6_6 Events in History.

457 Historic Events for June 6

1862 Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered Event
1862 Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33 Death
1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA and Williamsport, MD Event
1864 Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou) Event
1868 Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition Birth
1869 Andersen Nex”, writer Birth
1869 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor Birth
1872 Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918) Birth
1872 Susan B Anthony is fined for trying to vote Event
1875 Walter Percy Chrysler, found Chrysler Corp (1925) Birth

1875 Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929) Birth
1875 Netherlands goes on the gold standard Event
1877 Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca and chief Standing Bear, dies Death
1878 Vincent [de Moro-]Giafferi, French prosecutor (Dieudonn‚, Landru) Birth
1878 Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70 Death
1879 L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect Birth
1880 William T Cosgrave, president Irish Free state Birth
1881 Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61 Death
1882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000 Event
1882 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC Event
1883 Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29 Death
1885 Opera "Lakm‚" is produced (Paris) Event
1885 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43 Event
1886 Paul Dudley White, heart specialist Birth
1887 Ruth Benedict, anthropoligist Birth