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reschedule half a dozen June dates in the United States before resuming his "Out There" tour in Albany.
• Before his illness, McCartney last performed May 1 in Costa Rica.
• McCartney opened with the Beatles' "Eight Days a Week." He wore black jeans and a sky blue blazer. When he took the jacket off four songs in, he joked that it was the only wardrobe change of the evening.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Sunday, July 6, the 187th day of 2014. There are 178 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 6, 1944, an estimated 168 people died in a fire that broke out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut. (Among the survivors was future actor Charles Nelson Reilly, then age 13.)
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• On this date:
• In 1483, England's King Richard III was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
• In 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England for high treason.
• In 1777, during the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga.
• In 1854, the first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan.
• In 1917, during World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi captured the port of Aqaba (AH'-kah-buh) from the Turks.
• In 1933, the first All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the National League, 4-2.
• In 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title as she defeated fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.
• In 1964, the movie "A Hard Day's Night," starring The Beatles, had its world premiere in London. The British colony Nyasaland became the independent country of Malawi.
• In 1971, jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong died in New York at age 69.
• In 1988, 167 North Sea oil workers were killed when explosions and fires destroyed a drilling platform. Medical waste and other debris began washing up on (Continued on page 28)
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