June 26th 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.

June 26th 1948 - William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.

1917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I

June 26th 1945 – At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations.

June 27th 1967 – The world's first electronic automated teller machine was installed in Enfield Town, London by Barclays Bank.

June 27th 1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.

June 28th 1969 – In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began to riot against New York City Police officers, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.

June 28th 1880 – Police captured Australian bank robber and bushranger Ned Kelly after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria.

1838 Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey

1914 Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist.  Incident   
        used to precipitate WWI

1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed

1776 American Sergent Thomas Hickey found guilty of treason and hanged.

June 28th 1990 - Paperback Software International Ltd. found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.

June 29th 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.

1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN

1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages

1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate

June 29th 1956 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, officially creating the U.S. Interstate Highway System, one of the largest public works projects in history.

June 30th 1908 – A massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, knocking over 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi).

June 30th 1894 – London's Tower Bridge, a combined bascule and suspension bridge over the River Thames, opened.

July 1st 1916 – World War I: The first day of the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army, with 57,470 casualties of which 19,240 were killed or died of wounds.

1535  Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason

1997 China regains sovereignty of Hong Kong

SOS is the commonly used description for the International Morse code distress signal (· · · — — — · · ·). This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905, and became the worldwide standard when it was included in the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention, which was signed on November 3, 1906, and became effective on July 1, 1908.

1863- The first day of the battle of Gettysburg.  The only battle of the Civil War fought on Union soil.

July 2nd 1937 – Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight.

1777 Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery

1858 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs

1863 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)

1881 President Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker

July 2nd 1644 – The Battle of Marston Moor, one of the decisive encounters of the English Civil War, was fought near York.

July 3rd 1938 – The LNER Mallard broke the world speed record for a steam railway locomotive, reaching a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h).

July 3rd 1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.

1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North

July 3rd 1844 – The last known pair of Great Auks, the only species in the genus Pinguinus, were killed in Eldey off the coast of Iceland.

July 4th 1776 – The Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies in British North America adopted a Declaration of Independence, considered to be the founding document of the United States.

1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi (Fall of Vicksburg)surrenders to Union forces

1875 Vicksburg, Mississippi white Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks

1894 Republic of Hawaii established

1946 Philippines gains independence from US

1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony

July 5th 1946 – Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear weapons test Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the modern bikini was introduced at a fashion show in Paris.

July 5th 1687 – Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton was first published, describing his laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.

1865 William Booth founded Salvation Army in London

1948 Britain's National Health Service Act begins

1950 Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel

July 6th 1809 – Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles' Austrian army at the Battle of Wagram, the decisive confrontation of the War of the Fifth Coalition.

1483  England's King Richard III crowned

1535 Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason

July 7th 1937 – The Imperial Japanese Army defeated the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army on Beijing's Marco Polo Bridge, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

July 7th 1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

7/7/1777-the Battle of Hubberton. Not only was it the only battle fought in Vermont (the Battle of Bennington was fought in NY state but the majority of the people who fought in that battle were from Bennington-thus the name) but it was the very first time that "Old Glory" was brought into battle.



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July 8th 1947 – Various news agencies reported the capture of a "flying saucer" by United States Air Force personnel from the Roswell Army Air Field in Roswell, New Mexico.

July 9th 1955 – The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, signed by Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and nine other preeminent intellectuals and scientists, was issued during a press conference in London in the midst of the Cold War, calling for a conference where scientists would assess the dangers posed to the survival of humanity by weapons of mass destruction.

1540  England's King Henry VIII 6-mo marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled

1872 Doughnut cutter patented by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me

1872 Doughnut cutter patented by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me
One of the best ever inventions?

July 9th 1810 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.

July 10th 1796 – German mathematician and scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.

July 11th 1804 – U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.

July 11th 1955 - The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.

July 12th 1690 – Williamite forces defeated Jacobite troops at the Battle of the Boyne just outside Drogheda, Ireland, marking a turning point in the Williamite War.

1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France

1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33cents per hour)

July 13th 1793 – Jean-Paul Marat, a leader in the French Revolution, was murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.

1898 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio

July 14th 1789 – French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille, freeing its inmates and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition.

1914 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)

July 16th 1945 – Manhattan Project: "Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion, was detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States.

1790 Congress establishes District of Columbia

1918  Nicholas II Russian tsar, his tsarina & their 5 kids executed

July 17th 1762 – Peter III was killed while in custody at Ropsha, a few days after he was deposed as Emperor of Russia and replaced by his wife Catherine II.

1938 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland

July 17, 1955: Disneyland opened its doors to the public, in Anaheim, CA.

July 18th 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, United States Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into a tidal channel, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker.

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

July 19th 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen who were unhappy with unemployment and other grievances rioted and burnt down the town hall of Luton, England.

1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days

1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France

July 20th 1969 – The Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would become the first men to walk on the moon six-and-a-half hours later.

...or did they?

July 21st 1954 – First Indochina War: The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was established at the Geneva Conference, partitioning Vietnam along the 17th parallel north into two zones: North Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh and South Vietnam under Bao Dai.

July 22nd 1933 – Wiley Post became the first pilot to fly a fixed-wing aircraft solo around the world, landing after a 7-day and 19-hour flight at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York City.

July 22nd 1999 - The first version of MSN Messenger was released by Microsoft.

July 23rd 1986 – Sarah Ferguson married Prince Andrew, Duke of York at London's Westminster Abbey, joining the British Royal Family as the Duchess of York.

July 24th 1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, at the time a part of Mexico.

July 24th 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI.

July 25th 2000 – Air France Concorde Flight 4590, en route from Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, crashed in Gonesse, France.

July 25th, 1898, U.S. invades Puerto Rico in the small town of Guanica. As the U.S. troops made for shore, they were met by women & children waving handkerchiefs & scarfs welcoming them-which I have NOT found reported in any books. Where did this info come from, you may ask? From Carlos' grandmother who stood there on the shore at Guanica, waving her handkerchief to the U.S. troops. 


Cat

July 25th 1861 - American Civil War: the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.

July 26th 1139 – After a victory over the Almoravid Moors at the Battle of Ourique, Afonso the Conqueror was proclaimed the first king of an independent Portugal by his soldiers

July 26th 1908 – Unable to use the services of U.S. Secret Service agents as investigators because of a federal law, U.S. Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte established what is now known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation to organize his own staff of special agents.

July 27th 1694 – A Royal Charter was granted to the Bank of England as the English Government's banker.

1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia

1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia


We all blame him!

July 27th 1974 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice.

July 28th 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced an end to its armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland to create a United Ireland.

July 28th 1914 - World War I - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This declaration leads to the outbreak of World War I.

July 29th 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watched Diana Spencer marry Charles, Prince of Wales at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

July 30th 2003 – The last old-style Beetle, the economy car produced by the German automaker Volkswagen, rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico.

July 30th 1966 - England national football team win 1966 FIFA World Cup beating West Germany 4-2 in the Final

1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad

1974 House of Reps recommends 3 articles of impeachment of Nixon

July 31st 1777 – The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution allowing French nobleman Marquis de Lafayette to enter the American revolutionary forces as a Major General.

August 1st 1831 – A new London Bridge designed by engineer John Rennie, opened. It stood over London's River Thames until American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch bought it in 1968 and subsequently moved it to Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

August 2nd 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait, overrunning the Kuwaiti military within two days, and eventually sparking the outbreak of the Gulf War seven months later.

August 2nd 1870 – Tower Subway, one of the world's first underground tube railways, opened beneath the River Thames in London.

1798 British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile

August 3rd 1916 – Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement was hanged at London's Pentonville Prison for treason for his role in the Easter Rising, a rebellion to win Irish independence from Britain.

August 4th 1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA, an incident that became a cause célèbre and entered into pop culture and folklore

August 5th 1962 – Actress and model Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, Los Angeles home, an event that has become one of the most debated conspiracy theories of the 20th century.

August 6th 1991 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee first posted files describing his ideas for a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, to be called a "World Wide Web".

August 6th 1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.

1945  Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"

August 6th 1890 – In Auburn, New York, USA, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in an electric chair.

August 7th 1947 – An expedition led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl on his raft the Kon-Tiki completed a 101–day journey across the Pacific Ocean.

August 7th 1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

August 8th 1918 – The Battle of Amiens began in Amiens, France, marking the start of the Allied Powers' Hundred Days Offensive through the German front lines that ultimately led to the end of World War I.

August 8th 1974 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.

August 8th 1963 - Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.

August 9th 1974 – The Watergate scandal: Richard Nixon became the first (and to date only) President of the United States to resign from office.

1638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in the Bronx

1902 Edward VII of England crowned

1969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders

August 9th 1173 – The construction of a campanile, which would eventually become the Leaning Tower of Pisa began.

August 9th 1907 - The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.

August 10th 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory today the basis of the Prime Meridian, was laid in Greenwich, London.

1792 Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI

1961 England applies for membership in the European Common Market

August 10th 1913 – Delegates of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece signed the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War.

August 11th 1919 – The Weimar Republic adopted its constitution to establish a liberal democracy in Germany.

August 12th 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer, the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform was introduced.

August 12th 1908 - First Model T Ford built.

August 12th 1883 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.

1877 Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device

August 12th 1990 - Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.

Friday 13th 1915 - "Brides in the bath" killer George Joseph Smith was Hanged

^ That was unlucky for him!

August 13th 1937 – The Battle of Shanghai broke out, eventually becoming one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the entire Second Sino-Japanese War.

August 13th 1913 – English inventor Harry Brearley developed stainless steel in an electric furnace.

1831 Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia

August 13th 1521 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés captured Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.

1941 – After a secret meeting aboard warships in a secure anchorage near Argentia, Newfoundland, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post-World War II world despite the fact that the United States had yet to enter the war.

August 15th 1977 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" for notation made by a volunteer on the project.

1057  Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan

August 15th 1947 – The British Raj was partitioned into the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.

August 16th 1858 - U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.

1819 Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators

August 16th 1977 – Elvis Presley "The King of Rock and Roll", was found dead on the floor of his bathroom. Although it was officially ruled as a fatal heart attack, many people have claimed to have seen Elvis alive since then.

August 17th 1862 – A council of Dakota decided to attack settlements throughout the Minnesota River valley in an effort to drive whites out of the area, sparking the Dakota War of 1862.

August 18th 1868 – Astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium while analyzing the chromosphere of the sun during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.

August 18th 1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

August 18th 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Ten months after the British surrender at the Siege of Yorktown, a combined force of British rangers and American Indians routed Kentucky militiamen at the Battle of Blue Licks.

August 20th 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition, exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffered its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd died, apparently from acute appendicitis.

August 20th 1988 - "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park

August 21st 1983 - Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport).

August 21st 1879 - The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

August 22nd 1864 – The Red Cross movement led by Henry Dunant officially began when twelve European nations signed the First Geneva Convention, establishing the International Committee of the Red Cross.

1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets

August 22nd 1922 – Irish Civil War: Irish National Army commander-in-chief Michael Collins was assassinated in an ambush while en route through County Cork at the village of Béal na mBláth.

August 22,1990 my youngest son James was born

August 23rd 1989 – Singing Revolution: Approximately two million people joined their hands to form an over 600 km (373 mi) long human chain across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics.

August 23rd 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a 10-year, mutual non-aggression treaty that was eventually broken when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union two years later.

1833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed

1939 USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact

August 23rd 1839 – As it prepared for war against China's Qing Dynasty, an ensuing conflict that became known as the First Opium War, Britain captured the southeast Asia port of Hong Kong.

August 24th 1932 -  - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).

1814 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned

1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)

August 25th 1920 – Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski successfully forced the Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet War.

1925 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)

1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation

August 25th 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, currently the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was formed by Royal Charter from King Henry VIII.

August 26th 1789 – French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, defining a set of individual and collective rights of the people, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly at Versailles.

1942 7,000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France

August 26th 1768 - The HM Bark Endeavour expedition under Captain James Cook sets sail from England.

August 27th 2003 – The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years: 55,758,006 kilometres (34,646,419 miles).

1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn

August 27th 1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia came into force, three days before the Federation of Malaya achieved formal independence from the United Kingdom.

August 28 1988: 70 people die and over 500 are injured at the international Airshow at Ramstein Airbase after one of the most shocking mid-air collisions ever.

The death toll could have been (much) lower, if only burn victims would have been treated appropriately before transport and there had been some sort of coordination/communication between different groups of aid workers.
It is worth noting that only "real" burn victims received some sort of financial compensation. There has never been any (financial) compensation for those who lost a dear one in the disaster.

August 28th 1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., describing his desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously as equals.

1957 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill

August 28th 1914 – In the first naval battle of the World War I, British ships defeated the German fleet in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea.

August 29th 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

August 30th 1945 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II

August 30th 1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the Sixth Coalition under Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly captured French General Dominique Vandamme and thousands of his soldiers at the Battle of Kulm

August 31st 1997 – Princess Diana, her companion Dodi Fayed, and their driver Henri Paul were killed in a high speed car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris.

August 31st 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols' body was found on the ground in front of a gated stable entrance in Buck's Row, London, allegedly the first victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.

1535  Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII

1955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill

August 31st 1986 – After a collision with a freighter, the Soviet ocean liner Admiral Nakhimov sank in the Tsemes Bay area of the Black Sea within seven minutes, killing over 400 on board.

September 1st 1951 – Australia, New Zealand and the United States signed a mutual defence pact known as the ANZUS Treaty in San Francisco, agreeing to cooperate on defence matters in the Pacific Ocean area.

1666 Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed

1945 Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)

September 1st 1804 – German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, naming it after the Roman goddess.

1666 Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed


... large fire began on London's Pudding Lane and burned the city for three days, destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants.

It was on this date 3 years ago, back in 2005, when I last went to see a movie in a theater... namely, The March Of The Penguins.

It was on this date 3 years ago, back in 2005, when I last went to see a movie in a theater... namely, The March Of The Penguins.
I have only seen it on DVD, and a great film/documentry it is too.

September 3rd 1901 – The National Flag of Australia, a Blue Ensign defaced with the Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time atop the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

I have only seen it on DVD, and a great film/documentry it is too.

It sure is. I certainly enjoyed it, when I saw it. Morgan Freeman narrated the entire film, as I recall.

September 4th 1888 – American inventor George Eastman registered the trademark "Kodak" after receiving a patent for his roll film camera.

September 5th 1914 – World War I: The First Battle of the Marne began with French forces engaging the advancing German army at the Marne River near Paris.

September 6th 1970 – Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four jet aircraft en route from Europe to New York City, landing two of them at Dawson's Field in Zerqa, Jordan, and one plane in Beirut, Lebanon. The fourth hijacking was successfully foiled.

September 6th 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.

A day I remember very well, that was a Saturday too.