September 6
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school
1522: One of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships, the Victoria, returns to Spain, thus completing the first successful circumnavigation of the world. Magellan, a Portuguese navigator employed by Spain, set out from Seville three years earlier with 265 men, but only 15 survived the journey. Magellan himself was killed by angry natives in the Philippines, but it was too little, too late.
1839: Unified eastern & western Cherokee, split by the previous winter’s deadly Trail of Tears, adopt constitution and establish newly settled Tahlequah, in the Indian territory of Oklahoma, as their capitol.
1860: Jane Addams, suffragist and social and peace activist, born, Chicago. Founder of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Hull House.
1869: Avondale Mine disaster, 110 miners killed, leading to first mine safety law in Pennsylvania.
1901: U.S. President William McKinley shot by professed anarchist Leon Czolgosz, who previously had been repudiated by numerous anarchist groups. Buffalo, New York.
1941: All Jews over age six in German territories ordered to wear a star.
1963: Anti-nuclear march from Glasgow, Scotland, arrives in London, and attempts to present a dummy missile to the British Imperial War Museum. Apparently too many dummies are already in the museum.
1966: Five nights of racial rioting begin in Atlanta. Stokely Carmichael arrested for "inciting riot" along with over 100 others.
1966: Sex reformer, birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger dies.
1966: Star Trek appears on TV for the first time.
1967: In British papers, the U.K. government takes out advertisements explaining its recent enacting of legislation outlawing pirate radio.
1973: Rebellion at Statesville prison, Indiana.
1974: Housing occupations and barricade of San Bailio neighborhood of Rome, Italy, leads to legalized squatting.
1978: House Select Committee on Assassinations opens hearings into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The committee recessed on Dec. 30 after concluding conspiracies were likely in both cases, but with no further evidence for further prosecutions.
1982: Twenty killed by car bomb in Tehran, Iran.
1988: Flood waters, submerging 3/4 of the country of Bangladesh, begin to recede, after killing at least 1,154 and leaving 25 million homeless.
1988: Seven arrested in protests at uranium processing plant, Fernald, Ohio. The Fernald plant was later revealed to be among the worst polluters in the entire U.S. nuclear industry.
1993: Slovak Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar says gypsies constitute a "socially unadaptable population" with "children, simply, who are a great burden on this society." Persecution against the Roma (gypsies), who emigrated to Europe from India in the 11th Century, has increased markedly in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. Jozef Pacai, mayor of the Czech city Medzev, has suggested selectively killing gypsies.
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