Birthday Gift Guide

On this day

June 6, 1931

Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device

Filter by:

Headlines from June 6, 1931

$6,000,000 PARKWAY IN QUEENS APPROVED; City Votes to Buy All Land for 8-Mile Brooklyn-Nassau Link Which State Will Build. DIVISION OF COSTS IS FIXED 50% of Local Expense to Fall on City, 30% on Queens and 20% on Areas Benefited. City Cost Apportioned. Others Approve Project. $6,000,000 PARKWAY IN QUEENS APPROVED

By Unknown Author

Estimate Bd approves construction of parkway through Queens; division of costs fixed

None0 words

Continue reading...

Share

Army Jumper Saved by Second Parachute; Cuts Free From First With Knife Sent Aloft

By Special to The New York Times

Saved by second parachute in exhibition Jump

None0 words

Continue reading...

Share

SUSPENDS OFFICIAL QUERIED BY SEABURY; Building Head Accuses Aide of Fighting Own Ruling in Court for Pay. NEW 'FIXER' RING IS HUNTED Democrats Preside at Private Hearings as Court Clerks in Brooklyn Testify. Democrats Sit at Hearings. SUSPENDS OFFICIAL QUERIED BY SEABURY Many Complaints Received. Appealed Own Ruling. Letter Suspending Cash. Building Employes Curbed. To Sift Fire Department.

By Unknown Author

50 witnesses examined; H Cash, asst engineer in Manhattan Bldgs Bur, suspended

None0 words

Continue reading...

Share

WARNS OF RADICALS' RISE; German Chancellor Says Tax Burdens Bring Grave Dangers. OUTLINES CHEQUERS TALKS Curtius Will Accompany Him Today to Parley With British Government Leaders. REICH DECREES NEW TAXES. Plan to Raise $400,000,000 Adds to Wage Earners' Burdens --Germans Resent Debt Slur. Seeks World's Cooperation. Want an Impartial Inquiry.

By Charles A. Selden. Special Cable To the New York Times

arrives in London

None0 words

Continue reading...

Share

MRS. J.A. STILLMAN GETS DIVORCE, WEDS FOWLER M'CORMICK; PRINCIPALS IN SURPRISE WEDDING.

By Times Wide World Photo.MRS. JAMES A. STILLMAN

por of bride

None0 words

Continue reading...

Share

Notable Births

Richard Hickock

1931Richard Hickock, American convicted murderer (died 1965)^[†]

Richard Eugene Hickock was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. Along with Perry Edward Smith, Hickock took part in the burglary and multiple murders at the Clutter family farmhouse.