6 September
Notable Births
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)
David Kushner (singer-songwriter)
b. 2000
American musician (born 2000)
Michele Perniola
b. 1998
Italian singer (born 1998)
Tsukushi Haruka
b. 1997
Japanese professional wrestler (born 1997)
Lil Xan
b. 1996
American rapper (born 1996)
Mark Andrews (American football)
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Mustafizur Rahman
b. 1995
Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1995)
Famous Dex
b. 1993
American rapper (born 1993)
Alex Poythress
b. 1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Mattia Valoti
b. 1993
Italian footballer (born 1993)
Ryan Shazier
b. 1992
American football player (born 1992)
Young Tonumaipea
b. 1992
Samoa international rugby league & union footballer
Brian Dumoulin
b. 1991
American ice hockey player (born 1991)
Joe Harris (basketball)
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
John Wall
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Notable Deaths
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)
Lou Brock
d. 2020
American baseball player (1939–2020)
Robert Mugabe
d. 2019
Leader of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017
Richard DeVos
d. 2018
American businessman
Liz Fraser
d. 2018
English actress (1930–2018)
Burt Reynolds
d. 2018
American actor (1936–2018)
Kate Millett
d. 2017
American writer and artist (1934–2017)
Martin Milner
d. 2015
American actor (1931–2015)
Odd Bondevik
d. 2014
Norwegian theologian
Seth Martin
d. 2014
Canadian ice hockey player (1933-2014)
Kira Zvorykina
d. 2014
Soviet chess player (1919–2014)
Santiago Rosario
d. 2013
Puerto Rican baseball player (1939–2013)
Elisabeth Böhm
d. 2012
German architect
Lawrie Dring
d. 2012
British scouting leader
On This Day in History
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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
2003
Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
Mahmoud Abbas
1997
The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people line the streets and 21⁄2 billion watch around the world on television.
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
1997
Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839 crashes in the Lambir Hills National Park while on approach to Miri Airport in Malaysia, killing 10.
Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839
1995
Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
Cal Ripken Jr.
1992
A group of hunters at the Stampede trail near Healy, Alaska came across a male corpse in abandoned bus, later identified as Christopher McCandless.
Healy, Alaska
1991
The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Soviet Union
1991
The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1.
Saint Petersburg
1986
In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.
Istanbul
1985
Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board.
Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105
1983
The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
Soviet Union
1976
Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
Cold War
1972
Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
Munich massacre