September 6

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on September 6. From 1900 until now. September 6 is under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Roger Waters (1943), Pippa Middleton (1983) and Idris Elba (1972). Several movies were released around September 6 over the years, such as Goodfellas in 1990 directed by Martin Scorsese and The Bad Sleep Well in 1960 directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Holidays

United States - National Stillbirth Remembrance Day in 39 states
RC Saints - a Saint Bega or Bee of Cumbria and a Sankt Mang of Fnssen
Bulgaria - Unification Day
Canada - Stillbirth Remembrance Day in New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario
Pakistan - Defence Day
Swaziland - Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1968)
Also see September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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2018 Approximately two million Ford F150 trucks are recalled due to a manufacturing error which can cause the seat belt pretensioner to ignite the vehicle. (NPR)
2017 Pastoral visits of Pope Francis: Pope Francis arrives in Colombia for a five-day visit. In early 2016, Francis promised he would visit the South American country once a civil war peace agreement was in place. (CNN) (Independent Catholic News)
2016 2016 Davao City bombing: Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte declares a state of emergency in the whole country. In a warning to Abu Sayyaf, Duterte says "I will eat you alive." (Time'), (Rappler)
2015 At least 10 people die and 8 are missing from a South Korean fishing charter that capsized Saturday night off the country's southern coast. Coast Guard officers said three people survived by clinging to the wreckage for 10 hours. (Sydney Morning Herald) (AFP via New Delhi Television)
2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine:: In an official statement, Patriarch Filaret, who heads the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate, says that Russian President Vladimir Putin has fallen under the spell of Satan and faces eternal damnation to hell unless he repents. (Reuters)
2013 Syrian civil war:: UN chief Ban Ki-moon says military action against Syria could worsen sectarian violence in the country. (Al Jazeera)Russia sends four more warships to Syria, one with alleged "special cargo," (The Washington Post) (Ynetnews)
2012 Syrian civil war:
2011 English musician PJ Harvey wins her second Mercury Prize for best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland for her album Let England Shake. (New York Times)
2010 At least seventeen people are killed and forty others injured after a suicide bomber attacks a Pakistan police station in the town of Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. (Al Arabiya)
2009 In Beverly Hills, California, Ira & Larry Goldberg, Auctioneers, conduct the auction of part one of the Dan Holmes collection of US large cents.
2008 Turkish President Abdullah Gul 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.
2007 ''Operation Orchard'': Israeli airplanes strike a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
2006 The security officers of Georgia arrest nearly 30 members of the opposition political party ampquotSamartlianobaampquot (Justice) and its satellite organizations on suspicion of plotting a coup against the government. The party, which advocates closer political ties with the Russian Federation, is led by the nation's fugitive security chief Igor Giorgadze who is wanted by Interpol for his alleged involvement in the 1995 attempt on former Georgian President Shevardnadze's life. (BBC)
2005 Israeli troops, who are still in the process of withdrawing from Gaza, shoot dead a Palestinian teenager as he and about 50 others breach a fence around the evacuated Israeli settlement of Gush Katif and climbed atop of IDF tanks. (BBC) (Haaretz)
2004 Conflict in Iraq: Near the Sunni city of Fallujah, seven U.S. Marines and three Iraqi soldiers are killed in an ambush. Elsewhere, U.S. troops, backed by U.S. planes and Iraqi forces, raid the city of Najaf. The U.S. military tells residents to flee, mounts a pincer movement to trap the Mahdi army in the city center, and raids Moqtada al-Sadr's house again. (News Interactive) (BBC)
2003 Johns Hopkins researchers retract all results of a frequently cited study which claimed that extensive and permanent brain damage occurred after just a single dose of Ecstasy. Due to a labelling mistake on the experimental drug vials, all but one of the animals involved in the study were not actually given Ecstasy at all, but were instead given the drug d-methamphetamine.
2002 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Memorials and Services: The US Congress convenes for a one-day joint session in Federal Hall in New York City, the original capital of the United States.
2000 The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defense.
1998 Safeway LPGA Golf Championship
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.
1995 Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
1994 11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson win
1993 Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1992 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
1991 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10
1990 In Burma, the State Law and Order Restoration Council orders the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and five other political dissidents.
1989 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins
1988 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal
1987 Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital
1986 Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1984 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1983 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in New York
1982 Dutch Internal Minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1981 Bob Lemon becomes the New York Yankees' manager for the second time.
1980 94th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61)
1979 Peter Pan opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances
1978 Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1977 Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1975 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1973 New York Times reports almost all Superfecta harness racing run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from January to March of 1973 were fixed.
1972 Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre
1970 New York Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle
1969 Cabaret closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances
1968 Swaziland becomes independent.
1966 Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
1965 India invades West Pakistan
1963 Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls
1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
1960 William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, two American cryptologists, announce their defection to the Soviet Union at a press conference in Moscow.
1959 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1958 Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
1957 Elvis records White Xmas, Silent Night andHere Comes Santa Claus
1955 Catch a Star opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1954 68th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86)
1953 Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR
1952 Canadian TV begins in Montreal
1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1948 Mr Strauss Goes to Boston opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances
1946 All-American Football Conference plays first game (Cleveland Browns 44, Miami Seahawks 0).
1944 Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
1943 63rd US Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60)
1942 56th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
1941 55th US Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)
1940 Crown Prince Michael succeeds Carol II as King of Romania
1939 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WWII
1938 Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch Queen
1937 Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies 22-8.
1928 USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
1927 Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
1924 Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails
1923 Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee
1922 42nd US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64)
1920 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
1919 The U.S. Army expedition across America, which started July 7, ends in San Francisco.
1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1914 Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris.
1913 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
1912 New York Giants Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0.
1910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughriders football club formed.
1909 Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole five months earlier.
1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
1904 Soccer team Rheden forms
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Creeping Man (BG)
1901 Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
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