📜 This Day in History

September 6

• 1492Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic, discovering the Americas.
• 1863General John S. Marmaduke fatally wounded his Confederate Army colleague Lucius M. Walker in a formal duel in Arkansas.
• 1944World War II: Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu on their way to re-establishing their rule in Estonia.
• 1970Black September: 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 near London.
• 1999The Parliament of Singapore relocated from the Old Parliament House to its current meeting place.
• 2022Liz Truss succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.

Born on this day

• 1766John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (died 1844)
• 1860Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
• 1892Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
• 1972Idris Elba, English actor