Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 6

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 * 1781 – American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory at the Battle of Groton Heights.
 * 1901 – William McKinley, President of the United States, was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later.
 * 1916 – The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
 * 1930 – Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a military coup by José Félix Uriburu.
 * 1944 – World War II: Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu on their way to re-establishing their rule in Estonia.
 * 1952 – A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29 spectators.
 * 1963 – The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the Vietnam War.
 * 1970 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four airliners, landing two at Dawson's Field in Jordan and one in Cairo, while the last hijacking attempt was foiled.
 * 1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.
 * 1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive Major League Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.
 * 1997 – An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide watched the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, on television.
 * 1999 – The Parliament of Singapore relocated from the Old Parliament House to its current meeting place (pictured).
 * 2018 – The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India.


 * Born/died this day: | Isabella Leonarda |b|1620| Charles Porter |b|1631| Jessie Willcox Smith |b|1863| Lord Charles Beresford |d|1919| Roger Waters |b|1943| Sylvester |b|1947| Wendi Richter |b|1961| Geert Wilders |b|1963| Mark Chesnutt |b|1963|  Jillian Hall |b|1980