Today in History for 6th September 2015

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 208

3114 BC - Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar).

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 circumnavigate 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

Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus1688 - 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

US President & Union General Ulysses S. Grant1861 - 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 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass1885 - 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

25th US President William McKinley1901 - 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 Pgoud-France)

1913 - Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club

Shoppers queuing at the Piggly Wiggly checkouts

1916 - 1st true supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee 1917 - French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft

1920 - 40th US Men's : Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (6-1 1-6 7-5 5-7 6-3)

Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight

1920 - 40th U.S. Men's National Championship: beats Bill Johnston (6-1, 1-6, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3)

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

Argentine President Hiplito Yrigoyen1930 - Democratically elected Argentine president Hiplito 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 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 (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 Men's Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats (6-3 6-8 10-8 6-0)

1943 - Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's

1943 - 63rd U.S. Men's National Championship: Joseph R. Hunt beats Jack Kramer (6-3, 6-8, 10-8, 6- 0)

1943 - 57th U.S. Women's National Championship: Pauline Betz Addie beats Louise Brough Clapp (6- 3, 5-7, 6-3)

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 Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 247

1577 - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect (Aanbidding of the Point)

1620 - Isabella Leonarda, composer

1627 - Pierre Verdier, composer

1633 - Sebastian Knupfer, composer

1644 - Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer

1648 - Johann Schelle, composer

1656 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)

1697 - Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant

1702 - Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer

1711 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)

1729 - Mozes Mendelssohn, German englightened philosopher (Haksalah)

1732 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796) 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary

1762 - Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral

1766 - John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter

1781 - Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer

1788 - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari)

1795 - Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852)

1797 - Wililam "Extra Billy" Smith, Confederacy (Confederate Army)

1802 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)

1805 - Horatio Greenough, US, neo-classical sculptor/writer (Form & Function)

1808 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)

1811 - James Melville Gilliss, founder (Naval Observatory in Washington)

1811 - Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot)

1814 - George Cartier, (C) Canadian co-PM (1858-62)

1815 - John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

1815 - Karol Katski, composer

1816 - Francis Stebbins Bartow, Col (Confederate Army), (d. 1861)

1817 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, a Canadian founding father

1819 - Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer

1819 - Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic (Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi)

1819 - William Starke Rosecrans, Mjr General (Union volunteers)

1827 - John Morrison Oliver, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

1829 - Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)

1838 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)

1850 - Louis F H "Louis" Apol, painter/etcher/literary

1855 - Ferdinand B Hummel, composer

1857 - Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933) Social Worker and Nobel Laureate Jane Addams (1860)1860 - Jane Addams, Cedarville, Illinois, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931), (d. 1935)

1863 - Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist (El Papiamento)

1868 - Heinrich Hberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1947)

1869 - Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria journalist (Bambi)

1869 - Walford Davies, composer

1876 - John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923)

1876 - Willem A Bonger, Dutch sociologist/criminologist (Race & Crime)

1877 - Petar Stojanovic, composer

1877 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)

1879 - Neal Rev Dodd, Iowa, actor (You Belong to Me)

1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)

1880 - Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch night club performer (French governess)

1881 - Charlie Dell, actor (Pickle in the Middle), born in NYC, New York

1881 - Leo Carrillo, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid), born in Los Angeles,

1882 - John Powell, composer

1884 - Emerson Whithorne, composer

1885 - Franz T Csokor, Austrian author (Writings on the Wall)

1885 - Otto Kruger, Toledo Ohio, actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon)

Patriarch of the Kennedy family Joseph P. Kennedy (1888)1888 - Joseph P Kennedy, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy, born in Boston, Massachusetts

1890 - Clara Kimball Young, Illinois, actress (Return of Chandu)

1890 - Manfred Gurlitt, composer

1892 - Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Appleton-layer)

1893 - Irving Bacon, St Joseph MO, actor (Branded Men, Fort Ti)

1893 - Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)

1896 - Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer 1896 - Mario Praz, Italian literary critic and scholar (La carne, la morte, e il diavolo)

1896 - Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer

1899 - Billy Rose, theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show)

1900 - Julien Green, US/French writer (Frere Francois)

1900 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)

1901 - John Erik Jonsson, businessman/Mayor of Dallas

1902 - Morgan Beatty, Little Rock Ark, news anchor (Du Mont Evening News)

1904 - Karlo Arvi Kivimaa, Finnish writer (Groenende Cross)

1904 - Lyubomir Pipkov, composer

1904 - Maxie Rosenbloom, light heavyweight boxing champ (1930-34), born in NYC, New York

1906 - Alexander Bodon, Hungarian/Dutch architect (RAI building)

1906 - John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher

1906 - Raymond Keane, actor (Midnight Sun, Love Eagle), born in Denver, Colorado

1907 - Elizabeth Morna MacTaggart Ferrars, crime writer

1907 - John A Kelly, US marathon runner (Berlin 1936, Boston 1935..1991)

1908 - Anthony Wagner, genealogist

1908 - Paul Lavalle, Beacon NY, bandleader (Cities Service Band of America)

1909 - John Ridgely, actor (Northern Pursuit, Air Force), born in Chicago, Illinois

1910 - Frank Fidler, artist

1911 - Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary

1911 - Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)

1912 - Stephen Murray, Partney England, actor (Alice in Wonderland)

1912 - Vincent DiMaggio, baseball player (Giants, Phils, Reds, Braves)

1912 - Wayne Barlow, composer

1915 - Franz Josef Strauss, Germany, nazi/minister of defense (1956-62)

1916 - Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, English landowner 1917 - George Mann, captain English cricket team

1917 - Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008)

1919 - Wilson Greatbatch, American Inventor

1921 - Robert Millar, journalist

1921 - Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)

1921 - Norman Joseph Woodland, Atlantic City, New Jersey, inventor (barcode), (d. 2012)

1923 - Peter II Karadjordjevic, King of Yugoslavia (1934-45)

1923 - William Kraft, composer/percussionist, born in Chicago, Illinois

1924 - John Melcher, (Sen-D-MO)

1925 - Jimmy Reed, Mississippi, blues singer (Soulin', Big Boss Man)

1926 - Arthur William Oldham, composer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

Founder of the New York Herald James Gordon Bennett (1840)1840 - Publisher James Gordon Bennett (45) weds Henrietta Agnes Crean in NYC, New York

1889 - Explorer Fridtjof Nansen (27) weds mezzosoprano singer Eva Nansen (30)

1997 - "Desperate Housewives" actress Felicity Huffman (34) weds "Fargo" actor William H. Macy (47) in Woody Creek, Colorado

2008 - Singer KT Tunstall (33) weds drummer Luke Bullen in a marquee overlooking the Atlantic Ocean on the Isle of Skye

2013 - Actor Josh Charles (41) weds ballet dancer and author Sophie Flack at a private residence in Manhattan, New York City

2014 - Actress Katie Leclerc (27) weds long-time boyfriend Brian Stuart Habecost in Palm Springs, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 102

203

394 - Eugenius, linguistic/anti emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle 957 - Liudolf, Duke of Swabia

972 - John XIII Crescentii, pope (965-72), dies

1276 - Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)

1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)

1536 - William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1494)

1625 - Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)

1635 - Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63

1649 - Famiano Strada, Ital jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77

1649 - Robert Dudley, English navigator/writer (Arcano del Mare), dies

1701 - James II [Stuart], king of England (1685-88), dies at 68

1708 - Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)

1748 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)

Mayor of Philadelphia William Allen (1780)1780 - William Allen, Mayor of Philadelphia, dies at 76

1782 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)

1783 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)

1808 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)

1811 - Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer, dies at 77

1819 - Georg Druschetzky, composer, dies at 74

1831 - Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer, dies at 49

1863 - Lucius March Walker, Confederate brig-general (in duel), dies at 33

1868 - Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)

1902 - Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75

1902 - Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86

1903 - Charles Ammi Cutter, US bibliographer, dies at 66

1919 - Worm Pander, sculptor 1937 - Henry Kimball Hadley, composer, dies at 65

1938 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)

1939 - Arthur Rackham, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 71

1941 - Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81

1944 - Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered

1945 - John S Mccain, US admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies

1947 - Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76

1948 - Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66

1950 - Arthur Hill, cricketer (3 Tests), dies

1950 - Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)

1951 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)

1952 - Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer, dies at 54

1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)

1956 - Felix Borowski, composer, dies at 84

1959 - Edmund Gwenn, actor (Them, Java Head, Miracle on 34th St), dies at 83

1959 - Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve), dies of leukemia at 32

1960 - Jimmy Savo, comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65

1962 - Hanns Eisler, composer (N Vietnam/E German Natl Anthem), dies at 64

1962 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)

1963 - Margarita Sierra, actress (Surfside 6), dies after heart surgery at 26

1965 - Konstantin Mostras, composer, dies at 79

1966 - Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African PM (1958-66), assassinated at 64

1966 - Luigi Perrachio, composer, dies at 83

Nurse Margaret Sanger (1966)1966 - Margaret Sanger, US feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86

1968 - Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69 1969 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)

1970 - Gerard Smithson, cricketer (Eng batsman against W Indies 1948), dies

1973 - William H Harris, composer, dies at 90

1974 - Olga Baclanova, actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), dies at 75

1974 - Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday

1975 - Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf), dies at 62

1977 - Guido Pannain, composer, dies at 85

1977 - Paul Burkhard, composer, dies at 65

1978 - Jan Berger, Dutch politician, dies at 59

1978 - Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)

1979 - Ronald Binge, composer, dies at 69

1981 - Joseph Yasser, composer, dies at 88

1981 - Maria Palmer, actress (Days of Glory, Web), dies

1981 - Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)

1984 - E J Andre, actor (Eugene Bullock-Dallas), dies at 74

1984 - Ernest Tubb, singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 70

1985 - Jane Frazee, singer/actress (Alice-Beulah), dies at 67 of pneumonia

1985 - Johnny Desmond, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies of cancer at 65

1985 - Leon Orthel, composer, dies at 79

1986 - Blanche Sweet, US actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90

1987 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)

1988 - Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950)

1990 - Leonard Hutton, cricketer (79 Tests for England, 6971 runs), dies

1990 - T Issan Dorsey, founder (Hartford St Zen Center SF), dies

Rocker Tom Fogerty (1990)1990 - Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater), dies of tuberculosis at 48 1991 - Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)

1993 - Josephine Rich Corday, vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79

1994 - Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67

1994 - James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69

1994 - Max Kaminsky, trumpeter, dies at 85

1994 - Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Rolling Stones), dies at 50

1994 - Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55

1995 - Buster Mathis, heavyweight boxer, dies at 52

1995 - Joanne Gail Abbott, exec (MTV), dies at 36

1996 - William James Moyce, armaments scientist, dies at 82

1997 - Philippe Rossillon, administrator, dies at 66

1997 - P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)

Film director, screenwriter Akira Kurosawa (1998)1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)

1999 - Ren Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)

2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)

2001 - Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)

2003 - Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)

2003 - Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)

2005 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)

2007 - Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)

2007 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, dies at 71

2007 - Alex, African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)

2008 - Sren Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)

2008 - Anita Page, silent film vixen, last living attendee of the 1st Annual Academy Awards, (b. 1910)

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