Today’s highlight

On July 6, 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.

Also on this date:

1483: England’s King Richard III was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

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.

1933: The first All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park.

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 discovered and arrested.

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

2016: Philando Castile, a Black elementary school cafeteria worker, was killed during a traffic stop in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights by Officer Jeronimo Yanez.

Today’s birthdays

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is 89. Singer Gene Chandler (“Duke of Earl”) is 87. Country singer Jeannie Seely is 84. Actor Burt Ward (TV: “Batman”) is 79. Former President George W. Bush is 78. Actor-director Sylvester Stallone is 78. Actor Geoffrey Rush is 73. Retired MLB All-Star Willie Randolph is 70.