About September 6
September 6, 2025 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.
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Virgo is the sun 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.
What Happened On September 6
- 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.
- 1847 –Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
- 1870 –Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
- 1885 –Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1939 –World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
- 1939 –World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
- 1940 –King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
- 1943 –The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
- 1948 –Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
- 1952 –Canada’s first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
- 1963 –The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
- 1966 –In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
- 1992 –Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 mi west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
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