September 6

Ugg Boot

Today in History:
1522 - The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 - The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1628 - Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1839 Great fire in NY
1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland
1869 1st westbound train arrives in SF
1869 Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
1870 - Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1876 Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk. Engineers were stunned when the can was opened and it was empty. ....... because it evaporated...sheeesh
1901 - Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Creeping Man"
1909 Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe P‚goud-France)
1915 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
1941 - Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word Jew inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
1943 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1952 Dozens die in air show tragedy.
1966 "Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV. The world....will never....be.....the same.
1970 - Jimi Hendrix plays what turns out to be his last ever performance, at the badly controlled and rained out Love and Peace Festival, on the Isle Of Fehmarn, Germany.
1970 - Four passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP. Two are taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1972 John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
1976 Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
1983 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1985 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1986 Barbra Streisand's 1st live concert in 20 years. Who?
1991 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1997 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.

Happy Birthday:
1666 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
1838 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (d. 1969)
1939 - David Allan Coe, American country singer, one of the key figures in the Outlaw country movement
1943 - Roger Waters, bassist, songwriter, and previous leader of Pink Floyd
1958 - Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and author


Deaths today:
1984 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
1990 - Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)