September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 116 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
NATIONAL COFFEE ICE CREAM DAY
NATIONAL COFFEE ICE CREAM DAY
1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. Magellan did not complete the entire voyage, as he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines in 1521.
1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1861 – American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed Polish-American anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1965 – India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
1965 – India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been known as Leningrad since 1924.
1992 – Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher McCandless (Walk Into the Wild) at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years (New York Yankees' Lou Gehrig).
1997 – The Funeral of Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
2009 – The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
1795 – Frances Wright, Scottish-American author and activist (d. 1852)
1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator and activist (d. 1878)
1860 – Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1940 – Elizabeth Murray, American painter and illustrator (d. 2007)
1941 – Monica Mason, South African ballerina and director
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator and activist (d. 1878)
1860 – Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1940 – Elizabeth Murray, American painter and illustrator (d. 2007)
1941 – Monica Mason, South African ballerina and director
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