What are the important events that happened on September 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 6 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 24, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 479,328 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectapentacontagon’ day.
Virgo is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,277 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 6 Historical Events
- 1628 –Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 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.
- 1930 –Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
- 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.
- 1991 –The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
- 2008 –Turkish President Abdullah Gül attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan; he is the first Turkish head of state to visit the country.
- 2009 –The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
Who were born on September 6?
- 1732 –Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
- 1857 –Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
- 1908 –Anthony Wagner, British heraldist, Garter Principal King of Arms (d. 1995)
- 1947 –Jane Curtin, American actress
- 1954 –Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- 1955 –Raymond Benson, American author
- 1961 –Simon Reeve, Australian journalist
- 1963 –Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
- 1969 –Ben Finegold, American chess player
- 2006 –Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese imperial family member
Who died on September 6?
- 1276 –Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
- 1868 –Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
- 1962 –Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
- 1984 –Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
- 1997 –P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
- 1998 –Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
- 2001 –Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
- 2003 –Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
- 2008 –Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2010 –Clive Donner, British film director (b. 1926)
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