September
6
Independence
Day
Swaziland : September 6 1968
Events
September 6
3114 BC
– According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era
in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation)
394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius
I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish
magister militum Arbogast.
1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary
Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic
for the first time.
1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship 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. (Old Style date; September 16 per
New Style date.)
1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic
Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a
British 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.
1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen
is deposed in a military coup.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by
his son Michael.
1943 – The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest
and most influential private universities in Latin America,
is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
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.
1949 – A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills
13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to
become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
1952 – Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in
Montreal.
1955 – Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority
are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
1963 – The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies
(CEIPI) is founded.
1965 – War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation
Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent
Declaration.
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 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are
simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of
PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1972 – Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the
Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September"
terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands
of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli
athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1976 – Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands
a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō 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 terrorists from Abu Nidal's 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.
1992 – Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson
McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of
Healy, Alaska.
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st
consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
1997 – Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London.
Over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched
around the world on television.
2008 – Turkish President Abdullah Gül attends an association
football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President
Serzh Sarkisyan; he is the first Turkish head of state to visit
the country.
2009 – The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga
Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but
ten are rescued.
Holidays
and observances
Armed Forces
Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Christian Feast Days:
Begga
Chagnoald
Gondulphus of Metz
September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan)
Flag Day (Bonaire)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Swaziland from
the United Kingdom in 1968
Stillbirth Remembrance Day (several U.S. states and Canadian
provinces)
Unification Day (Bulgaria)
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