September 6

Events 3114 BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.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, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.1669 – The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans1776 – Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.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.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.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.1937 – Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.1944 – World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.1948 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.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.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.1963 – The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.1965 – War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore (city of Pakistan) in an hour.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.1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.1986 – In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.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 1924.1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.2000 – The Millennium Summit takes place.2003 – Tropical Depression 9 formed in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, later to become Hurricane Isabel, the 9th named storm of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season.
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