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6 September 2023 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 6 September 2023 was a Wednesday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Rich Men North of Richmond” by Oliver Anthony Music.
- Top Film of 2023
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 6 September is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 6 September 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 6 September 2023 was Last Quarter.
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)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2023 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- March 12 – The 95th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, are held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's Everything Everywhere All at Once lead the nominations with eleven. The film wins seven of those awards, including Best Picture.
- April 20 – Elon Musk's SpaceX launches its first test flight of Starship. The device explodes shortly after launch.
- July 5 – Meta Platforms launches Threads as a direct competitor to Twitter.
Life in the US in 2023
President
Joe Biden
Gas (per gallon)
$3.53
Loaf of Bread
$2.96
Average House
$412,300
Weekly Wage
$1,108
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