What happened on September 6? There are more than 307 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 6
September 6 is the 250th day of the year 2024. There are 116 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 36th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Boonville, California 95415 sunrise will occur at 06:46 AM and sunset will occur at 07:36 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 145 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 6
- 3114 BCAccording to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation)
- 394Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
- 1492Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
- 1522The 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.
- 1620The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
- 1628Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1634Thirty Years’ War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
- 1781The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
- 1847Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
- 1861American 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.
- 1863American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
- 1870Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
- 1885Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
- 1888Charles 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).
- 1901Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
- 1930Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
- 1937Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1939World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
- 1939World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
- 1940King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
- 1943The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
- 1944World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
- 1948Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
- 1949A 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.
- 1949Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
- 1952Canada’s first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
- 1955Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul’s Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
- 1963The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
- 1965War 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.
- 1966In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
- 1968Swaziland becomes independent.
- 1970Two 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.
- 1972Munich 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.
- 1976Cold 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.
- 1983The 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.
- 1985Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
- 1986In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal’s organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
- 1991The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1991The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
- 1992Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 mi west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
- 1995Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
- 1997Funeral 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.
- 2008Turkish 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.
- 2009The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
Who Were Born On September 6?
- 1535Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612)
- 1620Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer (d. 1704)
- 1656Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
- 1666Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
- 1711Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
- 1729Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)
- 1732Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
- 1757Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
- 1766John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
- 1795Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852)
- 1800Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
- 1802Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
- 1808Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)
- 1814Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
- 1815St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate general (d. 1870)
- 1817Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician (d. 1893)
- 1819William Rosecrans, American Civil War general and US ambassador to Mexico (d. 1898)
- 1829Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)
- 1838Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
- 1852Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician, military leader and State President (d. 1918)
- 1855Ferdinand Hummel, German harp player, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1928)
- 1857Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
- 1859Macpherson Robertson, Australian philanthropist, confectionery manufacturer (d. 1945)
- 1860Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935)
- 1861William Lane, Australian journalist, utopian, founder of New Australia in Paraguay (d. 1917)
- 1868Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1947)
- 1869Felix Salten, Austrian author (d. 1945)
- 1869Walford Davies, English composer, Master of the King’s Music (d. 1941)
- 1876John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
- 1877Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)
- 1879Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
- 1879Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
- 1888Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American banker and diplomat (d. 1969)
- 1890Clara Kimball Young, American actress (d. 1960)
- 1891John Charles Thomas, American baritone (d. 1960)
- 1892Sir Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
- 1893Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
- 1899Billy Rose, American composer (d. 1966)
- 1900Julien Green, French-born American novelist (d. 1998)
- 1900W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
- 1906Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- 1908Anthony Wagner, British heraldist, Garter Principal King of Arms (d. 1995)
- 1908Korczak Ziółkowski, American designer and sculptor of the Crazy Horse Memorial (d. 1982)
- 1909Michael Gordon, American actor and director (d. 1993)
- 1910Walter Giesler, American soccer coach, (d. 1976)
- 1911Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1913Julie Gibson, American actress
- 1915Franz Josef Strauß, German politician (d. 1988)
- 1917George Mann, England cricketer (d. 2001)
- 1917John Berry, American film director (d. 1999)
- 1917Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008)
- 1919Wilson Greatbatch, American inventor
- 1921Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)
- 1923King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
- 1924John Melcher, American politician
- 1925Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976)
- 1926Arthur Oldham, English choirmaster, composer (d. 2003)
- 1926Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
- 1926Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (d. 2001)
- 1928Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
- 1928Robert M. Pirsig, American author
- 1929Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
- 1930Akiji Kobayashi, Japanese actor (d. 1996)
- 1932Bernie Winters, English comedian (d. 1991)
- 1932Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer
- 1932Hiroyuki Iwaki, Japanese conductor (d. 2006)
- 1937Brigid Berlin, American actor
- 1937Janusz Kurczab, Polish mountaineer
- 1937Jo Anne Worley, American actress
- 1937Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born illustrator
- 1938Joan Tower, American composer, concert pianist and conductor
- 1939Dan Cragg, American soldier and author
- 1939David Allan Coe, American country singer
- 1939Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1940Elizabeth Murray, American artist (d. 2007)
- 1940Jackie Trent, English singer, songwriter, and actress
- 1942Carol Wayne, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1942Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player
- 1942Mel McDaniel, American country music artist (d. 2011)
- 1942Richard Anthony Hutton, England cricketer
- 1943Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1943Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1944Donna Haraway, American professor, writer, and lecturer
- 1944Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
- 1945Larry Lucchino, American baseball executive
- 1947Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
- 1947Jane Curtin, American actress
- 1947Sylvester James, American singer (d. 1988)
- 1948Claydes Charles Smith, American musician (Kool & the Gang) (d. 2006)
- 1953Anne Lockhart, American actress
- 1954Ève Luquet, French stamp designer
- 1954Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- 1954Demetris Kizas, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1954Patrick O'Hearn, American musician, composer and recording artist
- 1955Raymond Benson, American author
- 1956Bill Ritter, American politician
- 1957Ali Divandari, Iranian artist
- 1957José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal
- 1957Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor-General of Canada
- 1957Tim Whitnall, English actor and narrator
- 1958Arsinée Khanjian, Armenian-Canadian actress
- 1958Buster Bloodvessel, British singer
- 1958Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian
- 1958Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
- 1958Nigel Westlake, Australian musician and composer
- 1959Bill Root, Canadian ice hockey defenceman
- 1961Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
- 1961Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
- 1961Simon Reeve, Australian journalist
- 1962Chris Christie, American Politician
- 1962Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
- 1962Jennifer Egan, American novelist
- 1962Kevin Willis, American basketball player
- 1963Alice Sebold, American novelist
- 1963Bryan Simonaire, American politician
- 1963Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
- 1963Mark Chesnutt, American country music singer
- 1963Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
- 1964Rosie Perez, American actress
- 1965Christopher Nolan, Irish writer (d. 2009)
- 1965Darren Clark, Australian Olympic athlete
- 1965John Polson, Australian actor and film director
- 1965Terry Bickers, English guitarist, singer and songwriter
- 1965Van Tiffin, American football player
- 1967Macy Gray, American singer-songwriter
- 1967William DuVall, American singer (Alice In Chains)
- 1968Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer
- 1968Paddy Boom, former drummer for Scissor Sisters
- 1968Paul Rea, American television journalist
- 1968Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer
- 1969Ben Finegold, American chess player
- 1969CeCe Peniston, American dance music singer
- 1969Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete
- 1970Cheyne Coates, Australian dance music and pop singer-songwriter and producer
- 1971Devang Gandhi, Indian cricketer
- 1971Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
- 1972Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
- 1972China Miéville, English writer
- 1972Dylan Bruno, American actor (Numb3rs)
- 1972Eugene Hütz, Ukrainian singer and composer (Gogol Bordello)
- 1972Idris Elba, English/American actor
- 1972Justina Machado, Puerto Rican actress
- 1973Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player
- 1973Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
- 1973Greg Rusedski, Canadian-born tennis player
- 1974Justin Whalin, American actor
- 1974Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
- 1974Sarah Danielle Madison, American actress
- 1974Sarah Strange, Canadian actress
- 1974Tim Henman, English tennis player
- 1975Derrek Lee, American baseball player
- 1976Hyun Young, South Korean actress and pop singer
- 1976N.O.R.E., American rapper
- 1976Naomie Harris, English actress
- 1976Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian musician (Little Joy, Los Hermanos)
- 1976Tom Pappas, American decathlete
- 1977Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer
- 1978Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1978Cisco Adler, American singer
- 1978Homare Sawa Japanese female footballer, world cup champion Germany 2011
- 1978Marlen Angelidou, Greek singer
- 1978Mathew Horne, English actor
- 1978Natalia Cigliuti, American actress
- 1978Simon Barjie, Gambian international footballer with dual Gambian–Italian nationality
- 1978Tony Thaxton, drummer (Motion City Soundtrack)
- 1979Brandon Silvestry, American professional wrestler
- 1979Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
- 1979Foxy Brown, American rapper
- 1979Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
- 1979Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer
- 1980Jillian Hall, American professional wrestler
- 1980Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
- 1980Kerry Katona, British singer and media personality
- 1980Samuel Peter, Nigerian heavyweight boxer
- 1980Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
- 1981Mark Teahen, American baseball player
- 1981Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
- 1981Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer
- 1983Dimitri Champion, French professional bicyclist
- 1983Pippa Middleton, Sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- 1984Helena Jonsson, Swedish biathlete
- 1984Orsi Kocsis, Hungarian model
- 1985Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver
- 1985Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer
- 1985Webbie, American rapper
- 1986Raven Riley, American pornographic actress
- 1987Ramiele Malubay, American singer
- 1988Denis Tonucci, Italian footballer
- 1989Kim So-eun, South Korean actress
- 1989Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
- 1990John Wall, American basketball player
- 1992Fabiola Rodas, Guatemalan singer
- 2006Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese imperial family member
Who Died On September 6?
- 394Eugenius, Roman usurper
- 957Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (b. 930)
- 972Pope John XIII
- 1276Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
- 1431Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine soldier and statesman
- 1511Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
- 1625Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
- 1635Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
- 1649Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
- 1683Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
- 1708Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
- 1748Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
- 1782Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
- 1783Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
- 1808Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
- 1833Antoine Le Blanc, French murderer b. 1800
- 1868Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
- 1885Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion (b. 1819).
- 1902Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)
- 1907Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
- 1919Lord Charles Beresford, British admiral, politician (b. 1846)
- 1938John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
- 1939Arthur Rackham, English book illustrator (b. 1867)
- 1945John McCain, Sr., American admiral (b. 1884)
- 1949Walter Widdop, British Wagnerian Heldentenor (b. 1892)
- 1950Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
- 1951James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
- 1952Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
- 1959Edmund Gwenn, British-American actor (b. 1877)
- 1959Kay Kendall, English actress (b. 1926)
- 1962Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898)
- 1962Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
- 1966Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
- 1966Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)
- 1969Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
- 1974Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896)
- 1978Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
- 1979Ronald Binge, English composer (Elizabethan Serenade) (b. 1910)
- 1981Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
- 1984Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
- 1985Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor (b. 1911)
- 1985Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
- 1986Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
- 1987Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
- 1988Leroy Brown, American wrestler (b. 1950)
- 1988Sir William Northam, Australian Olympic yachtsman (b. 1905)
- 1990Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
- 1990Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
- 1991Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
- 1992Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
- 1994Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
- 1996Esther Soré, Chilean musician (b. 1915)
- 1997P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
- 1998Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
- 1998Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (b. 1928)
- 1998Ric Segreto, Filipino Pop-Balladeer (b. 1952)
- 1999Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician and former President (b. 1938)
- 1999René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
- 2001Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
- 2002Ilya Livykou, Greek actress (b. 1919)
- 2003Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2003Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
- 2005Dame Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
- 2005Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
- 2007Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
- 2007Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
- 2007Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
- 2008Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2008Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)
- 2009Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian novelist (b. 1929)
- 2010Clive Donner, British film director (b. 1926)
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