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 Tennis: 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: Bill Tilden 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 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 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 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
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, California
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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