Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 6
July 6: Independence Day in Malawi (1964) and in Comoros (1975), and Statehood Day in Lithuania (1253); Jan Hus Day in the Czech Republic; the festival of San Fermín begins in Pamplona, Spain; 100th Anniversary of the birth of painter Frida Kahlo (b. 1907).
- 1415 – Jan Hus (pictured), founder of the Christian Hussite reform movement, was burned at the stake for committing heresy.
- 1885 – French chemist Louis Pasteur successfully tested his vaccine against rabies on nine-year-old Joseph Meister after he was bitten by an infected dog.
- 1887 – King Kalākaua of Hawai'i was forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority as well as disfranchising all Asians, most native Hawaiians, and the poor.
- 1942 – Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
- 1966 – Hastings Banda became the first president of Malawi, exactly two years after the country was granted independence from the United Kingdom.