This is our day guide for Wednesday September 6th 2023 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?
1994 - Author James Clavel dies. His most famous works, Shogun and Gaijin depict the world of the samurai.
1991 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been known as Leningrad since 1924.
1940 - King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
1930 - Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
