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Events on September 6

• 1522 The Victoria, the last ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Spain under the command of Juan Sebastián Elcano following Magellan's death.
• 1780 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe writes Wanderer's Night Song – A Match in pencil on the wooden wall of a hunting lodge on the Kickelhahn near Ilmenau in Thuringia.
• 1791 The opera La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is premiered at the Prague Estates Theatre.
• 1839 Reactionary forces in the canton of Zürich carry out the Züriputsch against the new liberal constitution of the Regeneration period. Through reporting in the German media, the term Putsch enters German-language usage.
• 1901 The anarchist Leon Czolgosz carries out a shooting attack on the American President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition, the World's Fair in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies from his injuries on 14 September.
• 1953 The CDU and CSU, led by Konrad Adenauer, win the elections to the second German Bundestag.
• 1972 A memorial service for the twelve fatalities of the Palestinian hostage-taking is held at the Olympic Stadium in Munich during the Olympic Games. The Games continue after this one-day interruption.
• 1986 The Museum Ludwig and the Philharmonie are opened in Cologne.
• 1991 Leningrad reverts to its historical name, Saint Petersburg.
• 1997 At the funeral ceremony for Diana, Princess of Wales, the first wife of the British heir to the throne Charles, around three million people take to the streets of London. Watching the television broadcast, with an estimated 2.5 billion viewers, is the world's largest media event to date.
• 2010 The trial against the weather presenter Jörg Kachelmann begins at the Regional Court of Mannheim on charges of aggravated rape in conjunction with dangerous bodily harm.
• 2021 Following the Taliban's capture of Panjshir, the war in Afghanistan ends.

Born on September 6

• 1860 Jane Addams, American pacifist, Nobel laureate
• 1875 Hermann Pistor, German mathematician, physicist and optician, co-founder of modern ophthalmic optics
• 1892 Edward Victor Appleton, British physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1932 Frank Stronach, Austrian entrepreneur
• 1952 Dominik Graf, German film and television director
• 1961 Willy Astor, German cabaret artist, musician and composer
• 1971 Dolores O’Riordan, Irish singer and songwriter
• 1972 Carsten Spengemann, German television presenter
• 1992 Lisa Eckhart, Austrian poetry slammer and cabaret artist
• 2001 Freya Allan, British actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „6. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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