September 6
1901 - President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died from his wounds on September 14th.)
1909 - American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.
1941 - Nazi Germany required all Jews over the age of six to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes.
1943 - Seventy-nine people were killed when a New York-bound Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed and crashed in Philadelphia.
1949 - Howard Unruh, a resident of Camden, New Jersey, shot and killed 13 of his neighbors.
1991 - The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
1997 - More than 2 billion people worldwide tuned into the television broadcast of the funeral of Britain's Princess Diana.
1997 - In Calcutta, India, weeping masses gathered to pay homage to Mother Teresa, who had died the day before at age 87.
2001 - In a dramatic shift, the Bush administration abandoned the Clinton-era effort to break up Microsoft.
2002 - Meeting outside Washington, D.C. for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of September 11.
2006 - President George W. Bush acknowledged for the first time that the CIA was running secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation had forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies.
2007 - Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.
2017 - Hurricane Irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic to that point, pounded Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds; authorities said more than 900,000 people were without power.
2018 - Actor Burt Reynolds, one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1970s in films including "Deliverance" and "Smokey and the Bandit," died at age 82.
2022 - Liz Truss began her tenure as U.K. prime minister. She would resign just 49 days later.
Birthdays
34 - Zoe Alexander (singer)
35 - Max George (singer)
38 - Lauren Lapkus (actress)
40 - Deborah Joy Winans (actress/singer)
40 - Pippa Middleton (sister of Britain's Princess Catherine of Wales)
40 - Howard Charles (actor)
40 - Braun Strowman (professional wrestler)
45 - Foxy Brown (rapper)
45 - Natalia Cigliuti (actress)
47 - Naomie Harris (actress)
49 - Justin Whalin (actor)
49 - Nina Persson (singer)
51 - Anika Noni Rose (actress)
51 - Justina Machado (actress)
51 - Idris Elba (actor)
51 - Dylan Bruno (actor)
53 - Daniele Gaither (actress)
54 - CeCe Peniston (singer)
56 - Macy Gray (singer)
59 - Rosie Perez (actress)
60 - Betsy Russell (actress)
60 - Mark Chestnutt (singer)
61 - Elizabeth Vargas (broadcast journalist)
62 - Scott Travis (musician)
62 - Steven Eckholdt (actor)
65 - Michael Winslow (actor/comedian)
65 - Jeff Foxworthy (actor/comedian)
69 - James Martin Kelly (actor)
76 - Jane Curtin (actress/comedian)
79 - Swoosie Kurtz (actress)
80 - Roger Waters (singer)
84 - David Allan Coe (singer)
87 - JoAnne Worley (comedian)
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Today in Sports History - September 6
1924 - Urban Shocker (St. Louis Brown) pitched two complete games against the Chicago White Sox. He won both games 6-2.
1943 - The youngest player to appear in an American League baseball game was pitcher Carl Scheib of the Philadelphia Athletics. Scheib was 16 years, eight months and five days old.
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.
1972 - The Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that left eleven Israelis, five Arab abductors and a West German police officer dead.
1975 - Eighteen-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum in the United States.
1976 - Steve Yeager (Los Angeles) was seriously injured when part of a broken bat struck him in the throat. He was waiting in the on-deck circle when the incident occurred.
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela (Los Angeles Dodgers) tied a National League record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher.
1982 - The Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's #8.
1986 - #8 Nebraska opens the season with a 34-17 win over #11 Florida State.
1995 - Baseball star Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's iron man record when he appeared in his 2,131st consecutive game.
1996 - Eddie Murray (Baltimore Orioles) hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers. He was only the third person to have at least 3,000 hits and 500 home runs.
2000 - Scott Sheldon (Texas Rangers) became the third player in major league baseball history to play all nine positions in one game.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco) became the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season.
2003 - #23 Nebraska defeats Utah State 31-7.
2008 - Nebraska defeats San Jose State 35-12.
2014 - #19 Nebraska defeats McNeese State 31-24.
2020 - World #1 tennis player Novak Djokovic is sensationally disqualified in 4th round of US Open after hitting a ball in frustration, striking a line judge; trailed Pablo Carreño Busta 5-6 in 1st set.
1901 - President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died from his wounds on September 14th.)
1909 - American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.
1941 - Nazi Germany required all Jews over the age of six to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes.
1943 - Seventy-nine people were killed when a New York-bound Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed and crashed in Philadelphia.
1949 - Howard Unruh, a resident of Camden, New Jersey, shot and killed 13 of his neighbors.
1991 - The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
1997 - More than 2 billion people worldwide tuned into the television broadcast of the funeral of Britain's Princess Diana.
1997 - In Calcutta, India, weeping masses gathered to pay homage to Mother Teresa, who had died the day before at age 87.
2001 - In a dramatic shift, the Bush administration abandoned the Clinton-era effort to break up Microsoft.
2002 - Meeting outside Washington, D.C. for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of September 11.
2006 - President George W. Bush acknowledged for the first time that the CIA was running secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation had forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies.
2007 - Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.
2017 - Hurricane Irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic to that point, pounded Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds; authorities said more than 900,000 people were without power.
2018 - Actor Burt Reynolds, one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1970s in films including "Deliverance" and "Smokey and the Bandit," died at age 82.
2022 - Liz Truss began her tenure as U.K. prime minister. She would resign just 49 days later.
Birthdays
34 - Zoe Alexander (singer)
35 - Max George (singer)
38 - Lauren Lapkus (actress)
40 - Deborah Joy Winans (actress/singer)
40 - Pippa Middleton (sister of Britain's Princess Catherine of Wales)
40 - Howard Charles (actor)
40 - Braun Strowman (professional wrestler)
45 - Foxy Brown (rapper)
45 - Natalia Cigliuti (actress)
47 - Naomie Harris (actress)
49 - Justin Whalin (actor)
49 - Nina Persson (singer)
51 - Anika Noni Rose (actress)
51 - Justina Machado (actress)
51 - Idris Elba (actor)
51 - Dylan Bruno (actor)
53 - Daniele Gaither (actress)
54 - CeCe Peniston (singer)
56 - Macy Gray (singer)
59 - Rosie Perez (actress)
60 - Betsy Russell (actress)
60 - Mark Chestnutt (singer)
61 - Elizabeth Vargas (broadcast journalist)
62 - Scott Travis (musician)
62 - Steven Eckholdt (actor)
65 - Michael Winslow (actor/comedian)
65 - Jeff Foxworthy (actor/comedian)
69 - James Martin Kelly (actor)
76 - Jane Curtin (actress/comedian)
79 - Swoosie Kurtz (actress)
80 - Roger Waters (singer)
84 - David Allan Coe (singer)
87 - JoAnne Worley (comedian)
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Today in Sports History - September 6
1924 - Urban Shocker (St. Louis Brown) pitched two complete games against the Chicago White Sox. He won both games 6-2.
1943 - The youngest player to appear in an American League baseball game was pitcher Carl Scheib of the Philadelphia Athletics. Scheib was 16 years, eight months and five days old.
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.
1972 - The Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that left eleven Israelis, five Arab abductors and a West German police officer dead.
1975 - Eighteen-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum in the United States.
1976 - Steve Yeager (Los Angeles) was seriously injured when part of a broken bat struck him in the throat. He was waiting in the on-deck circle when the incident occurred.
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela (Los Angeles Dodgers) tied a National League record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher.
1982 - The Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's #8.
1986 - #8 Nebraska opens the season with a 34-17 win over #11 Florida State.
1995 - Baseball star Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's iron man record when he appeared in his 2,131st consecutive game.
1996 - Eddie Murray (Baltimore Orioles) hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers. He was only the third person to have at least 3,000 hits and 500 home runs.
2000 - Scott Sheldon (Texas Rangers) became the third player in major league baseball history to play all nine positions in one game.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco) became the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season.
2003 - #23 Nebraska defeats Utah State 31-7.
2008 - Nebraska defeats San Jose State 35-12.
2014 - #19 Nebraska defeats McNeese State 31-24.
2020 - World #1 tennis player Novak Djokovic is sensationally disqualified in 4th round of US Open after hitting a ball in frustration, striking a line judge; trailed Pablo Carreño Busta 5-6 in 1st set.
