AP Highlight in History: On July 6, 1957, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time – at a church in Liverpool, England, following a performance by Lennon's band, the Quarrymen.
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1483
England's King Richard III was crowned.
1535
Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason.
1777
British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.
1835
John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died at age 79.
1854
The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Mich.
1917
Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks during World War I.
1923
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.
1928
The first all-talking movie feature, "The Lights of New York," was shown in New York.
1933
Baseball's first All-Star game was held as the American League beat the National League 4-2 at Chicago's Comiskey Park.
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1944
Fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., killing 169 people.
1957
Althea Gibson became the first African-American tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.
1974
Garrison Keillor's radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," debuted in a live broadcast from St. Paul, Minn.
1989
The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles.
1997
The rover Sojourner rolled down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting soil and rocks.
1998
Singing cowboy star Roy Rogers died at age 86.
2003
Liberian leader Charles Taylor accepted an offer of asylum in Nigeria.
2004
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose former rival Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina to be his running mate.
2005
New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name. (She was jailed for 85 days before agreeing to testify.)
