About September 6
September 6, 2021 is the 249th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 116 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 148 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 6
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
- 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.
- 1847 –Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
- 1888 –Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
- 1901 –Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
- 1930 –Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
- 1939 –World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
- 1940 –King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
- 1948 –Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
- 1949 –Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
- 1952 –Canada’s first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
- 1955 –Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul’s Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
- 1968 –Swaziland becomes independent.
- 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 name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
- 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.
- 2009 –The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
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