At A Glance

6 September 2011 at a glance

Day of the week
6 September 2011 was a Tuesday.
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” by Katy Perry.
Top Film of 2011
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2011 was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
Bestselling Novel of 2011
“The Litigators” by John Grisham was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 2011.
Top-Rated TV Show
“Sunday Night Football” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2011–12 season.
Star sign
The star sign for 6 September is Virgo.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 6 September 2011 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
Birthstone
The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 6 September 2011 was Waxing Gibbous.

On this day: 6 September

  • 2003 Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
  • 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.

Famous people born on September 6

  • 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 2011 in the United States

A selection from Wikipedia's '2011 in the United States'. Not a complete list.

  • February 27 – The 83rd Academy Awards, hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway, are held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Tom Hooper's The King's Speech wins four awards out of 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
  • March 11 – Following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami warning to parts of the U.S. West Coast along the affected coastal areas in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Territories in the Pacific Ocean.
  • April 15 – Rio is released in theaters.

Life in the US in 2011

President

Barack Obama

Gas (per gallon)

$3.52

Loaf of Bread

$1.74

Average House

$242,300

Weekly Wage

$737

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