TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPTEMBER 6
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.
1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves back into town, to Concord, Massachusetts.
1870 A Woman casts her Vote in the US for the first time. Louisa Ann Swain voted during state elections in the state of Wyoming.
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 New York Times headline announces American explorer Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole 5 months earlier
1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins, French and British forces prevent German advance on Paris (till the 12th Sept)
1941 Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the Star of David with the word “Jew” inscribed. The order only applied to Jews over the age of 6.
1943 The United States asks the Chinese Nationals to join with the Communists to present a common front to the Japanese.
1953 The last American and Korean prisoners are exchanged in Operation Big Switch, the last official act of the Korean War.
1968 Swaziland Gains Independence From the British
1976 Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, a Soviet air force pilot defects, flying a MiG-25 jet fighter to Japan and requesting political asylum in US.
1988 Lee Roy Young becomes the first African-American Texas Ranger in the force’s 165-year history.
1991 Leningrad, second-largest city in the USSR, is changed to Saint Petersburg, which had been the city’s name prior to 1924.
1999 Suai Church Massacre. More than 200 people who had found refuge in a church in Suai, East Timor were killed by pro-Indonesia militia after the results of an independence referendum came out.
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 Israel Conducts Operation Orchard. The military operation was conducted by the Israeli air force to destroy a suspected nuclear reactor in the Deir el-Zor region of Syria.
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.
2011 Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, officially opened the Nord Stream Baltic Gas pipeline that carries natural gas under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
