Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 6
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July 6: Independence Day in Malawi (1964) and in Comoros (1975), Statehood Day in Lithuania (1253); Jan Hus Day in the Czech Republic; the festival of San Fermín begins in Pamplona, Spain.
- 1785 - The dollar, a decimal currency system, was unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States.
- 1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tested his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister.
- 1887 - King Kalākaua of Hawai'i (pictured) was forced by armed foreign businessmen to sign the Bayonet Constitution.
- 1942 - Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annex" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
- 1966 - Malawi became a republic, with Hastings Banda as the first President.
