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September 6
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:''This article is about the day of the year. For the LDS intellectuals, see
September Six.''
{{PAGENAME}} is the 249th day of the year (250th in
leap years). There are 116 days remaining.
Events
*
3114 BC - On this date in the
proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the
Maya calendar Maya Long Count Calendar started.
*
394 -
Battle of the Frigidus: The
Christianity Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the
paganism pagan usurper
Eugenius and his
Franks Frankish ''
magister militum''
Arbogast (general) Arbogast.
*
1522 - The ''
Victoria (ship) Victoria'', one of the surviving ships of
Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to
Sanlúcar de Barrameda in
Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
*
1620 - The
Pilgrims sail from
Plymouth,
England, on the
Mayflower to settle in
North America.
*
1628 -
Puritans settle
Salem, Massachusetts Salem, which will later become part of
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
*
1776 - Hurricane hits
Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.
*
1781 - The
Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British minor victory
*
1847 -
Henry David Thoreau leaves
Walden Pond and moves in with
Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in
Concord, Massachusetts.
*
1861 -
American Civil War: Forces under
United States Union General
Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture
Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the
Tennessee River.
*
1863 - American Civil War:
Confederate States of America Confederates evacuate
Battery Wagner Island Battery Wagner and
Morris Island in
South Carolina.
*
1870 -
Louisa Ann Swain of
Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the
United States to cast a vote legally after
1807.
*
1885 -
Eastern Rumelia declares its union with
Bulgaria. The
Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
*
1888 -
Charles Turner (cricketer) Charles Turner becomes the first
bowler (cricket) bowler to take 250
wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by
Tom Richardson (twice),
Jack Hearne (John Thomas Hearne) J.T. Hearne,
Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and
Tich Freeman (six times).
*
1901 - Anarchist
Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President
William McKinley at the
Pan-American Exposition in
Buffalo, New York.
*
1915 - The first prototype
tank is tested for the
British Army for the first time.
*
1936 - The last surviving member of the
thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage at the Hobart Zoo in
Tasmania.
*
1937 -
Spanish Civil War: The start of the
Battle of El Mazuco.
*
1939 -
World War II:
South Africa declares war on
Germany.
*
1941 -
Holocaust: The requirement to wear the
Star of David with the word
Jew inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in
Nazi Germany German-occupied areas.
*
1948 -
Juliana of the Netherlands Juliana becomes Queen of the
Netherlands.
*
1949 -
Allies Allied military authorities relinquish control of former
Nazi Germany assets back to
Germany German control.
*
1955 -
Istanbul Pogrom:
Istanbul's
Greeks Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored
pogrom.
*
1963 - The
Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
*
1965 -
War of 1965:
India attacks
Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture
Lahore (city of
Pakistan) in an hour.
*
1966 - In
Cape Town,
South Africa, the architect of
Apartheid, Prime Minister
Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
*
1968 -
Swaziland becomes independent.
*
1970 -
Jimi Hendrix plays what turns out to be his last ever performance, at the badly controlled and rained out Love and Peace Festival, on the Isle Of Fehmarn, Germany.
*
1970 - Four passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian
terrorism terrorist members of
PFLP. Two are taken to
Dawson's Field hijackings Dawson's Field in Jordan.
*
1976 -
Cold War:
Soviet Union Soviet air force pilot Lt.
Viktor Belenko lands a
MiG-25 jet fighter at
Hakodate on the island of
Hokkaido in
Japan and requests
refugee political asylum in the
United States.
*
1983 - The
Soviet Union admits to shooting down
Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian
aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
*
1985 -
Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a
Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
*
1986 - In
Istanbul, two
Arab terrorists from
Abu Nidal's terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the
Neve Shalom synagogue during
Shabbat services.
*
1991 - The
Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the
Baltic states:
Estonia,
Latvia and
Lithuania.
* 1991 - The name
Saint Petersburg is restored to
Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in
1924.
*
1995 - With the jury absent,
Los Angeles Police Department Los Angeles police detective
Mark Fuhrman invokes his
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of
O. J. Simpson.
* 1995 -
Cal Ripken Jr. breaks
Lou Gehrig 's record of 2,130 consecutive
Major League Baseball games played at
Camden Yards in
Baltimore,
Maryland.
*
1997 - The funeral of
Diana, Princess of Wales, at
Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.
*
2000 - In
New York City, the
United Nations Millennium Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present.
*
2001 -
United States v. Microsoft: The
United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break-up
software maker
Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser
antitrust penalty.
*
2005 - The
California Legislature becomes the first legislative body in the United States to legalize
same-sex marriage without a pre-emptive judicial order to do so.
Births
*
1535 -
Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d.
1612)
*
1656 -
Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d.
1723)
*
1666 - Tsar
Ivan V of Russia (d.
1696)
*
1711 -
Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d.
1787)
*
1732 -
Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d.
1796)
*
1757 -
Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d.
1834)
*
1766 -
John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d.
1844)
*
1781 -
Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d.
1858)
*
1795 -
Frances Wright, English writer, activist, and lecturer (d.
1852)
*
1800 -
Catharine Beecher, American educator (d.
1878)
*
1802 -
Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d.
1857)
*
1814 -
George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d.
1873)
*
1829 -
Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d.
1902)
*
1857 -
Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d.
1933)
*
1859 -
Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev, Russian mathematician (d.
1962)
*
1860 -
Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1935)
*
1868 -
Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (d.
1947)
*
1869 -
Felix Salten, Austrian author (d.
1945)
*
1876 -
John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1935)
*
1877 -
Buddy Bolden, American musician (d.
1930)
*
1879 -
Max Schreck, German actor (d.
1936)
*
1888 -
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (d.
1969)
*
1890 -
Claire Chennault, American pilot (d.
1958)
* 1890 -
Clara Kimball Young, American actress (d.
1960)
*
1892 - Sir
Edward Appleton, English physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1965)
*
1899 -
Billy Rose, American composer (d.
1966)
*
1900 -
W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d.
1979)
*
1904 -
Max Rosenbloom Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (d.
1976)
*
1906 -
Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1987)
*
1911 -
Harry Danning, baseball player (d.
2004)
*
1915 -
Franz Josef Strauß, German Politician (d.
1988)
*
1928 -
Robert M. Pirsig, American author
*
1929 -
Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d.
2005)
*
1937 -
Sergio Aragones Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born illustrator
* 1937 -
Brigid Berlin, American actor and artist
* 1937 -
Jo Anne Worley, American actress
*
1939 -
Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1939 -
Dan Cragg, an American soldier, essayist, and science-fiction author.
* 1939 -
David Allan Coe, American country singer, one of the key figures in the
Outlaw country movement
*
1943 -
Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
1943 -
Roger Waters, bassist, songwriter, and previous leader of
Pink Floyd
*
1944 -
Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
* 1944 -
Roger Waters, English musician (
Pink Floyd)
*
1947 -
Jane Curtin, American actress
*
1954 -
Ève Luquet, French stamp designer
*
1957 -
Michaëlle Jean. 27th
Governor-General of Canada
*
1958 -
Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and author
*
1960 -
Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
*
1961 -
Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian guitarist (
a-ha)
*
1964 -
Rosie Perez, American actress
*
1970 -
Paul Miller, American composer, artist, and author
*
1971 -
Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (
The Cranberries)
*
1972 -
China Miéville, English writer
*
1973 -
Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
* 1973 -
Greg Rusedski, Canadian-born tennis player
*
1974 -
Tim Henman, English tennis player
* 1974 -
Nina Persson, Swedish musician (
The Cardigans)
* 1974 -
Justin Whalin, American actor
*
1975 -
Derrek Lee, Baseball player
*
1979 -
Foxy Brown, American rapper
* 1979 -
Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
*
1980 -
Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
*
1986 -
Raven Riley, American adult film star
*
2000 -
Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first
Kleihauer-Betke test Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (d.
2000)
Deaths
*
972 -
Pope John XIII
*
1511 -
Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b.
1481)
*
1625 -
Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b.
1579)
*
1635 -
Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b.
1571)
*
1649 -
Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b.
1574)
*
1683 -
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b.
1619)
*
1708 - Sir
John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b.
1623)
*
1748 -
Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b.
1669)
*
1783 -
Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b.
1710)
*
1808 -
Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b.
1723)
*
1902 -
Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b.
1827)
*
1907 -
Sully Prudhomme, French writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1839)
*
1952 -
Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b.
1898)
*
1962 -
Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b.
1898)
*
1966 -
Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b.
1879)
* 1966 -
Hendrik Verwoerd,
Prime Minister of South Africa (b.
1901)
*
1969 -
Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b.
1892)
*
1974 -
Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b.
1896)
*
1984 -
Ernest Tubb, American singer (b.
1914)
*
1986 -
Blanche Sweet, American actress (b.
1895)
*
1990 -
Len Hutton, English cricketer (b.
1916)
*
1994 -
Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b.
1944)
*
1998 -
Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b.
1910)
*
2000 -
Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first
Kleihauer-Betke test Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b.
2000)
*
2003 -
Harry Goz, American actor (b.
1932)
Holidays and observances
*
Calendar of Saints RC Saints - a Saint Bega or Bee of Cumbria and a Sankt Mang of Füssen
* Also see
September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*
Public holidays in Bulgaria Bulgaria -
Unification Day
*
Canada -
Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart Stillbirth Remembrance Day in
New Brunswick,
Quebec, and
Ontario
*
Holidays in Pakistan Pakistan -
Military of Pakistan Defence Day
*
Swaziland -
Independence Day (from the
United Kingdom,
1968)
*
United States -
Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart National Stillbirth Remembrance Day in 39
states
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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September 5 -
September 7 -
August 6 -
October 6 –
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