At A Glance

6 September 2017 at a glance

Day of the week
6 September 2017 was a Wednesday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Look What You Made Me Do” by Taylor Swift.
Top Film of 2017
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2017 was Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Star sign
The star sign for 6 September is Virgo.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 6 September 2017 fell in the Year of the Rooster.
Birthstone
The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 6 September 2017 was Full Moon.

On this day: 6 September

  • 2007 Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
  • 2009 The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
  • 2013 The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.
  • 2018 Supreme Court of India decriminalises all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
  • 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.

Famous people born on 6 September

  • Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter (1971–2018)
  • Idris Elba, English actor (born 1972)
  • Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian (born 1985)
  • Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1943)

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Events of 2017 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2017 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 6 February – The Queen commemorates her Sapphire Jubilee.
  • 2 March – New elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are held. The Democratic Unionist Party loses ten seats, while Sinn Féin loses one seat.
  • 29 March – The United Kingdom invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, beginning the formal EU withdrawal process.

Life in 2017

Prime Minister

Theresa May

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

£3.55

Loaf of Bread

£1.48

Average House

£226,441

Weekly Wage

£810.00

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