September 6 birthdays & history

Famous people born on September 6

• 1766John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist
• 1860Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1972Idris Elba, English actor
• 1892Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1808Emir Abdelkader, Algerian religious and military leader
• 1971Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1876John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1729Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian
• 1939Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on September 6

• 1492Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic, discovering the Americas.
• 1803British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
• 1870Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
• 1885Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
• 1916The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
• 1943The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
• 1946United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
• 1968Swaziland becomes independent.
• 1976Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.
• 1995Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive Major League Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.
• 1999The Parliament of Singapore relocated from the Old Parliament House to its current meeting place.
• 2000The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the first Pride Night in Major League Baseball history.

Also observed on September 6

• The earliest date on which the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed
• Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
• Flag Day (Bonaire)
• Independence Day (Swaziland), celebrates the independence of Eswatini from the United Kingdom in 1968
• Unification Day (Bulgaria)