Today in History
September 6 - Today in History
By Staff
Sep 6, 2011 - 12:00:00 AM

0394 - Battle of Frigidus North-Italy
0394 - Eugenius, linguistic/anti Emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle
0972 - John XIII Crescentii, Pope (965-72), dies
1492 - Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
1522 - Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
1543 - French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
1622 - Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
1628 - Puritans land at Salem, from Massachusetts Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1634 - Battle at N?rdlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat
1672 - Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on France
1675 - Swedish admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships
1683 - Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
1688 - Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
1690 - King Willem III escapes back to England
1701 - James II [Stuart], King of England (1685-88), dies at 68
1715 - Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
1716 - 1st US lighthouse built (Boston)
1732 - VOC fires Neth-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
1776 - Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French & Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
1776 - 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY)
1819 - Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
1839 - Cherokee Nation forms
1839 - Great fire in New York
1848 - National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1853 - Women's Rights Convention met (NYC)
1861 - General Grant occupies Paducah, Kentucky
1862 - Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland
1863 - After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, South Carolina
1866 - Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention (Free Soil Party)
1869 - 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco, CA
1869 - Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
1873 - Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1876 - Race riot in Charleston SC
1876 - Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
1883 - Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
1899 - Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1901 - President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
1903 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Creeping Man" (BG)
1905 - Atlanta Life Insurance Company established
1905 - Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
1909 - Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
1910 - Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughriders football club formed
1912 - NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Phila, 3-0
1913 - 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe P?goud-France)
1914 - Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1920 - 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
1924 - Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails
1924 - Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships
1930 - Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
1939 - 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
1939 - South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany
1940 - Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
1941 - All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland are confined to a ghetto
1943 - "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1946 - All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1948 - Juliana becomes queen of the Netherlands
1949 - Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1954 - Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
1963 - Church bombed in Birmingham, Alabama kills 4 African-American girls
1963 - Major league baseballs 100,000th game
1966 - "Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV
1966 - Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia
1968 - Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1972 - John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
1973 - NY Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1976 - Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1978 - Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1980 - Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
1980 - College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1981 - Bob Lemon named Yankee manager
1982 - Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
1982 - Polish dissidents seize the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1983 - USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on September 2
1984 - Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1986 - Barbra Streisand's 1st live concert in 20 years
1986 - USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
1987 - Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
1988 - Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1989 - Amateur Atheletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
1991 - USSR recognizes independence of the 3 baltic republics

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