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,