Today is Tuesday, September 6, the 249th day of 2022 with 116 to follow.
The moon is growing. The morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus.
People born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. They include the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War, in 1757; pioneering social worker/Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams in 1860; financier/diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy in 1888; actress Jo Anne Worley in 1937 (85); singer/songwriter David Allan Coe in 1939 (83); musician Roger Waters in 1943 (age 79); actor Swoosie Kurtz in 1944 (age 78); actor Jane Curtin in 1947 (age 75); business executive Carly Fiorina in 1954 (age 68); comedian Jeff Foxworthy in 1958 (age 64); comedian Michael Winslow in 1958 (age 64); former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in 1962 (age 60); novelist Alice Sebold in 1963 (age 59); singer/actress Rosie Perez in 1964 (age 58); singer Macy Gray in 1967 (age 55); singer Dolores O’Riordan in 1971; actor Idris Elba in 1972 (aged 50); actor Anika Noni Rose in 1972 (age 50); actor Justina Machado in 1972 (age 50); actor Justin Whalin in 1974 (age 48); rapper Foxy Brown, born Inga Fung Marchand, in 1978 (44 years old); British socialite Pippa Middleton in 1983 (age 39); rapper Lil Xan, born Nicholas Diego Leanos, in 1996 (26 years old); actor Freya Allan in 2001 (21 years old); actor Asher Angel in 2002 (20 years old).
On this historical date:
In 1522, one of Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships – the Vittoria – arrived at Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, completing the first circumnavigation of the globe.
In 1620, 149 pilgrims left England aboard the Mayflower, bound for the New World.
In 1901, US President William McKinley was shot by an anarchist at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY McKinley died eight days later.
In 1909, it was learned that US Navy Admiral Robert Peary had reached the North Pole five months earlier, on April 6, 1909.
In 1914, the first Battle of the Marne of World War I took place outside of Paris, France. The allied forces of France and Britain defeated Germany, resulting in the deaths of some 150,000 people.
In 1916, the first supermarket in the United States, Piggly Wiggly, opened in Memphis.
In 1966, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, architect of his country’s apartheid policy, was stabbed to death by a deranged messenger during a parliamentary meeting in Cape Town.
In 1995, Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking the record set in 1939 by Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees. Ripken voluntarily ended his streak of 2,362 games in 1998.
In 1997, Britain bid an emotional farewell to Princess Diana – killed in a car accident a week earlier – at a funeral at Westminster Abbey in London that was broadcast around the world.
In 2004, former US President Bill Clinton underwent a 4-hour quadruple heart bypass operation at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
In 2007, Luciano Pavarotti, one of opera’s greatest tenors, died of cancer at his home in Modena, Italy. He was 71 years old.
In 2010, officials said they feared up to 270 people died in two weekend riverboat crashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in the easternmost islands of the Caribbean, ripping roofs off homes and buildings. The storm then passed over Florida and into the southeastern United States and claimed 52 lives.
In 2018, India’s Supreme Court decriminalized same-sex relationships, a colonial-era law.
In 2020, Los Angeles County experienced its highest recorded temperature in history – 121 degrees Fahrenheit.
A thought of the day: “Children become readers on their parents’ knees.” — Austrian writer Emilie Buchwald
