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Today in History ~ September 6
Sobhuza Day ( Independence Day) in Swaziland
Events1492 - Columbus' fleet sails from Gomera, Canary islands
1522 - Magellen's ship,Vittoria, returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip [H]
1620 - 149 Pilgrims set sail from England aboard the Mayflower, bound for the New World. They landed at Plymouth Rock two month later.
1622 - Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; thousands die, millions disappear
1628 - Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony.
1690 - King William III escapes back to England
1715 - Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
1716 - 1st US lighthouse built (Boston)
1776 - Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French & Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
1791 - Mozarts 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
1861 - General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky
1862 - Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
1863 - After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC
1866 - Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention
1869 - 110 miners, a number of them young boys, killed in coal mine disaster which occurred early in the morning in Avondale, Pennsylvania, when a fire broke out in a mineshaft, cutting off the miners' escape route and their only source of air.
1876 - Race riot in Charleston SC
1898 - Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman
1899 - Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1901 - Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, died eight days later -- and vice president Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency.
1909 - Word received that Adm Robert Peary discovered North Pole 5 months earlier on April 6th, 1909.
1914 - Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1917 - French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1924 - Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails
1939 - 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
1941 - All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
1946 - Terence Rattigan's "Winslow Boy," premieres in London
1948 - The coronation of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was held.
1949 - Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1952 - Canadian television broadcasting began in Montreal.
1953 - Adenauer's CDU wins elections in German FR
1954 - US plane shot down above Siberia
1961 - Bob Dylan performed for the first time at a Greenwich Village, New York, folk club named the Gaslight Cafe.
1963 - Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 black girls
1965 - India invades West Pakistan
1966 - Race riot in Atlanta Georgia
1969 - "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances
1970 - Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.
1972 - Summer Olympics massacre in Munich Germany when Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli compound, kidnapping nine team members, demanding the release of some 200 Arab prisoners in Israel, were conveyed to an airport where German sharpshooters opened fire. All nine Israeli athletes/hostages were killed, as were five Palestinians and one German police officer. Three terrorists were captured alive. [H]
1975 - 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1975 - Czechoslovak tennis star Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.
1976 - Soviet Air Force Lt. Viktor Belenko lands Russian MIG-25 fighter plane in Japan. [H]
1981 - "They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 performances
1982 - Polish dissidents seized the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, and demanded an end to martial law in Poland. They eventually surrendered.
1983 - USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1984 - Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead," premieres in NYC
1986 - 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert
1986 - Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
1989 - Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
1991 - Soviet State Council recognized the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after 51 years of Soviet occupation.
1995 - Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games, breaking the record of 2,130
set in 1939 by Lou Gehrig, legendary first baseman for the New York Yankees.
1995 - Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood. Packwood faced allegations of sexual misconduct and influence peddling. He would announce his resignation two days later.
1995 - A Houston judge turned down a request to allow TV cameras in the courtroom during the upcoming murder trial of the woman accused of killing Tejano star Selena.
1997 - Princess Diana's funeral, six days after dying in a Paris car crash. Her funeral - while not a state affair - was an elaborate occasion. Her horse-drawn casket was escorted through London streets by members of the Welsh Guard. When it reached Buckingham Palace, the procession was joined on foot by Prince Philip, her former father-in-law, Prince Charles, her former husband...her brother, Earl Spencer...and her sons, Princes William and Harry. Thousands of people lined the procession route...and some two-thousand invited guests - including first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton attended the service at Westminster Abbey
1997 - Elton John sang a rewritten version of his song "Candle in the Wind" at Princess Diana's funeral in London. "Candle in the Wind '97" subsequently became the biggest- selling single of all time.
2000 - The Millennium Summit, the largest gathering of world leaders in history, convened at the United Nations.
2000 - Thousands of pro-Indonesian militiamen and supporters stormed a U.N. office in West Timor, killing three foreign staffers
2001 - The Justice Department reversed an earlier decision and said it would no longer seek to split the Microsoft Corp. into more than one company or pursue the claim that the company had illegally tied its network browser to its operating system.
Birthdays Today
1711 - Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, found US Lutheran church
1729 - Mozes Mendelssohn, German englightened philosopher (Haksalah)
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette (American patriot, French revolutionary French and American General: 'The Hero of Two Worlds'; passed away May 20, 1834)
1766 - John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter
1781 - Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer
1797 - Wililam "Extra Billy" Smith, Confederacy (Confederate Army)
1811 - James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington
1819 - William Starke Rosecrans, Mjr General (Union volunteers)
1855 - Ferdinand B Hummel, composer
1860 - Jane Addams (Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1931]: social worker for peace and women's rights; founded Chicago's Hull House; passed away May 21, 1935)
1883 - Lord Birkett, England, judge (Nuremburg Trials)
1885 - Otto Kruger (actor: The Young Philadelphians, Cover Girl, Corregidor, High Noon, Dracula's Daughter, I am the Law; passed away Sep 6, 1974)
1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy (U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; father of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy; passed away Nov 18, 1969)
1899 - Billy Rose (Rosenberg) (producer, author, songwriter: Me and My Shadow, That Old Gang of Mine, It's Only a Paper Moon, Without a Song, Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight, More than You Know, Barney Google; passed away Feb 10, 1966)
1908 - Paul Lavalle, Beacon NY, bandleader (Cities Service Band of America)
1915 - Franz Josef Strauss, Germany, Nazi/minister of defense (1956-62)
1929 - Dow Finsterwald (golf: PGA champion [1958])
1937 - Jo Anne Worley (comedienne: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Hollywood Squares)
1942 - Carol Wayne (actress: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Scavenger Hunt, Heartbreakers; passed away Jan 13, 1985 [drowning accident in Manzanillo, Mexico])
1944 - Roger Waters (musician: bass, songwriter: group: Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall [Part II])
1944 - Swoosie Kurtz (Tony Award-winning actress: Fifth of July [1981], The House of Blue Leaves [1986]; Emmy Award-winner: Reunion: Carol & Company [1989-90]; Sisters, Love, Sidney, The World According to Garp)
1946 - Ron Boone (basketball: Utah Jazz; record: 1,041 consecutive games; broadcaster [color analyst]: Utah Jazz)
1947 - Jane Curtin (Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Kate and Allie [1983-84, 1984-85]; Coneheads, original cast of TV's 'Saturday Night Live' show, Suspicion)
1948 - Claydes (Charles) Smith (musician: guitar: group: Kool & The Gang: Ladies Night, Celebration, I.B.M.C.; LPs: Wild and Peaceful, Kool Jazz, Light of Worlds, Spirit of the Boogie, Love & Understanding, Something Special, As One, In the Heart, Emergency)
1958 - Jeff Foxworthy (comedian: You Know You're a Redneck, The Jeff Foxworthy Show; author: No Shirt, No Shoes ... No Problem)
Famous deaths
1635 - Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63
1649 - Robert Dudley, English navigator/writer (Arcano del Mare), dies
1701 - James II [Stuart], king of England (1685-88), dies at 68
1919 - Worm Pander, sculptor
1939 - Arthur Rackham, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 71
1956 - Felix Borowski, composer/music critic, dies at 84
1966 - Architect of Apartheid, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, assassinated, when he was stabbed to death by a deranged page during a parliamentary meeting in Cape Town. As minister of native affairs, and later as South African leader, Verwoerd oversaw the introduction and application of South Africa's racist apartheid policies. An earlier assassination attempt in 1960 had failed.
1966 - Margaret Sanger, US feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86
1978 - Tom Wilson -- who produced such artists as Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, and Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention -- died of a heart attack. He was 47.
1994 - James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69
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