Today is Wednesday, July 6, the 188th day of 2016. There are 178 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Singer Della Reese is 85. The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is 81. Actor Ned Beatty is 79. Singer Gene Chandler is 76. Actor Burt Ward is 71. Former president George W. Bush is 70. Actor Sylvester Stallone is 70. Football-player-turned-actor Fred Dryer is 70. Actor Geoffrey Rush is 65. Country singer Nanci Griffith is 63. Political reporter John Dickerson is 48. Rapper Inspectah Deck is 46. Rapper 50 Cent is 41.

In 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England for high treason.

In 1917, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.

In 1933, the first All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the American League won, 4-2.

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. (One survivor was future actor Charles Nelson Reilly, then 13.)

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 1988, 167 North Sea oil workers were killed when explosions and fires destroyed a drilling platform.

In 2011, jury selection began in the perjury trial of former baseball pitcher Roger Clemens, who was accused of lying under oath to Congress when he denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs (the proceedings ended in a mistrial).