September 6
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 Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast .
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.
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 .
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 Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky , which gives the Union control 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 , 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 .
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 German -occupied areas.
1948 - Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands .
1949 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German 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.
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 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 .
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 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 - 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
1620 - Isabella Leonarda , composer
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette , Revolutionary War soldier (d. 1834 )
1766 - John Dalton , British chemist and physicist (d. 1844 )
1781 - Anton Diabelli , music publisher, editor and composer
1795 - Frances Wright , writer, activist, lecturer (d. 1852 )
1800 - Catharine Beecher , educator (d. 1878 )
1829 - Marie Zakrzewska , physician
1839 - Louise-Lëonie Rouzade , writer, socialist
1857 - Zelia Nuttall , archeologist, 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. , head of the Kennedy family (d. 1969 )
1890 - Claire Chennault , soldier (d. 1958 )
1892 - Sir Edward Appleton , English physicist, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics
1899 - Billy Rose , composer (d. 1966 )
1900 - W.A.C. Bennett , British Columbia politician (d. 1979 )
1901 - Ernst Weber , physicist
1904 - Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom , boxer (d. 1976 )
1911 - Harry Danning , MLB All-Star catcher (d. 2004 )
1928 - Robert M. Pirsig , author, creator of the Metaphysics of Quality
1929 - Yash Johar , Indian film producer
1937 - Jo Anne Worley , actress
1937 - Sergio Aragonés , 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, author
1964 - Rosie Perez , actress
1969 - Ce Ce Peniston , US singer
1969 - Lynda LeCompte , (nee: Whitehead), a.k.a. Purplelinny, of UK/US Internet Fame
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
1987 - Rob Templin , child genius
Deaths
972 - Pope John XIII
1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi , Ashikaga shogun (b. 1481 )
1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert , French minister of finance
1701 - James II of England
1708 - Sir John Morden , philanthropist (b. 1623 )
1782 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson , wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748 )
1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel , British chemist
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 , English cricketer (b. 1916 )
1998 - Akira Kurosawa , Japanese film director
Holidays and observances
External links
September 5 - September 7 - August 6 - October 6 - Historical anniversaries
