To me 
53 today, wow. Never thought I'd see 50, much less 53 
Oz
Happy birthday!
Historical Events on 6th September
3114 BC - According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.
1492 - Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
1522 - Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
1543 - French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
1620 - 1st stones layed in Western Tower
1622 - Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
1628 - Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1715 - Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
1716 - 1st US lighthouse built (Boston)
1776 - 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY)
1819 - Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
1837 - Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
1839 - Cherokee Nation forms
1839 - Great fire in NY
1861 - General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky
1862 - Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
1866 - Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention
1869 - 1st westbound train arrives in SF
1869 - Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
1870 - Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die
1876 - Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
1886 - Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award
1898 - Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman
1901 - Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
1913 - 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pégoud-France)
1914 - Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1917 - French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
1922 - Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey
1924 - Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails
1927 - Red Sox beat NY Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 - 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
1939 - South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany
1939 - World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
1940 - Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
1941 - All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1943 - Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's
1944 - Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
1945 - A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended
1946 - All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1948 - 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
1949 - Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1952 - Canadian TV begins in Montreal
1953 - Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38
1954 - US plane shot down above Siberia
1955 - J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname
1957 - Elvis records "White Xmas," "Silent Night" & "Here Comes Santa Claus"
1958 - US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1959 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1960 - Happy Birthday Ozrocker!!!!!!!!!!1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
1965 - India invades West Pakistan
1966 - Race riot in Atlanta Georgia
1968 - Swaziland becomes independent.
1969 - "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances
1970 - Palestinians seize 3 jetliners
1971 - Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
1972 - John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
1975 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open
1976 - Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears
1977 - Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
1978 - Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1979 - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances
1980 - Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
1981 - "They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 perfs
1982 - Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1983 - USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1984 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1986 - Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
1987 - Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
1988 - Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1989 - Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
1991 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1992 - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
1993 - Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1994 - Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"
1995 - Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games
1997 - Princess Diana's funeral
1998 - Men's championship at US Tennis Open
2012 - Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for President
