September 6
1901 - President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley would die from his injuries on September 14.; Czolgosz was executed on Oct. 29.)
1909 - American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.
1916 - The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
1941 - Nazi Germany required all Jews over the age of six to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes.
1943 - 79 people were killed when a New York-bound Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed and crashed in Philadelphia.
1970 - Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.
1991 - The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
1997 - More than 2 billion people worldwide watched Princess Diana's funeral on television.
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.
2004 - Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery.
2005 - The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the nation to approve same-sex marriages. (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed the bill.)
2006 - President George W. Bush acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects had been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.
2007 - Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.
2016 - On the campaign trail, Democrat Hillary Clinton accused Republican Donald Trump of insulting America’s veterans and pressing dangerous military plans, while Trump declared “our country is going to hell” because of policies he said Clinton would make even worse.
2017 - Hurricane Irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, pounded Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds; authorities said more than 900,000 people were without power. (Hurricane Maria, which would destroy the island’s power grid, arrived two weeks later.)
2019 - Zimbabwe’s president announced that Robert Mugabe, the country’s former leader who was forced to resign after a 37-year rule, had died at the age of 95; he had taken power after white minority rule ended in 1980.
2020 - Temperatures reached 111 degrees in downtown Los Angeles and a record-shattering 121 degrees in the nearby Woodland Hills neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, the highest temperature ever recorded in Los Angeles County. San Francisco set a record for the date with a high of 100 degrees, smashing the previous mark by 5 degrees.
Birthdays
25 - Demi Sims (reality star)
31 - John Wall (basketball player)
32 - Zoe Alexander (singer)
36 - Lauren Lupkus (actress)
38 - Deborah Joy Winans (actress/singer)
38 - Howard Charles (actor)
38 - Pippa Middleton (author/sister of Kate Middleton)
43 - Foxy Brown (rapper)
43 - Natalia Cigliuti (actress)
45 - Naomie Harris (actress)
47 - Justin Whalin (actor)
49 - Anika Noni Rose (actress)
49 - Justina Machado (actress)
49 - Idris Elba (actor)
49 - Dylan Bruno (actor)
51 - Daniele Gaither (actress)
54 - Macy Gray (singer)
57 - Rosie Perez (actress)
58 - Betsy Russell (actress)
58 - Mark Chestnutt (country singer)
59 - Elizabeth Vargas (news correspondent)
60 - Steven Eckholdt (actor)
63 - Michael Winslow (actor/comedian)
63 - Jeff Foxworthy (actor/comedian)
67 - James Martin Kelly (actor)
74 - Jane Curtin (actress/comedian)
77 - Swoosie Kurtz (actress)
82 - David Allan Coe (country singer)
85 - 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.
1975 - Czechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.
1980 - Macalester College ends a 50-game losing streak, the longest college football losing streak in U.S. history.
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 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles broke Lou Gehrig's "Iron Man" record by playing in his 2,131st straight game.
1996 - Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers; he became only the third player in MLB history with 500 home runs and 3,000 hits.
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 of the San Francisco Giants became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season. (He finished the year with a record 73 homers.)
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 - Top-seeded Novak Djokovic was defaulted from his fourth-round match at the U.S. Open after he accidentally hit a line judge with a tennis ball; he had smacked the ball behind him after falling behind in the first set.
1901 - President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley would die from his injuries on September 14.; Czolgosz was executed on Oct. 29.)
1909 - American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.
1916 - The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
1941 - Nazi Germany required all Jews over the age of six to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes.
1943 - 79 people were killed when a New York-bound Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed and crashed in Philadelphia.
1970 - Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.
1991 - The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
1997 - More than 2 billion people worldwide watched Princess Diana's funeral on television.
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.
2004 - Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery.
2005 - The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the nation to approve same-sex marriages. (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed the bill.)
2006 - President George W. Bush acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects had been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.
2007 - Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.
2016 - On the campaign trail, Democrat Hillary Clinton accused Republican Donald Trump of insulting America’s veterans and pressing dangerous military plans, while Trump declared “our country is going to hell” because of policies he said Clinton would make even worse.
2017 - Hurricane Irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, pounded Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds; authorities said more than 900,000 people were without power. (Hurricane Maria, which would destroy the island’s power grid, arrived two weeks later.)
2019 - Zimbabwe’s president announced that Robert Mugabe, the country’s former leader who was forced to resign after a 37-year rule, had died at the age of 95; he had taken power after white minority rule ended in 1980.
2020 - Temperatures reached 111 degrees in downtown Los Angeles and a record-shattering 121 degrees in the nearby Woodland Hills neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, the highest temperature ever recorded in Los Angeles County. San Francisco set a record for the date with a high of 100 degrees, smashing the previous mark by 5 degrees.
Birthdays
25 - Demi Sims (reality star)
31 - John Wall (basketball player)
32 - Zoe Alexander (singer)
36 - Lauren Lupkus (actress)
38 - Deborah Joy Winans (actress/singer)
38 - Howard Charles (actor)
38 - Pippa Middleton (author/sister of Kate Middleton)
43 - Foxy Brown (rapper)
43 - Natalia Cigliuti (actress)
45 - Naomie Harris (actress)
47 - Justin Whalin (actor)
49 - Anika Noni Rose (actress)
49 - Justina Machado (actress)
49 - Idris Elba (actor)
49 - Dylan Bruno (actor)
51 - Daniele Gaither (actress)
54 - Macy Gray (singer)
57 - Rosie Perez (actress)
58 - Betsy Russell (actress)
58 - Mark Chestnutt (country singer)
59 - Elizabeth Vargas (news correspondent)
60 - Steven Eckholdt (actor)
63 - Michael Winslow (actor/comedian)
63 - Jeff Foxworthy (actor/comedian)
67 - James Martin Kelly (actor)
74 - Jane Curtin (actress/comedian)
77 - Swoosie Kurtz (actress)
82 - David Allan Coe (country singer)
85 - 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.
1975 - Czechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.
1980 - Macalester College ends a 50-game losing streak, the longest college football losing streak in U.S. history.
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 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles broke Lou Gehrig's "Iron Man" record by playing in his 2,131st straight game.
1996 - Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers; he became only the third player in MLB history with 500 home runs and 3,000 hits.
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 of the San Francisco Giants became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season. (He finished the year with a record 73 homers.)
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 - Top-seeded Novak Djokovic was defaulted from his fourth-round match at the U.S. Open after he accidentally hit a line judge with a tennis ball; he had smacked the ball behind him after falling behind in the first set.
