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• Today is Saturday, July 6, the 187th day of 2013. There are 178 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 6, 1933, the first All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the National League, 4-2.
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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 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 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 1963, the cult horror movie "Blood Feast" had its world premiere at a drive-in theater in Peoria, Ill.
• In 1973, classical conductor Otto Klemperer, 88, died in Zurich, Switzerland.
• In 1983, Fred Lynn of the California Angels hit the first (and, to date, only) grand slam in an All-Star game as the American League zoomed to a 13-3 victory over the National League in Chicago's Comiskey Park.
• 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 New York City-area seashores, forcing the closing of several popular beaches.

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