Historical Events for 6th July 2023

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1641 - Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army
1932 - Cubs' future All Star shortstop Billy Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli; no charges laid
1933 - 1st MLB All Star Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Babe Ruth hits first All Star home run
1945 - Abbott and Costello's film "The Naughty Nineties" released; features longest version of their "Who's on First?" routine
1957 - Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Althea Gibson becomes the first black female athlete to win Wimbledon beating Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2
1969 - Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1984 - New Zealand sisters Liz and Rose Signal become the first twins to play in the same cricket Test match, v England at Headingley
2013 - 3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport
2020 - Zoonotic diseases, which jump from animals to humans, are increasing due to unsustainable farming and climate change according to new report by the UN

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