Today is Monday, July 6, the 187th day of 2009. There are 178 days left in the year.
1483 _ England's King Richard III crowned
1535 _ Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason
1687 _ Newton publishes ``Principia"
1785 _ Congress resolves U.S. currency named ``dollar" and adopts decimal coinage
1885 _ First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
1923 _ Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed
1924 _ First photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, U.S.-England
1928 _ First all-talking motion picture shown, in N.Y. (Lights of NY)
1945 _ Nicaragua becomes first nation to formally accept U.N. Charter
1967 _ Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade