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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