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September, 06: Historical Events
Chronological list of historical events for September, 06
0394 : Battle of Frigidus North-Italy
1492 : Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
1522 : Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
1543 : French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
1620 : 1st stones layed in Western Tower
1622 : Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
1628 : Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1634 : Battle at N”rdlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat
1672 : Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on 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 Willem III escapes back to England
1715 : Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
1716 : 1st US lighthouse built (Boston)
1732 : VOC fires Neth-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)
1791 : Mozarts 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 NY
1848 : National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1853 : Women's Right's Convention met (NYC)
1861 : General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky
1862 : Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
1863 : -7] Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties)
1863 : After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC
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 Biskaje; 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
1886 : Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award
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 min of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note"
1900 : British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
1901 : Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
1903 : Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" (BG)
1904 : Soccer team Rheden forms
1905 : Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
1905 : Chic White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
1905 : General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
1909 : Word received, Adm 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 P‚goud-France)
1913 : Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
1914 : Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1917 : French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1920 : 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
1920 : Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
1922 : 42nd US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64)
1923 : Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee
1924 : Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails
1924 : Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships
1927 : B G 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
1938 : Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen
1939 : 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
1939 : South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany
1940 : Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
1940 : Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
1941 : 55th US Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)
1941 : 61st US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
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 Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
1942 : Czech marathon runner Oskar Hˆks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
1943 : "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1943 : 63rd US Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60)
1943 : Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's
1944 : Gen Von Zangens 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 "Winslow Boy," premieres in London
1948 : "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 perfs
1948 : 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
1948 : Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands
1949 : Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1952 : Canadian TV begins in Montreal
1953 : Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR
1953 : Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38
1954 : 68th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86)
1954 : 74th US Mens Tennis: E V Seixas Jr beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)
1954 : US plane shot down above Siberia
1954 : WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
1954 : Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
1955 : "Catch a Star" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1955 : J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname
1957 : Elvis records "White Xmas," "Silent Night" & "Here Comes Santa Claus"
1958 : Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
1958 : US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1959 : Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1961 : USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
1962 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 : Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls
1963 : Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history
1963 : Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
1963 : Major league baseballs 100,000th game
1965 : India invades West Pakistan
1965 : KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 : "Star Trek" premieres on NBC TV
1966 : Race riot in Atlanta Georgia
1968 : Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1969 : "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances
1970 : NY Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle
1970 : Palestinians seize 3 jetliners
1970 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 : Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
1972 : John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
1972 : Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre
1973 : NY Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
1975 : 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1975 : 89th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62)
1975 : Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed
1975 : Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
1975 : Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests US political asylum
1975 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 : Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears
1976 : Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1977 : Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
1978 : Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1978 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 : "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances
1980 : 94th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61)
1980 : Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
1980 : College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1980 : Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1980 : Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
1980 : Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1981 : "They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 perfs
1981 : 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 : Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1982 : Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
1982 : Pitts Pirates retire Willie Stargell's #
1982 : Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1983 : Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in NY
1983 : USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1984 : Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead," premieres in NYC
1984 : Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1986 : 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert
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 : Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at John 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 Canal
1988 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1989 : 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins
1989 : Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
1989 : Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
1990 : 7th MTV Awards: Sinead O'Connor wins
1991 : 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10
1991 : Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
1991 : Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence
1991 : USSR recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics
1992 : Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
1993 : Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1993 : Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922
1994 : 11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie & Michael Jackson win
1994 : Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"
1994 : Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
1994 : Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)
1995 : Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games
1995 : Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
1996 : Balt Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR
1997 : Princess Diana's funeral
1997 : Women's championship at US Tennis Open
1998 : Men's championship at US Tennis Open
1998 : Safeway LPGA Golf Championship
