
September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). There are 116 days remaining. ==Events== *3761 BC - The first day of the Hebrew Calendar. *394 - Battle of Frigidus: The Christianity Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the paganism usurper Eugenius and his Franksish general Arbogast. *1522 - The ''Victoria'', 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. *1620 - The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. *1628 - Puritans settle Salem, Massachusetts which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. *1781 - The Battle of Groton Heights takes place with the result of 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 General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River. *1863 - American Civil War: Confederate States of America evacuate Battery Wagner Island and Morris Island in South Carolina. *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. *1885 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. *1888 - Charles Turner becomes the first bowler (cricket) to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), Jack Hearne (John Thomas Hearne), Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times). *1901 - American 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-occupied areas. *1948 - Juliana of the Netherlands becomes Queen of the Netherlands. *1949 - Allies military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to Germany control. *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, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting. *1968 - Swaziland becomes independent. *1970 - Four passenger jets are simultaneously hijacked. Two are taken to Dawson's Field hijackings *1972 - Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in West Germany. *1976 - Cold War: Soviet Union air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests refugee from 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 detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution 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. *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. ==Births== *1620 - Isabella Leonarda, composer *1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier (d. 1834) *1766 - John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844) *1781 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858) *1795 - Frances Wright, writer, activist, and lecturer (d. 1852) *1800 - Catharine Beecher, educator (d. 1878) *1829 - Marie Zakrzewska, physician *1839 - Louise-Lëonie Rouzade, writer *1857 - Zelia Nuttall, archeologist and historian *1859 - Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev, Russian mathematician (d. 1962) *1860 - Jane Addams, social worker (d. 1935) *1868 - Margaret Dreier Robins, labor leader and reformer *1869 - Felix Salten, author (d. 1945) *1877 - Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (d. 1930) *1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (d. 1969) *1890 - Claire Chennault, soldier (d. 1958) *1892 - Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics *1899 - Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966) *1900 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979) *1901 - Ernst Weber, physicist *1904 - Max Rosenbloom, boxing (d. 1976) *1911 - Harry Danning, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004) *1928 - Robert M. Pirsig, author *1929 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer *1937 - Jo Anne Worley, actress * 1937 - Sergio Aragones, illustrator * 1937 - Brigid Berlin, actor and artist *1944 - Roger Waters, musician (Pink Floyd) * 1944 - Swoosie Kurtz, actress *1947 - Jane Curtin, actress *1958 - Jeff Foxworthy, comedian, actor, and author *1964 - Rosie Perez, actress *1969 - Ce Ce Peniston, American singer *1970 - Paul Miller, (DJ Spooky) American composer, artist, author *1971 - Dolores O'Riordan, musician (The Cranberries) *1972 - China Miéville, writer *1973 - Greg Rusedski, tennis player *1974 - Justin Whalin, actor *1974 - Tim Henman, tennis player *1979 - Foxy Brown, rapper *1962 - Gigi Williams, loved mother ==Deaths== *972 - Pope John XIII *1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1481) *1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, France Political minister of financial economics *1708 - Sir John Morden, philanthropist (b. 1623) *1782 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748) *1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, United Kingdom chemistry *1951 - Joan Vollmer, wife of William S. Burroughs *1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, actress *1962 - Hanns Eisler, composer *1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, South African prime minister *1966 - Margaret Sanger, birth control activist *1984 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer *1990 - Len Hutton, England Cricket (b. 1916) *1994 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. February 24, 1944) *1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director ==Holidays and observances== * Pakistan - Defence Day * Swaziland - Independence Day * Bulgaria - Unification Day == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/6 BBC: On This Day] ---- September 5 - September 7 - August 6 - October 6 - Historical anniversaries
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September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). There are 116 days remaining. ==Events== *3761 BC - The first day of the Hebrew Calendar. *394 - Battle of Frigidus: The Christianity Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the paganism usurper Eugenius and his Franksish general Arbogast. *1522 - The ''Victoria'', 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. *1620 - The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. *1628 - Puritans settle Salem, Massachusetts which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. *1781 - The Battle of Groton Heights takes place with the result of 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 General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River. *1863 - American Civil War: Confederate States of America evacuate Battery Wagner Island and Morris Island in South Carolina. *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. *1885 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. *1888 - Charles Turner becomes the first bowler (cricket) to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), Jack Hearne (John Thomas Hearne), Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times). *1901 - American 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-occupied areas. *1948 - Juliana of the Netherlands becomes Queen of the Netherlands. *1949 - Allies military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to Germany control. *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, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting. *1968 - Swaziland becomes independent. *1970 - Four passenger jets are simultaneously hijacked. Two are taken to Dawson's Field hijackings *1972 - Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in West Germany. *1976 - Cold War: Soviet Union air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests refugee from 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 detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution 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. *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. ==Births== *1620 - Isabella Leonarda, composer *1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier (d. 1834) *1766 - John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844) *1781 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858) *1795 - Frances Wright, writer, activist, and lecturer (d. 1852) *1800 - Catharine Beecher, educator (d. 1878) *1829 - Marie Zakrzewska, physician *1839 - Louise-Lëonie Rouzade, writer *1857 - Zelia Nuttall, archeologist and historian *1859 - Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev, Russian mathematician (d. 1962) *1860 - Jane Addams, social worker (d. 1935) *1868 - Margaret Dreier Robins, labor leader and reformer *1869 - Felix Salten, author (d. 1945) *1877 - Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (d. 1930) *1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (d. 1969) *1890 - Claire Chennault, soldier (d. 1958) *1892 - Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics *1899 - Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966) *1900 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979) *1901 - Ernst Weber, physicist *1904 - Max Rosenbloom, boxing (d. 1976) *1911 - Harry Danning, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004) *1928 - Robert M. Pirsig, author *1929 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer *1937 - Jo Anne Worley, actress * 1937 - Sergio Aragones, illustrator * 1937 - Brigid Berlin, actor and artist *1944 - Roger Waters, musician (Pink Floyd) * 1944 - Swoosie Kurtz, actress *1947 - Jane Curtin, actress *1958 - Jeff Foxworthy, comedian, actor, and author *1964 - Rosie Perez, actress *1969 - Ce Ce Peniston, American singer *1970 - Paul Miller, (DJ Spooky) American composer, artist, author *1971 - Dolores O'Riordan, musician (The Cranberries) *1972 - China Miéville, writer *1973 - Greg Rusedski, tennis player *1974 - Justin Whalin, actor *1974 - Tim Henman, tennis player *1979 - Foxy Brown, rapper *1962 - Gigi Williams, loved mother ==Deaths== *972 - Pope John XIII *1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1481) *1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, France Political minister of financial economics *1708 - Sir John Morden, philanthropist (b. 1623) *1782 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748) *1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, United Kingdom chemistry *1951 - Joan Vollmer, wife of William S. Burroughs *1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, actress *1962 - Hanns Eisler, composer *1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, South African prime minister *1966 - Margaret Sanger, birth control activist *1984 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer *1990 - Len Hutton, England Cricket (b. 1916) *1994 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. February 24, 1944) *1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director ==Holidays and observances== * Pakistan - Defence Day * Swaziland - Independence Day * Bulgaria - Unification Day == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/6 BBC: On This Day] ---- September 5 - September 7 - August 6 - October 6 - Historical anniversaries
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