SomeFacts | September 6

On this day - September 6

394 — Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and ...

1492 — Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary ...

1522 — The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the ...

1620 — The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to ...

1622 — The Spanish treasure galleon Atocha sinks during a hurricane ...

1628 — Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay ...

1634 — Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the ...

1781 — American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Groton Heights takes ...

1803 — British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to ...

1861 — American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. ...

1863 — American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner ...

1870 — Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman ...

1885 — Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus ...

1901 — Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally ...

1914 — World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt ...

1915 — World War I: The first tank prototype, developed by William ...

1930 — Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen ...

1936 — Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and ...

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

1939 — World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first ...

1940 — King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son ...

1943 — Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at ...

1943 — The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, ...

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

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

1946 — United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces ...

1952 — A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in ...

1955 — Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the ...

1962 — Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the ...

1962 — The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork ...

1965 — India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand ...

1966 — Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, ...

1968 — Swaziland becomes independent.

1970 — Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are ...

1971 — Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 ...

1972 — Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a ...

1976 — Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands ...

1983 — The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines ...

1985 — Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee ...

1986 — In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization ...

1991 — The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad ...

1991 — The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic ...

1992 — A group of hunters at the Stampede trail near Healy, Alaska ...

1995 — Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st ...

1997 — Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839 crashes in the Lambir Hills ...

1997 — The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. ...

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

2007 — Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a ...

2009 — The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula ...

2012 — Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the ...

2013 — The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic ...

2013 — Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by ...

2018 — Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among ...

2022 — Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv ...

2022 — Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ...