September 6<\/p>\n
1492 \u2013 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.<\/p>\n
1522 \u2013 The Victoria<\/em> returns to Sanl\u00facar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.<\/p>\n 1620 \u2013 The Pilgrims finally set sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower<\/em> to settle in North America<\/p>\n 1628 \u2013 Puritans settle Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony.<\/p>\n 1767\u2013 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, later General Lafayette of the Continental Army, is born at Ch\u00e2teau de Chavaniac, France<\/p>\n 1781 \u2013 Revolutionary forces under Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard suffer defeat and are massacred by British forces under traitor General Benedict Arnold at Groton Heights Connecticut.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Paducah, Kentucky, gaining control of the mouth of the Tennessee river where it enters the Ohio<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina after being under siege by Union forces for over 60 days.<\/p>\n 1901 \u2013 At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and mortally wounds President William McKinley, who dies of gangrene 8 days later.<\/p>\n 1915 \u2013 During World War I, the first tank prototype, developed by William Foster & Co. for the British army, was completed and given its first test drive.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 Lacking equipment to identify friend from foe (IFF), a flight of British fighters scramble to intercept what they believe are incoming Nazi planes, resulting in the first British fighter pilot loss of World War II in a ‘friendly fire’ incident , shooting down 2 of their own returning fighters, killing one of the pilots, Flight Officer Montague Hulton-Harrop RAF<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 Racial eugenicist and abortion advocate, Margaret Sanger dies in Tucson, Arizona.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 3 passenger jets bound to New York,\u00a0 TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt, a Boeing 707, and Swissair Flight 100 from Z\u00fcrich, a Douglas DC-8,\u00a0 and El Al Flight 219, a Boeing 707, from Tel Aviv,\u00a0are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson’s Field, Jordan.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 During a failed rescue attempt, 9 Israeli athletes,\u00a0 along with a German policeman are murdered at the hands of the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day. The failure of the rescue attempt leads directly to the forming of the German counter-terrorist unit GSG-9 which leads to other nations forming such units, including the U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 Soviet Air Defense Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 Grand Olde Opry performer and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Ernest Tubb dies in Nashville, Tennesee<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport shortly after take off, killing all 31 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles, plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking the record held by Lou Gehrig since 1939.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 Israel executes Operation Orchard,<\/em> an air strike to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria, at the Al Kibar site in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 Burt Reynolds dies. age 82, of a heart attack at the Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Florida.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0American baseball player Lou Brock, dies, age 81 at Mercy Hospital\u00a0 St Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 6 1492 \u2013 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. 1522 \u2013 The Victoria returns to Sanl\u00facar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-today","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59243"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95757,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59243\/revisions\/95757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}