About September 6
September 6, 2024 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.
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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 145 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 6
- 3114 BC –According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation)
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
- 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.
- 1628 –Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1634 –Thirty Years’ War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
- 1781 –The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
- 1885 –Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
- 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.
- 1939 –World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
- 1943 –The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
- 1944 –World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
- 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.
- 1955 –Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul’s Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
- 1963 –The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
- 1968 –Swaziland becomes independent.
- 1972 –Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
- 1986 –In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal’s organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
- 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.
- 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.
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