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, 28,759,680 minutes 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
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
- 1781 –The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
- 1901 –Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1949 –A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
- 1963 –The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
- 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.
- 1986 –In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal’s 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.
- 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.
Who were born on September 6?
- 1795 –Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852)
- 1860 –Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935)
- 1879 –Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
- 1891 –John Charles Thomas, American baritone (d. 1960)
- 1930 –Akiji Kobayashi, Japanese actor (d. 1996)
- 1940 –Jackie Trent, English singer, songwriter, and actress
- 1958 –Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
- 1963 –Mark Chesnutt, American country music singer
- 1971 –Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
- 1987 –Ramiele Malubay, American singer
Who died on September 6?
- 1748 –Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
- 1783 –Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
- 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).
- 1949 –Walter Widdop, British Wagnerian Heldentenor (b. 1892)
- 1950 –Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
- 1951 –James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
- 1966 –Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)
- 1987 –Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
- 1992 –Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
- 2003 –Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
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