Once Upon A Time – Sept. 6 – 1916 – 1st True Supermarket, The “Piggly Wiggly” Is Opened By Clarence Saunders In Memphis, Tennessee

1522 Ferdinand Magellan’s Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returns to Spain without their captain. First to circumnavigate the earth.

1666 After St Paul’s Cathedral and much of the city had been burned down over four days, The Great Fire of London is finally extinguished.

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

1909 New York Times headline announces American explorer Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole 5 months earlier

1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins, French and British forces prevent German advance on Paris (till the 12th Sept)

1916 1st true supermarket, the “Piggly Wiggly” is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

TODAY IN FILM & TV

1954 “La Strada” directed by Federico Fellini premieres at the Venice Film Festival starring Anthony Quinn

TODAY IN MUSIC

1791 Mozart’s opera “La Clemenza di Tito” premieres in Prague

TODAY IN SPORT

1880 W. G. Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, v Aust The Oval

MORE FACTS…

1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop – Adolphe Pégoud in France

1651 King Charles II of England spends a day hiding in an oak tree during his escape after losing the Battle of Worcester

FAMOUS WEDDINGS

1791 Emma, Lady Hamilton (26) marries Sir William Hamilton (60) at St Marylebone Parish Church in London

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

1889 Explorer Fridtjof Nansen (27) weds mezzo-soprano singer Eva Nansen (30)