Today is Wednesday, July 6, the 188th day of 2016. There are 178 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1777, during the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga.

In 1865, the weekly publication The Nation, the self-described “flagship of the left,” made its debut.

In 1933, the first All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the National League, 4-2.

In 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title as she defeated fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.

In 1971, jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong died in New York at age 69.

In 1996, a Delta MD-88 jetliner’s left engine blew apart during an attempted takeoff from Pensacola, Florida, sending metal pieces ripping into the cabin, killing a mother and her son.