Summary of the Day ✨ 6 September (06/09)
Boris Johnson resigned as UK Prime Minister, with Liz Truss taking office in meetings that proved to be Queen Elizabeth II’s final official duties before her death. Ukraine launched a successful Kharkiv counteroffensive while India decriminalized homosexuality and poachers killed forty-one elephants in Zimbabwe.
Historical Events 📜
- 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.
- 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.
- 2018: Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
- 2013: Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
- 2013: The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA’s LADEE spacecraft.
- 2012: Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
- 2009: The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
- 2007: Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
- 2003: Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
- 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.
- 1997: Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839 crashes in the Lambir Hills National Park while on approach to Miri Airport in Malaysia, killing 10.
- 1995: Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
- 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.
- 1991: The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 1991: The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1.
Famous Births 👶
- 2006: Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince
- 2005: Elzhana Taniyeva, Kazakh rhythmic gymnast
- 2002: Asher Angel, American actor
- 2002: Leylah Fernandez, Canadian tennis player
- 2001: Freya Allan, English actress
- 2001: Terrence Clarke, American basketball player (died 2021)
- 2000: David Kushner, American singer-songwriter
- 1998: Michele Perniola, Italian singer
- 1997: Mallory Comerford, American swimmer
- 1997: Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
- 1996: Andrés Tello, Colombian footballer
- 1996: Lil Xan, American rapper
- 1995: Mark Andrews, American football player
- 1995: Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1993: Famous Dex, American rapper
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Rick Davies, English musician (born 1944)
- 2024: Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Turkish-American activist (born 1998)
- 2024: Rebecca Horn, German visual artist (born 1944)
- 2024: Will Jennings, American songwriter (born 1944)
- 2024: Cathy Merrick, Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962)
- 2024: Ron Yeats, Scottish footballer (born 1937)
- 2021: Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933)
- 2021: Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966)
- 2020: Lou Brock, American baseball player (born 1939)
- 2019: Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)
- 2018: Richard DeVos, American billionaire businessman (born 1926)
- 2018: Liz Fraser, English actress (born 1930)
- 2018: Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)
- 2017: Peter Luck, Australian journalist and television host (born 1944)
- 2017: Kate Millett, American feminist author and activist (born 1934)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast days:
Begga - Christian feast days:
Chagnoald - Christian feast days:
Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria - Christian feast days:
Gondulphus of Metz - Christian feast days:
Magnus of Füssen - Christian feast days:
Onesiphorus - Christian feast days:
Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) (Catholic church) - Christian feast days:
September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - The earliest date on which the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed
- Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
- Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan)
- Flag Day (Bonaire)
- Independence Day (Swaziland), celebrates the independence of Eswatini from the United Kingdom in 1968
- Unification Day (Bulgaria)