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September 6
(Redirected from 6 September)
September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). There are 116 days remaining.
Events
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3761 BC - The first day of the Hebrew Calendar.
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394 - Battle of Frigidus : The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast.
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1522 - The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
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1620 - The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
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1628 - Puritans settle Salem which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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1781 - The Battle of Groton Heights takes place with the result of a British minor victory
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1847 - Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
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1861 - American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River.
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1863 - American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
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1870 - Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, votes in the morning, becoming the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
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1885 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria.
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1901 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
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1915 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
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1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
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1937 - Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
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1939 - World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
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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.
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1948 - Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
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1949 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
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1965 - War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore (city of Pakistan) in an hour.
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1966 - In Cape Town, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
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1968 - Swaziland becomes independent.
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1970 - Four passenger jets are simultaneously hijacked. Two are taken to Dawson's Field.
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1972 - Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in West Germany.
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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 from the United States.
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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.
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1985 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 , a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
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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.
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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.
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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 playing 2131 consecutive baseball games.
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1997 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.
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2000 - In New York City, the United Nations Millennium Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present.
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2001 - Microsoft antitrust case: 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.
Births
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1620 - Isabella Leonarda , composer
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1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, Revolutionary War soldier (d. 1834)
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1766 - John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
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1781 - Anton Diabelli, music publisher, editor and composer
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1795 - Frances Wright, writer, activist, lecturer (d. 1852)
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1800 - Catharine Beecher, educator (d. 1878)
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1829 - Marie Zakrzewska, physician
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1839 - Louise-Lëonie Rouzade , writer, socialist
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1857 - Zelia Nuttall , archeologist, historian
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1859 - Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev, Russian mathematician (d. 1962)
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1860 - Jane Addams, social worker (d. 1935)
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1868 - Margaret Dreier Robins , labor leader and reformer
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1869 - Felix Salten, author (d. 1945)
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1877 - Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (d. 1930)
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1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., head of the Kennedy family (d. 1969)
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1890 - Claire Chennault, soldier (d. 1958)
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1892 - Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics
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1899 - Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)
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1900 - W.A.C. Bennett, British Columbia politician (d. 1979)
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1901 - Ernst Weber , physicist
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1904 - Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, boxer (d. 1976)
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1911 - Harry Danning, MLB All-Star catcher (d. 2004)
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1928 - Robert M. Pirsig, author, creator of the Metaphysics of Quality
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1929 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer
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1937 - Jo Anne Worley, actress
- 1937 - Sergio Aragonés, illustrator
- 1937 - Brigid Berlin, actor and artist
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1944 - Roger Waters, musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1944 - Swoosie Kurtz, actress
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1947 - Jane Curtin, actress
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1958 - Jeff Foxworthy, comedian, actor, author
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1964 - Rosie Perez, actress
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1969 - Ce Ce Peniston , US singer
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1969 - Lynda LeCompte , (nee: Whitehead), a.k.a. Purplelinny, of UK/US Internet Fame
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1971 - Dolores O'Riordan, musician (The Cranberries)
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1972 - China Miéville, writer
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1973 - Greg Rusedski, tennis player
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1974 - Justin Whalin , actor
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1974 - Tim Henman, tennis player
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1979 - Foxy Brown, rapper
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1987 - Rob Templin , child genius
Deaths
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972 - Pope John XIII
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1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1481)
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1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance
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1701 - James II of England
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1708 - Sir John Morden, philanthropist (b. 1623)
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1782 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
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1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist
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1951 - Joan Vollmer, wife of William S. Burroughs
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1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, actress
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1962 - Hanns Eisler, composer
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1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, South African prime minister
- 1966 - Margaret Sanger, birth control activist
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1984 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer
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1990 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
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1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
Holidays and observances
External links
September 5 - September 7 - August 6 - October 6 - Historical anniversaries
Last updated: 08-16-2005 01:20:12
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