Today in History for 6th September 2017:
Historical Events
1522 – Ferdinand Magellan’s Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returns to Spain without their captain. First to circumnavigate the earth.
1732 – VOC dismisses Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
1939 – 1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II
1963 – Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
1986 – 300 invitees pay $ 5,000 to hear Barbra Streisand’s benefit concert
2015 – German police confirm more than 13,000 refugees have arrived in Southern Germany in last 2 days fleeing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan
Famous Birthdays
1757 – Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary
1827 – John Morrison Oliver, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1893 – Irving Bacon, actor (Branded Men, Fort Ti), born in St Joseph, Missouri
1946 – Bryan D O’Connor, Orange Cal, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40)
1969 – Ben Finegold, American chess player
1976 – Naomie Harris, American actress
Famous Deaths
1649 – Famiano Strada, Italian jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77
1977 – Guido Pannain, composer, dies at 85
1979 – Ronald Binge, British composer (Elizabethan Serenade, Sailing By), dies at 69
1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (Seven Samurai, Kagemusha), dies at 88
2003 – Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
2012 – Art Modell [Arthur Bertram], American businessman (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, Modells Stores), dies from heart failure at 87 (b. 1925)