History for September 6

History for September 6 - On-This-Day.com
Marquis de Lafayette 1757, Jane Addams 1860, Joseph P. Kennedy 1888


Jane Curtin 1947, Jeff Foxworthy 1958, Rosie Perez 1964


1620 - The Pilgrims left on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to settle in the New World.


1819 - Thomas Blanchard patented a machine called the lathe.


1899 - Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk.


1901 - U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October.


1909 - Robert Peary, American explorer, sent word that he had reached the North Pole. He had reached his goal five months earlier.


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.


1975 - Martina Navratilova requested political asylum while in New York for the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.


1991 - The name St. Petersburg was restored to Russia's second largest city. The city was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great. The name has been changed to Petrograd (1914) and to Leningrad (1924).