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09-06-2010, 03:35 AM
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This Date in History - September 6th
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* 3114 BC According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation)
* 394 Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
* 1492 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
* 1522 The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlϊcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
* 1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
* 1628 Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
* 1634 Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nφrdlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
* 1669 The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans.
* 1781 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
* 1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
* 1861 American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
* 1863 American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
* 1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
* 1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
* 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).
* 1901 Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
* 1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipσlito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
* 1937 Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
* 1939 World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
* 1939 World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
* 1940 King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
* 1943 The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
* 1944 World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
* 1948 Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
* 1949 Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
* 1949 A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
* 1952 Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
* 1955 Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
* 1963 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
* 1965 War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's failed Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that is ended following the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
* 1966 In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
* 1968 Swaziland becomes independent.
* 1970 Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
* 1972 Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
* 1976 Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
* 1983 The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
* 1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
* 1986 In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
* 1991 The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
* 1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
* 1992 Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
* 1995 Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
* 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.
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This Date in History - September 6th
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* 3114 BC According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation)
* 394 Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
* 1492 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
* 1522 The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlϊcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
* 1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
* 1628 Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
* 1634 Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nφrdlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
* 1669 The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans.
* 1781 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
* 1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
* 1861 American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
* 1863 American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
* 1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
* 1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
* 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).
* 1901 Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
* 1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipσlito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
* 1937 Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
* 1939 World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
* 1939 World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
* 1940 King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
* 1943 The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
* 1944 World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
* 1948 Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
* 1949 Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
* 1949 A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
* 1952 Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
* 1955 Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
* 1963 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
* 1965 War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's failed Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that is ended following the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
* 1966 In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
* 1968 Swaziland becomes independent.
* 1970 Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
* 1972 Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
* 1976 Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
* 1983 The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
* 1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
* 1986 In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
* 1991 The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
* 1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
* 1992 Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
* 1995 Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
* 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.
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