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On September 6, 394: Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.

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Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.

The Battle of the Frigidus, also called the Battle of the Frigid River, was fought on 5 and 6 September 394 between the armies of the Roman emperor Theodosius the Great and the rebel augustus Eugenius, in the eastern border of Roman Italy. Theodosius won the battle and defeated the usurpation of Eugenius and Arbogast, restoring unity to the Roman Empire. The battlefield, in the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum near the Julian Alps through which Theodosius's army had passed, was probably in the Vipava Valley – with the Frigidus River being the modern Vipava – or possibly in the valley of the Isonzo.

People

Born on September 6

Prince Hisahito of Akishino 2006– Japanese prince (born 2006)
Elzhana Taniyeva 2005– Kazakh rhythmic gymnast
Asher Angel 2002– American actor (born 2002)
Leylah Fernandez 2002– Canadian tennis player (born 2002)
Freya Allan 2001– English actress (born 2001)
Terrence Clarke 2001– American basketball player (2001–2021)
David Kushner 2000– American musician (born 2000)
Michele Perniola 1998– Italian singer (born 1998)
Mallory Comerford 1997– American swimmer (born 1997)
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Tsukushi 1997– Japanese professional wrestler (born 1997)
Andrés Tello 1996– Colombian footballer (born 1996)
Lil Xan 1996– American rapper (born 1996)
Mark Andrews 1995– American football player (born 1995)
Mustafizur Rahman 1995– Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1995)
Famous Dex 1993– American rapper (born 1993)
Alex Poythress 1993– American basketball player (born 1993)
Mattia Valoti 1993– Italian footballer (born 1993)
Ryan Shazier 1992– American football player (born 1992)

People

Died on September 6

Rick Davies English musician (1944–2025)
Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi Shooting of Turkish-American activist by Israel Defense Forces
Rebecca Horn German visual artist (1944–2024)
Will Jennings American songwriter and composer (1944–2024)
Cathy Merrick Canadian Cree politician (1961–2024)
Ron Yeats Scottish footballer (1937–2024)
Jean-Paul Belmondo French actor (1933–2021)
Michael K. Williams American actor (1966–2021)
Lou Brock American baseball player (1939–2020)
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Robert Mugabe Leader of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017
Richard DeVos American businessman
Liz Fraser English actress (1930–2018)
Burt Reynolds American actor (1936–2018)
Peter Luck Australian TV presenter & writer (1944–2017)
Kate Millett American writer and artist (1934–2017)
Ralph Milne Scottish footballer
Martin Milner American actor (1931–2015)
Odd Bondevik Norwegian theologian

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Every September 6 on record

  1. 394 Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.

    394 AD battle between Theodosius and Eugenius

    The Battle of the Frigidus, also called the Battle of the Frigid River, was fought on 5 and 6 September 394 between the armies of the Roman emperor Theodosius the Great and the rebel augustus Eugenius, in the eastern border of Roman Italy. Theodosius won the battle and defeated the usurpation of Eugenius and Arbogast, restoring unity to the Roman Empire. The battlefield, in the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum near the Julian Alps through which Theodosius's army had passed, was probably in the Vipava Valley – with the Frigidus River being the modern Vipava – or possibly in the valley of the Isonzo.

  2. 1492 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.

    Italian navigator and explorer (1451–1506)

    Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish transatlantic voyages in the name of the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean and Central and South America.

  3. 1522 The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.

    Carrack used in Ferdinand Magellan's expeditions; first ship to circumnavigate the globe

    Victoria or Nao Victoria was a carrack famed as the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world. Victoria was part of the Spanish expedition to the Moluccas commanded by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.

  4. 1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)

    Early settlers in Massachusetts

    The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony at what now is Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. John Smith named this territory New Plymouth in 1614, sharing the name of the Pilgrims' final departure port of Plymouth, Devon, England. The Pilgrims' leadership came from religious congregations of Brownists or Separatists who had fled religious persecution in England for the tolerance of 17th-century Holland in the Netherlands.

  5. 1622 The Spanish treasure galleon Atocha sinks during a hurricane off Key West in the Straits of Florida, taking 40 short tons (36 t) of gold and silver and 260 of its 265 passengers and crew to the bottom.

    Large and multi-decked sailing ships

    Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships developed in the early 16th century from ships such as the caravel and the carrack, in Portugal and in Spain. They were first used by Europeans as armed cargo carriers from the 16th to 18th centuries during the Age of Sail, and they were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-17th century.

  6. 1628 Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  7. 1634 Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
  8. 1781 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
  9. 1803 British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
  10. 1861 American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
  11. 1863 American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
  12. 1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
  13. 1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
  14. 1901 Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US president William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
  15. 1914 World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.
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  1. 1915 World War I: The first tank prototype, developed by William Foster & Co. for the British army, was completed and given its first test drive.
  2. 1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
  3. 1936 Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
  4. 1939 World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.
  5. 1939 World War II: Union of South Africa declares war on Germany.
  6. 1940 King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania.
  7. 1943 The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
  8. 1943 Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
  9. 1944 World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
  10. 1944 World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
  11. 1946 United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
  12. 1952 A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
  13. 1955 Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
  14. 1962 The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
  15. 1962 Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.

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