• Today is Friday, July 6, the 188th day of 2012. There are 178 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 6, 1962, Nobel Prize-winning American author William Faulkner, one of the giants of Southern literature, died in Byhalia, Miss., at age 64.
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• On this date:
• In 1535, St. Thomas More was executed in England for high treason.
• In 1777, during the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga.
• In 1885, French scientist Louis Pasteur tested an anti-rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies.
• 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 1942, Anne Frank, her parents and sister entered a "secret annex" in an Amsterdam building where they were later joined by four other people; they hid from Nazi occupiers for two years before being betrayed and arrested.
• In 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, Conn.
• In 1945, President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.
• 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 1967, war erupted as Nigeria sent troops into the secessionist state of Biafra.
• 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 a series of explosions and fires destroyed a drilling platform.
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