, 22, drowns in Beaver Creek in Beaver Creek State Park. It was the fifth drowning of the summer in Beaver Creek.

1965: WFMJ-TV will increase its television picture power to a million watts from the present 186,000, increasing its range to a radius of 70 miles.

Traffic deaths during the July Fourth weekend reached a nationwide record of 542, but Youngstown and Mahoning County recorded none.

Operation Head Start gets underway in Youngstown City Schools, with 800 children expected at 12 city elementary schools.

1940: Sheriff Ralph Elser and his deputies raid five places in Mahoning County, including the Poland Country Club and the Canteen Club on North Chestnut Street. Nine slot machines, three horse boards and several quarts of illegal liquor are confiscated.

Several explosions shake houses over a wide area after a “break out” at Republic Steel Corp.’s No. 3 blast furnace, allowing molten iron to flow into standing water.

Virginia Hollinger, 16-year-old senior at Goshen High School in Damascus, is elected president of the Home Economics High School Clubs of the United States at the national convention in Cleveland.