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Events on the 6th of September in history

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06 Sep 0394 Battle of Frigidus North-Italy
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06 Sep 0394 Battle of the Frigidus: Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
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06 Sep 1492 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
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06 Sep 1522 Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
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06 Sep 1522 The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
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06 Sep 1543 French and Turkish fleet occupies Nice
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06 Sep 1620 1st stones layed in Western Tower
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06 Sep 1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
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06 Sep 1622 Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
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06 Sep 1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
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06 Sep 1628 Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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06 Sep 1634 Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
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06 Sep 1675 Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships
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06 Sep 1683 Le Plecta appointed French Minister of Finance
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06 Sep 1688 Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
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06 Sep 1690 King Willem III escapes back to England
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06 Sep 1715 Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
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06 Sep 1716 1st US lighthouse built (Boston)
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06 Sep 1732 VOC fires Neth-Dutch east indies Governor-General Diederik Dare
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06 Sep 1776 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
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06 Sep 1781 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
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06 Sep 1791 Mozarts opera "La Clemenza di Tito, " premieres in Prague
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06 Sep 1803 British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
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06 Sep 1819 Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
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06 Sep 1837 Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
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06 Sep 1839 Cherokee Nation forms
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06 Sep 1839 Great fire in New York
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06 Sep 1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
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06 Sep 1848 National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
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06 Sep 1861 General Grant occupies Paducah, Kentucky
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06 Sep 1861 American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
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06 Sep 1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
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06 Sep 1863 After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, South Carolina
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06 Sep 1863 American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
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06 Sep 1866 Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention
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06 Sep 1869 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco
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06 Sep 1869 Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale, Pennsylvania
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06 Sep 1870 Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die
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06 Sep 1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
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06 Sep 1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
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06 Sep 1876 Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina
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06 Sep 1876 Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
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06 Sep 1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. Bulgarian unification is henceforth accomplished.
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06 Sep 1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award
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06 Sep 1888 Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season. This feat has since been accomplished by Tom Richardson (twice), J. T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
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06 Sep 1889 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
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06 Sep 1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
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06 Sep 1899 US Minister of Foreign Affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note"
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06 Sep 1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
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06 Sep 1901 President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
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06 Sep 1901 Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
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06 Sep 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" (BG)
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06 Sep 1904 Soccer team Rheden forms
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06 Sep 1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
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06 Sep 1905 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
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06 Sep 1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
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06 Sep 1909 Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
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06 Sep 1910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
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06 Sep 1912 New York Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0
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06 Sep 1913 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
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06 Sep 1913 Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
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06 Sep 1914 Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
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06 Sep 1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
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06 Sep 1920 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
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06 Sep 1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
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06 Sep 1922 42nd US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64)
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06 Sep 1923 Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee
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06 Sep 1924 Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails
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06 Sep 1924 Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships
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06 Sep 1927 Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
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06 Sep 1928 USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
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06 Sep 1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
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06 Sep 1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
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06 Sep 1937 Spanish Civil War: The Battle of El Mazuco commences.
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06 Sep 1938 Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch Queen
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06 Sep 1939 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WWII
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06 Sep 1939 World War II: At the Battle of Barking Creek, Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War as a result of friendly fire.
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06 Sep 1939 World War II: South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany.
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06 Sep 1940 Crown Prince Michael succeeds Carol II as King of Romania
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06 Sep 1940 Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
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06 Sep 1940 King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
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06 Sep 1941 55th US Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)
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06 Sep 1941 61st US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
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06 Sep 1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
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06 Sep 1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
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06 Sep 1942 56th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
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06 Sep 1943 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
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06 Sep 1943 63rd US Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60)
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06 Sep 1943 The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
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06 Sep 1943 Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
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06 Sep 1944 Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
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06 Sep 1944 World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
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06 Sep 1944 World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
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06 Sep 1946 All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
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06 Sep 1946 United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
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06 Sep 1948 "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances
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06 Sep 1948 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
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06 Sep 1948 Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
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06 Sep 1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
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06 Sep 1949 Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
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06 Sep 1952 Canadian TV begins in Montreal
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06 Sep 1952 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
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06 Sep 1952 A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
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06 Sep 1953 Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR
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06 Sep 1953 Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38
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06 Sep 1954 68th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86)
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06 Sep 1954 74th US Mens Tennis: E V Seixas Jr beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)
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06 Sep 1954 US plane shot down above Siberia
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06 Sep 1954 WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
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06 Sep 1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
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06 Sep 1955 "Catch a Star" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
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06 Sep 1955 J van Tilburg appointed Governor of Suriname
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06 Sep 1955 Istanbul's Greek, Jewish and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens die in the ensuing riots.
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06 Sep 1957 Elvis records "White Xmas", "Silent Night" and"Here Comes Santa Claus"
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06 Sep 1958 Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
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06 Sep 1959 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
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06 Sep 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
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06 Sep 1962 Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
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06 Sep 1963 Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls
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06 Sep 1963 Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history
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06 Sep 1963 Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
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06 Sep 1963 Major league baseballs 100,000th game
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06 Sep 1963 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
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06 Sep 1965 India invades West Pakistan
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06 Sep 1965 KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Sep 1965 India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
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06 Sep 1966 Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia
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06 Sep 1966 In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
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06 Sep 1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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06 Sep 1968 Swaziland becomes independent.
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06 Sep 1969 "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances
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06 Sep 1970 New York Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle
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06 Sep 1970 Palestinians seize 3 jetliners
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06 Sep 1970 Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
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06 Sep 1972 Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre
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06 Sep 1972 Munich massacre: Nine Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group die (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
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06 Sep 1973 New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
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06 Sep 1975 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
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06 Sep 1975 89th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62)
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06 Sep 1975 Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed
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06 Sep 1975 Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
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06 Sep 1975 Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests US political asylum
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06 Sep 1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
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06 Sep 1976 Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lieutenant Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
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06 Sep 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
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06 Sep 1978 Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
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06 Sep 1979 "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances
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06 Sep 1980 94th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61)
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06 Sep 1980 College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
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06 Sep 1980 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
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06 Sep 1980 Macalaster University of St. Paul, Minnesota beating Mount Senario 17-14
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06 Sep 1980 Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
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06 Sep 1981 Bob Lemon named New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
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06 Sep 1982 Dutch Internal Minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
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06 Sep 1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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06 Sep 1982 Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
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06 Sep 1982 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
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06 Sep 1983 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in New York
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06 Sep 1983 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9 / 2
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06 Sep 1983 The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
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06 Sep 1984 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
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06 Sep 1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
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06 Sep 1986 Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
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06 Sep 1986 Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)
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06 Sep 1986 Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
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06 Sep 1986 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
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06 Sep 1986 In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.
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06 Sep 1987 Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital
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06 Sep 1987 Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
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06 Sep 1988 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 Cosmonauts aboard
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06 Sep 1988 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal
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06 Sep 1989 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins
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06 Sep 1989 Amateur Athletic Federation strips Ben Johnson of all track records
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06 Sep 1989 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder / prostitution
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06 Sep 1991 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10
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06 Sep 1991 Ronald Venetiaan chosen President of Suriname
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06 Sep 1991 Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence
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06 Sep 1991 USSR recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic Republics
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06 Sep 1991 The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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06 Sep 1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been known as Leningrad since 1924.
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06 Sep 1992 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
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06 Sep 1992 Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
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06 Sep 1993 Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
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06 Sep 1994 11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson win
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06 Sep 1994 Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"
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06 Sep 1994 Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
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06 Sep 1994 Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)
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06 Sep 1995 Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
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06 Sep 1995 Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
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06 Sep 1997 The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
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06 Sep 1998 Safeway LPGA Golf Championship
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06 Sep 2008 Turkish President Abdullah Gül attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan, making him the first Turkish head of state to visit the country.
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06 Sep 2009 The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
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06 Sep 2012 Sixty-one people die and 48 others are injured after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
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06 Sep 3114 According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation).
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