About September 6
September 6, 2024 is the 250th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 116 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 145 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 6
- 1620 –The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
- 1634 –Thirty Years’ War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
- 1847 –Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 1939 –World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
- 1939 –World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
- 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.
- 1949 –Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
- 1963 –The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
- 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.
- 1972 –Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
- 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.
- 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 mi west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
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