This Day In History.

September   6
1991 --  USSR recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics

1988 --  USSR performs underground nuclear test

1988 --  Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard

1986 --  USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying

1983 --  USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2

1978 --  USSR performs underground nuclear test

1978 --  Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace

1975 --  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1970 --  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1962 --  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1961 --  USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR

1958 --  US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean

1954 --  US plane shot down above Siberia

1941 --  Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto

1941 --  All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star

1939 --  South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany

1939 --  1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II

1924 --  Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails

1914 --  Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris

1901 --  Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later

1876 --  Race riot in Charleston SC

1866 --  Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention

1863 --  After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC

1863 --  -7] Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties)

1862 --  Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland

1861 --  General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky

1853 --  Women's Right's Convention met (NYC)

1848 --  National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)

1839 --  Cherokee Nation forms

1839 --  Great fire in NY

1776 --  1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY)

1716 --  1st US lighthouse built (Boston)

1628 --  Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle

1622 --  Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die

1543 --  French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice

1522 --  Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip

1492 --  Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands