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On This Day in History
Sunday, September 06, 2015
Events
| * 394 | Battle of Frigidus North-Italy |
| * 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 |
| * 1620 | 1st stones layed in Western Tower |
| * 1622 | Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die |
| * 1628 | Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle |
| * 1634 | Battle at Nrdlingen 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 |
| * 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) |
| * 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 |
| * 1839 | Great fire in NY |
| * 1848 | National Black Convention meets (Cleveland) |
| * 1853 | Women’s Right’s Convention met (NYC) |
| * 1861 | General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky |
| * 1862 | Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland |
| * 1863 | -7] Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties) |
| * 1863 | After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC |
| * 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 Biskaje; 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 |
| * 1886 | Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award |
| * 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 min of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his «Open Through Note» |
| * 1900 | British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa |
| * 1901 | Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later |
| * 1903 | Start of Sherlock Holmes «Adventure of Creeping Man» (BG) |
| * 1904 | Soccer team Rheden forms |
| * 1905 | Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms |
| * 1905 | Chic White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0 |
| * 1905 | General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) |
| * 1909 | Word received, Adm 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 Pgoud-France) |
| * 1913 | Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club |
| * 1914 | Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris |
| * 1917 | French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft |
| * 1920 | 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63) |
| * 1920 | Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight |
| * 1922 | 42nd US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64) |
| * 1923 | Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee |
| * 1924 | Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails |
| * 1924 | Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships |
| * 1927 | B G 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 |
| * 1938 | Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen |
| * 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 |
| * 1940 | Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France |
| * 1941 | 55th US Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62) |
| * 1941 | 61st US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63) |
| * 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 Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64) |
| * 1942 | Czech marathon runner Oskar Hks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| * 1943 | «Congressional Limited» train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79 |
| * 1943 | 63rd US Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60) |
| * 1943 | Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A’s |
| * 1944 | Gen Von Zangens 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 «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 becomes queen of Netherlands |
| * 1949 | Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes |
| * 1952 | Canadian TV begins in Montreal |
| * 1953 | Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR |
| * 1953 | Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38 |
| * 1954 | 68th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86) |
| * 1954 | 74th US Mens 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 Xmas,» «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 | Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls |
| * 1963 | Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history |
| * 1963 | Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records |
| * 1963 | Major league baseballs 100,000th game |
| * 1965 | India invades West Pakistan |
| * 1965 | KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| * 1966 | «Star Trek» premieres on NBC TV |
| * 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 | NY Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle |
| * 1970 | Palestinians seize 3 jetliners |
| * 1970 | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
| * 1971 | Jerry Lewis’ 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises |
| * 1972 | John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis’ Muscular Dystrophy Telethon |
| * 1972 | Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre |
| * 1973 | NY Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed |
| * 1975 | 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey |
| * 1975 | 89th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62) |
| * 1975 | Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed |
| * 1975 | Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976 |
| * 1975 | Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests US political asylum |
| * 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 Womens 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 | Pitts Pirates retire Willie Stargell’s # |
| * 1982 | Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland |
| * 1983 | Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in NY |
| * 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 |
| * 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 | 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 Canal |
| * 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 |
| * 1991 | 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10 |
| * 1991 | Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname |
| * 1991 | Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence |
| * 1991 | USSR recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics |
| * 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 | Princess Diana’s funeral |
| * 1997 | Women’s championship at US Tennis Open |
| * 1998 | Men’s championship at US Tennis Open |
| * 1998 | Safeway LPGA Golf Championship |