On This Day in History

September 6

Historical Events

3114 BC Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar)

1522 Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish expedition, now led by Juan Sebastián Elcano, returns to Seville without their captain after a three-year epic voyage, becoming the first to circumnavigate the globe

1901 US President William McKinley is shot and assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York

1909 New York Times headline announces American explorer Robert Peary discovered the North Pole 5 months earlier (now thought unlikely)

French forces at the First Battle of the Marne

1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins, French and British forces prevent the German advance on Paris

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Famous Birthdays

Marquis de Lafayette 1757 - 1834 Jane Addams 1860 - 1935

Joseph P. Kennedy 1888 - 1969 Roger Waters 81st Birthday

Also John Dalton and Jane Curtin (77).

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Famous Deaths

Margaret Sanger 1879 - 1966 Luciano Pavarotti 1935 - 2007

Also Tom Fogerty and Robert Mugabe.

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Woman Jockey Rides Into Record Books

Jockey Gay Kelleway is the only woman to ride a winner at England’s famous Royal Ascot. She was also the first jockey to wear a TV camera on her helmet.

A Record Breaking Woman Jockey