This Day in History
06 Sep 3114
BC Date MayaMesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar).
06 Sep 1620
The Mayflower departs Plymouth England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World
06 Sep 1622
Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys 1000s die
06 Sep 1628
Puritans from Masschusetts Bay Colony land at Salem
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More Israeli hostages killed in Munich
At Furstenfeldbruck air base near Munich an attempt by West German police to rescue nine Israeli Olympic team members held hostage by Palestinian terrorists en...
South African prime minister and architect of apartheid assassinated
South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death by a deranged messenger during a parliamentary meeting in Cape Town. The assailant Demetrio T...
First tank produced
On September 6 1915 a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from an overnight success. It weigh...
First Battle of the Marne begins
On September 6 1914 some 30 miles northeast of Paris the French 6th Army under the command of General Michel-Joseph Manoury attacks the right flank of the Ge...
Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr breaks record for consecutive games played
On September 6 1995 Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. plays in his 2131st consecutive game breaking Iron Horse Lou Gehrigs re...
President William McKinley is shot
On September 6 1901 President William McKinley is shaking hands at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo New York when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon C...
Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden and moves in with the Emersons
On September 6 1847 writer Henry David Thoreau moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord Massachusetts after living for two years in a sha...
Some 2 5 billion TV viewers watch Princess Diana s funeral
On September 6 1997 an estimated 2.5 billion people around the globe tune in to television broadcasts of the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales who died at ...
Benedict Arnold orders burning of New London
On this day in 1781 British Brigadier General Benedict Arnold a former Patriot officer already infamous and much maligned for betraying the United States the ...
Woman Jockey Rides Into Record Books
September 6 1992 Gay Kelleway took part in a horse race in England on this day with a TV camera fixed to her helmet. She was the first jockey to...
1901 The third presidential assassination
President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo N.Y. McKinley died on September 14th....
1997: Diana's funeral watched by millions
1997 Dianas funeral watched by millions Britain and the world have said farewell to Diana Princess of Wales at the end of an unprecedented week of m...
1972: Olympic hostages killed in gun battle
All nine of the Israeli athletes kidnapped on Tuesday from the Olympic Village in Munich have been killed in a gun battle at a nearby airport.A policeman also...
1965: Indian Army invades W Pakistan
Indian troops have invaded West Pakistan crossing the border at three points in an attack which appears to be aimed mainly at the city of Lahore.Authoritie...
1970: Hundreds held in series of hijacks
Four New York-bound airliners have been hijacked over western Europe in an unprecedented operation carried out by a militant Palestinian group.Three of the ...
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