6 SEPT Today in Military History 1634 Battle of Nordlingen: Spanish & Imperialists defeat the Swedes [Aug 27, Julian], fought in an ancient meteor crater 1715 The Fifteen - Widespread Jacobite Rebellion begins in Scotland 1813 Battle of Dennewitz: Prussians defeat the French 1861 Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant captures Paducah, Kentucky, without opposition 1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland 1863 Confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC, ending 59 day Union siege 1886 Queen Victoria establishes the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) 1901 Pres William McKinley is mortally wounded by Leon Czologosz in Buffalo (d. 14th) 1918 US Navy 14-inch railroad guns open fire on the Western Front 1928 USSR signs Briand-Kellogg Pact, agrees war is naughty 1939 First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II 1939 South Africa declares war on Germany 1940 Mussolini turns down Hitlers offer of a panzer unit to support his forces in North Africa 1941 Germany orders all Jews over 6 anywhere to wear a yellow Star of David 1942 Japanese occupy Efogi on the Kokoda Trail, 50 miles from Port Moresby 1943 Japanese CA Nachi survives torpedo from USS Halibut (SS-232), off Japan. 1944 Netherlands: German Fifteenth Army evacuates Zealand 1976 Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defects to Japan with a MiG-25 1983 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 1986 Islamist terrorists kill 22 at the Neve Shalom Synagogue, Istanbul 1988 Crippled Soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard 1991 Leningrad becomes St. Petersburg again
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