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6 September 2014 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 6 September 2014 was a Saturday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift.
- Top Film of 2014
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2014 was Transformers: Age of Extinction.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Sunday Night Football” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2014–15 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 6 September is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 6 September 2014 fell in the Year of the Horse.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 6 September 2014 was Waxing Gibbous.
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 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 2014 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2014 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- February 7 – The Lego Movie is released in theaters.
- July 26 – Henry Danger debuts on Nickelodeon.
- August 1 – Guardians of the Galaxy, directed by James Gunn, is released by Marvel Studios as the tenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Life in the US in 2014
President
Barack Obama
Gas (per gallon)
$3.37
Loaf of Bread
$1.98
Average House
$285,900
Weekly Wage
$796
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