Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 6

This is a list of selected September 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
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	outdated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	outdated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

• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory at the Battle of Groton Heights.
• 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.
• 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 – 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.
• 1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.
• 1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive Major League Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.
• 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).
• 2018 – The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India.

• Born/died this day: | Isabella Leonarda |b|1620| Charles Porter |b|1631| Jessie Willcox Smith |b|1863| Lord Charles Beresford |d|1919| Roger Waters |b|1943| Sylvester |b|1947| Wendi Richter |b|1961| Geert Wilders |b|1963| Mark Chesnutt |b|1963| Jillian Hall |b|1980

Notes

• Death of Diana, Princess of Wales appears on August 31, so the funeral should not appear in the same year

September 6: Defence Day in Pakistan (1965)

Hurricane Irma

• 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.
• 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.
• 2017 – Hurricane Irma (pictured) reached peak intensity near the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Saint Martin, and Virgin Gorda.
• 2022 – Liz Truss succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.

• Isabella Leonarda (b. 1620)
• Geert Wilders (b. 1963)
• Jillian Hall (b. 1980)
• Clive Donner (d. 2010)

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