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79-yr-old Oberjäger Gaspar Wallnöfer (born c.. 1837/38), the oldest Austrian soldier of WWI, and possibly the oldest of the Great War. Pictured here in 1917 wearing a pre-war Jäger tunic and a war-period cap

“They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.” — Final words of Union Major General John Sedgwick, May 9, 1864, the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

The White House as it appeared at the end of the Civil War, 1865.

July 6, 2022 — The Georgia Guidestones, a monument in the United States, are heavily damaged in a bombing, and are dismantled later the same day.

July 6, 1962 — The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.

Thomas Jefferson’s comment on the Missouri Compromise of 1820: “This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence… I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness in their country, is to he thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my own consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.”

Edward Lincoln (1846-1850) was the second son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. He lived a short life, and was the first of the Lincoln children to die.

July 6, 1917 — World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.

A Child solider in the Mexican Civil War, 1913

July 6, 1892 — Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.

Pope Leo XIII and his inner court at the Vatican, photographed by Jules David in June 1878.

July 6, 1887 — David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

July 6, 1791 — At Padua, the Emperor Leopold II calls on the monarchs of Europe to join him in demanding the king of France Louis XVI's freedom.

German First World War veteran Hans Lange with a portrait of himself as a 19-year-old in 1918. Photograph taken in 1998

July 6, 1438 — A temporary compromise between the rebellious Transylvanian peasants and the noblemen is signed in Kolozsmonostor Abbey.

July 6, 1415 — Jan Hus is condemned by the assembly of the council in the Konstanz Cathedral as a heretic and sentenced to be burned at the stake.

George W. Bush and Sylvester Stallone were both born on July 6, 1946.

July 6, 640 — Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt).

July 6, 371 BC — The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility

General Wool and staff in the Calle Real, Saltillo, Mexico, taken by an unknown photographer during the Mexican-American war, c. 1847