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Taken from Wikipedia. Not all of the events, but a good many of them. Some interesting things have happened on previous September 6's (besides my birthday.) Some good, some bad. Enjoy.

3114 BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.

394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.

1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.

1522 – The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)

1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of SwedenGermany.

1669 – The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans.

This siege lasted 21 years. (Crazy.)

1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.

1861 – American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.

1863 – American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.

1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.

1901 – Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.

1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.

1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.

1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.

Queen's Day in the Netherlands is celebrated every year on Queen Juliana's birthday, even though her daughter, Beatrix, is now the ruling queen of the Netherlands.
1949 – A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.

1966 – In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.

1968 – Swaziland becomes independent.

1970 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.

1972 – Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.

1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.

1995 – Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.

1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.

Taken from About.com's Ancient History website:
On this day in Ancient Rome, the ludi Romani (Roman games) continued. It is the anniversary of the 394 A.D. victory of Emperor Theodosius (January 11, 347 – January 17, 395) at the Battle of the Frigidus. There Theodosius defeated the Emperor Eugenius, who had been ruling the Roman Empire in the West. With the defeat, Theodosius the Great became the sole ruler of the entire Roman Empire one final time -- from then on, all emperors would rule only part. The victory on the part of a Christian emperor also sealed the fate of paganism.

This day was also considered the birthday of the Hindu deity Krishna.

Apparently one way to see how many forums you still have an account on (no matter how inactive) is to have a birthday.