Today in History - History - September 6th

1976Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears

1995Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games

1982Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"

1928USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact

200118th MTV Awards: Lady Marmalade, Eve f/ Gwen Stefani & Moby f/ Gwen Stefani wins

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

1930Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.

1861General Ulysses S. Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky

1996Balt Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR

1492Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

1780William Allen, Mayor of Philadelphia, dies at 76

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