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Today is Wednesday, July 6, the 188th day of 2016. There are 178 days left in the year.

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

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

1917: During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi capture the port of Aqaba from the Turks.

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. (One of the survivors of the blaze is future actor Charles Nelson Reilly, then age 13.)

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.

2006: The space shuttle Discovery docks with the international space station.

2011: President Barack Obama has his first Twitter town hall, which focuses on jobs and the economy.

2015: The Associated Press obtains documents in which Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he’d secured quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with and that he gave the sedative to at least one woman and other people.

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1991: A midafternoon thunderstorm dumps 3 inches of rain on Boardman. Michael Stevens, 17, of Cortland, is treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center after he was struck by lightning at the St. Christine Church carnival.

The Warren Exchange Club has raised about half of the $24,000 needed to refurbish the historic 95-year-old clock in the tower of the Trumbull County Courthouse.

Mike Hargrove is hired as manager of the Cleveland Indians after John McNamara is fired. The Indians’ record of 25-52 is the worst in the Major Leagues.

1976: Three Canfield Township residents and a Liberty Township man are charged with arson and complicity to arson in the bombing of two Canfield Township police cruisers as patrolmen were changing shifts.

Between 50,000 and 60,000 people jam a 2-mile route through downtown Youngstown for the parade of the century to mark the nation’s Bicentennial.

Two men fired on a witness after they smashed a large window and firebombed the His & Her Shoppe on the first floor of the Elks Building on West Boardman Street. Damage is estimated at $15,000.

1966: A beagle pup named Tiny, no address, goes to jail on an open charge. He was with two men and a woman who called for a cab in North Lima. When they reached a Himrod address, they would not pay cabbie Steve Rusnak, who drove them to the city jail. Tiny was transferred from a cell to the dog pound.

Youngstown will apply for a $353,414 grant from the federal Housing and Urban Development Department to renovate public facilities and inspect two housing projects.

The fifth annual Grand Ole Opry show, sponsored by the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office, raises $8,945, which will be used to build 10 Little League baseball fields.

1941: The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District asks the federal government to provide a quantity of water in the Berlin Reservoir sufficient to yield 25 million gallons a day for the use of the sanitary district when it is needed.

Miss Marguerite Lloyd of Mineral Ridge, a senior at Ohio Wesleyan College, leaves for the Alpha Chi Omega national sorority convention in Pasadena, Calif.