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Events
September 6, 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.
September 6, 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.
September 6, 2018: Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
September 6, 2013: Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
September 6, 2013: The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.
September 6, 2012: Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
September 6, 2009: The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
September 6, 2007: Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
September 6, 2003: Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
September 6, 1997: The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people line the streets and 2.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1⁄2 billion watch around the world on television.
September 6, 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.
September 6, 2018: Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
September 6, 2013: Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
September 6, 2013: The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.
September 6, 2012: Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
September 6, 2009: The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
September 6, 2007: Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
September 6, 2003: Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
September 6, 1997: The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people line the streets and 2.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1⁄2 billion watch around the world on television.
Birthdays
September 6, 2006: Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince
September 6, 2005: Elzhana Taniyeva, Kazakh rhythmic gymnast
September 6, 2002: Asher Angel, American actor
September 6, 2002: Leylah Fernandez, Canadian tennis player
September 6, 2001: Freya Allan, English actress
September 6, 2001: Terrence Clarke, American basketball player (died 2021)
September 6, 2000: David Kushner, American singer-songwriter
September 6, 1998: Michele Perniola, Italian singer
September 6, 1997: Mallory Comerford, American swimmer
September 6, 1997: Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
September 6, 2005: Elzhana Taniyeva, Kazakh rhythmic gymnast
September 6, 2002: Asher Angel, American actor
September 6, 2002: Leylah Fernandez, Canadian tennis player
September 6, 2001: Freya Allan, English actress
September 6, 2001: Terrence Clarke, American basketball player (died 2021)
September 6, 2000: David Kushner, American singer-songwriter
September 6, 1998: Michele Perniola, Italian singer
September 6, 1997: Mallory Comerford, American swimmer
September 6, 1997: Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
Deaths
September 6, 2025: Rick Davies, English musician (born 1944)
September 6, 2024: Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Turkish-American activist (born 1998)
September 6, 2024: Rebecca Horn, German visual artist (born 1944)
September 6, 2024: Will Jennings, American songwriter (born 1944)
September 6, 2024: Cathy Merrick, Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962)
September 6, 2024: Ron Yeats, Scottish footballer (born 1937)
September 6, 2021: Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933)
September 6, 2021: Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966)
September 6, 2020: Lou Brock, American baseball player (born 1939)
September 6, 2019: Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)
September 6, 2024: Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Turkish-American activist (born 1998)
September 6, 2024: Rebecca Horn, German visual artist (born 1944)
September 6, 2024: Will Jennings, American songwriter (born 1944)
September 6, 2024: Cathy Merrick, Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962)
September 6, 2024: Ron Yeats, Scottish footballer (born 1937)
September 6, 2021: Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933)
September 6, 2021: Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966)
September 6, 2020: Lou Brock, American baseball player (born 1939)
September 6, 2019: Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)
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