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September 6: Day Of The Week

September 6, 2013 is the 249^th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 116 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.

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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 Events

• 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.
• 1847 –
  Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
• 1901 –
  Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
• 1937 –
  Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
• 1939 –
  World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
• 1955 –
  Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul’s Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
• 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.
• 1995 –
  Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.

Who were born on September 6?

• 1732 –
  Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
• 1838 –
  Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
• 1926 –
  Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
• 1937 –
  Janusz Kurczab, Polish mountaineer
• 1954 –
  Ève Luquet, French stamp designer
• 1962 –
  Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
• 1965 –
  Christopher Nolan, Irish writer (d. 2009)
• 1965 –
  Terry Bickers, English guitarist, singer and songwriter
• 1978 –
  Simon Barjie, Gambian international footballer with dual Gambian–Italian nationality
• 1981 –
  Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer

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