What happend on 6th September

05.09
07.09
1985

Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.

1983

The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

1976

Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.

1970

Four passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinians. Two are taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.

1970

Jimi Hendrix plays what turns out to be his last ever performance, at the badly controlled and rained out Love and Peace Festival, on the Isle Of Fehmarn, Germany.

1968

Swaziland becomes independent.

1966

In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.

1965

War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore (city of Pakistan) in an hour.

1963

The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.

1955

Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.