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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

July 6, 1957 -- John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.

July 6, 1942 -- Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

July 6, 1939 -- Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany closes the last remaining Jewish enterprises.

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.