July 6

Sir Thomas More is executed in England for treason (1535); First Major League Baseball All-Star Game played in Chicago's Comiskey Park (1933); Tibetan spiritual leader the 14th Dalai Lama born (1935); President Truman establishes the Medal of Freedom (1945); 43rd US President George W. Bush born (1946).

July 5

Sir Isaac Newton publishes his laws of motion and law of gravity (1687); Bikini debuts at a Paris fashion show (1946); First episode of "Seinfeld" airs, watch clip (1989); Jeff Bezos founds Amazon in his Washington state garage (1994); Dolly the Sheep, the world's first successfully cloned mammal, is born (1996); United States Women's National Team wins the FIFA World Cup (2015)

Rushmore

"No doubt it will interest you to have accurate data on that subject. In your letter to Mr. Blount you say: "Rushmore Rock was named for Mr. Rushmore, a lawyer of Philadelphia who was interested in the Etta Mine.""https://www.nps.gov/moru/learn/historyculture/charles-e-rushmore.htm

July 3

Battle of Gettysburg ends on Pickett’s Charge (1863); Dow Jones publishes its first stock average (1884); Actor Tom Cruise born (1962); Musician Jim Morrison dies (1971); Actress Olivia Munn born (1980).

July 2

Thurgood Marshall, first Black US Supreme Court justice, born (1908); Amelia Earhart disappears on round-the-world flight (1937); Ernest Hemingway dies (1961); Businessman Sam Walton opens first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas, (1962); Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law (1964).

July 1

Civil War Battle of Gettysburg begins (1863); Canada becomes a country (1867); Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe dies (1896); Princess Diana born (1961); China regains sovereignty over Hong Kong (1997).

June 30

Aztec emperor Moctezuma II dies during the Spanish conquest (1520);  Oxford debate on evolution takes place (1860); Singer and civil rights activist Lena Horne born (1917); Olympic legend Michael Phelps born (1985).