It happened on this day, September 6th.
Events:
1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to cross the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship from Fernando Magellan's expedition, arrives in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, nearly three years after it set sail, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1543 – Ottoman and French naval forces succeed in capturing the French port of Nice and freeing it from the grip of King Charles of Spain, an adversary of King Francis I, an ally of the Ottoman Empire.
1798 – The execution of Egyptian revolutionary Muhammad Karim by the leader of the French campaign, Napoleon Bonaparte.
1885 – Unification of Bulgaria after the union of Eastern Rumeli with it.
1898 – Queen Wilhamina of the Netherlands is officially crowned to the throne after reaching legal age.
1901 – U.S. President William McKinley is the victim of an assassination attempt that results in his death on September 14.
1924 – Fascist leader Benito Mussolini is the victim of a failed assassination attempt in Rome by a group of communists attempting to stop his attempt to eliminate communism in Italy.
1939 – South Africa declares war on Germany in World War II.
1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates the throne in favor of his eighteen-year-old son Michael.
1952 – Johan Atti-Aldert Boeskol assumes the office of Prime Minister, before the office of Prime Minister in Suriname is abolished and replaced by the Vice President, who ex officio heads the Council of Ministers.
1961 – The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, promulgates the law governing the elections of members of the Constituent Assembly, according to which Kuwait is divided for the first time in its history into 20 electoral districts, with one representative being elected from each district by direct and secret public ballot.
1965 – India invades Pakistan and bombs the city of Lahore.
1968 – Swaziland gains independence from the United Kingdom after being one of its protectorates.
1972 – The Munich operation ended with German snipers killing 11 Israeli athletes and five of eight Palestinian guerrillas, in addition to a German police officer and a German helicopter pilot, and blowing up a helicopter.
1976 – The Palestine Liberation Organization gains full membership in the Arab League.
1981 – Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi takes over the leadership of the Emirate of Ajman after the death of his father, Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi.
1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down the South Korean airliner on the grounds that the warplane's pilot was unable to identify the plane as a civilian when it entered Soviet airspace.
1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the three Baltic republics that have become independent.
✴️ The Soviet Union renamed the city of Leningrad to Saint Petersburg after its name was changed in 1924.
1997 – The burial ceremony of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place.
2003 – The Israel Defense Forces launch a military action against Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, but Israeli fighters fail to assassinate him.
✴️ Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his post.
2007 – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika survived a suicide bombing targeting his recipients in Batna, killing 15 people and injuring 74 others.
2008 – Asif Ali Zardari is elected President of Pakistan.
2009 – The Israeli government approves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to build hundreds of homes for settlers in the West Bank, despite U.S. criticism of the move.
2016 – The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announces the downgrading of the giant panda's extinction risk rating to Vulnerable VU, while raising the eastern gorilla's classification to Critically Vulnerable CR.
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Births:
1766 – John Dalton, British chemist.
1808 – Prince Abdelkader Aljazairi, founder of the modern Algerian state.
1860 – Jane Addams, American politician and women's rights advocate who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
1863 – Jessie Wilcox Smith, American illustrator.
1876 - John MacLeod, Scottish physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923.
1879 – Joseph Wert, Chancellor of Germany.
1892 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947.
1895 – Muhammad Hadi Al-Milani, Iranian-Iraqi Shiite jurist.
1906 – Luis Leloir, Argentine biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1970.
1915 – Ahmed Hamani, president of the Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars.
** René Habashi, Lebanese-Egyptian philosopher.
1917 – Philipp von Boslager, German soldier.
1924 – Fouad Al-Muhandis, Egyptian actor.
1926 – Prince Claus, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
1934 – Ragaa El-Gedawy, Egyptian actress.
1937 – Ali Al Midfa, Saudi actor.
1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese physician who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1987.
1940 – Waheed Jalal, Lebanese actor and voice actor.
(1945-GoNagaiJapanese manga author
1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress.
** Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and manager.
1957 – José Socrates, Prime Minister of Portugal.
1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch politician.
1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, poet, singer and musician with the Irish group The Cranberries.
1971 – Mufida Shiha, Egyptian media personality.
1973: Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer.
1974 – Tim Henman, British tennis player.
1979 – Massimo Maccaroni, Italian footballer.
1978 – Reham Abdel Ghafour, Egyptian actress.
1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer.
1981 – Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer.
1982 – Ahmed Al-Fadhli, Kuwaiti football goalkeeper.
1985 – Ali Ishfaq, Maldivian footballer.
2002 – Wissam Sobeih
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Death:
1128 – Muhammad ibn Tumart, founder of the Almohad state in Morocco.
1798 – Muhammad Karim, governor of Alexandria and Egyptian revolutionary.
1907 – René Sully Prodhomme, French poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901.
1981 – Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, ruler of the Emirate of Ajman.
1990 – Youssef Dokhi, Kuwaiti musician.
2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian opera singer.
2008 – Field Marshal Muhammad Abdel Halim Abu Ghazaleh, Egyptian Minister of Defense.
2011 – Ibrahim Al-Salqini, a Syrian Muslim religious scholar.
2017 – Fawzia Ezzat, Egyptian actress.
2019 – Robert Mugabe, second president in the history of the Republic of Zimbabwe.
2021 – Samir El Mulla, Egyptian actor.
** Jean-Paul Belmondo, French film actor.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Swaziland.
⬅️ Armed Forces Day in Pakistan.
