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September
What happened on September 6
On September 6 history recorded 59 notable events. 160 people who left a mark were born on this day, and 107 died. Here is the full almanac.
- 59events
- 160births
- 107deaths
- 15observances
Highlights
Highlights
1492Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic, discovering the Americas.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish transatlantic voyages in the name of the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the America
1566Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died at the age of 71.
Suleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent, was the Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566. The longest reign among the Ottoman sultans, his rule brought about a notable peak in the Ottoman Empire's economic, military and political power, and raised the
1634Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeated Swedish and German Protestant forces.
The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, with parts
September 6
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IV century
- 394
394Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
XV century
XVI century
XVII century
- 1620
1620The Pilgrim Fathers sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.) - 1622
1622The Spanish treasure galleon Atocha sinks during a hurricane off Key West in the Straits of Florida, taking 40 short tons (36 t) of gold and silver and 260 of its 265 passengers and crew to the bottom. - 1628
1628Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. - 1634
1634Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
XVIII century
XIX century
- 1803
1803British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. - 1859
1859Imam Shamil surrenders to the Russians, bringing the Caucasian Imamate to an end. - 1861
1861American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth. - 1863
1863American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina. - 1870
1870Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807. - 1885
1885Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
XX century
- 1901
1901Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US president William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. - 1914
1914World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins. - 1915
1915World War I: The first tank prototype, developed by William Foster & Co. for the British army, is completed and given its first test drive. - 1930
1930Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. - 1936
1936Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established. - 1939
1939World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire. - 1939
1939World War II: Union of South Africa declares war on Germany. - 1940
1940King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania. - 1943
1943The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America. - 1943
1943Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others. - 1944
1944World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces. - 1944
1944World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia. - 1946
1946United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany. - 1952
1952A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board. - 1955
1955Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots. - 1962
1962The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill. - 1962
1962Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London. - 1965
1965India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration. - 1966
1966Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting. - 1968
1968Swaziland becomes independent. - 1970
1970Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan. - 1971
1971Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 highway near Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, killing 22. - 1972
1972Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day. - 1976
1976Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted. - 1983
1983The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace. - 1985
1985Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board. - 1986
1986In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services. - 1988
1988End of the last stage of the Anfal campaign of Ba'athist Iraq against its Kurdish population, which resulted in major destructions and major civilian losses. - 1991
1991The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. - 1991
1991The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1. - 1992
1992A group of hunters at the Stampede trail near Healy, Alaska come across a male corpse in abandoned bus, later identified as Christopher McCandless. - 1995
1995Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years. - 1997
1997The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people line the streets and 21⁄2 billion watch around the world on television. - 1997
1997Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839 crashes in the Lambir Hills National Park while on approach to Miri Airport in Malaysia, killing 10.
XXI century
- 2003
2003Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister. - 2007
2007Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria. - 2009
2009The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued. - 2012
2012Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands. - 2013
2013Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park. - 2013
2013The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft. - 2018
2018Supreme Court of India decriminalises all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands. - 2018
2018Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. - 2022
2022Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later. - 2022
2022Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week. - 2026
202621 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767 freighter operating on behalf of Amazon Air, overruns the runway upon landing at Miami International Airport, striking multiple ground vehicles, killing at least five people, and injuring five others.
Best known
Born on September 6
Best known
Died on September 6
394Eugenius
Western Roman emperor from 392 to 394
1511Ashikaga Yoshizumi
Military ruler of Japan from 1494 to 1508
1566Suleiman the Magnificent
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566
1625Thomas Dempster
Scottish scholar and historian
1635Adriaan Metius
Dutch geometer and astronomer
1649Robert Dudley (explorer)
English engineer, explorer and cartographer
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast days: Begga
- Christian feast days: Chagnoald
- Christian feast days: Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
- Christian feast days: Gondulphus of Metz
- Christian feast days: Blessed Jan Franciszek Czartoryski
- Christian feast days: Magnus of Füssen
- Christian feast days: Onesiphorus
- Christian feast days: Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) (Catholic church)
- Christian feast days: September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- The earliest date on which the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed
- Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
- Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan)
- Flag Day (Bonaire)
- Independence Day (Swaziland), celebrates the independence of Eswatini from the United Kingdom in 1968
Frequently asked questions
What happened on September 6?
59 documented historical events happened on September 6, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic, discovering the Americas. On the same day, in another year: Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died at the age of 71. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
Who was born on September 6?
160 people with a Wikipedia article were born on September 6, including Sergio Aragonés, Joan Tower, David Allan Coe. The list spans every era and every field — art, science, politics, sport, entertainment — ordered by year of birth, from the earliest to the most recent. The six featured people are those most has been written about: the ordering uses the length of their Wikipedia article as an indicator of prominence. For each one you find their occupation, year of birth and a link to the full biography.
Who died on September 6?
107 people with a Wikipedia article died on September 6, including Eugenius, Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Suleiman the Magnificent. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What is celebrated on September 6?
15 observances are celebrated on September 6 around the world: Christian feast days: Begga, Christian feast days: Chagnoald, Christian feast days: Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria, Christian feast days: Gondulphus of Metz, Christian feast days: Blessed Jan Franciszek Czartoryski, Christian feast days: Magnus of Füssen. The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
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