September 6 in History

Forces Nero to commit suicide

The English withdraw from the Congres after refusing to renounce the French throne

Sets sail from the Canary Islands across the Atlantic after the Pinta is repaired

Richelieu is forced into war for the Heilbronn League

Defeats the Swedes & is able to resume neutrality

Defeats the Swedish forces & resumes a policy of neutrality towards Protestants

The Royal Standard is raised again after the original standard collapses in bad weather.

The Royal Standard is raised again after the original standard collapses in bad weather.

Fails to capture Gloucester

Careless joins Charles II in the Royal Oak and helps conceal the fugitive king from Parliamentarian search parties.

Charles II hides with William Careless in an oak near Boscobel while Parliamentarian soldiers search the surrounding area.

Begins the Allied siege of Aire, a major fortified position that resists until November.

Opens Allied operations against Saint-Venant while the wider army also undertakes the siege of Aire.

Raises the "Restoration Standard" at Braemar

La clemenza di Tito premieres in Prague during Leopold II's coronation festivities.

Carnot was elected to the National Convention for Pas-de-Calais while engaged in military organization.

Danton was elected to the National Convention for Paris after serving as justice minister.

Arrives 72 miles south east of Moscow

Defeats Ney at Dennewitz during his march on Berlin

The Conservatives win their highest gains in the English Counties. The Conservatives win a majority for the 1st time, winning by 80 seats

Stanley resigns over Peels Free Trade Policy, Peels only casualty. Campaigns on the issue of Free Trade to become Prime Minister. Believes without free trade there could be civil disorder

Appointed Prime MInister of Great Britain

Stanley resigns over Peels Free Trade Policy, Peels only casualty

Is moved to the New Jersey coast in hopes of recovery.

Continues treatment at Elberon while his condition deteriorates.

An anarchist who assassinates President William McKinley in New York at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition

Assassinated in Buffalo, New York

Under the Treaty of Portsmouth Korea is recognized as Japans sphere of influence

Russia agrees to evacuate Manchuria in the Treaty of Portsmouth

Russia surrenders Port Arthur to Japan in the Treaty of Portsmouth

Russia surrenders half of Sakhalin to Japan in the Treaty of Portsmouth

Russia surrenders Port Arthur, half of Sakhalin & evacuates Manchuria. Russia & Japan make peace. Korea is recognized as Japans sphere of influence

Speaks against the Lords rejection of the Budget, refers to dangers of class warfare

Speaks against the Lords plan to vote against the Budget

Japan captures Korea

Becomes acting president after Elias Fernandez Albano dies during the succession.

Scores Arsenal's first goal at Highbury in the 2-1 victory over Leicester Fosse.

Scores the winning goal as Arsenal open Highbury with a 2-1 victory over Leicester Fosse.

Joins in the battle linking the BEF with the French 5th and 6th Armies

The French 6th Army attacks German First Armys flank

Captures Silistra

Captures Turtukai

Appointed Prime Minister of Poland, 2nd term

Founds the "hard core" Awareness Society due to "demonstration fatigue"

Appointed President of Korea of the Shanghai Provisional Government

Appointed President of Korea of the Shanghai Provisional Government

Nationalist forces take Hankou during the Northern Expedition, strengthening Chiang’s military campaign in central China.

Appointed de facto President of Argentina after the 1930 coup

Announces cuts in unemployment relief & pay for all Government employees

Abdicates after making territorial concessions

South Africa severs relations with Germany

South Africa severs relations with Germany

The Germans capture Cracow

South Africa declares war

Appointed Member of Imperial War Cabinet as the most senior South African in favour of war

Watches the destruction of a Polish Army Corps from a special train

Becomes prime minister after Parliament rejects Hertzog's neutrality policy.

Leads supporters committed to entering the war against Germany.

Forms a government committed to participation in the war.

Forms a government committed to war against Germany.

Takes control of the United Party after Hertzog's resignation.

Directs South Africa's entry into the Second World War.

Carol abdicates after territorial losses and political collapse.

London is bombed, marking the beginning of the London blitz

Goering arrives at Kesselrings HQ to take command of Operation Sea Lion

Possesses 8 of 50 destroyers from America agreed under the "Lend-Lease" scheme

Michael returns to the throne after Carol II's abdication.

Receives an honarary degree from Harvard University

King Abdullahs eldest son, King Talal, assumed the throne

Senghor assumes the head of state role after independence

Senghor becomes first President of independent Senegal

Pakistan closes its border after relations deteriorate over Daoud's support for Pashtunistan.

India expands the conflict across the international border after fighting intensifies in Jammu and Kashmir.

Musa Khan directs army operations as Indian forces cross the international border toward Lahore.

Appointed Prime Minister of South Africa, acting

Dubcek bans political clubs

Performs his final concert at the Isle of Fehmarn Festival

The National Union of Seamen votes for industrial action over a 6 pounds claim, breaching pay policy.

Deprives the Baader-Meinhof prisoners of all contact with each other as well as with the outside, all visits, including those of lawyers and family members, being forbidden. Deprives the Baader-Meinhof prisoners are deprived of their access to post, newspapers, magazines, television, and radio

An official statement is released in which the state declared that the prisoners would not be released under any circumstances, and on the same day a Kontaktsperre ("communication ban") was enacted against all political pris

Deprives the Baader-Meinhof prisoners of all contact with each other as well as with the outside, all visits, including those of lawyers and family members, being forbidden. An official statement is released in which the state declared that the prisoners would not be released under any circumstances, and on the same day a Kontaktsperre ("communication ban") was enacted against all political pris

al-Rifai participates in political reform connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.

Relieved of all duties

Miners & police clash at Kellingley

Wins an election to offer representation for all elements of the population

Wins an election to offer representation for all elements of the population

Appointed President of South Africa

Reynolds, Gerry Adams & John Hume shake hands in the Government Buildings at Dublin

Galileo makes another close Ganymede encounter, passing much nearer the surface than during its first targeted flyby.

Diannas funeral is broadcast and watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide

Diana is buried, The Prince of Wales, her sons, her mother, siblings, a close friend, and a clergyman are present, in an ornamental lake known as The Round Oval within Althorp Parks Pleasure Garden

Signs an agreement covering Ugandan troop withdrawal and normalization of relations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Yassin further promised that Hamas would teach Israel an "unforgettable lesson" as a result of the assassination attempt. An Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-16 fired several missiles on a building in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, Yassin was in the building at the time but survived

Cuba politely declined a US offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island after Hurricane Gustav, saying it would rather Washington suspend restrictions on travel and the sale of food and other materials it needs to recover

Cuba politely declined a US offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island after Hurricane Gustav, saying it would rather Washington suspend restrictions on travel and the sale of food and other materials it needs to recover

Cuba politely declined a US offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island after Hurricane Gustav, saying it would rather Washington suspend restrictions on travel and the sale of food and other materials it needs to recover

The Nuclear Suppliers Group grants India a waiver permitting civilian nuclear commerce despite India remaining outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Oversees the surprise Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast

Ukraine launches a counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast.

Calls at the UN Security Council for a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the Zaporizhzhya plant.

Appointed defence minister of Ukraine

Parliament approves Umerov as defence minister.

Birth of Vulko Velev Chervenkov

Birth of Peter Alexander Rupert Carington

Birth of Roger Waters, later bassist, lyricist and conceptual leader of Pink Floyd

Forces Nero to commit suicide

Death of Suleyman I the Magnificent, during the capture of Szigeth

With General Tilly dead, Ferdinand II turned to the aid of Wallenstein and his large army

Death of Robert Dudley

Death of Hendrik Verwoerd

Diannas funeral is broadcast and watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide

Death of Akira Kurosawa

Former President Robert Mugabe dies in Singapore.

Ends Swedish influence in Southern Germany. Defeats the Swedes & other Protestant forces near the Bavarian town of Nordlingen

Leads the Imperial armies to victory over the Swedes

Defeats the Swedes

Defeats the Swedes & is able to resume neutrality

Protestant forces are defeated

Sweden is defeated by an Austro-Spanish force. Richelieu is forced into war for the Heilbronn League

Defeats the Swedish forces & resumes a policy of neutrality towards Protestants

Defeats Ney at Dennewitz during his march on Berlin. Bulow comes to Bernadottes relief & drives Ney back. Bulow assumes overall Allied command of the battle from Bernadotte. Bavaria withdraws from the war & German states waver in their support of the French

Attempts to capture Berlin but is defeated

Joins in the battle linking the BEF with the French 5th and 6th Armies

Stops further French retreat & orders an attack at the Marne

The French 6th Army attacks German First Armys flank. A decisive German breakthrough results in a general retreat

Romania suffers a severe defeat in Dobruja.

Claims another Bf 109 destroyed.

His combat success continues as Luftwaffe pressure remains intense.

The Germans have lost 308 aircraft to the British 273. End of the 3rd phase of the Battle of Britain

Crowned King of Bohemia at Prague