Today in History
6 September
246 births · 115 deaths · 55 events recorded
Notable Births
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Prince Hisahito of Akishino
b. 2006
Japanese prince (born 2006)
Elzhana Taniyeva
b. 2005
Kazakh rhythmic gymnast
Asher Angel
b. 2002
American actor (born 2002)
Leylah Fernandez
b. 2002
Canadian tennis player (born 2002)
Freya Allan
b. 2001
English actress (born 2001)
Terrence Clarke
b. 2001
American basketball player (2001–2021)
Carlo Cudicini
b. 1973
Italian footballer (born 1973)
Korczak Ziolkowski
b. 1908
American designer and sculptor (1908–1982)
Notable Deaths
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Rick Davies
d. 2025
English musician (1944–2025)
Rebecca Horn
d. 2024
German visual artist (1944–2024)
Will Jennings
d. 2024
American songwriter and composer (1944–2024)
Cathy Merrick
d. 2024
Canadian Cree politician (1961–2024)
Ron Yeats
d. 2024
Scottish footballer (1937–2024)
Jean-Paul Belmondo
d. 2021
French actor (1933–2021)
Michael K. Williams
d. 2021
American actor (1966–2021)
Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet
d. 1708
English merchant, MP and philanthropist
On This Day in History
All 55 ›
2022
Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.
Boris Johnson
2022
Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.
Russo-Ukrainian war
2018
Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
Supreme Court of India
2013
Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
Cyanide
2013
The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.
Minotaur V
2012
Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
September 2012 Baradan Bay, Turkey, migrant boat disaster
2009
The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
Roll-on/roll-off
2007
Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
Israel