September 6
1901 - President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died on September 14th; Czologsz was executed on Oct. 29.)
1909 - American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing 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. (Found to have paranoid schizophrenia, Unruh was confined for the rest of his life; he died in a Trenton nursing home in 2009 at age 88.)
1991 - The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
1997 - More than 2 billion people tuned in worldwide to watch the funeral of Britain's Princess Diana.
2001 - In a dramatic shift, the Bush administration abandoned the Clinton-era effort to break up Microsoft on anti-trust grounds.
2002 - Meeting outside Washington, D.C. for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York City to pay homage to the victims and heroes of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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.
2012 - President Barack Obama conceded only halting progress toward solving the nation’s economic woes, but vowed in a Democratic National Convention finale, “Our problems can be solved, our challenges can be met.”
2012 - Drew Peterson, the former Illinois police officer who gained notoriety after his much-younger wife, Stacy, vanished in 2007, was convicted of murdering a previous wife, Kathleen Savio. (Peterson was later sentenced to 38 years in prison.)
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.
2017 - Two French companies among the world’s biggest makers of luxury goods, including the owners of brands like Dior and Gucci, agreed to stop working with fashion models who were unhealthily thin.
2021 - Support programs for Americans still being hit hard financially by the pandemic expired, including one that provided jobless aid to self-employed and gig workers; the Biden administration’s $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit also ended.
Birthdays
21 - Freya Allan (actress)
32 - John Wall (basketball player)
33 - Zoe Alexander (singer)
37 - Lauren Lapkus (actress)
39 - Deborah Joy Winans (actress/singer)
39 - Howard Charles (actor)
39 - Braun Strowman (professional wrestler)
44 - Foxy Brown (rapper)
44 - Natalia Cigliuti (actress)
46 - Naomie Harris (actress)
48 - Justin Whalin (actor)
48 - Nina Persson (singer)
50 - Anika Noni Rose (actress)
50 - Justina Machado (actress)
50 - Idris Elba (actor)
50 - Dylan Bruno (actor)
52 - Daniele Gaither (actress)
53 - CeCe Peniston (singer)
55 - Macy Gray (siner)
58 - Rosie Perez (actress)
59 - Betsy Russell (actress)
59 - Mark Chestnutt (singer)
60 - Elizabeth Vargas (broadcast journalist)
61 - Scott Travis (musician)
61 - Steven Eckholdt (actor)
64 - Michael Winslow (actor/comedian)
64 - Jeff Foxworthy (actor/comedian)
68 - James Martin Kelly (actor)
75 - Jane Curtin (actress/comedian)
78 - Swoosie Kurtz (actress)
83 - David Allan Coe (singer)
86 - JoAnne Worley (comedian)
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Today in Sports History - September 6
1905 - Frank Smith (Chicago White Sox) pitched a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers. The game set a record for the most lopsided margin of victory for a no-hitter in American League history (15-0).
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.
1995 - Baseball player Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig's "Iron Man" record.
1972 - The Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that left eleven Israelis and five Arab abductors dead.
1975 - 18-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.
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 of the San Francisco Giants became just the fifth player in major league history to hit 60 home runs in a season, joining Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Maris, and Babe Ruth.
2003 - #23 Nebraska defeats Utah State 31-7.
2008 - Nebraska defeats San Jose State 35-12.
2014 - #19 Nebraska defeats McNeese State 31-24.
1901 - President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died on September 14th; Czologsz was executed on Oct. 29.)
1909 - American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing 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. (Found to have paranoid schizophrenia, Unruh was confined for the rest of his life; he died in a Trenton nursing home in 2009 at age 88.)
1991 - The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
1997 - More than 2 billion people tuned in worldwide to watch the funeral of Britain's Princess Diana.
2001 - In a dramatic shift, the Bush administration abandoned the Clinton-era effort to break up Microsoft on anti-trust grounds.
2002 - Meeting outside Washington, D.C. for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York City to pay homage to the victims and heroes of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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.
2012 - President Barack Obama conceded only halting progress toward solving the nation’s economic woes, but vowed in a Democratic National Convention finale, “Our problems can be solved, our challenges can be met.”
2012 - Drew Peterson, the former Illinois police officer who gained notoriety after his much-younger wife, Stacy, vanished in 2007, was convicted of murdering a previous wife, Kathleen Savio. (Peterson was later sentenced to 38 years in prison.)
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.
2017 - Two French companies among the world’s biggest makers of luxury goods, including the owners of brands like Dior and Gucci, agreed to stop working with fashion models who were unhealthily thin.
2021 - Support programs for Americans still being hit hard financially by the pandemic expired, including one that provided jobless aid to self-employed and gig workers; the Biden administration’s $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit also ended.
Birthdays
21 - Freya Allan (actress)
32 - John Wall (basketball player)
33 - Zoe Alexander (singer)
37 - Lauren Lapkus (actress)
39 - Deborah Joy Winans (actress/singer)
39 - Howard Charles (actor)
39 - Braun Strowman (professional wrestler)
44 - Foxy Brown (rapper)
44 - Natalia Cigliuti (actress)
46 - Naomie Harris (actress)
48 - Justin Whalin (actor)
48 - Nina Persson (singer)
50 - Anika Noni Rose (actress)
50 - Justina Machado (actress)
50 - Idris Elba (actor)
50 - Dylan Bruno (actor)
52 - Daniele Gaither (actress)
53 - CeCe Peniston (singer)
55 - Macy Gray (siner)
58 - Rosie Perez (actress)
59 - Betsy Russell (actress)
59 - Mark Chestnutt (singer)
60 - Elizabeth Vargas (broadcast journalist)
61 - Scott Travis (musician)
61 - Steven Eckholdt (actor)
64 - Michael Winslow (actor/comedian)
64 - Jeff Foxworthy (actor/comedian)
68 - James Martin Kelly (actor)
75 - Jane Curtin (actress/comedian)
78 - Swoosie Kurtz (actress)
83 - David Allan Coe (singer)
86 - JoAnne Worley (comedian)
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Today in Sports History - September 6
1905 - Frank Smith (Chicago White Sox) pitched a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers. The game set a record for the most lopsided margin of victory for a no-hitter in American League history (15-0).
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.
1995 - Baseball player Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig's "Iron Man" record.
1972 - The Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that left eleven Israelis and five Arab abductors dead.
1975 - 18-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.
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 of the San Francisco Giants became just the fifth player in major league history to hit 60 home runs in a season, joining Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Maris, and Babe Ruth.
2003 - #23 Nebraska defeats Utah State 31-7.
2008 - Nebraska defeats San Jose State 35-12.
2014 - #19 Nebraska defeats McNeese State 31-24.
