Today in History - History - September 6th

1928USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact

1985Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars, and would later be charged with hit and run and careless driving (he would pay a fine)

1953Konrad Adenauer's CDU wins elections in German Federal Republic

1920Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight

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

1862Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland

1994Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"

1982Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000

1924Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails

1953Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38

1943George Roger Waters, Cambridge England, rock bassist and vocalist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall)

1860Jane Addams, Cedarville, Illinois, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931), (d. 1935)

1947Jane Curtin, Cambridge Massachusetts, actress (SNL, Allie Lowell-Kate & Allie)

1888Joseph P Kennedy, Boston Mass, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy

1889Explorer Fridtjof Nansen (27) weds mezzosoprano singer Eva Nansen (30)

1840Publisher James Gordon Bennett (45) weds Henrietta Agnes Crean in NYC, New York

1780William Allen, Mayor of Philadelphia, dies at 76

1966Margaret Sanger, US feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86

1998Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)

1990Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater), dies of tuberculosis at 48