September 6
Today is
National Coffee Ice Cream Day in the United States.
3114 BC According to the
proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the
Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation).
1492
Christopher Columbus sails from
La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
1522 The
Victoria, the only surviving ship of
Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to
Sanlϊcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620
The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the
Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1628
Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1803 British scientist
John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1847
Henry David Thoreau leaves
Walden Pond and moves in with
Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1870
Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1901
Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist (guess there wasn't much work for anarchists back then

), shoots and fatally wounds US President
William McKinley at the
Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1916 The first self-service grocery store,
Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee, by
Clarence Saunders.
1939 World War II: At the
Battle of Barking Creek, Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War as a result of friendly fire.
1952 A
prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
1972
Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes taken hostage at the
Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian
"Black September" terrorist group die (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1976 Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lieutenant
Viktor Belenko lands a
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
1983 The Soviet Union admits to shooting down
Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1990 -
Tom Fogerty rhythm guitarist with
Creedence Clearwater Revival died aged 49, due to complications from AIDS acquired during a blood transfusion.
1992 Hunters discover the emaciated body of
Christopher McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
1995
Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
1997
The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
Births
1757 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette; 1879 Max Schreck; 1888 Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.; 1893 Claire Lee Chennault; 1921 Norman Joseph Woodland (co-created the bar code);
1925 Jimmy Reed
; 1930 Charles Foley (co-created Twister); 1937 Jo Anne Worley; 1939 David Allan Coe♪ ♫; 1942 Mel McDaniel♪ ♫; 1943 Roger Waters

(Pink Floyd); 1944 Swoosie Kurtz (
Mike & Molly); 1947 Jane Curtin (original
SNL); 1954 Carly Fiorina; 1958 Jeff Foxworthy; 1958 Michael Winslow (
Police Academy); 1962 Chris Christie, Elizabeth Vargas; 1963 Mark Chesnutt♪ ♫; 1964 Rosie Perez; 1965 Christopher Nolan; 1967 Macy Gray♪ ♫

; 1969 CeCe Peniston♪ ♫; 1971 - Delores ORiordan♪ ♫(The Cranberries); 1972 Idris Elba
Deaths
1945
John S. McCain Sr.; 1959 Edmund Gwenn; 1972 - David Mark Berger, Ze'ev Friedman, Yossef Gutfreund, Eliezer Halfin, Amitzur Shapira, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, Andre Spitzer, Yakov Springer; 1984 Ernest Tubb♪ ♫; 1987
Quinn Martin; 1990 Tom Fogerty♪ ♫(Creedence Clearwater Revival); 1994 James Clavell; 1998 Akira Kurosawa; 2012 Art Modell (former owner Cleveland Browns); 2015 Martin Milner (
Route 66)