September 6: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

September 6th marks the 249th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 250th in case of leap years). There are 116 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Roger Waters (1943), Pippa Middleton (1983) and Idris Elba (1972).
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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)
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Events

2018 Two million Ford F150 trucks have been recalled because of a manufacturing defect that could cause the seatbelt pretensioner to light up and ignite the vehicle.
2017 Pope Francis visits Colombia to conduct pastoral visits: Pope Francis arrives in Colombia for five days. Francis had promised to visit South America in early 2016 after a peace treaty on civil war was signed.
2016 2016 Davao City Bombing: Rodrigo Duterte, Philippine president, declares a national emergency. Duterte warns Abu Sayyaf that he will eat him alive. (Time'),
2015 A South Korean fishing boat capsized off the country's southern coast Saturday night, causing at least 10 deaths and 8 injuries. Coast Guard officers stated that three people were able to survive by holding on to the wreckage for ten hours.
2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine.: Patriarch Filaret (head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan patriarchate) stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin is now under the control of Satan and will be eternal damnation to hell unless it repents.
2013 (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera). Russia sends four warships more to Syria, including one with "special cargo."
2012 Civil war in Syria:
2011 For her album Let England shake, PJ Harvey, an English musician, wins her second Mercury Prize.
2010 A suicide bomber attacked a Pakistani police station in Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At least 17 people were killed and 40 others were injured.
2009 Ira & Larry Goldberg, Auctioneers in Beverly Hills, California, conduct the auction for part one of Dan Holmes' collection of US large coins.
2008 After being invited by Armenian President Serzh Sarikyan, Turkish President Abdullah Gul attended an Armenian association football match. He is the first Turkish head-of-state to visit Armenia.
2007 Operation Orchard: Israeli planes strike suspected nuclear sites 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. Igor Giorgadze, the country's fugitive security chief, is leading the party. He is wanted by Interpol because he is alleged to have been involved in the 1995 attack on the life of former President Shevardnadze.
2005 Israeli troops are still in the process to withdraw from Gaza and shot a teenager Palestinian teenager. He and 50 others broke a barrier around the evacuated Israeli settlement Gush Katif, and climbed on top of IDF tanks.
2004 Conflict in Iraq: Seven U.S. Marines are killed and three Iraqi soldiers are wounded in an ambush near Fallujah. U.S. troops, supported by U.S. aircraft and Iraqi forces raid Najaf. Residents are told to flee by the U.S. military. They then mount a pincer movement in order to capture the Mahdi army at the city's center and raid Moqtada al-Sadr again.
2003 Johns Hopkins researchers have retracted all findings from a widely cited study that claimed extensive and permanent brain damage was caused by Ecstasy. All but one of the animal participants in the study were not given Ecstasy due to a labelling error on experimental drug vials. Instead, they were given the drug d–methamphetamine.
2002 Terrorist Attack on September 11, 2001/Memorials & Services: A joint session of the US Congress is held in Federal Hall, New York City. This was the original capital of the United States.
2000 Bofors, the last Swedish-owned arms producer, was sold to 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
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
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
1941 55th US Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie
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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