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What happened on September 6 - World events by date
Births1535 - 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)
1808 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)
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)
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 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1879 - Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
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)
1915 - Franz Josef Strauß, German Politician (d. 1988)
1923 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1926 - Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (d. 2001)
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 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.
1939 - David Allan Coe, American country singer, one of the key figures in the Outlaw country movement
1943 - Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1943 - Roger Waters, bassist, songwriter, and previous leader of Pink Floyd
1944 - Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
1947 - Jane Curtin, American actress
1947 - Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer, now coach
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
1969 - Ben Finegold, American Chess International Master
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
1975 - Derrek Lee, baseball player
1979 - Foxy Brown, American rapper
1979 - Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1980 - Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1980 - Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
1986 - Raven Riley, American adult film star
1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (d. 2000)
Deaths972 - 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 (b. 1892)
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)
1990 - Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
1994 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)
2003 - Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
Events3114 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 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.
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 her 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.
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.
1952 - Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
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 Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP. 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.
1995 - Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig 's record of 2,130 consecutive Major League Baseball games played at Camden Yards in Baltimore,Maryland.
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.
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.
HolidaysRC Saints - a Saint Bega or Bee of Cumbria and a Sankt Mang of Füssen
Also see September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Bulgaria - Unification Day
Canada - Stillbirth Remembrance Day in New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario
Pakistan - Defence Day
Swaziland - Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1968)
United States - National Stillbirth Remembrance Day in 39 states
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