What Day of the Week

September 6, 2023 was the 249^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 116 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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Here’s the September calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

• 1628

  Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 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.
• 1870

  Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
• 1944

  World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
• 1948

  Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1985

  Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
• 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.

• 1932

  Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer
• 1942

  Mel McDaniel, American country music artist (d. 2011)
• 1958

  Nigel Westlake, Australian musician and composer
• 1962

  Chris Christie, American Politician
• 1964

  Rosie Perez, American actress
• 1968

  Paul Rea, American television journalist
• 1972

  Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
• 1972

  Dylan Bruno, American actor (Numb3rs)
• 1978

  Marlen Angelidou, Greek singer
• 1985

  Webbie, American rapper

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