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This day in history: 6 September

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406 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 6 September.
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2026: 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.

Holidays and observances

Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)

Christian feast days: Begga

Christian feast days: Blessed Jan Franciszek Czartoryski

Christian feast days: Chagnoald

Christian feast days: Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria

Christian feast days: Gondulphus of Metz

Christian feast days: Magnus of Füssen

Christian feast days: Onesiphorus

Christian feast days: September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast days: Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) (Catholic church)

Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan)

Flag Day (Bonaire)

Events

202621 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.

2022Boris 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.

2022Russo-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.

2018Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.

2018Supreme Court of India decriminalises all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.

2013Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.

2013The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.

2012Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.

2009The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.

2007Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.

2003Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.

1997Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839 crashes in the Lambir Hills National Park while on approach to Miri Airport in Malaysia, killing 10.

1997The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people line the streets and 21⁄2 billion watch around the world on television.

1995Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.

1992A group of hunters at the Stampede trail near Healy, Alaska come across a male corpse in abandoned bus, later identified as Christopher McCandless.

1991The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1.

1991The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

1988End 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.

1986In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.

1985Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board.

1983The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.

1976Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.

1972Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the

1971Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 highway near Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, killing 22.

1970Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.

1968Swaziland becomes independent.

1966Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.

1965India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.

1962Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.

1962The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.

1955Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.

1952A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.

1946United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.

1944World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.

1944World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.

1943Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.

1943The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.

1940King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania.

1939World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.

1939World War II: Union of South Africa declares war on Germany.

Born on this day

2006Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince

2005Elzhana Taniyeva, Kazakh rhythmic gymnast

2002Asher Angel, American actor

2002Leylah Fernandez, Canadian tennis player

2001Freya Allan, English actress

2001Terrence Clarke, American basketball player (died 2021)

2000David Kushner, American singer-songwriter

1998Michele Perniola, Italian singer

1997Mallory Comerford, American swimmer

1997Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler

1996Andrés Tello, Colombian footballer

1996Lil Xan, American rapper

1995Mark Andrews, American football player

1995Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer

1994Elif Doğan, Turkish actress

1994Emilly Micaela Marcondes, Brazilian professional futsal player

1994Maddie Phillips, Canadian actress

1993Alex Poythress, American basketball player

1993Famous Dex, American rapper

1993Mattia Valoti, Italian footballer

1992Ryan Shazier, American football player

1992Young Tonumaipea, Samoan rugby league player

1991Brian Dumoulin, American ice hockey player

1991Joe Harris, American basketball player

1990John Wall, American basketball player

1989Kim So-eun, South Korean actress

1988Denis Tonucci, Italian footballer

1988Max George, English singer-songwriter and actor

1987Emir Preldžić, Turkish basketball player

1985Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian

1985Małgorzata Rejmer, Polish novelist

1985Mitch Moreland, American baseball player

1984Helena Ekholm, Swedish skier

1984William Porterfield, Northern Irish cricketer

1983Braun Strowman, American wrestler and strongman

1983Jerry Blevins, American baseball player

1983Pippa Middleton, English socialite and author

1982Temeka Johnson, American basketball player

1981Andrew Richardson, Jamaican cricketer

1981Mark Teahen, American baseball player

Died on this day

2025Rick Davies, English musician (born 1944)

2024Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Turkish-American activist (born 1998)

2024Cathy Merrick, Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962)

2024Rebecca Horn, German visual artist (born 1944)

2024Ron Yeats, Scottish footballer (born 1937)

2024Will Jennings, American songwriter (born 1944)

2021Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933)

2021Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966)

2020Lou Brock, American baseball player (born 1939)

2019Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)

2018Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)

2018Liz Fraser, English actress (born 1930)

2018Richard DeVos, American billionaire businessman (born 1926)

2017Kate Millett, American feminist author and activist (born 1934)

2017Peter Luck, Australian journalist and television host (born 1944)

2015Martin Milner, American actor (born 1931)

2014Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player and educator (born 1919)

2014Odd Bondevik, Norwegian bishop and theologian (born 1941)

2014Seth Martin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1933)

2013Ann C. Crispin, American author (born 1950)

2012Elisabeth Böhm, German architect (born 1921)

2012Lawrie Dring, Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (born 1931)

2012Oscar Rossi, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1930)

2011Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (born 1947)

2010Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (born 1926)

2010Clive Donner, English director and editor (born 1926)

2009Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian author (born 1929)

2008Anita Page, American actress (born 1910)

2007Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (born 1935)

2007Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (born 1918)

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