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.
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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 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
- 3114 BC –According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation)
- 394 –Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
- 1522 –The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
- 1870 –Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 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.
- 1968 –Swaziland becomes independent.
- 1970 –Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson’s Field in Jordan.
- 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?
- 1879 –Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
- 1944 –Donna Haraway, American professor, writer, and lecturer
- 1948 –Claydes Charles Smith, American musician (Kool & the Gang) (d. 2006)
- 1963 –Bryan Simonaire, American politician
- 1969 –Ben Finegold, American chess player
- 1974 –Tim Henman, English tennis player
- 1975 –Derrek Lee, American baseball player
- 1978 –Homare Sawa Japanese female footballer, world cup champion Germany 2011
- 1980 –Jillian Hall, American professional wrestler
- 1980 –Kerry Katona, British singer and media personality
Who died on September 6?
- 1276 –Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
- 1683 –Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
- 1808 –Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
- 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).
- 1907 –Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
- 1952 –Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
- 1986 –Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
- 1990 –Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
- 1994 –Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
- 2005 –Dame Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
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