July 6, 1900 (Friday)
- The Allies were forced to retreat from Tien-tsin after a six-hour battle against Chinese troops. However, reinforcements arrived and the Eight-Nation Alliance would take the city on July 14.
- Warren Earp, 45, was shot and killed at the Headquarters Saloon in Willcox, Arizona. The town still holds its Western Heritage Days in acknowledgment of the event.
- Born: Frederica Sagor Maas, American screenwriter, in New York; died in 2012 at age 111, having lived in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries
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Famous quotes containing the word july:
“I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.”
—Gabriel Péri, French Communist leader. Letter, July 1942, written shortly before his execution by the Germans. Quoted in New York Times (April 11, 1943)