Historical Events on September 6

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• 3114 BC Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar).
• 394 Battle of Frigidus in Northern Italy: forces of Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeat those of Western Emperor Eugenius
• 1032 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy, succeeding Rudolf III

• 1543 French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
• 1595 A polar bear attacks and kills a member of the Second Dutch Expedition to the Arctic on Stateneiland (northern Russia) [1]
• 1622 Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
• 1628 Puritans from Masschusetts Bay Colony land at Salem

• 1669 The siege of Candia, on Crete, ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans - second-longest siege in history (began 1648)
• 1672 William of Orange '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
• 1688 Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
• 1690 King Wiliam III escapes back to England
• 1716 1st lighthouse built in north America (Boston)
• 1732 VOC dismisses Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
• 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.
• 1776 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sink; 600 die
• 1781 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.

• 1819 American inventor Thomas Blanchard patents lathe [1]
• 1837 Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)

• 1839 Great fire in New York
• 1848 National Black Convention meets in Cleveland

• 1863 -7] After 59 day siege Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties)

• 1869 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco
• 1869 Mine fire kills 110 at Avondale, Pennsylvania
• 1870 Ship sinks in Gulf of Biscay; 483 die
• 1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street, San Francisco
• 1876 Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina
• 1876 Southern Pacific railroad line from Los Angeles to San Francisco is completed in California
• 1880 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval

• 1883 Chicago White Stockings beat Detroit Wolverines, 26-6 at Lake Front Park, Chicago; smash MLB record 18 runs in 7th inning
• 1883 Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inning
• 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).
• 1888 Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnon's Imperial British East Africa Company political & commercial rights
• 1889 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns

• 1899 Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk
• 1899 US Secretary of State John Hay publishes his "Open Door note" calling for equality of commercial opportunity for foreigners in China
• 1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa

• 1904 Soccer team Rheden forms
• 1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
• 1905 Chicago White Sox pitcher Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
• 1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)

• 1910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
• 1912 NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0
• 1913 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
• 1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop - Adolphe Pégoud in France
• 1913 Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club

• 1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft

• 1924 Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships

• 1930 3rd Women's World Games (track & field competition for women) is conducted over 3-days at the Letná Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia
• 1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8

• 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 Former French Commander-in-Chief Army General Maurice Gamelin and other military leaders arrested for their malfeasance [1]
• 1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
• 1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
• 1942 Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
• 1943 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort, Philadelphia, kills 79
• 1943 Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in American League history at 16years, 8 months
• 1944 Gen Von Zangen's 15th army escape from Zealand
• 1945 A's catcher Greek George punches umpire Joe Rue gets suspended
• 1946 All-America Football Conference begins regular season play as the Cleveland Browns beat the Miami Seahawks 44-0 before 60,135 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium

• 1949 America's first mass killiung - Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes in Camden, New Jersey [1]
• 1952 Canadian TV begins in Montreal

• 1954 Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio
• 1954 US plane shot down above Siberia
• 1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
• 1955 J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname

• 1958 US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
• 1960 American Otis Davis runs a world record 44.9 to win the gold medal in the 400m at the Rome Olympics; German Carl Kaufmann records same time but ruled second via photo finish
• 1960 Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott breaks his own world record in winning the 1,500m at the Rome Olympics in 3:35.6
• 1960 In a famous victory American decathlete Rafer Johnson scores Olympic record 8,392 points to win the gold medal in Rome; beats rival & friend C.K. Yang of China by 58 points
• 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1963 Historian Lee Allen says Cleveland Indians - Washington Senators game is 100,000th in Major League Baseball history

• 1963 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded at of the University of Strasbourg, France
• 1965 India invades West Pakistan, beginning the Indo-Pakistani War
• 1965 KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1966 Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia
• 1968 American rock band "The Doors" open their first European tour with four sold-out shows over two days at London's 2.500 seat Roundhouse

• 1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
• 1970 Palestinians seize 3 airliners
• 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1972 Summer Olympics resume in Munich, Germany after massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Black September Palestinian terrorist organization
• 1973 New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
• 1974 Saudi Arabia increases its oil buy-back price from 93 percent to 94.9 percent of posted price
• 1975 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice, Turkey

• 1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1976 "The Robert MacNeil Report" becomes "The MacNeil-Lehrer Report" (currently known as "PBS NewsHour") on PBS
• 1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet

• 1978 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1980 French runner Chantal Langlacé sets women's 100k world record (7h 27m 22s) in Amiens, France
• 1980 Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beats Mount Senario 17-14
• 1980 US College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for Macalester College (St. Paul)
• 1981 Robert Granville "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 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
• 1983 Soviet Union admits that it shot down the South Korean airliner KAL 007 on September 1st

• 1984 Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead" premieres in NYC
• 1984 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow

• 1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.

• 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 Conjoined twins Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at Johns 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 Channel
• 1988 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1989 Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
• 1989 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
• 1990 US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil markets surge on aggressive US statements toward Iraq
• 1991 Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
• 1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
• 1991 USSR recognizes the independence of the 3 Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania)
• 1992 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
• 1993 Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922

• 1994 Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
• 1994 Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)

• 2008 Beaux Arts Trio (Menahem Pressler, piano; Daniel Hope, violin; Antonio Meneses, cello) performs final concert after 53 years, in Lucerne, Switzerland
• 2012 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey

• 2013 20 people are killed by Islamist militants in villages in northeast Nigeria
• 2015 German police confirm more than 13,000 refugees have arrived in Southern Germany in last 2 days fleeing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan
• 2016 Minnesota man Danny Heinrich admits to kidnapping and murdering 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling on October 22, 1989

• 2018 India's Supreme Court legalizes gay sex, overturning a colonial law
• 2018 New York and New Jersey state attorneys launch investigations into sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy, bring to six the number of states investigating
• 2018 Remains of 166 people, 2 years old, found in mass grave in Veracruz state, Mexico
• 2018 World Surf League announces from 2019 there would be equal prize money for men and women across elite tour events; first US-based global sports league with gender pay parity
• 2019 Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga takes 4 wickets in 4 balls and finishes with 5 for 6 as New Zealand all out for 88 in 37-run defeat in 3rd T-20 International in Pellekele

• 2020 First chord change in 19 years in John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" composition, being played for 639 years, in Halberstadt, Germany
• 2020 Los Angeles County records its highest-ever temperature of 121°F (49.4°C)
• 2020 Premier Daniel Andrews announces roadmap out of restrictions for the Australian state of Victoria, but extends lockdown till September 28
• 2020 Strain of Bacteria nicknamed "Conan the Bacterium' survives three years attached to the International Space Station in open space
• 2022 Fire in a karaoke bar near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam kills at least 32 [1]
• 2023 Africa's first climate summit opens in Nairobi, Kenya, calling for greater climate-related financing from industralized countries [1]

• 2023 Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi calls for a major reduction in the country's birth rate to avoid a catastrophe - from more than two million to 400,000 a year [1]

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