Today In History - September 6

1620 The Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England for the New World
1628 The Puritans land at Salem
1839 The Great Fire in New York
1848 The National Black Convention meets
1853 The Women's Rights Convention is held in NYC
1862 General Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland
1863 After a 59 day long siege, the Confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC
1869 The first westbound train arrives in San Francisco
1869 Mine fire kills 179 in Avondale Pennsylvania
1876 Race riot in Charleston, SC
1876 The Southern Pacific line from LA to SF is completed
1899 Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Creeping Man"
1905 The Atlanta Life Insurance Company is established
1909 Word is received that Admiral Peary has discovered the North Pole: five months earlier.
1914 Battle of the Marne, the Germans are prevented from occupying Paris
1920 The first radio broadcast of a prizefight
1941 All Jews over the age of 6 in German territories are ordered to wear a yellow star
1941 Jews of Vilna Poland are confined to a ghetto
1943 The "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort PA and kills 79 people
1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 of his neighbors in 12 minutes
1963 Major league baseballs 100,000th game is played
1966 "Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV
1972 John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
1975 A 6.8 earthquake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 people in Lice, Turkey
1976 A Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet plane
1978 Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
1982 Polish dissidents seize the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1983 The USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1984 The Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1986 Barbra Streisand's first live concert in 20 years is held
1986 USSR charges news correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
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.

1711 Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg
1757 Marquis de Lafayette
1766 John Dalton
1805 Horatio Greenough
1811 James Melville
1860 Jane Addams
1881 Leo Carrillo
1883 Lord Birkett
1885 Otto Kruger
1888 Joseph P Kennedy
1904 Maxie Rosenbloom
1908 Paul Lavalle
1912 Vincent DiMaggio
1915 Franz Josef Strauss
1923 William Kraft
1925 Jimmy Reed
1934 Jody McCrea
1937 Jo Anne Worley
1938 Joan Tower
1939 David Allan Coe
1944 Swoosie Kurtz
1946 Bryan D O'Connor
1947 Jane Curtin
1947 Roger Waters
1953 Katherine Cannon
1960 Michael Winslow
1967 Amy Lynn
1974 Justin Whalin