September 6

Today in History
• 1622 - Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
• 1628 - Puritans from Masschusetts Bay Colony land at Salem
• 1716 - 1st lighthouse built in north America (Boston)
• 1819 - Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
• 1839 - Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma
• 1869 - 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco
• 1869 - Mine fire kills 110 at Avondale, Pennsylvania
• 1899 - Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Bonaire Flag Day
• Fight Procrastination Day
• Global Talent Acquisition Day
• Great Egg Toss Day
• Janmashtami
• National Coffee Ice Cream Day
• National Read a Book Day
• Swaziland Independence Day

Birthdays
• 1656 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman
• 1729 - Moses Mendelssohn, German Jewish enlightenment philosopher (Haksalah)
• 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot and French revolutionary
• 1766 - John Dalton, English physicist and chemist who developed the atomic theory of matter
• 1797 - William "Extra Billy" Smith, American lawyer, politician (Governor of Virginia)
• 1811 - James Melville Gilliss, astronomer and Founder of Naval Observatory in Washington
• 1860 - Jane Addams, American pacifist, social activist, feminist, author, co-founder of ACLU
• 1923 - Peter II Karadjordjevic, last King of Yugoslavia (1934-45)