Today is Tuesday, July 6, the 187th day of 2010. There are 178 days left in the year.
1483 _ England's King Richard III crowned
1535 _ Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason
1785 _ Congress resolves U.S. currency named ``dollar" and adopts decimal coinage
1885 _ First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
1908 _ Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for the north pole
1923 _ Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed
1928 _ First all-talking motion picture shown, in N.Y. (Lights of N.Y.)
1945 _ Nicaragua becomes first nation to formally accept U.N. Charter
1967 _ Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
1971 _ White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks