1. On September 6, 1923, the Missouri State Fair set a new attendance record with over 217,000 people visiting the fairgrounds in Sedalia.

2. In 1966, the first episode of the children's show Captain Kangaroo was aired on CBS. The show's creator and star, Bob Keeshan, was born in Lynbrook, New York, but spent some of his childhood in Missouri.

3. On September 6, 1957, a tornado struck the town of West Plains, Missouri, killing 4 people and injuring dozens of others.

4. In 1919, the pioneer aviator and Missourian, Walter Hinton, successfully completed a flight from Dayton, Ohio to McCook Field in St. Louis, MO. This was the first nonstop airplane flight from the U.S. Army Air Service's Wright Field in Ohio to their aviation testing grounds in St. Louis.

5. On September 6, 1890, the Missouri Pacific Railroad completed the construction of a major bridge over the Missouri River in Kansas City. At the time, it was the longest railroad bridge in the world, measuring over 5,800 feet in length.