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What Happened on September 6th This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss.
2022	Russo-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.[11]
2018	Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.[8]
2013	Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.[6]
2012	Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
2009	The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
2007	Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
2003	Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
1997	The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hi
1995	Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
1991	The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1991	The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1.
1986	In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.
1985	Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board.
1983	The 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.
1976	Cold 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.
1972	Munich 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.
1971	Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 highway near Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, killing 22.
1970	Two 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.
1968	Swaziland becomes independent.
1966	Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
1965	India 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.
1962	The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
1962	Archaeologist 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.
1955	Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
1952	A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
1946	United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
1944	World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
1944	World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
1943	The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
1943	Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
1940	King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania.
1939	World 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	World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
1936	Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
1930	Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1914	World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.
1901	Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1885	Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
1870	Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1863	American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
1861	American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
1803	British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1781	American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
1642	England's Long Parliament bans public stage-plays.
1634	Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
1628	Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1620	The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1522	The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
1492	Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
394	Battle 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.

Famous People Born on September 6

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Year	Name
1967	Igor Štimac, Croatian footballer and manager
1781	Vincent Novello, English composer and publisher (d. 1861)
1943	Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1930	Charles Foley, American game designer, co-created Twister (d. 2013)
1908	Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial (d. 1982)
1819	William Rosecrans, American general, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico (d. 1898)
1972	Idris Elba, English actor
1989	Kim So-eun, South Korean actress
1855	Ferdinand Hummel, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1928)
1944	Swoosie Kurtz, American actress

Famous People Deaths On September 6

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on September 6. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1649	Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (b. 1574)
1907	Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
2000	Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian Military (b. 1918)
1982	Azra Erhat, Turkish archaeologist, author, and academic (b. 1915)
1986	Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1896)
1553	Juan de Homedes y Coscon, 47th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c.1477)
1999	Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938)
1808	Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian and author (b. 1723)
2015	Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (b. 1961)
1991	Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1922)