Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 6
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Unification Day in Bulgaria | unreferenced |
| Independence Day in Eswatini (1968) | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 1522 – Victoria returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, with Basque explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano and 17 other survivors of Ferdinand Magellan's 265-man expedition, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the globe. | unreferenced section |
| 1885 – Eastern Rumelia declared its union with Bulgaria. | refimprove |
| 1943 – A group of Mexican businessmen founded the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. | outdated |
| 1946 – Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announced that the U.S. would follow a policy of economic reconstruction in post-war Germany. | refimprove section and date not cited |
| 1948 – Juliana was crowned as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of her mother Wilhelmina. | refimprove section |
| 1955 – A Turkish mob attacked ethnic Greeks in Istanbul, killing at least 13 people and damaging more than 5,000 Greek-owned homes and businesses. | refimprove section |
| 1966 – South African prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the "architect of apartheid", was stabbed to death by Dimitri Tsafendas. | refimprove |
| 2000 – The Millennium Summit, a meeting of world leaders to discuss the role of the United Nations at the turn of the 21st century, opened in New York City. | outdated |
| Abby Martin |b|1984 | date not cited |
| Frederick Abel |d|1902| | uncited sections |
Eligible
- 1492 – Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic, discovering the Americas.
- 1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died at the age of 71.
- 1916 – The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
- 1930 – Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a military coup by José Félix Uriburu.
- 1944 – World War II: Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu on their way to re-establishing their rule in Estonia.
- 1952 – A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29 spectators.
- 1963 – The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the Vietnam War.
- 1970 – 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.
- 1997 – An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide watched the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, on television.
- 1999 – The Parliament of Singapore relocated from the Old Parliament House to its current meeting place (pictured).
- 2000 – The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the first Pride Night in Major League Baseball history.
- 2017 – Hurricane Irma reached peak intensity near the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Saint Martin, and Virgin Gorda.
- 2018 – The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India.
- 2022 – Liz Truss succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
- Born/died this day: | Isabella Leonarda |b|1620| Charles Porter |b|1631| Lord Charles Beresford |d|1919| Roger Waters |b|1943| Sylvester |b|1947| Bill Keating |b|1952| Wendi Richter |b|1961| Geert Wilders |b|1963| Mark Chesnutt |b|1963| David Berger|d|1972| Adolf Dassler|d|1978| Jillian Hall |b|1980| Akira Kurosawa|d|1998| Clive Donner|d|2010| Robert Mugabe|d|2019
Notes
- If Death of Diana, Princess of Wales appear on August 31, the funeral should not appear in the same year
September 6: Defence Day in Pakistan (1965), Ghost Festival in China (2025)
Cal Ripken Jr.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory at the Battle of Groton Heights.
- 1863 – General John S. Marmaduke fatally wounded his Confederate Army colleague Lucius M. Walker in a formal duel in Arkansas.
- 1901 – William McKinley, President of the United States, was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later.
- 1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.
- 1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. (pictured) played his 2,131st consecutive Major League Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.
- Jessie Willcox Smith (b. 1863)
- Homare Sawa (b. 1978)
- Luciano Pavarotti (d. 2007)
- Burt Reynolds (d. 2018)
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