History Events on September 06

American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.

#American_Civil_War

United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.

#United_States_Secretary_of_State

In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.

#Istanbul

World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.

#Ypres

Puritans settle Salem which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

#Puritans

King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conduc?tor of Romania.

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The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.

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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.

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Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.

#Henry_David_Thoreau

The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.

#Victoria_(ship)

The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

#Soviet_Union

British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

#John_Dalton

Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.

#Istanbul

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.

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Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.

#Eastern_Rumelia

World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.

#Tartu_Offensive

Forty one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.

#Cyanide

World War II: South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany.

#Union_of_South_Africa

The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2?1?2 billion watched around the world on television.

#Funeral_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales

Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.

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World War II: Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.

#World_War_II

Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.

#Palestinians

Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.

#Argentina

Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.

#Prime_Minister_of_South_Africa

Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.

#Pennsylvania_Railroad

Battle of the Frigidus: Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.

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Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.

#Thirty_Years'_War

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

The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1, 1991.

#Saint_Petersburg

Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

#Leon_Czolgosz

Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.

#Mahmoud_Abbas

American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.

#Confederate_States_of_America

The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.

#Piggly_Wiggly

Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.

#Israel

It was announced that Leeuwarden would become cultural capital of Europe of 2018 together with Valletta.

Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the ?zmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.

Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.

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.

Swaziland becomes independent.

India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.

Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.

The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.

A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.

The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.

Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

England's Parliament bans public stage-plays.

The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)