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September 6: Day of the Week
September 6, 2024 is the 250th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 116 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.
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Here’s the September calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
September 6 Historical Event(s)
1628
Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1863
American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
1901
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1939
World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
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.
1949
Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
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.
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.
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.
Who were born on September 6?
1829
Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)
1838
Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
1917
George Mann, England cricketer (d. 2001)
1917
Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008)
1924
John Melcher, American politician
1942
Mel McDaniel, American country music artist (d. 2011)
1967
William DuVall, American singer (Alice In Chains)
1971
Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
1980
Samuel Peter, Nigerian heavyweight boxer
1987
Ramiele Malubay, American singer
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