Today in History - July 6: Veteran hijacks plane to demand cash, a parachute and a manual on how to skydive
Young veteran Francis Goodell hijacked a Pacific Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Sacramento in California on July 6, 1972.
Armed with two pistols, the 21-year-old demanded almost half a million US dollars ($700,000) a parachute, and an instruction manual on how to skydive.
It was reported Goodell had suffered from post traumatic stress disorder due to his time in the Vietnam War.
He claimed he wanted to donate the money to children in south-east Asia due to wartime guilt.
Goodell was sentenced to 30 years for air piracy after an off-duty highway patrolman travelling as a passenger convinced him to surrender.
This was one of more than a dozen copycat hijackings within the next year which used a similar template to plane hijacker D. B. Cooper in November 1971.
The spate of hijackings involved demanding a ransom and then parachuting from the aircraft as a method of escape.
Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in a secret sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse on July 6 in 1942, due to the fear of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp.
They remained in a secret annex, where the Jewish teenager wrote the diary that became a classic piece of wartime literature, until their capture more than two years later.
Tennis champion Althea Gibson claimed the women's singles tennis title at Wimbledon and became the first African American to win a championship, on this day.
During the match on July 6 in 1957, defeated competitor and doubles partner Darlene Hard, 6-3, 6-2.
Gibson did not lose a set during the tournament.
Gibson was celebrated for her historic achievement.
Queen Elizabeth II presented Gibson with the Venus Rosewater Trophy following the win.
The US Continental Congress established the dollar as the official currency of the newly-established United States on July 6 in 1785.
This move paved the way for a national monetary system.
The nation had just won the Revolutionary War and the creation of a national currency marked one of its first steps in establishing its newly-independent economy.
Today, the US dollar is the dominant global currency.
A teenage John Lennon performed with his band The Quarrymen at the St Peter's Church Rose Queen garden fête in Woolton, Liverpool on July in 1957.
This performance changed his life as he crossed paths with another up-and-coming musician - Paul McCartney.
McCartney eventually joined the Quarrymen as a rhythm guitarist.
Over time, the band recruited George Harrison and Ringo Starr and changed their name to The Beatles.
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