TODAY IN HISTORY

Cover of King of the Cowboys

July 6

1535:Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join Henry VIII's Church of England.

1885:Louis Pasteur successfully treated a patient with a rabies vaccine.

1942

Anne Frank and her family sought refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.

1944:A fire caused by inept fire-eaters in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers Circus in Hartford, Conn., killed over 160 people.

1957:Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women's singles tennis title. She was the first black person to win the event.

1997:The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface.

1998:Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboys, died.