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September 6 in recent years

September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 116 days remain until the end of the year.

September 6th is a day filled with many interesting historical events, from ancient battles to modern discoveries and important moments in sports and politics. It's a day when explorers set sail, countries gained independence, and new technologies were tested. Many famous people, like scientists, artists, and leaders, were also born or passed away on this date. Let's explore some of the key events that have shaped history on September 6th.

Historical Events on September 6th

Early History (Before 1600)

From 1600 to 1900

Modern History (1901–Present)

  • 1901 – An unemployed man named Leon Czolgosz shot and seriously injured US President William McKinley at an event in Buffalo, New York. President McKinley later passed away from his injuries.
  • 1914 – World War I: The First Battle of the Marne began. This battle stopped the German army's advance into France.
  • 1915 – World War I: The very first tank prototype was finished and tested for the British army.
  • 1930 – Argentina's democratically elected president, Hipólito Yrigoyen, was removed from power by a military group.
  • 1939 – World War II: The British Royal Air Force lost its first fighter pilot in the war due to friendly fire during the Battle of Barking Creek.
  • 1939 – World War II: The Union of South Africa declared war on Germany.
  • 1940 – King Carol II of Romania stepped down, and his son Michael became king. General Ion Antonescu became the leader of Romania.
  • 1943 – The Monterrey Institute of Technology was founded in Mexico. It became one of the largest and most important private universities in Latin America.
  • 1943 – A train accident happened at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
  • 1944 – World War II: Allied forces freed the city of Ypres, Belgium.
  • 1944 – World War II: Soviet forces took control of the city of Tartu, Estonia.
  • 1946 – The United States announced that it would help rebuild Germany after the war.
  • 1952 – A new airplane prototype crashed at an airshow in England, sadly killing 29 people watching and the two people on board.
  • 1955 – In Istanbul, Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minority groups were targeted in a government-supported event, leading to riots and deaths.
  • 1962 – The United States government started a nuclear readiness exercise called Exercise Spade Fork.
  • 1962 – An archaeologist found the first of the Blackfriars Ships in London, which dated back to the second century AD.
  • 1965 – India responded to Pakistan's actions, leading to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, which ended in a draw and the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
  • 1966 – Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, who created the system of apartheid, was killed during a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.
  • 1968 – Swaziland became an independent country.
  • 1970 – Two passenger planes flying from Europe to New York were hijacked by members of a group called the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
  • 1971 – Paninternational Flight 112 crashed near Hamburg Airport in Germany, killing 22 people.
  • 1972 – Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes and a German policeman died after being taken hostage by a group called "Black September" at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes had been killed the day before.
  • 1976 – Cold War: A Soviet pilot named Viktor Belenko landed his jet fighter in Japan and asked for political protection in the United States, which was granted.
  • 1983 – The Soviet Union admitted that it had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, saying its people didn't know it was a civilian plane when it entered Soviet airspace.
  • 1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashed near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board.
  • 1986 – In Istanbul, two people from a group called Abu Nidal killed 22 people and injured six others inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during a religious service.
  • 1991 – The Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
  • 1991 – The Russian parliament approved changing the name of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg.
  • 1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in his 2,131st game in a row, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
  • 1997 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales took place in London. Over a million people watched in person, and billions watched on television around the world.
  • 1997 – Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 238 crashed in Malaysia, killing 10 people.
  • 2003 – Mahmoud Abbas resigned from his role as Palestinian Prime Minister.
  • 2007 – Israel carried out an air strike called Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
  • 2009 – The ferry SuperFerry 9 sank off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines. Most of the 971 people on board were rescued.
  • 2012 – Sixty-one people died after a fishing boat overturned off the coast of Turkey.
  • 2013 – Forty-one elephants were poisoned by poachers in Hwange National Park.
  • 2018 – The Supreme Court of India made homosexuality legal in India.
  • 2022 – Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and was replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II were the Queen's last official duties before she passed away two days later.
  • 2022 – Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukraine began its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and taking back a large amount of land within a week.

Famous Births on September 6th

Early Figures (Before 1600)

  • 1475 – Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, a French nobleman and politician.
  • 1475 – Sebastiano Serlio, an Italian architect known for his Mannerist style.

Notable People (1601–1900)

People Born After 1900

  • 1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, a French-Argentinian physician and biochemist who won a Nobel Prize.
  • 1908 – Anthony Wagner, an English genealogist.
  • 1908 – Korczak Ziolkowski, an American sculptor who designed the Crazy Horse Memorial.
  • 1909 – Michael Gordon, an American actor and director.
  • 1910 – Walter Giesler, an American soccer player and coach.
  • 1911 – Harry Danning, an American baseball player.
  • 1911 – Charles Deutsch, a French engineer and car maker.
  • 1912 – Wayne Barlow, an American organist and composer.
  • 1913 – Julie Gibson, an American actress and singer.
  • 1913 – Leônidas, a Brazilian footballer.
  • 1915 – Ed Oliver, an American golfer.
  • 1915 – Franz Josef Strauss, a German politician.
  • 1917 – John Berry, an American-French actor and director.
  • 1917 – George Mann, an English cricketer.
  • 1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, a German soldier.
  • 1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, an American engineer and giver of money to good causes.
  • 1920 – Elvira Pagã, a Brazilian actress, singer, and author.
  • 1921 – Carmen Laforet, a Spanish author.
  • 1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, an American inventor who helped create the bar code.
  • 1922 – Adriano Moreira, a Portuguese politician.
  • 1923 – Peter II of Yugoslavia, the last king of Yugoslavia.
  • 1924 – John Melcher, an American veterinarian and politician.
  • 1925 – Andrea Camilleri, an Italian author and director.
  • 1925 – Jimmy Reed, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
  • 1926 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands.
  • 1926 – Jack English Hightower, an American lawyer and politician.
  • 1926 – Arthur Oldham, an English composer and conductor.
  • 1926 – Maurice Prather, an American photographer and director.
  • 1928 – Fumihiko Maki, a Japanese architect.
  • 1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, an American novelist and philosopher.
  • 1928 – Yevgeny Svetlanov, a Russian conductor and composer.
  • 1928 – Sid Watkins, an English neurosurgeon.
  • 1929 – Yash Johar, an Indian film producer.
  • 1929 – Ljubov Rebane, an Estonian physicist.
  • 1930 – Charles Foley, an American game designer who co-created Twister.
  • 1930 – Helmut Piirimäe, an Estonian historian.
  • 1931 – Bud Shrake, an American journalist and author.
  • 1932 – Colin McColl, an English intelligence officer.
  • 1932 – Gilles Tremblay, a Canadian composer.
  • 1935 – Isabelle Collin Dufresne, a French actress and author.
  • 1935 – Jock Wallace Jr., a Scottish footballer and coach.
  • 1937 – Sergio Aragonés, a Spanish-Mexican author and illustrator.
  • 1937 – Janusz Kurczab, a Polish fencer and mountaineer.
  • 1937 – Jo Anne Worley, an American actress and comedian.
  • 1938 – Joan Tower, an American pianist and composer.
  • 1939 – Brigid Berlin, an American actress and painter.
  • 1939 – David Allan Coe, an American country music singer-songwriter.
  • 1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, a Japanese biologist who won a Nobel Prize.
  • 1940 – John M. Hayes, an American scientist.
  • 1940 – Elizabeth Murray, an American painter.
  • 1940 – Jackie Trent, an English-Spanish singer-songwriter.
  • 1941 – Roger Law, an English illustrator.
  • 1941 – Monica Mason, a South African ballerina.
  • 1942 – Dave Bargeron, an American trombonist.
  • 1942 – Richard Hutton, an English cricketer.
  • 1942 – Mel McDaniel, an American singer-songwriter.
  • 1943 – Gordon Birtwistle, an English engineer and politician.
  • 1943 – Richard J. Roberts, an English biochemist who won a Nobel Prize.
  • 1943 – Roger Waters, an English singer-songwriter and bass player, famous from Pink Floyd.
  • 1944 – Donna Haraway, an American author and activist.
  • 1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, an American actress.
  • 1946 – Ron Boone, an American basketball player.
  • 1946 – Roger Knight, an English cricketer and educator.
  • 1946 – Shirley M. Malcom, an American scientist and educator.
  • 1947 – Jane Curtin, an American actress and comedian.
  • 1947 – Bruce Rioch, an English footballer and manager.
  • 1947 – Jacob Rubinovitz, a Polish-Israeli engineer.
  • 1947 – Sylvester, an American singer-songwriter.
  • 1948 – Claydes Charles Smith, an American guitarist.
  • 1949 – Iris Robinson, a Northern Irish politician.
  • 1951 – Melih Kibar, a Turkish composer.
  • 1952 – Simon Burns, an English politician.
  • 1952 – Vladimir Kazachyonok, a Russian footballer and coach.
  • 1952 – Buddy Miller, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
  • 1954 – Carly Fiorina, an American businesswoman.
  • 1954 – Demetris Kizas, a Cypriot footballer.
  • 1954 – Patrick O'Hearn, an American bassist and composer.
  • 1954 – John Sauven, an English environmentalist.
  • 1955 – Raymond Benson, an American author.
  • 1956 – Bill Ritter, an American lawyer and politician.
  • 1956 – Steven Yearley, an English sociologist.
  • 1957 – Ali Divandari, an Iranian painter and journalist.
  • 1957 – Michaëlle Jean, a Haitian-Canadian journalist and politician.
  • 1957 – José Sócrates, a Portuguese engineer and politician.
  • 1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, an English singer-songwriter.
  • 1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, an American comedian and actor.
  • 1958 – Nigel Westlake, an Australian composer and conductor.
  • 1958 – Michael Winslow, an American actor.
  • 1958 – The Barbarian, a Tongan wrestler.
  • 1959 – Bill Root, a Canadian ice hockey player.
  • 1961 – Simon Reeve, an Australian journalist.
  • 1961 – Wendi Richter, an American wrestler.
  • 1961 – Scott Travis, an American rock drummer.
  • 1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, a Norwegian musician and songwriter.
  • 1962 – Chris Christie, an American lawyer and politician.
  • 1962 – Marina Kaljurand, an Estonian diplomat.
  • 1962 – Elizabeth Vargas, an American journalist.
  • 1962 – Kevin Willis, an American basketball player.
  • 1963 – Mark Chesnutt, an American singer-songwriter.
  • 1963 – Pat Nevin, a Scottish footballer.
  • 1963 – Betsy Russell, an American actress.
  • 1963 – Alice Sebold, an American author.
  • 1963 – Bryan Simonaire, an American engineer and politician.
  • 1963 – Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician.
  • 1964 – Rosie Perez, an American actress and dancer.
  • 1965 – Terry Bickers, an English singer-songwriter.
  • 1965 – Darren Clark, an Australian sprinter.
  • 1965 – Tony Fleet, an Australian darts player.
  • 1965 – Christopher Nolan, an Irish author and poet.
  • 1965 – Van Tiffin, an American football player.
  • 1967 – William DuVall, an American singer-songwriter.
  • 1967 – Macy Gray, an American singer-songwriter and actress.
  • 1967 – Kalli Kalde, an Estonian painter.
  • 1967 – Milan Lukić, a Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes.
  • 1967 – Igor Štimac, a Croatian footballer.
  • 1968 – Saeed Anwar, a Pakistani cricketer.
  • 1968 – Christopher Brookmyre, a Scottish author.
  • 1968 – Paul Rea, an American journalist.
  • 1969 – Tony DiTerlizzi, an American author and illustrator.
  • 1969 – Ben Finegold, an American chess player.
  • 1969 – Michellie Jones, an Australian-American triathlete.
  • 1969 – CeCe Peniston, an American singer-songwriter.
  • 1970 – Cheyne Coates, an Australian singer-songwriter.
  • 1970 – Igor Korolev, a Russian-Canadian ice hockey player.
  • 1970 – Emily Maitlis, a Canadian-English journalist.
  • 1970 – Rhett Miller, an American singer-songwriter.
  • 1971 – Devang Gandhi, an Indian cricketer.
  • 1971 – Asko Künnap, an Estonian poet and illustrator.
  • 1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, an Irish singer-songwriter.
  • 1972 – Dylan Bruno, an American actor.
  • 1972 – Idris Elba, an English actor.
  • 1972 – Justina Machado, an American actress.
  • 1972 – Saulius Mikalajūnas, a Lithuanian footballer.
  • 1972 – Anika Noni Rose, an American actress and singer.
  • 1973 – Carlo Cudicini, an Italian footballer.
  • 1973 – Greg Rusedski, a Canadian-English tennis player.
  • 1973 – Alessandro Troncon, an Italian rugby player.
  • 1974 – Tim Henman, an English tennis player.
  • 1974 – Nina Persson, a Swedish singer-songwriter.
  • 1974 – Justin Whalin, an American actor.
  • 1975 – Derrek Lee, an American baseball player.
  • 1975 – Ryoko Tani, a Japanese judoka and politician.
  • 1976 – Rodrigo Amarante, a Brazilian singer-songwriter.
  • 1976 – Naomie Harris, an English actress.
  • 1976 – Jon Ander López, a Spanish footballer.
  • 1976 – Tom Pappas, an American decathlete.
  • 1978 – Cisco Adler, an American singer-songwriter.
  • 1978 – Foxy Brown, an American rapper.
  • 1978 – Alex Escobar, a Venezuelan baseball player.
  • 1978 – Mathew Horne, an English actor.
  • 1978 – Homare Sawa, a Japanese footballer.
  • 1979 – Mike Arnaoutis, a Greek boxer.
  • 1979 – Massimo Maccarone, an Italian footballer.
  • 1979 – Carlos Adrián Morales, a Mexican footballer.
  • 1979 – Low Ki, an American wrestler.
  • 1980 – Jillian Hall, an American wrestler and singer.
  • 1980 – Kerry Katona, an English singer and actress.
  • 1980 – Samuel Peter, a Nigerian boxer.
  • 1980 – Joseph Yobo, a Nigerian footballer.
  • 1981 – Yuki Abe, a Japanese footballer.
  • 1981 – Yumiko Cheng, a Hong Kong singer and actress.
  • 1981 – Andrew Richardson, a Jamaican cricketer.
  • 1981 – Mark Teahen, an American baseball player.
  • 1982 – Temeka Johnson, an American basketball player.
  • 1983 – Jerry Blevins, an American baseball player.
  • 1983 – Pippa Middleton, an English socialite and author.
  • 1983 – Braun Strowman, an American wrestler.
  • 1984 – Helena Ekholm, a Swedish skier.
  • 1984 – William Porterfield, a Northern Irish cricketer.
  • 1985 – Lauren Lapkus, an American actress and comedian.
  • 1985 – Mitch Moreland, an American baseball player.
  • 1985 – Małgorzata Rejmer, a Polish novelist.
  • 1986 – Matt Keating, an Australian rugby league player.
  • 1987 – Ramiele Malubay, a Filipino-American singer.
  • 1987 – Emir Preldžić, a Turkish basketball player.
  • 1988 – Ray Fujita, a French-Japanese actor and singer.
  • 1988 – Max George, an English singer-songwriter.
  • 1988 – Denis Tonucci, an Italian footballer.
  • 1989 – Nikos Boutzikos, a Greek footballer.
  • 1989 – Kim So-eun, a South Korean actress.
  • 1990 – Matt McAndrew, an American singer-songwriter.
  • 1990 – John Wall, an American basketball player.
  • 1991 – Brian Dumoulin, an American ice hockey player.
  • 1991 – Joe Harris, an American basketball player.
  • 1992 – Young Tonumaipea, a Samoan rugby league player.
  • 1993 – Alex Poythress, an American basketball player.
  • 1993 – Mattia Valoti, an Italian footballer.
  • 1995 – Mark Andrews, an American football player.
  • 1995 – Mustafizur Rahman, a Bangladeshi cricketer.
  • 1996 – Andrés Tello, a Colombian footballer.
  • 1996 – Lil Xan, an American rapper.
  • 1997 – Mallory Comerford, an American swimmer.
  • 1997 – Jai Field, an Australian rugby league player.
  • 1997 – Tsukushi, a Japanese wrestler.
  • 1998 – Michele Perniola, an Italian singer.
  • 1999 – Patrick Brasca, a Canadian-Taiwanese singer-songwriter.
  • 2001 – Freya Allan, an English actress.
  • 2002 – Asher Angel, an American actor.
  • 2002 – Leylah Fernandez, a Canadian tennis player.

Notable Deaths on September 6th

Early Figures (Before 1600)

People Who Passed Away (1601–1900)

People Who Passed Away (1901–Present)

Holidays and Observances

  • Christian feast days:
    • Begga
    • Chagnoald
    • Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
    • Gondulphus of Metz
    • Magnus of Füssen
    • Onesiphorus
    • Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) (Catholic church)
    • September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • The earliest date on which the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed
  • Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
  • Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan)
  • Flag Day (Bonaire)
  • Independence Day (Swaziland), celebrates the independence of Eswatini from the United Kingdom in 1968
  • Unification Day (Bulgaria)

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