September 6
People born on this day are Virgo.
- 1997
The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people line the streets and 21⁄2 billion watch around the world on television.
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Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
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Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
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The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
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Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
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Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
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The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.
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Supreme Court of India decriminalises all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
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Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.
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Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.
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Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.
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21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767 freighter operating on behalf of Amazon Air, overruns the runway upon landing at Miami International Airport, striking multiple ground vehicles, killing at least five people, and injuring five others.
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2006Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince
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2005Elzhana Taniyeva, Kazakh rhythmic gymnast
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2002Asher Angel, American actor
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2002Leylah Fernandez, Canadian tennis player
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2001Freya Allan, English actress
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2001Terrence Clarke, American basketball player (died 2021)
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2000David Kushner, American singer-songwriter
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1998Michele Perniola, Italian singer
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1997Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
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1996Lil Xan, American rapper
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1995Mark Andrews, American football player
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1995Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer
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