The 6t o September is the 249t day o the year (250t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 116 days bidin.
Events
1901: Shuitin o William McKinley
1991: Plaza in St. Petersburg, renamed frae Leningrad
1997: Funeral o Diana, Princess o Wales
- 1620 - The Pilgrim Faithers set sail frae Plymouth tae Americae.
- 1776 - A hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killin 6,000 fowk.
- 1870 - HMS Captain sinks off Cape Finisterre, Galicie, Spain, killin up tae 500 fowk.
- 1891 - The first Paris tae Brest cycle race is held.
- 1901 - US Preses William McKinley is shot bi Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York. He dees juist ower a week later.
- 1939 - Warld War II: Sooth Africae declares war on Germany.
- 1940 - Carol II o Romanie abdicates.
- 1948 - Juliana o the Netherlands becomes Queen.
- 1968 - Swaziland gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
- 1970 - Jimi Hendrix plays what proves tae be his last concert, on the German island o Fehmarn.
- 1972 - The "Black September" terror group kills members o Israel's wechtliftin team at the 1972 Simmer Olympics in Munich.
- 1975 - A yirdquauk in Lice, Turkey, kills 2,400 fowk.
- 1991 - Leningrad is renamed back tae St. Petersburg.
- 1991 - The Soviet Union recognises the unthirldom o Estonie, Latvie an Lithuanie.
- 1997 - Uranus' muins o Calibran an Sycorax are discoverit.
- 1997 - The funeral o Diana, Princess o Wales taks place.
- 1999 - 200 fowk are kilt in the Suai Kirk Massacre in East Timor.
- 2003 - European Union foreign meenisters categorise Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
- 2006 - Fitbaa: Germany scores its biggest-ever away win, defeatin San Marino 13-0.
- 2008 - The 2008 Simmer Paralympic Gemmes in Beijing stairt. They last tae 17 September.
- 2009 - Super Ferry 9 sinks aff Zamboanga Beach in the Philippines, wi aw but 10 aw the 961 passengers bein rescued.
- 2012 - 61 fowk are kilt as a fishin boat capsizes aff Izmir province, Turkey.
- 2015 - The Mairches railway opens in soothren Scotland.
- 2017 - Hurricane Irma sweeps across the Eastren Caribbean Sea an its islands, causin much destruction.
- 2018 - Indie's heichest coort legalises homosexuality in the kintra.
Births
John Dalton
Andrea Camilleri
- 1666 - Ivan V o Roushie (d. 1696)
- 1749 - Benjamin Bell, Scots scienteefic surgeon (d. 1806)
- 1757 - Gilbert du Motier, Marquis o Lafayette, French-American militar officer (d. 1834)
- 1766 - John Dalton, Inglis chemist, pheesicist an meteorologist (d. 1844)
- 1802 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naituralist (d. 1857)
- 1809 - Bruno Bauer, German philosopher an historian (d. 1882)
- 1860 - Jane Addams, American activist (d. 1935)
- 1876 - John Macleod, Scots pheesiologist (d. 1935)
- 1892 - Edward Victor Appleton, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1965)
- 1925 - Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (d. 2019)
- 1928 - Robert M. Pirsig, American writer an philosopher (d. 2017)
- 1935 - Jock Wallace Jr., Scots fitbawer (d. 1996)
- 1939 - Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist
- 1943 - Roger Waters, Inglis muisicker
- 1947 - Bruce Rioch, Inglis-Scots fitbawer
- 1948 - Samuel Hui, Hong Kong sangster
- 1954 - Carly Fiorina, American business executive
- 1957 - Michaelle Jean, umwhile Govrenor General o Canadae
- 1959 - Ronnie Cowan, Scots politeecian
- 1962 - Chris Christie, American politeecian
- 1963 - Pat Nevin, Scots fitbawer
- 1963 - Geert Wilders, Dutch politeecian
- 1966 - Emil Boc, umwhile Prime meenister o Romanie
- 1968 - Christopher Brookmyre, Scots novelist
- 1972 - Idris Elba, Inglis actor
- 1973 - Greg Rusedski, Canadian-Inglis tennis player
- 1974 - Tim Henman, Inglis tennis player
- 1974 - Nina Persson, Swadish sangster
- 1980 - Joseph Yobo, Nigerie fitbawer
- 1983 - Neil Bibby, Scots politeecian
Daiths
- 972 - Pape John XIII
- 1566 - Suleiman the Magneeficent, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1494)
- 1625 - Thomas Dempster, Scots scholart an historian (b. 1579)
- 1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politeecian (b. 1619)
- 1907 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer (b. 1839)
- 1930 - James Guthrie, Scots penter (b. 1859)
- 1933 - Robert Ramsay Wright, Scots zoologist (b. 1852)
- 1969 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian fitbawer (b. 1892)
- 1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1910)
- 2007 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
- 2007 - Richard M. Hogg, Scots linguist (b. 1944)
- 2015 - Ralph Milne, Scots fitbawer (b. 1961)
- 2018 - Burt Reynolds, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2019 - Robert Mugabe, Preses o Zimbabwe (b. 1924)
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