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 249th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 116 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 24, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,757,116,800 seconds 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 ‘dihectatetracontaenneagon’ day.
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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 164 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 4,642 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 6 Historical Events
- 1870 –Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
- 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).
- 1930 –Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
- 1955 –Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul’s Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
- 1965 –War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan’s Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1995 –Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
- 1997 –Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
Who were born on September 6?
- 1620 –Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer (d. 1704)
- 1732 –Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
- 1766 –John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
- 1869 –Walford Davies, English composer, Master of the King’s Music (d. 1941)
- 1891 –John Charles Thomas, American baritone (d. 1960)
- 1919 –Wilson Greatbatch, American inventor
- 1928 –Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
- 1929 –Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
- 1930 –Akiji Kobayashi, Japanese actor (d. 1996)
- 1979 –Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer
Who died on September 6?
- 1431 –Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine soldier and statesman
- 1782 –Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
- 1885 –Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion (b. 1819).
- 1938 –John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
- 1939 –Arthur Rackham, English book illustrator (b. 1867)
- 1952 –Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
- 1979 –Ronald Binge, English composer (Elizabethan Serenade) (b. 1910)
- 1981 –Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
- 1988 –Leroy Brown, American wrestler (b. 1950)
- 2008 –Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)
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