Wikipedia:Main Page history/2017 July 6

Adelphi School

• ... that the Adelphi School (pictured) is considered to be the last free-tuition charity school building still standing in Philadelphia?
• ... that Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee is the first mayor of any city of India to get Z-plus security cover?
• ... that elevated parks are becoming more common, inspired by the success of New York's High Line?
• ... that while Maximilian II replaced Alard du Gaucquier as Kapellmeister, he thought highly enough of him to grant a patent of nobility?
• ... that the
  non-small-cell lung cancer
  ?
• ... that former Attorney General Ayikoi Otoo is now Ghana's High Commissioner to Canada?
• ... that the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis was imported to the United States from Belgium in an attempt to control the black turpentine beetle?
• ... that in 1972, Colorado engineering technician Janet Bonnema legally challenged the superstition that a woman who went underground into a tunnel or mine brought bad luck?

Petya's ransom note displayed on a compromised system

• Petya malware
  (ransom note pictured) around the world and cause severe disruptions.
• An anti-government coalition uses a police helicopter
  Interior Ministry
  of Venezuela.
• In sailing, the America's Cup concludes with Emirates Team New Zealand defeating Oracle Team USA.
• An oil truck explosion in Ahmedpur East
  , Pakistan, kills at least 190 people and injures more than 140 others.
• The
  infected with cholera
  .

July 6: Independence Day in Malawi (1964); Statehood Day in Lithuania (1253); the Festival of San Fermín begins in Pamplona, Spain

R34 airship

• a final attempt to conquer the island of Malta, but were beaten back by the Knights Hospitaller
  .
• a steelworkers' strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a day-long battle between strikers and Pinkerton agents
  resulted in ten deaths and dozens of people wounded.
• 1919 – The Royal Air Force's R34 airship (pictured) landed in Mineola, New York, to complete the first east-to-west transatlantic crossing by an aircraft.
• 1957 – At a concert by The Quarrymen at the St. Peter's Church Woolton Garden fête, band member John Lennon met Paul McCartney, triggering a series of events that led to the forming of The Beatles.
• five days of unrest began in Irish nationalist
  districts of Northern Ireland.

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