July 6th, 2008

Today in History

1964:
Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.

1944:
The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.

1933:
The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeats the National League, 4 to 2.

1919:
The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.

1887:
David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.