 |
September 6
Totally Explained
|
|  |
|
NEW! |
All the latest news in the worlds of
computer gaming,
entertainment,
the environment,
finance,
health,
politics,
science,
stocks & shares,
technology
and much,
much,
more.
|
Everything about 6 September totally explained
Events
- 3114 BC – According to 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.
- 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, 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. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
- 1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1669 – The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans
- 1776 – Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.
- 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.
- 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 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 – 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.
- 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 didn't 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 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 – Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.
- 2000 – The Millennium Summit takes place.
- 2003 – Tropical Depression 9 formed in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, later to become Hurricane Isabel, the 9th named storm of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season
Births
1535 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612)
1620 – Isabella Leonarda, Italian 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 U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
1729 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)
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 and lecturer (d. 1852)
1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
1808 – Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)
1814 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
1815 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (d. 1870)
1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician (d. 1893)
1829 – Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)
1838 – Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
1857 – Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
1860 – Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935)
1868 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1947)
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 – Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American banker and diplomat (d. 1969)
1890 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress (d. 1960)
1892 – Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1893 – Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
1899 – Billy Rose, American composer (d. 1966)
1900 – W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
1900 – Julien Green, French-born American novelist (d. 1998)
1904 – Max Rosenbloom, American boxer (d. 1976)
1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
1909 – Michael Gordon, American actor and director (b. 1993)
1910 - Walter Giesler, American soccer coach, (d. 1976)
1911 – Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1915 – Franz Josef Strauß, German Politician (d. 1988)
1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler
1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American Inventor
1921 - Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)
1923 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1925 – Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976)
1926 – Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (d. 2001)
1926 – Claus von Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, American author
1928 – Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
1929 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
1937 – Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born illustrator
1937 – Brigid Berlin, American actor
1937 – Jo Anne Worley, American actress
1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1939 – Dan Cragg, American soldier and author
1939 – David Allan Coe, American country singer
1943 – Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1943 – Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
1945 – Larry Lucchino, American baseball executive
1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress
1947 – Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
1954 – Ève Luquet, French stamp designer
1956 – Bill Ritter, American politician
1957 – Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor-General of Canada
1957 – José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal
1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian
1958 – Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, British singer
1958 – Nigel Westlake, Australian musician and composer
1961 – Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
1962 - Kevin Willis, American basketball player
1962 – Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
1963 – Alice Sebold, American novelist
1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
1963 – Bryan Simonaire, American politician
1963 - Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
1964 – Rosie Perez, American actress
1965 – John Polson, Australian actor and film director
1968 - Tommy Snider, American actor
1968 – Paul Rea, American television journalist
1968 - Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer
1969 – Ben Finegold, American chess player
1969 – CeCe Peniston, American dance music singer
1969 - Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete
1970 – Paul Miller, American composer and author
1971 – Devang Gandhi, Indian Cricketer
1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
1972 – China Miéville, English writer
1972 – Justina Machado, Puerto Rican actress
1972 – Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
1972 – Idris Elba, English/American actor
1972 – Dylan Bruno, American actor (Numb3rs)
1973 – Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1973 – Greg Rusedski, Canadian-born tennis player
1974 – Tim Henman, English tennis player
1974 – Sarah Danielle Madison, American actress
1974 – Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 – Sarah Strange, Canadian actress
1975 – Derrek Lee, American baseball player
1974 – Justin Whalin, American actor
1976 – N.O.R.E., American rapper
1976 – Hyun Young, South Korean actress and pop singer
1976 – Naomie Harris, American actress
1977 – Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer
1978 - Cisco Adler, American singer
1978 – Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 – Mathew Horne, English Actor
1978 – Tony Thaxton, drummer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1979 – Foxy Brown, American rapper
1979 – Brandon Silvestry, American professional wrestler
1979 – Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1979 – Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1980 – Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
1980 – Jillian Hall, American professional wrestler
1980 – Samuel Peter, Nigerian heavyweight boxer
1981 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Mark Teahen, American baseball player
1983 – Ljubisa Bojic, Serbian student movement leader
1985 – Webbie, American rapper
1985 - Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer
1985 - Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver
1986 – Raven Riley, American porn star
1987 – Ramiele Malubay, American singer
1989 – Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
1990 - Jeff Hofmaster, American porn star
2000 – Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (d. 2000)
2006 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japan Imperial Family member
Deaths
957 – Liudolf, Duke of Swabia
972 – Pope John XIII
1276 - Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
1536 – William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1494)
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)
1782 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1783 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
1902 – Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)
1907 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1950 – Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
1951 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
1962 – Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898)
1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
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 (b. 1892)
1974 – Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896)
1978 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
1981 - Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
1984 – Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
1985 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
1986 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
1987 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
1988 – Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950)
1990 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1990 – Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
1991 – Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
1994 – Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
1997 – P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
1999 – René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2000 – Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)
2001 - Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
2003 – Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
2003 – Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
2005 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
2007 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
2007 – Alex, African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)
Holidays and observances
RC Saints – Saint Begga of Cumbria; Saint Gondulphus
Also see September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Bulgaria – Unification Day.
Canada – Stillbirth Remembrance Day in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Nova Scotia (as of 2006).
Pakistan – Defence Day (Pak-Army Day) Since 1965
Swaziland – Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1968).
United States – Stillbirth Remembrance Day in 39 states, in remembrance of Breanna Lynn Bartlett-StewartFurther Information
Get more info on '6 September'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://september_6.totallyexplained.com">September 6 Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
|
|
