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06 September, 2003
Tropical Depression 9 formed in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, later to become Hurricane Isabel, the 9th named storm of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season.
06 September, 2000
The Millennium Summit takes place.
06 September, 1997
Princess Diana is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.
06 September, 1995
Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks Lou Gehrigs consecutive games played record. With the jury absent, Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson.
06 September, 1991
The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russias second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
06 September, 1986
In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidals organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
06 September, 1985
Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
06 September, 1983
The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
06 September, 1976
Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
06 September, 1970
Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawsons Field in Jordan.
06 September, 1968
Swaziland becomes independent.
06 September, 1966
In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
06 September, 1965
War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore (city of Pakistan) in an hour.
06 September, 1963
The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
06 September, 1952
Canadas first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
06 September, 1949
Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control. A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
06 September, 1948
Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
06 September, 1944
World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
06 September, 1940
King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
06 September, 1939
World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek. South Africa declares war on Germany.
06 September, 1937
Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
06 September, 1930
Fascist, nationalist and conservative groups overthrow democratic government in Argentina.
06 September, 1901
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
06 September, 1888
Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
06 September, 1885
Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
06 September, 1870
Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
06 September, 1863
American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
06 September, 1861
American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
06 September, 1847
Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
06 September, 1781
The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
06 September, 1776
Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.
06 September, 1669
The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans
06 September, 1628
Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
06 September, 1620
The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
06 September, 1522
The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellans expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
06 September, 394
Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.

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