September
6
Independence
Day
Swaziland : September 6 1968
Events
September 6
3114
BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar
the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar
started. (Non-standard interpretation)
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, the only surviving ship
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.
(Old Style date; September 16 per New Style
date.)
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.
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.
1943 – The Monterrey Institute of Technology,
one of the largest and most influential private
universities in Latin America, is founded
in Monterrey, Mexico.
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 retaliates following
Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which resulted
in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends
in a stalemate and follows the signing of
the Tashkent Declaration.
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.
1972 – Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes
taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games
by the Palestinian "Black September"
terrorist group died (as did a German policeman)
at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed
rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are
slain in the initial attack the previous day.
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.
1992 – Hunters discover the emaciated body
of Christopher Johnson McCandless 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 stood for 56 years.
1997 – Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
takes place in London. Over a million people
lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched
around the world on television.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Armed
Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Christian Feast Days:
Begga
Chagnoald
Gondulphus of Metz
September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan)
Flag Day (Bonaire)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Swaziland from the United Kingdom in 1968
Stillbirth Remembrance Day (several U.S. states
and Canadian provinces)
Unification Day (Bulgaria)
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