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July 6, 1885 -- Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.

The Notre-Dame de Paris, as it appeared in 1847.

July 6, 1854 -- In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.

July 6, 1809 -- The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.

July 6, 1777 -- American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.

A young Ulysses Grant, aged 25, in 1847.

July 6, 1557 -- King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.

July 6, 1411 -- Ming China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.

July 6, 1348 -- Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.

The first known photo of an actual live medical operation, 1847.

The earliest-known photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken around 1847.

Thank you everyone for following along this past week leading up to the 250th anniversary of American independence! Starting tomorrow, posts will return to covering international as well as American history. Stay tuned!

Johnny Clem, “The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.” He was the youngest soldier in the Union Army, shot a Confederate colonel, and retired with the rank of General in 1915.

Dwight D. Eisenhower punting a ball during practice at West Point, 1915.

One man during the showing of the 1915 film “Birth of a Nation” was so moved by the scene where Flora Cameron flees Gus (a black character) to avoid being raped that he took out his handgun and began firing at the screen in an effort to help her.

Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris, 1946.

Robert C. Ogden, U.S. Secretary of War William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington and Andrew Carnegie at Tuskegee Institute's 25th anniversary celebration, 1906

President Theodore Roosevelt posing for a photograph, 1906.

July 5, 2009 — The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.

July 5, 1999 — U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.