WikiPedia:Selected anniversaries/July 6

• 1609 - Bohemia was granted freedom of religion.
• 1785 - The dollar was unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States. This was the first time a nation had adopted a decimal currency system.
• 1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tested his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister.
• 1887 - David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, was 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.
• 1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.

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