37 events · 20 births · 20 deaths · 8 observances. From 1492 to 2026.
Standout on September 6
Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.
September 6 is the 249th day of the year. These facts are computed from the calendar, not copied from anywhere.
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21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767 freighter operating on behalf of Amazon Air, overruns the runway upon landing at Miami International Airport, striking multiple ground vehicles, killing at least five people, and injuring five others.
Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.
Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.
Liz Truss (pictured) succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.
The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India.
Hurricane Irma reached peak intensity near the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Saint Martin, and Virgin Gorda.
The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.
Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the first Pride Night in Major League Baseball history.
The Parliament of Singapore relocated from the Old Parliament House to its current meeting place (pictured).
An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide watched the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, on television.
Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839 crashes in the Lambir Hills National Park while on approach to Miri Airport in Malaysia, killing 10.
Cal Ripken Jr. (pictured) played his 2,131st consecutive Major League Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.
A group of hunters at the Stampede trail near Healy, Alaska come across a male corpse in abandoned bus, later identified as Christopher McCandless.
The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1.
End of the last stage of the Anfal campaign of Ba'athist Iraq against its Kurdish population, which resulted in major destructions and major civilian losses.
In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.
Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board.
Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.
Black September: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four airliners, landing two at Dawson's Field in Jordan and one in Cairo, while the last hijacking attempt was foiled near London.
The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the Vietnam War.
A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29 spectators.
World War II: Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu on their way to re-establishing their rule in Estonia.
Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a military coup by José Félix Uriburu.
The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
U.S. president William McKinley was fatally shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later.
General John S. Marmaduke fatally wounded his Confederate Army colleague Lucius M. Walker in a formal duel in Arkansas.
American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory at the Battle of Groton Heights.
Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeated Swedish and German Protestant forces.
Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died at the age of 71.
Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic, discovering the Americas.
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A notable person who died on this day.
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)
A holiday, feast day, awareness day or national day observed every year on this date.
Christian feast days: Blessed Jan Franciszek Czartoryski
Christian feast days: Magnus of Füssen
Christian feast days: Begga
Christian feast days: Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) (Catholic church)
Christian feast days: Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
Christian feast days: Chagnoald
Christian feast days: Gondulphus of Metz
Christian feast days: Onesiphorus
Earliest: Christopher Columbus (1492). Most recent: 21 Air Flight 7598 (2026).
September 6 is the 249th day of the year, with 116 days left after it.
September 6 falls under Virgo (August 23 – September 22), a earth sign ruled by Mercury. The birthstone for the month is Sapphire.
We record 85 entries for September 6: 37 events · 20 births · 20 deaths · 8 observances. From 1492 to 2026.
Prince Hisahito of Akishino (2006) is among the notable births on September 6. The births section lists the rest.
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