September 6

This article is about the day of the year. For the LDS intellectuals, see September Six.

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 Long Count Calendar started.
394 - Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
1522 - The 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, 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 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: Confederates evacuate 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 becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), 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 her 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 German-occupied areas.
1944 - World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
1948 - Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
1949 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1952 - Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
1955 - Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's 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 terrorist members of PFLP. Two are taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1976 - Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests 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 detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his 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)
1808 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)
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 Federal Councilor (d. 1947)
1869 - Felix Salten, Austrian author (d. 1945)
1876 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1877 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)
1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1879 - Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
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 laureate (d. 1965)
1899 - Billy Rose, American composer (d. 1966)
1900 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
1904 - Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (d. 1976)
1906 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
1911 - Harry Danning, baseball player (d. 2004)
1915 - Franz Josef Strauß, German Politician (d. 1988)
1923 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1926 - Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (d. 2001)
1928 - Robert M. Pirsig, American author
1928 - Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
1929 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
1937 - 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
1947 - Jane Curtin, American actress
1947 - Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer, now coach
1954 - Ève Luquet, French stamp designer
1957 - Michaëlle Jean. 27th Governor-General of Canada
1958 - Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and author
1958 - Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
1961 - Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian guitarist (a-ha)
1964 - Rosie Perez, American actress
1969 - Ben Finegold, American Chess International Master
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
1974 - Sarah Danielle Madison, American actress
1975 - Derrek Lee, baseball player
1978 - Alex Escobar, Baseball player
1979 - Foxy Brown, American rapper
1979 - Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1980 - Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1980 - Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
1980 - Jillian, Professional wrestler
1986 - Raven Riley, American adult film star
1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first 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 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)
1988 - Leroy Brown, Professional wrestler
1990 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1990 - Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
1994 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)
2003 - Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

RC Saints - a Saint Bega or Bee of Cumbria and a Sankt Mang of Füssen
Also see September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Bulgaria - Unification Day
Canada - Stillbirth Remembrance Day in New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario
Pakistan - Defence Day
Swaziland - Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1968)
United States - National Stillbirth Remembrance Day in 39 states

External links

BBC: On This Day

September 5 - September 7 - August 6 - October 6 – Historical anniversaries

Gourt Home::Gourt :: September 6

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

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