September 6
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September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 116 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1475 – Sebastiano Serlio, Italian architect (d. 1554)
- 1620 – Isabella Leonarda, composer (d. 1704)
- 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 US Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
- 1729 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)
- 1757 – Gilbert de Motier, marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and politician (d. 1834)
- 1766 – John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
- 1781 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858)
- 1795 – Frances Wright, writer, activist, and lecturer (d. 1852)
- 1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
- 1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
- 1808 – Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian political figure (d. 1883)
- 1809 – Bruno Bauer, German philosopher (d. 1882)
- 1815 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
- 1825 – Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter (d. 1908)
- 1829 – Marie Zakrzewska, physician (d. 1902)
- 1852 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician, military leader and State President (d. 1918)
- 1855 – Ferdinand Hummel, German harpist, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1928)
- 1857 – Zelia Nuttall, archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
- 1859 – Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev, Russian mathematician (d. 1962)
- 1860 – Jane Addams, American social activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1935)
- 1868 – Margaret Dreier Robins, American labor leader and reformer (d. 1947)
- 1869 – Felix Salten, writer (d. 1945)
- 1876 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physiologist, won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1935)
- 1877 – Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (d. 1930)
- 1879 – Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
- 1885 – Otto Kruger, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician, businessman, diplomat and family patriarch (d. 1969)
- 1890 – Claire Chennault, soldier (d. 1958)
- 1892 – Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1965)
- 1899 – Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)
- 1900 – W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
- 1900 – Julien Green, French-American writer (d. 1998)
- 1902 – Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (d. 1963)
- 1904 – Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, boxer (d. 1976)
- 1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine biochemist (d. 1987)
- 1911 – Harry Danning, American Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1912 – Michele Andreolo, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (d. 1981)
- 1913 – Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (d. 2004)
- 1915 – Franz Josef Strauss, German politician and Minister-President of Bavaria (d. 1988)
- 1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German military officer and Resistance activist (d. 2008)
- 1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American inventor (d. 2011)
- 1921 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer (d. 2004)
- 1923 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
- 1925 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer
- 1925 – Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976)
- 1926 – Claus van Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
- 1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, writer
- 1929 – Yash Johar, Indian movie producer (d. 2005)
- 1930 – Salvatore de Giorgi, Italian archbishop
- 1937 – Jo Anne Worley, actress
- 1937 – Sergio Aragonés, illustrator
- 1937 – Brigid Berlin, actor and artist
- 1938 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (d. 2011)
- 1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist
- 1943 – Richard J. Roberts, British biochemist and molecular biologist
- 1943 – Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, actress
- 1947 – Jane Curtin, actress
- 1947 – Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
- 1955 – Carl G. Walz, American astronaut
- 1956 – Bill Ritter, Governor of Colorado
- 1957 – Michaelle Jean, Governor-General of Canada
- 1957 – Jose Socrates, former Prime Minister of Portugal
- 1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and writer
- 1958 – Arsinee Khanjian, Armenian-Canadian actress
- 1961 – Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
- 1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
- 1962 – Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey
- 1963 – Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
- 1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
- 1964 – Rosie Perez, American actress
- 1967 – William DuVall, American singer (Alice in Chains)
- 1967 – Macy Gray, American singer
- 1969 – Ce Ce Peniston, American singer
- 1970 – Paul Miller, (DJ Spooky) American composer, artist, writer
- 1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
- 1972 – China Miéville, writer
- 1972 – Dylan Bruno, American actor
- 1972 – Idris Elba, British actor
- 1973 – Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player
- 1973 – Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
- 1973 – Greg Rusedski, Canadian-British tennis player
- 1974 – Tim Henman, British tennis player
- 1974 – Justin Whalin, actor
- 1974 – Nina Persson, Swedish singer (The Cardigans)
- 1975 – Gala, Italian singer
- 1976 – Naomie Harris, British actress
- 1978 – Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
- 1979 – Foxy Brown, American rapper
- 1980 – Kerry Katona, British singer and television personality
- 1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
- 1981 – Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
- 1983 – Pippa Middleton, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- 1984 – Andarz Kirm, Slovenian footballer
- 1985 – Tadas Kijanskas, Lithuanian footballer
- 1985 – Webbie, American rapper
- 1988 – Max George, British singer (The Wanted)
- 2006 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino of Japan
Deaths [change]
- 972 – Pope John XIII
- 1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1481)
- 1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1494)
- 1635 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
- 1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
- 1708 – Sir John Morden, philanthropist (b. 1623)
- 1782 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
- 1783 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
- 1885 – Narcis Monturiol i Estariol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer (b. 1819)
- 1902 – Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827)
- 1907 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer (b. 1839)
- 1945 – John McCain, Sr., American admiral (b. 1884)
- 1951 – Joan Vollmer, wife of William S. Burroughs (b. 1867)
- 1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
- 1962 – Seiichi Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
- 1962 – Hanns Eisler, German composer (b. 1898)
- 1966 – Hendrik Verwoerd, South African prime minister (b. 1901)
- 1966 – Margaret Sanger, birth control activist (b. 1879)
- 1969 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892)
- 1972 – Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-born Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
- 1972 – David Mark Berger, American-born Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
- 1972 – Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (b. 1931)
- 1972 – Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1948)
- 1972 – Amitzur Shapira, Israeli short-distance runner and coach (b. 1932)
- 1972 – Kehat Shorr, Israeli shooting coach (b. 1919)
- 1972 – Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
- 1972 – Andre Spitzer, Romanian-born Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
- 1972 – Yakov Springer, Polish-born Israeli wrestler and weightlifting coach (b. 1921)
- 1972 – Lutif Afif, Palestinian terrorist
- 1974 – Otto Kruger, American actor (b. 1885)
- 1981 – Christy Brown, Irish writer (b. 1932)
- 1984 – Ernest Tubb, country music singer (b. 1914)
- 1985 – Franco Ferrera, Italian conductor (b. 1911)
- 1990 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
- 1992 – Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
- 1994 – Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. February 24, 1944)
- 1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese movie director (b. 1910)
- 1999 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician (b. 1938)
- 2005 – Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
- 2007 – Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (b. 1918)
- 2008 – Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2012 – Art Modell, American businessman and NFL team owner (b. 1925)
Events [change]
- 3761 BC – The first day of the Hebrew Calendar.
- 394 – Battle of Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast.
- 1492 – Christopher Columbus leaves La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his last land-stop on the way of his voyage that takes him to the Caribbean.
- 1522 – The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world, with captain Juan Sebastian de Elcano.
- 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.
- 1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nordlingen, the Catholic imperial army defeats the Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
- 1689 – Imperial China and Russia agree on their border, which runs along the Amur River.
- 1776 – A tropical storm strikes the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, killing 6,000 people.
- 1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place with the result of a British minor victory.
- 1839 – Polynesian atoll Ahe in the Tuamoto Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean, is discovered and mapped by US naval officer Charles Wilkes.
- 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 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.
- 1870 – The ship HMS Captain sinks in a storm off Cape Finisterre, Galicia, Spain, killing almost 500 people.
- 1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria.
- 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 – American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies on September 14 from his injuries.
- 1915 – The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
- 1929 – Finnish steam ship Kuru sinks, killing 150, many of them school children.
- 1930 – Democratically elected President of Argentina Hipolito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
- 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.
- 1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates the throne. His son, Michael of Romania, succeeds him.
- 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.
- 1943 – The Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico is founded.
- 1943 – The Pennsylvania railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1944 – World War II: Ypres, Belgium, is liberated by Allied forces.
- 1946 – United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the US will follow a policy of Economic Reconstruction in post-war Germany.
- 1948 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
- 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
- 1952 – Canada's first TV station, CBFT-TV opens in Montreal.
- 1952 – A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England, UK, killing 29 people.
- 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, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
- 1968 – Swaziland becomes independent.
- 1970 – Jimi Hendrix performs what turns out to be his last concert, on the German Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, on the last day of the Love and Peace Festival.
- 1970 – Four passenger jets are simultaneously hijacked. Two are taken to Dawson's Field.
- 1972 – Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in Munich, West Germany.
- 1975 – An earthquake in Lice, Turkey kills 2,400 people.
- 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 from the United States.
- 1983 – The Soviet Union admits 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.
- 1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2131 consecutive baseball games.
- 1997 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.
- 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.
- 2003 – EU foreign ministers categorise Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
- 2008 – The 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing begin, running until September 17.
- 2009 – The ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 people on board, of which all but 10 being rescued.
