TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 6
3114 BC Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar).
1522 One of the five ships that set out in Ferdinand Magellan’s trip around the world makes it back to Spain. Only 15 of the original 265 men that set out survived. Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.
1620 Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England to the New World
1819 Thomas Blanchard patented a machine called the lathe.
1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves back into town, to Concord, Massachusetts.
1870 The last British troops to serve in Austria are withdrawn
1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1901 President William McKinley is shot while attending a reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, by 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz. McKinley dies eight days later, the third American president assassinated.
1909 Word received that American explorer Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole, 5 months earlier
1916 1st true supermarket, the “Piggly Wiggly” is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee
1941 Germany announces that all Jews living in the country will have to begin wearing a Star of David.
1949 The Allied military authorities relinquished control of the Volkswagen factory which had become the largest car producer in Europe.
1953 The last American and Korean prisoners are exchanged in Operation Big Switch, the last official act of the Korean War.
1966 “Star Trek” premiers on NBC TV
1983 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1991 USSR officially recognizes independence for the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
2006 President Bush acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world often referred to as “Black Sites” because they are outside of mainland U.S. territory and US legal jurisdiction.
2007 The town of Batna in Algeria was attacked by a suicide bomber who managed to kill twenty people and injure one hundred and seven.
2011 A gunman shot and killed four patrons of an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nevada. After the attack the gunman, Eduardo Sencion, shot himself and died in a hospital.
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