Notable Historical Events on September 6th
September 6th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
3114 |
Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar). |
BC AD | |
394 |
Battle of Frigidus, Northern Italy |
1492 |
Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands |
1522 |
Ferdinand Magellen's Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returns to Spain without their captain. First to circumnaigate the earth |
1543 |
French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice |
1620 |
1st stones layed in Western Tower |
1620 |
The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World |
1622 |
Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die |
1628 |
Puritans from Masschusetts Bay Colony land at Salem |
1634 |
Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat |
1669 |
The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans. |
1672 |
Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden from 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 Wiliam III escapes back to England |
1715 |
Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland |
1716 |
1st lighthouse built in north America (Boston) |
1732 |
VOC dismisses 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) |
1776 |
Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6,000. |
1781 |
The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory. |
1791 |
Mozart's opera "La Clemenza di Tito" premieres in Prague |
1819 |
Thomas Blanchard patents lathe |
1837 |
Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men) |
1839 |
Cherokee Nation forms |
1839 |
Great fire in New York |
1848 |
National Black Convention meets in Cleveland |
1861 |
General Ulysses S. Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky |
1862 |
Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland |
1863 |
-7] After 59 day siege Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties) |
1866 |
Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention |
1869 |
1st westbound train arrives in SF |
1869 |
Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale, Pennsylvania |
1870 |
Ship sinks in Gulf of Biscay; 483 die |
1873 |
Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street |
1876 |
Race riot in Charleston SC |
1876 |
Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed |
1880 |
Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval |
1880 |
W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, v Aust The Oval |
1883 |
Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn |
1885 |
Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished. |
1886 |
Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) |
1888 |
Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons' Imperial British East Africa Company political & commercial rights |
1888 |
Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times). |
1889 |
King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns |
1898 |
Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman |
1899 |
Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk |
1899 |
US minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note" |
1900 |
British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa |
1901 |
US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York |
1903 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" (BG) |
1904 |
Soccer team Rheden forms |
1905 |
Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms |
1905 |
Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0 |
1905 |
General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) |
1909 |
Word received that Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier |
1910 |
Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed |
1912 |
NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Phila, 3-0 |
1913 |
19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers |
1913 |
1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pégoud-France) |
1913 |
Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club |
1917 |
French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft |
1920 |
40th US Men's Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (6-1 1-6 7-5 5-7 6-3) |
1920 |
Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight |
1922 |
42nd US Men's Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (4-6 3-6 6-2 6-3 6-4) |
1923 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her silver jubilee |
1924 |
Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails |
1924 |
Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships |
1927 |
Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Good News" premieres in NYC |
1927 |
Red Sox beat NY Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park |
1928 |
USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact |
1930 |
Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8 |
1930 |
Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. |
1937 |
Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco. |
1938 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates 40th anniversary |
1939 |
1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II |
1939 |
South Africa declares war on Nazi-Germany |
1939 |
World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek. |
1940 |
Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania |
1940 |
Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France |
1941 |
55th US Women's Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62) |
1941 |
61st US Men's Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 5-7 6-1 6-3 6-3) |
1941 |
All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star |
1941 |
Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto |
1942 |
56th US Women's Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64) |
1942 |
Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau |
1943 |
"Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79 |
1943 |
63rd US Men's Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (6-3 6-8 10-8 6-0) |
1943 |
Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's |
1944 |
Gen Von Zangen's 15th army escape from Zealand |
1945 |
A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended |
1946 |
All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0) |
1946 |
Terence Rattigan's "The Winslow Boy" premieres in London |
1948 |
"Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 perfs |
1948 |
37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0) |
1948 |
Juliana crowned Queen of The Netherlands |
1949 |
Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes in Camden, New Jersey |
1952 |
Canadian TV begins in Montreal |
1953 |
Konrad Adenauer's CDU wins elections in German Federal Republic |
1953 |
Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38 |
1954 |
68th US Women's Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (6-8 6-1 8-6) |
1954 |
74th US Men's Tennis: E V Seixas Jr beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64) |
1954 |
US plane shot down above Siberia |
1954 |
WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show |
1954 |
Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters |
1955 |
"Catch a Star" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances |
1955 |
J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname |
1957 |
Elvis records "White Christmas", "Silent Night" & "Here Comes Santa Claus" |
1958 |
Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959 |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean |
1959 |
Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in Major League baseball history |
1963 |
Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records |
1963 |
The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded. |
1965 |
India invades West Pakistan |
1965 |
KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia |
1968 |
Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1969 |
"Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances |
1970 |
Palestinians seize 3 airiners |
1970 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971 |
Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises |
1971 |
British Prime Minister Edward Heath meets with Irish Prime Minister/Taoiseach Jack Lynch at Chequers in England to discuss the situation in Northern Ireland |
1971 |
William Craig and Ian Paisley speak at a rally in Belfast before a crowd of approximately 20,000 people and call for the establishment of a 'third force' to defend 'Ulster' |
1972 |
John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon |
1972 |
Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre |
1973 |
New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed |
1974 |
Saudi Arabia increases its oil buy-back price from 93 percent to 94.9 percent of posted price |
1975 |
6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice, Turkey |
1975 |
89th US Women's Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62) |
1975 |
Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976 |
1975 |
Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open |
1975 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1976 |
Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears |
1976 |
Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet |
1977 |
Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977 |
1978 |
Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace |
1978 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1979 |
"Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances |
1980 |
94th US Women's Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61) |
1980 |
Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s) |
1980 |
College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for |
1980 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
1980 |
Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981 |
1980 |
Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14 |
1981 |
"They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 perfs |
1981 |
Bob Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time |
1982 |
Dutch Internal minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists |
1982 |
Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000 |
1982 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1982 |
Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War" |
1982 |
Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's # |
1982 |
Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland |
1983 |
USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 |
1984 |
Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead" premieres in NYC |
1984 |
Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow |
1985 |
Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31. |
1985 |
Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars, and would later be charged with hit and run and careless driving (he would pay a fine) |
1986 |
300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert |
1986 |
Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed |
1986 |
Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k) |
1986 |
Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
1986 |
USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying |
1987 |
Conjoined twins Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital |
1987 |
Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48) |
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 |
1988 |
Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Channel |
1988 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1989 |
6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins |
1989 |
Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records |
1989 |
Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution |
1990 |
7th MTV Awards: Sinead O'Connor wins |
1990 |
US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil markets surge on aggressive U.S. statements toward Iraq |
1991 |
33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10 |
1991 |
Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname |
1991 |
USSR recognizes the independence of the 3 Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania) |
1991 |
The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924. |
1992 |
Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86) |
1993 |
Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
1993 |
Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922 |
1994 |
11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie & Michael Jackson win |
1994 |
Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg" |
1994 |
Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78) |
1994 |
Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30) |
1995 |
Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games |
1995 |
Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood |
1996 |
Balt Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR |
1997 |
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales |
2001 |
18th MTV Awards: Lady Marmalade, Eve f/ Gwen Stefani & Moby f/ Gwen Stefani wins |
2012 |
61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey |
2012 |
Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for US President |
2012 |
29th MTV Awards: Rihanna f/ Calvin Harris, Nicki Minaj & Chris Brown wins |
2013 |
20 people are killed by Islamist militants in villages in northeast Nigeria |
2016 |
Syrian Forces Make Gains Near Aleppo With Russian Help |
2016 |
Clinton voices concern about Russian interference in election |
2016 |
Obama cancels meeting with Philippines' Duterte after insult |
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