6th September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1757
  • "Birth of the Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrate and soldier (A national hero in both the French and American Revolutions)"
• event
  • 1522
  • "The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, becomes the first ship known to circumnavigate the world "
  • 1651
  • Charles II hides in an Oak tree
  • 1666
  • Great Britain
  • Great Fire of London Extinguished
  • 1769
  • David Garrick organises first Shakespeare festival at Stratford-upon-Avon
  • 1852
  • Britains 1st free Library opens
  • 1939
  • South Africa declared war on Germany
  • 1968
  • Swaziland became independent .
  • 1989
  • Canadian sprinter Ben Johnsons name was removed from the record books after he admitted using performance-enhancing drugs
  • 1989
  • "41,000 Parisians received letters charging them with murder, extortion and prostitution instead of traffic offences (due to a computer error)"
• Death
  • 1907
  • France
  • "Death of Sully Prudhomme (René-François-Armand Prudhomme), French poet and essayist (Winner of the first Nobel Prize for Literature, 1901)"
  • 1981
  • "Death of Christy Brown, Irish writer, poet and artist who worked using only his left foot due to cerebral palsy"
  • 1998
  • "Death of Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director ."