September 6: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This article is about the day of the year. For the LDS intellectuals, see September Six.

September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). There are 116 days remaining.

Events

• 3114 BC - On this date in the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.
• 394 - Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
• 1522 - The Victoria, one of the surviving ships 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.
• 1628 - Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1776 - Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.
• 1781 - The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting 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 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, 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. 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.
• 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.
• 1955 - Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
• 1963 - The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
• 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, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
• 1968 - Swaziland becomes independent.
• 1970 - Jimi Hendrix plays what turns out to be his last ever performance, at the badly controlled and rained out Love and Peace Festival, on the Isle Of Fehmarn, Germany.
• 1970 - Four passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinians. Two are taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
• 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 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 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.
• 1996 - Eddie Murray becomes the 15th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland.
• 1997 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.
• 1998 - The world's first known sprite comic, Neglected Mario Characters, is started.
• 2000 - In New York City, the United Nations Millennium Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present.
• 2001 - United States v. Microsoft: 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.
• 2005 - The California Legislature becomes the first legislative body in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage without a pre-emptive judicial order to do so.

• 1535 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612)
• 1656 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
• 1666 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
• 1711 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
• 1732 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
• 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
• 1766 - John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
• 1781 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858)
• 1795 - Frances Wright, English writer, activist, and lecturer (d. 1852)
• 1800 - Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
• 1802 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
• 1814 - George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
• 1829 - Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)
• 1857 - Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
• 1859 - Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev, Russian mathematician (d. 1962)
• 1860 - Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935)
• 1869 - Felix Salten, Austrian author (d. 1945)
• 1876 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
• 1877 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)
• 1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
• 1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (d. 1969)
• 1890 - Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
• 1890 - Clara Kimball Young, American actress (d. 1960)
• 1892 - Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
• 1899 - Billy Rose, American composer (d. 1966)
• 1900 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
• 1904 - Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (d. 1976)
• 1906 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
• 1911 - Harry Danning, baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1928 - Robert M. Pirsig, American author
• 1929 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
• 1937 - Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born illustrator
• 1937 - Brigid Berlin, American actor and artist
• 1937 - Jo Anne Worley, American actress
• 1939 - Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1939 - Dan Cragg, an American soldier, essayist, and science-fiction author.
• 1943 - Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1944 - Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
• 1944 - Roger Waters, English musician (Pink Floyd)
• 1947 - Jane Curtin, American actress
• 1954 - Ève Luquet, French stamp designer
• 1957 - Michaëlle Jean. 27th Governor-General of Canada
• 1958 - Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and author
• 1960 - Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
• 1961 - Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian guitarist (a-ha)
• 1964 - Rosie Perez, American actress
• 1970 - Paul Miller, American composer, artist, and author
• 1971 - Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
• 1972 - China Miéville, English writer
• 1973 - Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
• 1973 - Greg Rusedski, Canadian-born tennis player
• 1974 - Tim Henman, English tennis player
• 1974 - Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans))
• 1974 - Justin Whalin, American actor
• 1979 - Foxy Brown, American rapper
• 1980 - Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer

• 972 - Pope John XIII
• 1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
• 1625 - Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
• 1635 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
• 1649 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
• 1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
• 1708 - Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
• 1748 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
• 1783 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
• 1808 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
• 1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)
• 1907 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
• 1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
• 1962 - Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898)
• 1966 - Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)
• 1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
• 1969 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player
• 1974 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896)
• 1984 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
• 1986 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1990 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
• 1994 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
• 1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
• 2003 - Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)

• RC Saints - a Saint Bega or Bee of Cumbria and a Sankt Mang of Füssen

Also see September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Bulgaria - Unification Day
• Pakistan - Defence Day
• Swaziland - Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1968)

September 5 - September 7 - August 6 - October 6 – Historical anniversaries