Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 6
This is a list of selected September 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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William McKinley -
Leon Czolgosz -
Juliana of the Netherlands -
Juan Sebastián Elcano -
The rectorate building (left) and the CETEC towers at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education -
Victor Krulak
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Defence Day in Pakistan; | multiple issues |
| Unification Day in Bulgaria | unreferenced, stub |
| 1522 – The Victoria returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, with Basque explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano and 17 other survivors of Ferdinand Magellan's 265-man expedition, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the globe. | Elcano: refimprove; Magellan: refimprove section |
| 1885 – Eastern Rumelia declared its union with Bulgaria. | refimprove |
| 1948 – Juliana was crowned as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of her mother Wilhelmina. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1901 – U.S. President William McKinley was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
- 1943 – A group of businessmen in Monterrey, Mexico, founded the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, now one of the largest universities in Latin America.
- 1944 – World War II: Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu on their way to re-establishing their rule in Estonia.
- 1946 – United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announced that the U.S. would follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
- 1952 – A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
- 1963 – Victor H. Krulak was sent on a mission by the Kennedy administration to assess the progress of the Vietnam War, and the viability of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem against the backdrop of the Buddhist crisis and Xa Loi Pagoda raids.
- 1966 – South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the "architect of apartheid", was stabbed to death by Dimitri Tsafendas.
- 1970 – Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four jet aircraft en route from Europe to New York City, landing two of them at Dawson's Field in Zerqa, Jordan, and one plane in Beirut.
September 6: Father's Day in Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand (2015); Independence Day in Swaziland (1968)
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory in the Battle of Groton Heights.
- 1930 – Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen (pictured) was deposed in a military coup by José Félix Uriburu.
- 1955 – A Turkish mob attacked ethnic Greeks in Istanbul, killing at least 13 people and damaging more than 5,000 Greek-owned homes and businesses.
- 1995 – Baltimore Oriole shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. played his 2131st consecutive major league baseball game, breaking the 56-year old record set by New York Yankee first baseman Lou Gehrig.
- 2000 – The Millennium Summit, a meeting of world leaders to discuss the role of the United Nations at the turn of the 21st century, opened in New York City.