September 6th



1847: Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson where they plot the torture of American Lit students for generations to come.


1870: Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally. It helped that no one in Laramie had ever before seen a woman.


1991: The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Diphtheria.